Collegium Sapientiae (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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Illustration from the “Statuta Collegii Sapientiae” from 1495

The Collegium Sapientiae (Latin for "College of Wisdom"), also called Sapienz , is the oldest student residence in Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

Parts of the old Collegium Sapientiae in Herrenstrasse

It was founded on the basis of a will from 1495 by Johannes Kerer , who was a university teacher, minster pastor and later also auxiliary bishop of Augsburg. It provided board and lodging for twelve poor students . Kerer created an institution that offered students in Freiburg what he himself had experienced during his studies in Heidelberg: a scholarship for talented but destitute young people. He worked out the statutes ( "Statuta Collegii Sapientiae" ) of the Burse in Herrenstrasse between 1496 and 1501 himself.

The house has a checkered history: In the 1870s the foundation house was moved next to the university church and the "Alte Sapienz" auctioned off by the university in 1775. It was converted into a hospital, made possible by a foundation from Katharina Egg and Johann Christian Wentzinger . After a new clinic was built, the house was sold in 1829 and converted into a residential building. In World War II it was completely destroyed. Today there are few remains of a late Gothic facade on a new building that was built after this: a keel-arched gate passage (today a shop window) and the walls of a small door.

The accommodation of the scholarship holders at the university church had to be given up at the end of the 18th century when the building there was acquired by the university for its own purposes. What remained was a pure study foundation that still exists today.

The Collegium Sapientiae today

Entrance building seen from Lorettostraße
dormitory behind

In 1968, on the initiative of the then Catholic student pastor Wolfgang Ruf, a new student residence was built in Lorettostraße, which was supposed to tie in with the tradition of "Old Sapienz" and officially took over its name. Today's Collegium Sapientiae (CS for short) offers accommodation to a hundred students from the Albert Ludwig University and the University of Music . The office of the Catholic University Congregation is also located there .

Many foreign students are part of the community in the dormitory. The ground floor and the basement are completely barrier-free. The basis of today's coexistence is the residence statute ratified in 2003. The Archdiocese of Freiburg is the sponsor of the dormitory .

literature

  • Johannes Kerer : Statuta Collegii sapientiae. = Statutes of the Collegium sapientiae in Freiburg im Breisgau 1497. Edited with an introduction by Josef Hermann Beckmann. Latin text obtained and translated into German by Robert Feger . Thorbecke, Lindau et al. 1957.
  • Adolf Weisbrod: The Freiburg Sapienz and its founder Johannes Kerer von Wertheim. Freiburg (Breisau) 1966 ( Contributions to Freiburg Science and University History 31, ISSN  0408-8263 ), (At the same time: Freiburg, Univ., Diss.).
  • Thomas Christoph Marx (Ed.): 500 years of the Collegium Sapientiae. 1497-1997. 30 years of the Collegium Sapientiae in Lorettostraße. 1967-1997. Festschrift. With the collaboration of Andreas Braun. Collegium Sapientiae, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1997, ISBN 3-00-001373-3 .
  • Peter Kalchthaler : Freiburg and its buildings. An art-historical city tour. Revised 4th edition. Promo-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-923288-45-X , pp. 138-143.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 7.8 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 34"  E