Auditorium building

The auditorium building is a building of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Auditorium building

history

After the growing university discovered a shortage of lecture halls, the building was erected on the western edge of the Botanical Garden near the university riding stables from 1862 to 1865 . This was the first time that a university building was built outside the city wall. Georg V handed over the building in 1865.

architecture

The stone building has three floors and is divided into three wings . The architect Friedrich Doeltz used the Künstlerhaus (Hanover) in the conception . A central projection forms the entrance area, in front of which there is an outside staircase. The base of the building is made of red sandstone and shell limestone, the building is made of tuff stone. At the rear, additional lecture halls were added between 1901 and 1903. The facade is characterized by a round arch style . This is decorated with building plastic. These figures are:

Statues

• Gerlach Adolph von Munchausen
• George II
• Julius
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Busts

• Albrecht von Haller
• Johann Matthias Gesner
• Johann Lorenz von Mosheim
• Johann Stephan Pütter
• Christian Gottlob Heyne
• Ludwig Timotheus Spittler
• Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Gustav from Hugo

The sculptors of the figures were Wilhelm Engelhard , Friedrich Küsthardt and Carl Dopmeyer .

Before the building is since 1924 that of Paul von Hindenburg , inaugurated the memorial to the fallen of the University from the first World War . The memorial for Friedrich Wöhler had stood there from 1890 to 1922 .

use

The lecture halls served the university as teaching facilities.

Since the city belonged to the British occupation zone after World War II , the auditorium building was repaired on the instructions of the British Army of the Rhine and operated by them for teaching purposes until 1949.

From the 1970s onwards, teaching shifted to the campus at Platz der Göttinger Sieben .

Today the building is used for events as well as a library for Roman law and the art collection of the University of Göttingen .

literature

• Bärbel Schwager: The Göttingen auditorium building from 1862/65, 1995

Web links

Commons : Auditorium building  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Auditorium building  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The auditorium at Weender Tor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Oberdiek: Göttinger Universitätsbauten, 2002, p. 57ff

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '17.2 "  N , 9 ° 56' 5.1"  E