UBA offices

Wörlitzer Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103-0, Fax: ++49 340 2104-2285
Postal address: Postfach 1406, 06813 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

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We have been headquartered in Dessau-Roßlau in the regional state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2005. All of our divisions are based here. For information on the locations of our various division offices, see our organizational chart.

Our building, which was designed by sauerbruch & hutton architekten, was awarded the 2009 German gold medal for sustainable construction. Distinctions of this nature from the Federal Ministry of Construction and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen are awarded for exemplary new office buildings, based on ecological, economic, and sociocultural criteria, as well as location, planning and technical realization.

The building’s energy concept is based on the use of renewable energy, to which end solar panels were built into the folding roof of the entry area (Forum), and solar collectors were installed on the Forum’s flat roof. Both of these amenities are used for solar powered air conditioning in the building, mainly the auditorium and IT areas. Thanks to our geothermal heat exchangers – currently the world’s largest facility of this type with more than five kilometers of piping – exhaust air is conditioned underground and is used for heating or air conditioning depending on the time of year.

You are more than welcome to come see our unique building for yourself, visit our Fachbibliothek Umwelt (environmental library), which houses a large collection of environmental books, and pick up free brochures on environmental matters at our visitors center. You can also take a virtual 360° tour of the building.

In September 2023, a new extension with at least zero energy standard was opened next to the main building. On our construction project page (in German) you will find information, photos and videos about the project.

Part of the UBA in Dessau-Roßlau is also the listed building "Wörlitzer Bahnhof". It is the seat of the German Centre for Micropollutants (SZB), which was established in 2021 at the German Environment Agency.

Aerial shot of the UBA building in Dessau-Roßlau

Source: Firma Busse

UBA Dessau-Roßlau main entrance

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Rear façade of UBA Dessau-Roßlau

Source: Umweltbundesamt

The lobby (forum) of UBA Dessau-Roßlau

Source: Umweltbundesamt

UBA in Dessau-Roßlau: View of atrium

Source: Umweltbundeamt

Interior views of UBA Dessau-Roßlau: inner façade in atrium

Source: Silvia Sinah

Interior views of UBA Dessau-Roßlau: Stairs and bridges in atrium

Source: Silvia Sinah

In the environmental library of UBA Dessau-Roßlau

Source: Silvia Sinah

Citizens’ service visitors lounge at UBA Dessau-Roßlau

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Canteen and pond at UBA Dessau-Roßlau

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Seat of the German Centre for Micropollutants (SZB): the listed building "Wörlitzer Bahnhof"

Source: Janek Kubelt / UBA

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Bismarckplatz 1, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: ++49 30 8903-5613

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The UBA office building Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz) will remain closed until about 2025/26 due to renovation and modernization work. The address of the temporary accommodations is:

City Campus, Umweltbundesamt (Haus 3, Eingang 3A)

Buchholzweg 8, 13627 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: 030 8903-5613
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Berlin-Colditzstraße 

Colditzstraße 34, 12099 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0

Our building on Berlin’s Bismarckplatz was our HQ from 1974 (the year of our founding) until we relocated to our present building in 2005. This building is currently home to German Emissions Trading Authority (part of UBA Division V) and some staff members of our General Services Division, the director’s office, and our PR office.

We also provide brochures free of charge at the Bismarckplatz office. Exhibitions on environmental subjects are held here on a regular basis as well.

The Bismarckplatz building, which dates back to the 1930s, is slated for renovation and energy modernization. 

From 2020 to around 2026, the building, which dates back to the 1930s, is being renovated for energy efficiency. During this time, most of the office workplaces are housed in the temporary accommodation "City Campus" on Berlin's Buchholzweg. The Berlin-Colditzstraße site, which is equipped with laboratories and laboratory technology, is temporary accommodation for Department II 2.5 "Water Analysis Laboratory" until the UBA laboratory site in Berlin-Marienfelde has been expanded.

