Freising-Weihenstephan campus
Thomas-Scharnagel- Bridge
for the
150th anniversary of TUM
The Freising-Weihenstephan campus is an extensive complex of university facilities and research institutes in the western urban area of Freising , in the Weihenstephan and Vötting districts . It has been developed into the so-called “Green Center of Bavaria” for decades and will continue to be modernized and designed as a “Science and Research Campus”. It not only includes the "TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan", the Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment of the Technical University of Munich , but also the most important part of the "University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf", i.e. the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences . In addition to these higher education institutions, there are also the Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture , the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry , other institutes and various organizations that are thematically connected to the “Green Center” of Bavaria or see location advantages in this cluster.
History of the Freising-Weihenstephan campus
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Reluctant start after 1803
It all began over 200 years ago, when the Weihenstephan Monastery was dissolved in 1802/3 with the secularization and mediatization in the Electorate of Bavaria and subsequently partially demolished. Buildings and stables, fields and forests of the monastery were sold or transferred to the forest school, which had moved from Munich in autumn 1803, and a "model farm" founded on January 1, 1804. Max Schönleutner , who also worked as a teacher at the forestry and agricultural school, was entrusted with the management of the former monastery property . In 1807 the operation of both schools had to be stopped because many students and teachers took part in the campaign of Bavaria, allied with Napoleon Bonaparte , against Prussia and Russia , of which only a few returned.
The Central Tree Nursery, which was also founded after secularization and was headed by the royal court gardener, survived on Weihenstephaner Berg from 1803 to the middle of the 19th century. It became the nucleus of the later technical college and today's Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University .
In 1852 the agricultural school located in Schleissheim - it was then called the “Agricultural Central School” - was moved back to Freising at the instigation of Max Kolb . Christian Helferich became its director; he only had five full-time professors under him.
In 1895 it was elevated to the status of the “Royal Bavarian Academy for Agriculture and Brewery”. The “Distillery Technology Institute” and the “Royal Testing Institute and Information Center for Agricultural Machinery” also came to Weihenstephan that year.
In 1896 the "Fruit and Horticultural School" (with a two-year horticultural course) was renamed the "Royal Horticultural School Weihenstephan", but still remained a pure technical school without a higher character.
These two institutions from the time of the Prince Regent were each the starting point for the development to today's institutions of the Technical University of Munich and the Weihenstephan – Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences in Freising.
Up and down in the 20th century until 1945
The fact that Weihenstephan was a kind of “Mecca of the art of brewing” at the beginning of the 20th century was thanks to the academy director Karl Lintner (1880–90), who wrote a standard work “Textbook of Beer Brewing” and attracted many foreign brewing students due to his good reputation.
In 1901 the dairy school was established and in 1902 a separate chair for dairy farming at the Faculty of Agriculture, which had been separated from the brewing industry. Theodor Ludwig Henkel was the first outstanding holder of the chair. His successor, Anton Fehr , made it to the position of Reich Minister of Nutrition and brought about the fact that in 1923 the "South German Research and Laboratory for Dairy Farming" came to Weihenstephan and was housed in a spacious new building. This was only demolished at the beginning of the 1990s because of dilapidation and replaced by a modern building.
Under the director Hans Vogel (1902–1921) the academy site received the "teaching and experimental brewery". And on April 1, 1920 the academy was elevated to a university, which in 1924 also received the right to award doctorates.
It was further expanded under the rector of the university, Paul Kulisch:
- Agricultural Machinery Institute (1924)
- Lecture hall building at the Löwentor
- Research institute for dairy farming and dairy
- Acquisition of the Dürnast estate (1926)
After long quarrels with the Munich Technical University and the ministerial bureaucracy, the university was dissolved and incorporated into the Technical University of Munich on July 3, 1930. But since all the facilities in Weihenstephan were preserved, this "name change" meant that the company could continue to exist.
The second training facility in Weihenstephan, the "Horticultural School", had been upgraded in 1923 to the "Higher Education Institute for Horticulture". The first flower making courses could be held here from 1925. This was the modest beginning, which led in the further development to today's State Technical School for Flower Art . It was initially integrated into the technical college, but became an independent technical college in 1983.
On April 1, 1925, the connection between the higher education institution and the University of Agriculture and Brewery was canceled and the institution was directly subordinated to the State Ministry for Education and Culture. This higher educational institution was also assigned the Weihenstephan Gardens and large areas from the holdings of the Weihenstephan State Estate, so that from 1945 around 65 hectares of area were available.
From 1929 the higher educational institution became the “State Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture” and under its director Bickel the expansion of the “Lange Point” area began by setting up the first greenhouses there. Bickel set up ten departments in the teaching and research institute, eight of which survived. By 1934 he expanded his institute in four construction phases because he had good relations with the National Socialist regime. This then became his undoing in the denazification period after 1945.
