Where the Luther family once served meals to their relatives and friends, Wittenberg light fixtures now illuminate the imposing vaulted ceiling in a multi-light arrangement. Mounted on pedestals, they highlight Cranach’s panel depicting the Ten Commandments at the front of the refectory.

At the heart of the ensemble stands the carefully restored and heritage-protected former Tafernwirtschaft and pilgrims’ inn dating from 1568. Today it serves as a civic centre with café, adult education facilities and a community hall. Complemented by a new building housing the town hall and library, as well as an ancillary structure for slope stabilisation, the development has created an open square for markets, social interaction and cultural events.

For the lighting design, the municipality chose mawa, known for its precision-engineered luminaires and bespoke solutions. In collaboration with Deppisch Architekten, a lighting concept was developed using only a small number of luminaire types, combining functionality, aesthetic clarity and sustainability while allowing the architecture to remain centre stage.

In the café area, one piece 8 luminaires create a warm and inviting atmosphere. Their clear geometry and unobtrusive design integrate seamlessly into the historic setting while providing comfortable, even general lighting.

The redesign of Scheyern’s town center was awarded the ‘2025 Prize for Architectural Culture of the Munich Metropolitan Region.’ This honor recognizes the project not only as a successful contribution to architecture but also as a solution shaping the region for the future. By combining sensitive heritage conservation with innovative architecture, a space has been created that unites historical value with modern usability.

Individually manufactured postament outdoor lights in two different sizes and octagonal basic shapes decorate the pillars on the street side and the terrace balustrade on the lakeside.

The initial plan to reproduce the luminaires created during the GDR era was cancelled after mawa got hold of a picture from earlier times that documented a much more plain design.

Since the re-opening, guests are welcomed by modern LED technology, which has been elegantly framed and at the same time has a timeless appearance, thanks to customized product development.

This was the case for the downlights in the coffered roof construction of the fully glazed exhibition hall on the ground floor.
The space welcomes visitors, presents a thematically varying prelude exhibition, then leads visitors down to the lower level, housing collection spaces and functional areas.

Due to the great depth of production ability at mawa, even complex elements were able to be reproduced, such as the kick reflectors of the wall washers in the lower level.

For each and every challenge, an appropriate solution was found within a very short time. All project specific developments were tested in our in-house lighting lab, and made available to the planners and clients as sample modules.

Since 1956, Austria’s leading specialty clinic has been located in the 13th district of Vienna on the site of a former orphanage with its associated church building.

Light, Light, Light

When laying out the workspaces, the planners always desired proximity to daylight.

This is impressively evident in the central reading hall. Here, the imposing daylight ceiling as well as the potsdam table lights ensure ideal working conditions.

Surprising in every respect

Upon entering the catholic church building, an enormous spatial volume unfolds, one that could hardly be imagined from its inconspicuously embedded placement in the narrow street. Further, the visitor is immediately captivated by the decoratively painted interior. Seemingly hard to beat in radiance and colour intensity, it is reminiscent of Byzantine picture churches.

To that end, four slim lighting elements from the fbl series were integrated into the underside of the inclined front edge of the uplight.

mawa not only meets the design requirements, but fulfills highly technical demands such as freedom from flickering as well. In-house production enables short distances and spontaneous negotiation. Thus for this project, it was possible in short order, to produce an empty housing to help the client better visualize the proposal in the course of a 1:1 dimensional study.

The combination of modern LED technology, the large variety of accessories, and ease of portability offers an economical, highly flexible, and timeless lighting solution – especially for temporary exhibition programs such as the ivory exhibit „Terrible Beauty.“ Until the end of November 2021, it illuminated the polarising theme between aesthetic and barbarism in a polyphonic and multi-dimensional way.

When he designed the substation, Schwechten especially accentuated the technical function of the building. The original room divisions with the high transformer hall on the ground floor and the low rooms for transformers and batteries located above are still readable in the facade today.


The lights, with their curved lattice structure, take up the design of the doors, while at the same time, lighting the adjacent walkway – with energy saving LED’s reflecting the spirit of the client.

These lights, customized with extra long cables and a lowering mechanism, are able to fullfill the challenges of their particular spatial conditions.

The slim lighting element of the product series, consisting of a linear LED board and single optic heads, were also used in wall-mounted downlights in the cloister.

Additionally, a rotary potentiometer was integrated into the light to facilitate individual dimming.