Leonardo Campus Münster

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Modern additions to old barracks

The Leonardo campus is a former barracks site on Steinfurter Strasse in Münster , which was converted into a university area in a conversion process that lasted from 1999 to 2009 . While maintaining the listed building stock of the former Reiterkaserne (before 1945 it was called Von Eine-Kavallerie-Kaserne ) and adding new buildings, space was created for the expansion of the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU), the University of Applied Sciences and the Münster Art Academy . This conversion is just one example of a series of similar conversions from previously military to civil use. These mostly resulted from the withdrawal of the British Rhine Army from many large barracks and residential areas in Münster after 1991.

history

The cavalry barracks

Street side of the former cavalry barracks

The Leonardo Campus is a kind of legacy of Prussia and its militarism . In the years 1898–1901 a cavalry barracks was built on an area of ​​around 11 hectares on Steinfurter Strasse. After the First World War, the cuirassier barracks was renamed after the former Prussian war minister and general of the cavalry Karl von Eine .

The military use also outlasted the First World War , the Weimar Republic and National Socialism until the end of the war in 1945. While the city of Münster was largely destroyed by air raids in the Second World War, the city's cavalry barracks remained almost undamaged.

Chance to convert

After the surrender in 1945 , further use by the military decreased sharply, but the British Rhine Army had seized the barracks near the center.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain , this property in Münster was no longer needed. Like other military properties, this property became superfluous for the Federal Republic of Germany. Münster's universities were thus given the unique opportunity to create new rooms for large-scale development projects in the field of science and research.

Leonardo campus

Insertion of the main building of the art academy

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia took over the quarter in 1994. This was the hour of birth of the Leonardo Campus and the planning began.

New art academy building

On March 17, 1999, the start of a total of 16 different construction projects were conversions and new buildings that were implemented by the then State Building Authority Münster II by the end of 2000. A large part of the facility could be converted in accordance with the requirements of the monument protection and thus usefully used for the purposes of the universities.

Parallel to the development of the Leonardo campus, the state planned and implemented the new art academy. Realizing the campus was one of the outstanding tasks of the first decade in the 21st century for the North Rhine-Westphalia Construction and Property Management (BLB NRW Münster), formerly the State Building Authority Münster II. Today, BLB NRW Münster manages and looks after a total of 37,350 m² of rental space for the three universities of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Fachhochschule and Kunstakademie Münster on the Leonardo campus alone with its 16 buildings. The last remaining gap in the Leonardo Campus was closed in 2009 with the new building for the design department. After that, the execution planning only concerned the expansion or expansion of the library.

  • West side of the barracks building

  • Library of the Art Academy

  • Main entrance to the architecture department of the university

  • Lecture hall building of the art academy

  • Front of the canteen building

  • Building # 1 on campus

  • Building number 9 on campus

  • Former stables with gates

New construction of the design department

The idea of ​​a new building for the design department on the Leonardo Campus was initiated in 2005 due to a lack of space and the poor condition of the old building on Sentmaringer Weg; At the beginning of 2007 there was the green light for the implementation. BLB NRW Münster had carried out an EU-wide competition procedure for this project. A Berlin architect prevailed among the 21 participating offices. With the work she submitted, she saw it as a central task to supplement and renew the ensemble on the Leonardo Campus and at the same time not to impair the existing order.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The buildings of the Leonardo Campus and their history , pp. 2–4
  2. ^ The buildings of the Leonardo Campus and their history , pp. 5–9

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 3.4 ″  E