In the time of National Socialism from 1933 to April 30, 1945, when the American army occupied Freising and Weihenstephan, the branch of the Technical University of Munich largely lost its importance, since the entire teaching business was relocated to Munich and only "class trips" to Weihenstephan gave.
New beginning after 1945
After a brief "college operation" by the Americans, which lasted until April 13, 1946, lectures for the agriculturalists began again in May of this year. And in 1947 the formal act of relocating the faculty to Freising-Weihenstephan was completed and the horticultural studies were also made possible at this faculty of the Technical University of Munich.
After the Second World War, the Horticultural College was turned into an "Engineering School for Horticulture" in 1958 and had its own main building on the Weihenstephaner Berg. It now had the double name "State Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture - Engineering School for Horticulture".
From 1947 Richard Hansen , head of the "Institute for Perennials, Woods and Applied Plant Sociology", set up the well-known viewing garden for perennials and woody plants , which is now popularly known as the “Perennial Garden” and has developed into the most popular facility on campus.
Setting the course through the University of Applied Sciences Act (1970)
After the enactment of the University of Applied Sciences Act of 1970, the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences was established in 1971 . On August 1, 1971, the engineering schools for horticulture in Weihenstephan were merged with the facilities for agriculture in Schönbrunn, Triesdorf (near Ansbach) and in Landsberg am Lech and led by a president and chancellor. The then temporary plans for a comprehensive university in Weihenstephan were not implemented, it remained with the independent development.
Since the first Fachhochschulgesetz provided for application-oriented research only as a task for the Fachhochschule teachers, but not for the Fachhochschule as an institution, the State Research Institute had to be founded, which was affiliated to the Fachhochschule and renamed the "Research Institute for Horticulture Weihenstephan" in 2003.
The year 1970 or 1971 was also a decisive turning point at the University of Applied Sciences. In 1996, 25 years later, then President Josef Herz was able to look back on an amazing track record. During this time, the number of students had risen from 500 to over 2,600; 91 professors trained the students in 7 courses and 2 supplementary courses in 1996. And a year later, a number of new and rebuilt buildings were opened, which were able to remedy the space shortage to some extent. But there were already indications at that time that the continuous growth would continue and require continuous expansion.
The dynamic development of the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences and its most recent development into the HSWT - the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences - also contributed greatly to the fact that the science and research campus was able to develop in such a diverse and networked manner.
Overall planning of a campus site (from 1971)
After the Second World War, a clear structural break on the Weihenstephaner Berg was the demolition of the economic building of the monastery in the early fifties, in the place of which the lecture hall and institute buildings were erected (1955-58).
Up until the 1960s there was no overall plan for the overall structure of the Weihenstephaner Berg and its expansion options. Overall planning became inevitable with the increasing number of students and the growing demands of scientists, especially when the Science Council recommended that agricultural research and training be expanded.
In 1971 the Landbauamt Freising received the order for the overall planning. “Alternative 5” was selected from the planning options, which placed the new center with cafeteria, lecture hall building, library and the institutes of basic research between Vöttinger and Thalhauser Straße along the Hochfeldweg on the former test areas of the State Institute for Natural Resources and Life Sciences. The master plan approved in 1974 prevented an even denser development of the mountain and created the actual modern center of the Freising-Weihenstephan campus, which was then gradually expanded.
Development of the TU faculties into science and research centers
In 1996, at the beginning of Wolfgang A. Herrmann's presidency at the Technical University of Munich, a reform process began with the aim of fully exploiting the possibilities of the location as a center of life sciences in interaction with the other domains of TUM - natural sciences, engineering, medicine, economics.
First, the TUM relocated the biology chairs from Garching to Weihenstephan. In 1999, following a decision by the Bavarian Council of Ministers, the forest science faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) was integrated into the TUM. In October 2000 the three faculties were merged to form the new Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment .
This major faculty is divided into interlinked study faculties and research departments and, with this matrix structure, is the image of the pronounced interdisciplinarity that characterizes Weihenstephan and is intended to make the location fit for the future in the overall context of the university.
In the following years, attempts were made to further sharpen Weihenstephan's university profile. The biology as leading science has been greatly expanded, and as systems biology oriented. New focal points were added: nutritional science with nutritional medicine , renewable raw materials (anchored in a competence center), the "Chair for Organic Agriculture and Crop Systems", food chemistry and sensor technology as well as bioinformatics .
With the appointment of a full-time dean (2007) Weihenstephan once again assumed a pioneering role: Gerhard Wenzel was the first full-time dean at a Bavarian university. With this, TUM took an important step towards professionalizing faculty management.
The major changes on the Weihenstephan campus were also visible in the structural area. Since the reform process began, around 65 million euros have been invested in new buildings in Weihenstephan: ZIEL II (2000), Biosciences (2002), Central Library (2003) and Animal Sciences II (2003). In addition, there was the acquisition of the Degussa building (2006) for food chemistry, which could be relocated from Garching to Weihenstephan due to the new spatial option.
