Philosophy tower

Philosophenturm (2017)

The Philosophenturm , or Philoturm or Philturm for short , is the tallest building at 52 meters on the main campus of the University of Hamburg . It was opened in 1963 as part of the first campus expansion at the Von-Melle-Park site. a. with the Auditorium maximum built according to plans by the Hamburg Building Department under the direction of Paul Seitz .

It houses a large part of the university's humanities institutes (as of 2008). The fourteen floors contain seminar rooms, institute secretariats and teaching rooms. Individual institute libraries and many student cafés are also located here. The Philoturm cafeteria and seven lecture halls are located on the ground floor.

An extensive interior modernization will take place in the Philosophenturm from October 2017 to probably 2020. This includes a safety, sound and fire protection renovation. The libraries, which were previously spread over several floors, are to be centralized into a unit on five floors.

Since the Philosophenturm cannot be used during the modernization, the former Shell high-rise approx. 5 km away in City Nord , Überseering 35 , houses the humanities institutes during this period . Teaching began here in the 2017/2018 winter semester.

literature

Ralf Lange : Hamburg - Reconstruction and new planning 1943–1963 . Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 .
Boris Meyn : The architect and urban planner Paul Seitz: a work monograph . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-923356-73-0 .

Web links

Commons : Philosophenturm - collection of images, videos and audio files

Portrait of the architect Paul Seitz in the architecture archive of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects
List of recognized monuments of the city of Hamburg ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ University of Hamburg: Renovation of the Philosophenturm and move to the City Nord. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ NDR: Out of Philosophenturm, into City Nord. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
↑ Larissa Karge: Moving to the City North: University clears the "Philturm" . In: MOPO.de . January 12, 2017 ( mopo.de [accessed May 25, 2017]).

53.567194444444 9.9854444444444Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 7.6 ″ E

[1] University of Hamburg: Renovation of the Philosophenturm and move to the City Nord. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[2] NDR: Out of Philosophenturm, into City Nord. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .

[3] Larissa Karge: Moving to the City North: University clears the "Philturm" . In: MOPO.de . January 12, 2017 ( mopo.de [accessed May 25, 2017]).