Aerial view of UBA building in Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz)

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Main entrance of UBA Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz)

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Gate of UBA site in Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz) with image of the eco-label

Source: Umweltbundesamt

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Corrensplatz 1, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: ++49 30 / 8903-1830

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Our Berlin-Dahlem office is home to staff members from the following units:

• Department II 1 Environmental Hygiene
• Some Section II 3 Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Water Hygiene staff members
• Some Section II 3.3 Drinking-water Resources and Treatment staff members
• Section IV 1.4 Health Pests and their Control

To facilitate these activities, our Correnplatz office has labs, as well as breeding facilities for cockroaches, head lice and other pests.

The building used to be the headquarters of Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene (WaBoLu) (Water, soil and air hygiene institute), which was absorbed by the UBA in 1994.

In the long term, the aforesaid units and staffers will move to the UBA site Berlin-Marienfelde and the Correnplatz site will be shut down.

UBA site in Berlin-Dahlem (Corrensplatz)

Source: Umweltbundeamt

Schichauweg 58, 12307 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: ++49 30 8903-4152 or -4200

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Our Berlin-Marienfelde office is home to staff members from the following units:

• Section II 3.3 Drinking Water Resources and Treatment
• Section III 2.5 Monitoring Methods, Waste Water Management
• Section IV 2.4 Substances Hazardous to Water - Ecotoxicological Laboratory
• Section IV 2.5 Trace Analysis, Artificial Ponds and Streams

In addition to various laboratories, our Berlin-Marienfelde office also operates our flowing, flow-through and stagnant system simulation facility (FSA) where we do research into areas such as the effect of pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides on the ecosystems of the facility’s artificial watercourses and ponds.

The federal government’s first zero energy office building, for 31 UBA staff members, was completed in 2013 at our Marienfelde site. For further information, as well as photos and videos, concerning the zero energy concept and the construction phase, see our building project page.

UBA in Berlin-Marienfelde

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA in Berlin-Marienfelde: Hall of the artificial stream and pond system

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA in Berlin-Marienfelde: gutters of the artificial stream and pond system

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA in Berlin-Marienfelde: artificial ponds of the artificial stream and pond system

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA in Berlin-Marienfelde: the newly built “Haus 2019“ zero-energy building

Source: Umweltbundesamt

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Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 29, 63225 Langen, Germany
Phone: ++49 6103 704-0, Fax: ++49 6103 704147

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Our Langen office in the regional state of Hesse is home to staff members from the following units:

• Section II 4.4 Air Quality Standards and Monitoring Methods
• Section II 4.5 Air Monitoring Network

Our Langen office is the nerve center of our air monitoring network.

Once our Berlin-Grunewald building on Bismarckplatz has been renovated and modernized, the aforesaid units and staffers will move there and the Langen office will be closed.

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UBA office in Langen, Hesse, the main office site of the air quality measuring network

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

Heinrich-Heine-Str. 12, 08645 Bad Elster, Germany
Phone: ++49 37437 76-0, Fax: ++49 37437 76219

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Our Bad Elster office in the regional state of Saxony is home to staff members from the following units:

• Some Department II 3/Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Water Hygiene staff members
• Section II 3.1 General Aspects of Drinking Water Hygiene
• Section II 3 Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Water Hygiene
• Section II 3.4 Drinking Water/Water Distribution
• Section II 3.5 Microbiology of Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Water
• Section II 3.6 Toxicology of Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Water

Once our Berlin-Grunewald building on Bismarckplatz has been renovated and modernized, the aforesaid units and staffers will move there and the Bad Elster office will be closed.

UBA office building in Bad Elster, Saxony

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Alte Messe 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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The UBA application lab for AI and Big Data is located at the Leipzig site

Location of the German Environment Agency's AI Laboratory in Leipzig

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Gotthardstraße 34, 06217 Merseburg, Germany
Phone: ++49 340/2103- 2275

The "National Centre for Environmental and Nature Conservation Information (umwelt.info)" (Department I 1) operates at the Merseburg site in Saxony-Anhalt.