A further 68 million euros were earmarked for the construction of the International Beverage Science Center Weihenstephan (completion 2013), the construction of the Hans Eisenmann Center (completion 2013) and the modernization of the agricultural science research stations in Dürnast, Thalhausen and Viehhausen.
In 2010 the Weihenstephan Science Center comprised around 90 professorships, 1,900 employees and 3,500 students. This made Weihenstephan the largest faculty at the Technical University of Munich in terms of the number of professors.
Campus with two universities
The modern reforms have led to the fact that the Freising-Weihenstephan campus has developed into a “research and science campus” in which, in addition to many institutes, two universities (TUM and Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University) are represented. The cluster of universities and scientific institutes develops a kind of momentum of its own because in the 21st century it is easier to work together and compete scientifically worldwide.
Weihenstephan Science Center - TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
This important large faculty of the Technical University of Munich has expanded more and more over the last few decades on the Freising campus and extends far beyond the Freising city area with its facilities and experimental goods.
Research institutions
This major faculty - internationally known as the "TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan" - has the following research institutions that are located outside the campus or extend far beyond the campus and are networked worldwide:
- Research Brewery
- Greenhouse Laboratory Center Dürnast (GHL)
- Wood Research Munich (HFM)
- BayBioMS - Bavarian Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Center
- NGS @ TUM - Next-Generation-Sequencing at the WZW
- Agricultural research stations
- Limnological station Iffeldorf
- TUM-Critical Zone Observatory
- Science Center Straubing was converted into the " Straubing University of Biotechnology and Sustainability " on July 28, 2018 and is now its own "Campus Straubing".
The TUM School of Life Sciences
This "School of Life Sciences" is increasingly facing the following challenges and topics in the 21st century:
- Securing world food
- Shortage of fossil fuels
- Climate change
In order to cope with these tasks, intensive research must be carried out, both in the basics and in the application. The life sciences play an important role here, as they cover the entire spectrum of topics, from food production and the provision of biogenic raw materials to the preservation of an environment worth living in.
There are four central institutes or research centers on campus:
The Weihenstephan Research Center for Brewing and Food Quality (BLQ)
It provides the transfer between science and practice, with the task of supporting the brewing and beverage industry as well as their suppliers in technical, technological and economic terms while utilizing current scientific knowledge and practical experience. It is a modern research and service company within the TUM, in which research contracts are also acquired. It is integrated into teaching and thus functions as an important link between research, teaching and practice.
As a state, independent unit within the university, the test laboratories are accredited according to DIN EN ISO 17025 to carry out chemical, chemical-technical and microbiological analyzes. In addition to up-to-date raw material, auxiliary material and product analyzes as well as feed investigations, technological and microbiological advice are also part of the competencies of the research center. The company's own "Hygienic Design" test center is a world leader in testing fittings and system components.
The ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health
ZIEL is a central institute that conducts interdisciplinary science at the interface between food science, nutrition research and medicine.
Thematically networked focuses on the influence of food on intestinal health and the metabolic function of humans integrate the core competencies of the members. The establishment of platform technologies (core facilities) generate synergies across faculties and institutes.
It has the main research areas:
- Food and microbiome
- Food and immune metabolism
The Weihenstephan International Beverage Science Center (IGZW)
It is unique in the world because it covers the entire process chain of beverage research, from the molecular biological basics to biotechnological processes to the finished product. In its laboratories, scientific and engineering research in the field of modern beverage science is to be promoted. The building was completed in spring 2013.
The TUM's science and technology platform, the Bavarian Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Center (BayBioMS), is housed in the IGZW building.
The Hans Eisenmann Center for Agricultural Sciences (HEZ)
The Hans Eisenmann Center makes agricultural science visible on the Freising-Weihenstephan campus and ensures this within and outside the university.
The central institute has the following tasks:
- It networks all of the TUM's chairs and institutions with a focus on agricultural science,
- it supports the cooperation with other agricultural science institutions on site,
- it conveys technical expertise,
- it offers a platform for communication and dialogue with the various areas of agriculture and agricultural science,
- it supports the transfer of knowledge through lecture events and symposia for scientists, students, practitioners, experts and interested citizens,
- and it is the visible contact person for agricultural science inside and outside the TUM.
One goal is to further develop the interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and systems science character of agricultural science at the Weihenstephan location.
Campus Straubing for biotechnology and sustainability
Subjects here are renewable raw materials (NawaRo), renewable energies and bio-economics in research and teaching.
The “Science Center for Renewable Raw Materials” was transformed into the “ Straubing University for Biotechnology and Sustainability ” on July 28, 2018 and will be expanded as such. The university is sponsored by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The Bavarian Council of Ministers did this at the suggestion of Science Minister Dr. Ludwig Spaenle decided.
