Westend campus

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The Westend campus is one of the five locations and headquarters of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . The campus is located in the Westend district, northwest of downtown Frankfurt am Main . It replaced the Bockenheim campus as the university's headquarters. Since 2001, all social and humanities departments as well as the central administration have been located there. Before it was taken over by the university, the site was successively the location of the Institute for the Insane and Epileptic , the corporate headquarters of IG Farbenindustrie and the headquarters of the US armed forces in Europe .

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The IG-Farben-Haus, built between 1928 and 1931, is the main building on the Westend campus.

prehistory

The Affensteiner box with lock Grüneburg (left) and psychiatric institution ( "Asylum") on a Frankfurt map from 1887; the dashed lines mark a road plan that was not implemented in this way.

The Westend campus was built on the southeastern part of a parcel called Affensteiner Feld . Until the 19th century, the site was located at the gates of the city of Frankfurt and was mainly used for agriculture. In 1837, the Frankfurt branch of the Rothschild banking family had acquired real estate there and had a castle-like country residence built with park facilities that were gradually expanded through acquisitions, the New Palace at the Green Castle . In 1935, the building and the park area were forcibly sold into the possession of the then National Socialist city ​​administration and was converted into a publicly accessible green area as Grüneburgpark , which continues to exist under this name to this day.

In the immediate eastern vicinity of Grüneburgpark, the so-called mad castle, one of the first modern psychiatric sanatoriums, was built on Affensteiner Feld on the initiative of Frankfurt neurologist Heinrich Hoffmann from 1859 to 1864 . Obsolete, it was demolished in 1928. Remnants of the building were found in 2008 during the construction of the PEG building. The site was then for the 1928 to 1931 built the IG Farben building used by IG Farben. After the end of World War II , the United States Armed Forces established their European headquarters in the building. North of the IG-Farben building, the Americans built outbuildings for their headquarters and officers' houses. After the Americans moved out, the property and the building fell to the Federal Property Office in 1996 .

Use by the Goethe University

The former casino of the IG Farben building designed by Hans Poelzig, view from the south
Extension of the casino and lecture hall center

The state of Hesse acquired the area around the IG Farben house from the federal government in 1996. The site is the new main location of the Goethe University , which will vacate its previous location on the Bockenheim campus in the Westend district of Frankfurt in the future.

Initially, the Center for North America Research (Zenaf) at Goethe University temporarily moved into the casino building of the IG-Farben building. After around three years of renovation, the main building was occupied in 2001 by the departments of Protestant theology, Catholic theology, philosophy and history, cultural studies and modern philologies as well as the Fritz Bauer Institute . The casino building was then completely renovated. Since there was no cafeteria available at this location, a "tent cafeteria" was set up during this time. In the course of the renovation work, three ballrooms, two seminar rooms, a dining room and a kitchen were set up. During the National Socialist era whitewashed wall paintings were exposed again. The total renovation costs, which were borne by the federal and state governments, amounted to around DM 225 million.

First construction phase

Campus square, law and economics building (left) and lecture hall center (center)

A competition was announced for the redesign of the site north of the IG-Farben building, which was won by the Frankfurt architect Ferdinand Heide . Several architects were won for the individual buildings in a further competition in 2004. In summer 2008 the House of Finance was inaugurated based on a design by the architects Kleihues + Kleihues . In autumn 2008, the building for law and economics by MüllerReimann Architekten, the lecture hall center and the casino extension used by the cafeteria, both designed by Ferdinand Heide, went into operation, as well as the student dormitory and an adjacent room of silence , both designed by Karl + Probst.

As early as 2006, the Hessian construction management moved into a temporary container building on Lübecker Straße, from which the project management for the construction work acted.

Second construction phase

In the second construction phase, the building was erected for the departments of social and educational sciences, for the institutes for psychology and human geography, and for the university administration including the university computer center. In addition, north of Max-Horkheimer-Strasse is the research building for the Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders . In addition, a seminar room building was built on the site of the former thermal power station on Max-Horkheimer-Strasse in the 2015 summer semester.