The goal of the working group is to compile all information available nationwide on environmentally relevant topics and to prepare it in a way that is suitable for the target group, so that it is available to citizens, scientists and researchers, companies and industry, as well as administrative bodies.

To achieve this goal, the working group is involved in the creation and operation of the web portal “umwelt.info”, which provides environment-related metadata, services, reports, research findings, expert opinions, educational materials and information on legal and administrative regulations, funding programmes and procedures of the environmental and nature conservation administrative bodies for use as a source of information.

UBA office building in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt

Source: Clara Baier / Umweltbundesamt

Umweltbundesamt (UBA) – Baudienststelle Endlager Schacht Konrad
Außenstelle Salzgitter
Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 18, 38226 Salzgitter
Phone: ++49 340 2103 5442

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The Konrad repository is used for the storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. In mid-2019, the Federal Ministry for the Environment transferred the tasks of a construction service for the Konrad repository to the German Environment Agency. The responsibility applies to the public construction tasks resulting from the Lower Saxony Building Code and the Konrad planning approval decision regarding the above-ground buildings and traffic areas of the repository. The reason for this is that the constructor and later user of the repository, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), is not allowed to take over these tasks itself as an extended building supervisory authority.

Konrad mine building department is located on the 3rd floor, Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 18, Salzgitter

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Wernerstraße 19, 03046 Cottbus
Phone: ++49 0340 2103-0

The UBA site in Cottbus is home to Section III 2.8 "Decarbonization in Industry" and staff from Sections I 2.2 and I 2.7, who work on the task of "Decarbonization in Transport".

The UBA office building in Cottbus, Brandenburg

Source: Umweltbundesamt

We monitor air quality at the following measuring stations:

GAW-Station Zugspitze

Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze 5, 82475 Zugspitze, Germany
Phone: ++49 8821 924110, Fax: ++49 8821 924209

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Neuglobsow (Brandenburg)

Zur alten Fischerhütte 1, 16775 Stechlin - OT Neuglobsow, Germany
Phone: ++49 33082 403-190, Fax.: ++49 33082 403-195

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Waldhof (Lüneburg Heath)

29394 Langenbrügge, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103 6849

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Schauinsland (Black Forest)

Schauinslandweg 2, 79254 Oberried/ Hofsgrund, Germany
Phone: ++49 7602 91000, Fax: ++49 7602 243

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Schmücke (Thuringian Forest)

98559 Gehlberg, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103 6830

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Westerland (Island of Sylt)

Lornsenweg 9, 25980 Westerland/Sylt, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103 6850 

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Zingst (Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula of the Baltic Sea)

Landstr. 2, 18374 Zingst, Germany
Phone: ++49 0340 2103 6790

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UBA air quality measuring station on Zugspitze

Source: Umweltbundesamt

Observation area of UBA's Neuglobsow air quality measuring station on Lake Stechlin in Brandenburg

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA Schauinsland air quality measuring station in the Black Forest

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA Schmücke air quality measuring station in the Thuringian Forest

Source: Christoph Zinsius / Umweltbundesamt

UBA Waldhof air quality measuring station on the Lüneburg Heath

Source: Umweltbundesamt

UBA Westerland air quality measuring station on the island of Sylt

Source: Umweltbundesamt

UBA Zingst air quality measuring station on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula of the Baltic Sea

Source: Umweltbundesamt

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Till 2030, we want to be the first German Federal Agency which is greenhouse gas neutral. Information on the progress of our construction projects is available on our construction project page (in German), where you’ll find texts, photos and videos. You can learn more there about how in the summer of 2013 our Berlin-Marienfelde office became the federal government’s first zero energy building, and how the planning process for the new wing of our Dessau-Roßlau building integrated solar panels into the building facade.