The Straubing campus is fully integrated into the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as an integrative research center, making it the fourth TUM location alongside Munich city center, Garching and Freising-Weihenstephan. At the TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, scientists conduct basic research and technological developments on renewable raw materials, biotechnology and bioeconomy. The main research areas are the use of chemicals and energy recovery, as well as economic aspects relating to the production, marketing and use of renewable raw materials. Further research focuses are regenerative energy systems, the recycling of residual materials, deep and near-surface geothermal energy, and solar energy. The principle of sustainability is also given special attention in research and teaching. The academic training at the TUM Campus Straubing takes place within the framework of the courses "Bioeconomy" (from winter semester 2018), "Renewable raw materials", "Chemical biotechnology", "Technology and management-oriented business administration" (TUM-BWL) and "Biomass technology"; Bachelor and master theses and doctorates are available as degrees.
The Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences is cooperating with this new location and providing several professors and scientists.
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
In 2005 there were 3,940 students at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences. Four years later, the Bavarian Higher Education Act and the name of the university changed. The Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences committed itself to the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art to increase the number of students by 40 percent - 5,670 students were enrolled in the 2012/13 winter semester. The number of employees has increased significantly. The range of courses was expanded to include the areas of renewable energies, nutrition, water technology, and brewing and beverage technology, and all courses were converted to Bachelor and Master degrees .
With the new version of the University Act, the university was also commissioned to establish and expand research and development. The "Research Institute for Horticulture Weihenstephan" was integrated on October 1, 2012. A new center for research and further education is in the making. Projects from all disciplines represented at the university are to be implemented there in the future. In 2013, the HSWT took a leading position in national research projects and ranked first in attracting EU third-party funding.
The six above-mentioned courses were launched in 2005. As a result, a new building for 30.5 million euros has to be built at the Weihenstephan location. And at the Triesdorf site, new lecture halls and laboratories for 18.4 million euros are about to be completed in 2013. Research collaborations with other universities are bundled and expanded in the newly founded "Center for Research and Further Education". The professorial staff was also expanded in 2013. At the beginning of the 2013 summer semester, there were one new professor and five new professors. In the winter semester 2013/14, a similar number received a call to the university.
Two state institutions
Two important facilities that are important for the whole of Bavaria are located on the extensive grounds of the "Freising-Weihenstephan Campus". They benefit from their proximity to scientific research and offer scientists jobs for the practical application of their research.
Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture
The Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL) occupies a large area in the northern part of the campus area with its institute buildings, which have mostly been built in recent years. This "State Institute for Agriculture" was rebuilt on January 1, 2003.
In it have been summarized:
- the State Institute for Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
- the state institute for animal breeding,
- the State Institute for Nutrition,
- the State Institute for Business Administration and Agricultural Structure,
- the State Institute for Agricultural Engineering,
- the State Agency for Fisheries
- as well as the experimental goods administrations Achselschwang, Freising and Grub.
As of January 1st, 2004:
- the teaching and research institutes for animal husbandry Almesbach, Kringell, Schwarzenau, Spitalhof and Achselschwang
- as well as the main and state stud in Schwaiganger.
The framework conditions and challenges of agriculture and thus also the tasks and structures of practice-oriented research are subject to constant change. In 2003, the competencies of various independent state institutions and authorities in Bavaria were combined into one facility - interdisciplinary, solution-oriented and aligned with the overall system of agriculture. The LfL is directly subordinate to the State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (StMELF) and has been entrusted with the following areas:
- Application-oriented research
- Enforcement of sovereignty and funding
- education
- consultation
Statement of the LfL about itself
The Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture (LfL) is the knowledge and service center for agriculture in Bavaria. The LfL's application-oriented research takes up questions from practice and provides agricultural companies with solutions that can be used in various ways. This expert knowledge also flows into the LfL training courses and prepares young people for their jobs. The enforcement of sovereignty and funding as well as advice complete the offer and make the LfL an important partner of the Bavarian agriculture and food industry. It has the goal of sustainable agriculture in Bavaria and has given itself the short slogan: "Research, promote, educate"
Focus of work
- Mountain farming
- protein
- Grassland management
- Climate change
- Organic farming
- Renewable Energies
- Animal welfare
- Digitization (main topic 2017)
Working width of the institutes
The nine institutes of the LfL show the large working breadth of the LfL and reflect the diverse spectrum of an agricultural enterprise on a scientific level. In addition to purely agricultural issues, the interactions between agriculture, society and the environment are examined and analyzed.
The institutes are committed to the guidelines of scientific work and handle their tasks independently. At the same time, the close cross-institute collaboration in key work areas and individual projects opens up the possibility of evaluating diverse individual aspects of a topic and their overall interaction. So z. For example, with the focus on “efficient and sustainable grassland management”, research is not only into the production technology in grassland and its interactions on soil and the natural balance, but also about animal welfare and the environmentally friendly production of milk and meat.
The basis for the scientific work of the institutes are the current LfL working framework program and the annual work plans. Individual projects and focal points are defined in the internal committees, in the Scientific-Technical Advisory Board, with the State Ministry and across national borders with numerous cooperation partners and documented in a database. LfL's research is geared towards putting it into practice as quickly as possible. In addition, the results flow indirectly through advice and directly through a wide variety of media to customers in the agricultural and food industry in politics and society.
