Minden campus

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The Minden campus is the seat of the University of Applied Sciences in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia . It forms a department of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . The site on Artilleriestrasse is located on the northwest edge of the city ​​center district .

building

The campus is housed in the listed artillery barracks in Minden. The city of Minden included the building in 1994 under the number 488 in Part A of the list of monuments of the city of Minden . The buildings were extensively renovated from 1996 to 2002 and the college was housed in different buildings. This fulfills the purpose of common accommodation in the sense of a campus. There are seminar rooms, lecture halls , laboratories , offices and a cafeteria on site . The historic buildings will be supplemented by the construction of new laboratories. In July 2015, a new building was opened on campus, in which the campus library , the cafeteria and rooms for the technology area are housed. This provides the space to hold general meetings of all students .

history

The artillery barracks were built in 1896/97 by the city of Minden outside of the Minden fortress , in place of a demolished older artillery barracks east of the Minden cathedral . Until 1899, the facility housed the IV. Division of the 2nd Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 22 and then the II. Division of the newly established Field Artillery Regiment No. 58, which was renamed Minden Field Artillery Regiment No. 58 in 1902 . For this, the first extensions and renovations were carried out between 1911 and 1913. A war memorial on the site reminds of the occupation by the regiment to this day. The entire barracks were used for military purposes until the end of the Second World War .

Parts of the building complex also served as barracks, the Springbok Barracks , for the occupation troops of the British Rhine Army stationed in Minden until 1992 . The first commercial operations existed as early as 1949. Depending on the evacuation by the British Army, additional companies settled in the western part of the area in the following years. From around 1948, the buildings in the eastern half were used by the district vocational school. The State School of Civil Engineering in Minden , founded in 1964, formed the basis for the “ Architecture and Civil Engineering ” department, which was established in Minden from the foundation of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in 1971 . Due to the increasing number of students to over 1000 students in 2013, the campus was expanded, the so-called officers' house, which was rented from 2010, was bought by the university in 2013.

University of Applied Sciences

Over 1,600 students are enrolled on campus and eleven courses are offered. The range of courses includes the nine bachelor's degrees in architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering , health and nursing , IT , infrastructure management , mechanical engineering , construction project management and industrial engineering . In addition, the two Master’s programs in Computer Science and Integral Building can be continued postgraduate .

In addition to the classic full-time study, there are various other study models. For the civil engineering course, there is the option of a “cooperative model”, which combines the course with part of a craft training. In the electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and industrial engineering courses, there is a " practice-integrated model " in which practical phases in the company and theoretical phases at the university alternate approximately every quarter. The health and nursing degree course is designed as a dual course of study and thus offers the opportunity to obtain both a bachelor's degree and completed vocational training .

Web links

Commons : Fachhochschule Minden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c former Artillery barracks - 488. In: Geodata portal Minden. City of Minden, Department 5, Team GEOService, accessed on May 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ University of Applied Sciences acquires officers' house on the Minden campus. Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, May 8, 2013, accessed on May 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Minden Campus. Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, accessed on May 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Degree programs at the Minden campus. Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, accessed on May 13, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 46.9 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 21.3"  E