Main building of the University of Hamburg
The main building of the University of Hamburg is a building complex of the University of Hamburg in Hamburg-Rotherbaum , which consists of the actual main building from 1911 and two wing buildings erected much later.
Location and description
The building is located near the Dammtor train station at Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 .
The building complex consists of the original main building as well as a west and east wing. The main building with a dome contains several lecture halls . The building has a rough plaster facade that is atypical for Hamburg and is reminiscent of a pavilion due to its low construction height and the neo-baroque architectural design .
The east wing houses the Asia-Africa Institute , lecture halls and a café; The west wing houses the library of the art history seminar , the institute for ethnology and several lecture halls.
history
The main building was a foundation by Edmund Siemers , who had the building erected for the " general lecture system ". It was taken over by the university in 1919. The construction of the main building was preceded by a competition in 1907/08, won by the Diestel & Grubitz architects from Hamburg architects Hermann Distel and August Grubitz. Members of the jury included Theodor Fischer , Gabriel von Seidl , Friedrich von Thiersch and Ludwig Hoffmann . The building was built between 1909 and 1911, the interior was redesigned and repaired between 2001 and 2004.
The west wing, built from 1996 to 1998, and the east wing, built from 1999 to 2002, were designed by Folker Schneehage . The buildings are a gift from the real estate agent Helmut Greve , Dr. Helmut and Hannelore Greve Foundation for Science and Culture . Experts criticized the fact that the construction of the building was not preceded by a competition, but that the planning was carried out under Greve's guidance and that the new buildings would represent a “renunciation of architecture”.
literature
- The lecture building in Hamburg 1911–2004 . Festschrift on the occasion of the redesign of the main building of the University of Hamburg, ed. by Jürgen Lüthje and Hans-Edmund Siemers, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-00-014561-3 .
- Rainer Nicolaysen (Ed.): The main building of the University of Hamburg as a place of memory. With seven portraits of scientists displaced during the Nazi era , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937816-84-5 . ( Full text online , PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 112 .
- ↑ Manfred Sack : Renunciation of architecture . In: The time . No. 40 , 1995 ( zeit.de ).
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 47 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 18.3" E