The nine institutes
- Institute for Organic Agriculture, Soil Culture and Resource Conservation
- Institute for Plant Production and Plant Breeding
- Institute for Plant Protection
- Institute for Animal Breeding
- Institute for Animal Nutrition and Forage Management
- Institute of Fisheries
- Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry
- Institute for Business Administration and Agricultural Structure
- Institute for Food Economics and Markets
Responsibilities of the central departments
The focus of the six central departments is on service: they support the institutes in their tasks and projects, carry out tests, coordinate investigations and quality controls and ensure smooth internal and external communication.
As connecting elements, they make a significant contribution to ensuring that the Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture can work successfully as a future-oriented knowledge and service authority.
In vocational training they perform tasks as the responsible body. They take care of funding and law enforcement - depending on the requirements - on their own responsibility or in close coordination with the institutes.
The six departments
The central departments are subdivided and located as follows:
- Central Administration Department (Vöttinger Straße 38, Freising-W. Campus)
- Funding and Specialized Law Department (Menzinger Straße 54, Munich)
- Quality Assurance and Investigation Department (Lange Point 4, Campus Freising-W.)
- Information and Knowledge Management Department (Lange Point 12, Campus Freising-W.)
- Vocational Education Department (Lange Point 12, Freising-W. Campus)
- Test farms department (Prof.-Zorn-Straße 19, Poing)
In addition, there is the "staff unit" assigned to the President, in which the
- strategic controlling takes place,
- the president and the extended office management receive organizational support and
- In addition to risk assessments, strategies for action are also developed.
Institute building "Lange Point 12"
Institute building "Lange Point 12" with information board
Institute building "Lange Point 10" from the side
Head of the Institute for Plant Production and Plant Breeding "Am Gereut 8"
This is where the KErn is housed
Institute of Plant Production and Plant Breeding "Am Gereut 2"
A woodland nature trail has also been created
Many greenhouses characterize the northern part of the campus
New branch in Ruhstorf an der Rott
Since January 2018 there is a branch of the LfL in Ruhstorf an der Rott near Pocking , Lower Bavaria , which is under construction.
The project is part of the home strategy of the Bavarian state government. In the interplay of research, economy and agricultural practice in Ruhstorf, together with the LfL institutes and departments in Freising-Weihenstephan and Munich, sustainable solutions for the agricultural sector in Bavaria are to be developed and made ready for practical use.
Rooms are rented for the transition period. In 2026, 200 employees will be based in the new building. The construction of an agricultural digitization center began in 2018, and the "Digitization" project group is gradually shifting its activities to Ruhstorf. The agrometeorological measuring network is managed from the LfL branch in Ruhstorf.
Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry (LWF)
The Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry (LWF) is also a quite new special authority of the Bavarian Forest Administration in the division of the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests .
prehistory
August Ganghofer , who later became the head of the Bavarian State Forestry Administration, had the task in the 19th century to set up the forestry experimental system in Bavaria and the organization of the research institute. At his instigation, in 1881 the "Royal Bavarian Research Institute" was founded.
The departments of the research institute were headed by university professors of forestry. In 1979 the "Forestry Research and Research Institute" became independent and expanded to become a departmental research facility of the Bavarian Forest Administration. When it was relocated to Freising in 1993, the facility was given the new name - Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry.
Office of the forest administration
The Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry (LWF) is part of the Bavarian Forest Administration and the administrative department of the Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forests. It supports the local forest authorities and is the point of contact for all types of forest ownership.
The state institute conducts practical research on everything to do with forests. Around 180 people are employed at the LWF. The research teams consist of foresters with scientific training, experienced forestry practitioners and - where necessary - specialists from other disciplines.
Subdivision of the LWF
The LWF is headed by a president and a vice-president with the staff units
- Staff, research funding
- GS center forest-forest-wood
- Personnel and Administration
- Controlling and project management
- Legal advice
The LWF is divided into the following departments:
- Information technology
- Soil and climate
- Silviculture and mountain forest
- Forest technology, business administration, wood
- Forest protection
- Biodiversity, nature conservation, hunting
- Forest ownership, advice, forest policy
- Knowledge transfer, public relations, forest education
Centering and cooperation
The concentration of so many universities, research institutes and state institutions results in pleasant opportunities for the formation of centers. There are opportunities for scientific collaboration, collaboration and supplementation in training and in advising ordinary citizens, be they farmers, gardeners, forest owners or entrepreneurs. The planning of the campus enabled short distances so that people can work together or train with little loss of time.
Center Wald-Forst-Holz Weihenstephan
The Weihenstephan Forest-Forest-Wood Center bundles research, teaching and consulting at this campus location and, with around 400 employees, forms a forest competence center that is unique in Europe - the central point of contact for all questions about forest, forest and wood and the interface between science and practice.