In the course of the construction work for the new Westend campus, a tower-like structure was uncovered in May 2008 in the northern part of the border with Affensteiner Weg (today Max-Horkheimer-Straße), which is referred to as the " ice pit " in the plan by the architect Oskar Pichler . The building was used by the city insane asylum until it was demolished, as evidenced by the fragments of the crockery that were hidden inside the tower. Archaeological studies have shown that the tower belonged to the late Gothic city fortifications, was then converted into a windmill and later used as the ice cellar of the insane asylum. The archaeologists at the University of Frankfurt expressly doubt this assessment. The building was integrated into the institute building for social sciences, educational sciences, psychology and human geography. The seminar pavilion in Hansaallee was put into operation in 2014.

Third construction phase

In the third construction phase, another university building is planned for the linguistic and cultural studies subjects, which will be connected to Hansaallee in the direction of Miquelallee . ; In addition, the new student house is being built on the central band of the campus and a new building for the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) is being built in the northeast on Miquelallee . During this construction work, a 1.8 ton air mine from the Second World War was found north of the seminar building on August 29, 2017. The preparation for their defuse led to the largest evacuation measure in the German post-war period to date , for which more than 60,000 people had to leave their homes on September 3, 2017.

Further development

According to the Ferdinand Heides master plan and the development plan for Grüneburgpark and Miquelallee, expansion areas are planned for further development . Unlike the rest of the Westend campus, these areas are owned by the city, so the university has no access to them. Contrary to the original agreements and the specifications of the development plan, the city is planning to accommodate schools on the expansion areas of the university. On January 18, 2017, the state and city announced an agreement to hand over the land originally intended for the university between Hansaallee and Eschersheimer Landstrasse for the construction of the Adorno-Gymnasium. In return, the city is to transfer its land on Miquelallee to the university, which will thus receive planning security for further expansion buildings. The exchange areas may have different sizes, but according to the development plan they may be built with roughly the same usable area. The city's Philipp-Holzmann-Schule and a sports field have so far been located on the future expansion areas of the university. You should future location u. a. the university library Johann Christian Senckenberg , for the new building from the proceeds of the sale of the former police headquarters on March 7, 2018 approx. € 100 million will be made available by the state.

Buildings on campus

House of Finance
Extension casino
Lecture hall center
Wollheim memorial

With construction time and architect:

address

From the move to the first institute in 1996 until March 30, 2015, all buildings on campus had the same address, Grüneburgplatz 1 . Since April 1, 2015, individual addresses have been assigned to remind scientists. These are specifically Norbert-Wollheim-Platz , Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz and Max-Horkheimer-Straße and, since 2015, Fritz-Neumark-Weg , Helmut-Coing-Weg , Gisèle-Freund-Platz and Nina-Rubinstein- Weg .

Web links

Commons : Campus Westend  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Barbara Vogt: Siesmayers Gardens, p. 78. Editor: KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1151-1
  3. ↑ Heike Drummer, Jutta Zwilling: From the Grüneburg to the Westend campus. The history of the IG Farben House, ed. from Goethe University , Frankfurt 2007, p. 122, ISBN 978-3-00-021067-9
  4. ↑ fnp accessed online on November 29, 2012
  5. ↑ Hans-Markus von Kaenel , Thomas Maurer, Albrecht Schlierer: How what is thought changes what is built. To reinterpret the ice cellar of the former "Institute for the Insane and Epileptic" on the Westend campus of the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. In: Wulf Raeck , Dirk Steueragel (Ed.): The built and the thought. Form of settlement, architecture and society in prehistoric and ancient cultures (= Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften . Volume 21). Habelt, Bonn 2012, pp. 167-209. Available online , accessed October 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ University of Frankfurt
  7. ↑ http://www.journal-frankfurt.de/journal_news/Kultur-9/Campus-Westend-der-Goethe-Universitaet-Siegerentwurf-fuer-dritten-Bauabschnitt- sucht-fest- 24273.html
  8. ↑ Uni builds: News from the location development - News from the Goethe University Frankfurt. In: currentes.uni-frankfurt.de. September 1, 2015, accessed August 22, 2017 .
  9. ^ High school in Nied moves to Westend . In: fr-online.de . ( fr.de [accessed on January 24, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Official Journal Frankfurt 42-2014
  11. ↑ image withdrawal from the Information System of the City of Frankfurt
  12. ↑ Official Journal Frankfurt 17/2015

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