International Student House Innsbruck
| International student house acc. GmbH
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| legal form | Profit company |
| founding | February 15, 1952 |
| Seat | innsbruck |
| management | Huberta Scheiber, management |
| Number of employees | 35 (as of October 2011) |
| Branch | Education - student house |
| Website | www.studentenhaus.at |
The International Student House (ISH) is a student residence in Innsbruck , the capital of the state of Tyrol in Austria . The non-profit association Internationales Studentenhaus , Builder and current owner was founded on February 15, 1952 and the house opened in 1958. This makes the ISH the oldest private student residence in Austria.
The ISH is located in the city center of Innsbruck and offers space for 670 students.
history
In the 1930s there was a shortage of student housing in Innsbruck as more and more young people were studying at the Leopold Franzens University . The existing dormitory next to the university no longer met the requirements, was too small with 100 beds and did not offer any ancillary rooms. Rector August Haffner pointed out this problem as early as 1931 : "The university dormitory is only a provisional half-timbered building, the lifespan of which may not be estimated at more than a decade."
The plans for the construction of a new student residence could no longer be implemented before the Second World War . Due to the destruction caused by the war, the housing shortage increased as Innsbruck developed into an important university town in the second half of the 1940s, attracting more and more young people from home and abroad. In addition, the city became increasingly popular with tourists, so that vacant rooms were preferably rented to wealthy travelers.
The university rectors Hugo Rahner and Gustav Sauser tried to alleviate the housing shortage, but only their successor, rector Eduard Reut-Nicolussi , was able to implement the plans. The International Student House Society was founded on February 15, 1952 and recognized as a non-profit housing company in July of the same year with a decision from the Tyrolean provincial government.
By 1955 the company was able to raise the necessary capital for the construction of the first wing. However, the implementation on the property between the university and Blasius-Hueber-Straße could not take place as planned, as the regional building authorities refused the building permit for future extensions to the University of Innsbruck. Finally, the Rechengasse location was chosen. Work on the six-story building were difficult because the ground was not very stable and out of the mud and sludge layer remains of a Treibgutrechens of Inns from the time of transportation of wood to be removed had.
In 1958 the first students moved into their quarters at the ISH. In the following semesters, up to 1,000 applicants had to be turned away, which is why plans for a further building project were drawn up as early as 1959, which were implemented under great time pressure from 1961. In December 1963, the entire ISH building for 468 students was inaugurated and, thanks in no small part to the financial support of Max Kade , a German-born US industrialist in the pharmaceutical and chemical sector and an international sponsor of science, was handed over debt-free.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the ISH was expanded again, with a neighboring building being demolished. In the years 1986 to 1996 all four buildings were equipped with cable television and telephone systems.
After decades of intensive use of the building and in view of the changed demands of the students on their accommodation, the Supervisory Board decided in 1996 to undertake a comprehensive general renovation. From 1998 two wings were completely renewed, the oldest part of the building was rebuilt and the fourth wing was renovated. In four years of construction, from autumn 1998 to summer 2002, a total of 400 residential spaces were renovated and 280 new ones created.
Complementary use
Until its general renovation in 1998, the ISH was also used for other purposes at times. This increased the level of awareness and contributed to the financing of the construction project. These uses were:
- Press hotel for the Olympic Winter Games 1964 and 1976: The use of the house as a press hotel for the Olympic Winter Games Innsbruck 1964 and 1976 made a major contribution to the financing of various construction projects. 450 international journalists reported on the Olympic events from the converted student house.
- Summer hotel from the 1960s to 1999: From the beginning of the 1960s until the start of the general renovation, the ISH rented its rooms through traffic and travel agencies and in cooperation with the local hotel industry during the summer semester break. The house was run as a bed and breakfast hotel for individual and group travelers and was rated two and a half stars by the Austrian Association of Accommodation Providers.
- Sample fairs for shoe manufacturers in the 1980s: At the beginning of the 1980s, sample fairs for shoe manufacturers were held annually at the ISH, during which producers from Austria, Germany and Italy presented their collections at the same time as the Innsbruck autumn fair .
organization
The ISH is run by the Internationales Studentenhaus non-profit GmbH . The shareholders are the Republic of Austria with a quarter of the shares and the State of Tyrol, the City of Innsbruck, the State of Vorarlberg, the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce, the State of Salzburg and the State of Upper Austria, each holding an eighth of the shares. Another partner is the Association of German Friends of the Universities in Innsbruck , based in Munich, which owns only one thousandth of a share, but is an important non-material and material sponsor of the ISH.
Sponsor
During the construction and expansion phase of the 1960s, the then managing director of the ISH, Karl Ilg, approached numerous institutions and private individuals with a request for financial support. The Swabian Max Kade, who lives in New York, was the only private individual to donate 2.5 million schillings (around € 180,000) to the ISH from his Max Kade Foundation, which he founded in 1944 . This was founded to provide for the intellectual development of the student youth and for understanding among the peoples. The Max Kade Foundation supports the ISH to this day.
The industrial consul Hanns Bisegger from Bielefeld bequeathed several properties to the ISH in 1985 in a testamentary donation: eight apartments in Rechengasse 3, seven apartments in Hormayrstraße 12 and eight parking spaces. These properties were integrated into the concept of the further development of the ISH and have been part of the ISH since then.
Cooperations
The University of New Orleans and the ISH have had a close relationship since 1976 . Gordon Mueller, founder of the UNO Innsbruck partnership, wanted Innsbruck to be the venue for a summer school at the University of New Orleans. Mueller got to know the city during his student days as press officer for IBM Austria at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and considered Innsbruck to be the ideal base for the first summer school of an American university in Europe. Until its general renovation, the ISH accommodated more than 7,000 students from the UNO Innsbruck Academic Year Abroad (AYA) University of New Orleans in Innsbruck Austria program in 25 years . In the winter and summer of the academic year, students at the University of New Orleans complete a semester abroad in Innsbruck and live at the ISH during this time.
The ISH also hosted summer schools from the following American universities:
- Saint Mary's Business (Southern States)
- Saint Mary's Law (Southern States)
- University of Wisconsin
- University of Stetson
literature
- Internationales Studentenhaus GmbH (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of 50 years of the Internationales Studentenhaus Innsbruck and completion of the general renovation and the new building. Innsbruck 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ÖH Heimkompass, student residences Innsbruck ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB), pp. 2, 3 and 8
- ^ Location of the ISH
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '43.2 " N , 11 ° 22' 57.9" E