It creates the basis and prerequisites for managing forests sustainably and making them fit now and in the future for their diverse role as
- regenerative raw material and energy source
- Protection and habitat for animals and plants
- Economic and recreational space for people
- indispensable element in the fight against climate change
Partner institutions
In the Center Wald-Forst-Holz Weihenstephan, the forestry faculties of the Technical University of Munich and the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences as well as the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry network their individual skills and resources in research, teaching, advice and knowledge transfer. The following three partners work together:
- The "Study Faculty for Forest Science and Resource Management" of the Technical University of Munich through its basic research, its academic training and its international courses,
- The "Faculty of Forest and Forestry" at the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences through their practice-oriented training, applied research and their advanced training, and
- The "Bavarian State Institute for Forest and Forestry" as a special authority of the Bavarian Forest Administration through its practical research, through its advice and knowledge transfer as well as through monitoring and inventories.
tasks
As the central point of contact in the forest, forest and wood sector, the Weihenstephan Forest-Forest-Wood Center forms the interface between science and practice and
- bundles forest research at the Freising-Weihenstephan university location,
- promotes cooperation within the three partner institutions as well as with external institutions,
- initiates and coordinates research projects,
- determines and answers questions from practice,
- communicates scientific results to industry, practice and the general public.
The forest center provides support with its results from research and ongoing surveys
- climate protection
- the prevention of forest damage
- sustainable forestry, silviculture and forest planning
- the timber harvest, logistics and timber marketing
- the wildlife ecology
- the solution of business questions
- the forest policy
Contact for many
The Weihenstephan Forest Center is the central point of contact for all questions about forests, forests and wood, and provides tailored answers for
- Forest owner
- Forestry Associations
- Companies
- Scientists and researchers
- Policy makers and institutions
- Private individuals.
Agricultural Science Center Weihenstephan
The Agricultural Science Center Weihenstephan is a teaching and research cooperation between the Technical University of Munich , the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences and the Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture . It is housed in the Hans Eisenmann Center for Agricultural Sciences (HEZ).
The unique spatial and thematic concentration of the three institutions on the Freising-Weihenstephan campus provides the basis for bundling competencies in basic, departmental and applied research and thus for intensive cooperation in agricultural education and research.
The basis of the cooperation is a cooperation agreement that was signed on April 4, 2011 by Agriculture Minister Helmut Brunner, Science Minister Wolfgang Heubisch and the presidents of the three institutions, Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Hermann Heiler and Jakob Opperer.
While maintaining the respective independent profile -
- Alignment of the Technical University of Munich to the system and basic research and education of students,
- of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences on application-related teaching, research and development projects and
- of the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture on implementation-oriented, applied research -
the cooperation between the cooperation partners in the Agricultural Science Center Weihenstephan will be further intensified. The cooperation is accompanied by a coordination committee and an advisory board.
Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan
The brewery, which emerged from the former monastery brewery, has been called the Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan since 1921 . Today, as a government enterprise of the Free State of Bavaria, it is a modern company run according to private-sector standards with sales areas all over the world. The brewery is connected to the Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment of the Technical University of Munich . The beer brewed there is also served in a brewery restaurant.
Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging
The forerunner of the institute is the institute for food research founded in 1941 in Munich by Rudolf Heiss with a focus on "long-life packaged food". As a university lecturer at what was then the Technical University of Munich, Heiss paved the way for teaching food and packaging technologies to be introduced at German universities.
Under the name of the Institute for Food Technology and Packaging (ILV), the institute was incorporated into the Fraunhofer Society in 1973 . Under the director of the institute, Wolfgang Holley, the company moved to Freising in 1996, and in 1999 the institute was renamed the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV).
The institute, known for short as “Fraunhofer IVV”, develops products and processes in the areas of food ingredients, functional films, food quality and product safety and develops processes for recycling plastics.
It was located on the edge of the Vötting district on Giggenhauser Strasse.
Innovation and start-up center for biotechnology (IZB)
In March 2002 the IZB Freising-Weihenstephan was opened with 2,200 m². In the innovation and start-up centers for biotechnology (IZB), young entrepreneurs and company founders from the life science sector find an infrastructure for the economic implementation of their product and service ideas.
In the innovation and start-up center for biotechnology in Martinsried , future drugs and services have been created since 1995. The IZB Freising-Weihenstephan is working on the market-economy maturity of phytopharmaceuticals as well as new methods and products for improvement in the agro-food industry.
The Freising Weihenstephan Science Campus is a competence center for research in the field of bio, agricultural and nutritional sciences and thus forms an excellent scientific basis for market-oriented biotechnology at the IZB in Weihenstephan. Seven companies (including sub-tenants) and around 50 employees are currently housed in the IZB.
