Is a fireplace still useful in new buildings today - experiences?

A fireplace is just a bit of luxury. I would do it again and again. House Kw40, timber frame house if it gets too warm I just open a door and turn off the heating. I have a gas boiler and controlled residential ventilation with heat recovery. Others spend 35-40,000€ on heating and I kept it simple, 4,700€ for a room-air-independent fireplace and 1,500 for the wood stove.

We have a fireplace in our current house, the same problem as many here. When the stove is on, you walk around in a T-shirt and it is unbearably hot. Then with a water jacket. Our new property will no longer have a fireplace: dirt, stale air, heat spoke against it. If allergy sufferers live in the house, I wouldn’t recommend a fireplace anyway, the dry air makes these people sick (from personal experience). Better to invest the money in a ventilation system.

I felt the same as you, I also grew up with an open brick-built fireplace and mentally it always belonged to the home. If we had bought an old building, there would have been one "inside" as well. In a new building, we preferred to do without it for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

We are just going to be surprised when it comes to the fireplace. We never had a fireplace before. Now we will have one in the living room (55m²). It will be a "Schiedel Grande S" because it doesn’t take up space in the living area, works with a [Kontrollierte-Wohnraumlüftung], and is open on 3 sides (glass).

I think for the transitional period "spring/autumn" it will be quite nice. But the extra expense of 10k€ is definitely a luxury.

At least we are prepared for the end of the world :-p.
- We can heat
- Get electricity from the roof
- And can use it to run the car

We also consciously decided against the fireplace. We had one in the old house. But handling the wood, fetching it, carrying it inside, etc.. We didn’t like that anymore after a few years.

If in the new building then I would only do it with [Kontrollierte-Wohnraumlüftung] and without a water jacket. The [Kontrollierte-Wohnraumlüftung] at least distributes the heat.
The water jacket simply doesn’t pay off in 95% of cases. And you also have the "luxury" without the water jacket.

But 10,000€... Phew. I would think twice if it’s worth it to me.

We have one installed! Yes, we see it as a luxury! We have our own wood source, meaning forest, and the man loves to make some noise in the forest with the chainsaw and manpower every two years. We didn’t use it that often last year, but this winter daily and for that we generally turned down the underfloor heating. The savings are immense!! I don’t notice any overheating. There is hardly anything more beautiful than sipping your tea / cocoa / red wine in front of crackling fire. We love it. We have a Schiedel Kingfire and paid 7500€. If future winters continue to have such crisp temperatures, it will have paid off soon. Although profitability is secondary. When has a photovoltaic system paid for itself? When the geothermal drillings for infiltration wells? P.S. Yes, doing wood yourself is work! Real physical work, which is good for you! Our society is so soft, men included. Everyone should take a chainsaw course and fell their own tree, this also brings back the manpower