Konvikt (Leipzig)

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The Konvikt in the Paulinerhof around 1890. On the left the central Paulinum

The Konvikt was a historic building of the University of Leipzig on the site of the former Pauline monastery , which existed from 1844 to 1892.

history

Konvikt or Konviktorium was the name given to the room in medieval universities in which mostly poorer students were provided with food. At the University of Leipzig this was initially on the ground floor of the Mittelpaulinum on the Paulinerareal. The dining room bore the inscription “ Convictorium Studiosorum a Mauritio Duce Sax. Et Electore laudatiss. Anno MDCLVI munifice apertum ".

In 1844, a two-storey new building was built south of the Mittelpaulinum according to plans by Albert Geutebrück , which now took over the function of the old Konviktsaal on the ground floor, with the name being carried over to the entire building. This made the Mittelpaulinum free for the increase it began in the same year. The Konvikt was a relatively unadorned, purely functional building. It had two outbuildings, in which there were kitchen rooms, a bakery and a slaughterhouse, as well as animal stables.

In 1868 Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher added a second floor due to lack of space in classrooms at the university. In addition to lecture halls, Wilhelm Wundt's “Institute for Experimental Psychology ” also had its first home here at the beginning of the 1880s.

In 1892, the Konvikt and other buildings on the site were demolished by Arwed Roßbach to leave the building free for the new university buildings. The student supply moved to the bookseller exchange in the Ritterstrasse, which the university had acquired after the Exchange Association of German Booksellers had moved to its new booksellers house in 1888 . The building of the former booksellers exchange was now often referred to as the Konvikt with the cafeteria and fencing floor.

literature

  • Senate Commission for Research into the History of Leipzig University and Science (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 , Volume 5 History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , p. 73
  2. ^ Wilhelm Wundt: The Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 17 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 42"  E