State technical school for flower art
Directly across from the "perennial garden" is a school facility that developed organically over 60 years ago: the Weihenstephan State Technical School for Flower Art . In 1950 the first advanced course for flower art started at the "State Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture Weihenstephan" under the course leader Moritz Evers. Gradually, the course developed into a two-year, full-time advanced training course with a focus on design-artistic, commercial-business, botanical-botanical and communication management areas. The school is currently training in two years to become a state-certified designer for flower art. Design, business administration, botany, marketing, EDP and a broad general education are her focus. The technical school should enable the students to take on tasks in the middle functional area as specialists with professional experience.
State trustee Weihenstephan GmbH
The Landestreuhand is a modern tax consultancy and auditing company that operates nationwide and is based at the foot of the Weihenstephaner mountain.
An accounting office for breweries from 1909 was converted into a GmbH after the First World War and removed from the university. The company shares were then taken over by the Bavarian Brewers' Association . That is why there has been close personal links and factual cooperation with the faculty until recently. Today the state trustee is integrated into the large company Deloitte .
Deloitte is one of the leading auditing and consulting companies in Germany. The range of services includes auditing, tax advice, consulting and corporate finance advice. With 3,400 employees in 18 branches, Deloitte has been looking after companies and institutions of all legal forms and sizes from all branches of industry for 100 years. Through the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu association, Deloitte is represented with 135,000 employees in almost 140 countries around the world.
Agrometeorological research and advice Weihenstephan
The German Weather Service (DWD) also has a branch in Freising-Weihenstephan. This works successfully with the universities and state institutes through the "agrometeorological research and advice" and has become indispensable for the facilities on the Freising-Weihenstephan campus.
The monks of the Benedictine monastery had already recorded the air temperatures at the end of the 18th century. In 1903 the State Plant Breeding Institute set up its own weather station on its trial fields. In 1936 a "Weihenstephan Climate Station" was put into operation and in 1958 the "Agrometeorological Testing and Advice Center" was founded in Weihenstephan. In 1969 a modern double station was set up in the forest and in the field, with which an extensive measuring and observation program could be carried out.
The branch office of the German Weather Service makes an important contribution to environmentally friendly and economical land management, but also regards it as an additional task to give farmers, hobby gardeners and the legislature decision-making aids and also to assess the effects of possible climate changes on agriculture.
Internship Office Weihenstephan
The Weihenstephan Internship Office advises and supports students of the Technical University of Munich at the Weihenstephan Science Center and the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences in finding a place for the company internship stipulated in the study regulations.
The following services are offered:
- Advice on all questions of study practice and internship semesters
- Advice and support in finding internships abroad
- Assistance in finding jobs
- Database for research, TUM
- Organization of training courses and courses
- Support during the internship
- Recognition of study practice
- Implementation of the vocational and work pedagogical exams
Further institutions of the university administration and student support
- Weihenstephan administrative office / TUM campus office
- Munich Student Union
- Student representations
- University community Freising
- Central university sports
- “District J” of the Leibniz Computing Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Art on campus
In 2009 the association “Modern Studio Freising” developed and published the brochure “Art Path Weihenstephan” in cooperation with the Office for Culture and Tourism of the City of Freising. The brochure provides information about the creation of the Art Trail, the works of art and their artists. A map with the locations of the individual works enables an inspiring walk over the site and to the works of art.
A few examples of these campus artworks:
The "Lion Gate" from the 1930s
Fritz Königs "Kranzbrunnen" at the Old Academy
Fritz Königs "Great Flora II"
Alf Lechner's so-called "Geierstangen" (from 2018 next to the campus bridge)
Josef Lang's "Lake in Sight"
Leo Kornbrust's "Three Stone Shapes"
Hans-Jürgen Breustes "Standing people are like gardens"
CJ Kowalczyk's “Children in Angola. They say they sleep in the trees at night. "
Other institutions and associations
DEULA Bayern and Akademie Landschaftsbau Weihenstephan GmbH
These vocational and continuing education institutions are located on the edge of the campus in the outer Wippenhauserstraße, where they fit into a school center in the city of Freising. The Weihenstephan landscaping academy has only existed as a subsidiary of DEULA since 1996.
Working group for agricultural technology and agricultural construction in Bavaria eV
As an association, the ALB eV has set itself the task of promoting agricultural engineering and agricultural construction. It is the mediator between agricultural practice, research and science, trade and industry and administration. The main tasks of the ALB Bayern can be divided into three parts. In addition to services such as the sale of software, fonts and statics, the transfer of knowledge through information events or working groups as well as the implementation of research projects are among the activities of the association.
Bioanalytics Weihenstephan (formerly HVA)
“Bioanalytics” is a large-scale chemical-analytical laboratory which, as a department of the Central Institute for Nutrition and Food Research (ZIEL) at the Technical University of Munich, has, in addition to research and teaching, a well-developed branch of contract analysis. There are traditional reasons for this, as "bioanalytics" emerged from the main research institute for agriculture (HVA) of the Technical University of Munich.
In teaching, bioanalytics is primarily integrated into the nutritional science course. A food analytics internship is carried out for the master’s course.
Contract analysis is primarily concerned with the detection of value-determining ingredients, but also of less desirable residues in the entire food chain. From the determination of crude protein to amino acid analysis to the analysis of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and residues in the soil, in the plant, in animal products and ready-to-eat meals, a further range of characteristics is available.
Bioanalytics has excellent capabilities in the field of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC, micro-HPLC, LC-MS-MS) as well as gas chromatography (GC, GC-MS) and a number of other analytical techniques (IC, ICP, AAS) technical possibilities.
Other organizations on campus
- Professional Association for Agriculture, Food, Environment (VDL)
- VWU - Association of Weihenstephan University Graduates
- CAD-GIS laboratory
- Weihenstephan music workshop
- Parents' initiatives for childcare "Krabbelstube - Kindertäume"
- Weihenstephan plant fire department
literature
- Günther Knoll: From model agriculture to a science center. Weihenstephan after secularization (1803–1990). In: Weihenstephan. Research for the preservation of the natural foundations of life. Frisinga, Freising 1991, ISBN 3-88841-041-X , pp. 19-46.
- Heinrich Geierstanger, Ernst Baumann: New building in old surroundings. Architecture and building history in Weihenstephan. In: Weihenstephan. Research for the preservation of the natural foundations of life. Frisinga, Freising 1991, ISBN 3-88841-041-X , pp. 47-66.
- Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Center of Life Sciences Weihenstephan. Science for man. Franconian Day, Bamberg 1998, OCLC 164579598 .
- Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Technical University of Munich. The history of a science company. 2 volumes, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938690-34-8 .
- Wolfgang A. Herrmann: Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and the Environment. Success story of a start-up . Kastner AG, Wolnzach September 2010 (also as a PDF file published by the Technical University of Munich 2010)
- Hermann Heiler (Ed.): 40 years HSWT. Festschrift / Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences. Freising 2011, DNB 1022953478 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 25 years of Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences with a state research institute. Festschrift. Edited by Josef Herz. Freising 1996.
- ^ Website of organic farming , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ Wolfgang A. Herrmann: Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment. Success story of a start-up . PDF file. Published by the Technical University of Munich 2010. www.tum.de
- ^ Website of the Chair for Brewing and Beverage Technology , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Greenhouse Laboratory Center , accessed January 9, 2018.
- ^ Website of Holzforschung München , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Next Generation Sequencing website at the WZW , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Head of the Agricultural Research Stations , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Limnological Station Iffeldorf , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ English website of the "Critical Zone Observatory" (CZO) , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Campus Straubing of TUM , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ Website of the central institute HEZ , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Press release on the TUM website , accessed on January 11, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Straubing Campus on the TUM website , accessed on January 11, 2018.
- ↑ Further training at the HSTW , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ History of Achselschwang , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Research station Grub , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Research that affects everyone. Sustainable agriculture in Bavaria. PDF brochure, ed. from the LfL, accessed on May 26, 2013.
- ^ Website of the Institute for Organic Farming ... accessed on January 9, 2018
- ^ Website of the Institute for Plant Production ... accessed on January 9, 2018
- ^ Website of the Institute for Plant Protection , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Institute for Animal Breeding , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Institute for Animal Nutrition ... accessed on January 9, 2018
- ^ Website of the Institute for Fisheries , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ Website of the Institute for Agricultural Engineering ... accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Website of the Institute for Business Administration ... accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Website of the Institute for the Food Industry ... accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Presentation of the new branch on the LfL website , accessed on April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Home Strategy - Relocations of Authorities , accessed on April 27, 2018.
- ↑ [1] Web presence of the Center Wald-Forst-Holz Weihenstephan
- ↑ [2] TUM website with an illustration of the Agricultural Science Center
- ↑ Fraunhofer IVV website , accessed on January 9, 2018.
- ↑ [3] Deloitte website
- ^ Branch office of the German Weather Service Weihenstephan , accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Weihenstephan Internship Office , accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ Campus Office of the WZW TUM , accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Freising University Community , accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Leibniz Computing Center , accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ Online brochure on the artworks , accessed on April 28, 2018.
- ^ [4] ALB website, accessed on May 23, 2013.
- ↑ [5] Bioanalytik website, accessed on January 25, 2018 (English).
Web links
- Page with PDF map of the Freising-Weihenstephan campus (for download)
- Web presence of the Weihenstephan Science Center (WZW)
- Website of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (HSWT)
- Web presence of the Bavarian State Agency for Agriculture
- Web presence of the Bavarian State Institute for Forestry and Forestry
- Web presence of the Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan
- Website of the State School for Flower Art
- Web presence of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging
- Web presence of the innovation and start-up center for biotechnology in Martinsried (IZB)
- Website of the working group for agricultural technology and agricultural construction in Bavaria
- Bioanalytics Weihenstephan (formerly HVA)
- BLQ - Weihenstephan Research Center for Brewing and Food Quality
- German Weather Service - Agrometeorological Branch Office Weihenstephan
- Institute for Agricultural Engineering
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