Senate building (Leipzig)

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The Senate building around 1890. On the left the Augusteum, on the right the Mittelpaulinum, behind the barred windows on the third floor the detention center

The Senate building of the University of Leipzig was a building that existed until 1892 on the site of the former Dominican monastery of St. Pauli .

history

The Senate building with a floor area of ​​around 23 by 15 meters bordered vertically on the southern Zwingerhaus of the monastery, which was formerly on the city ​​wall and which was replaced by the Augusteum in 1834 . The north-west corner touched the central Pauline. It bounded the rear Paulinerhof, formerly Priorgarten, to the south. At the time of the monastery it was the residence of the prior . After the transfer of the monastery grounds to the university, Joachim Camerarius had his auditorium here from 1546 . The University Court later met on the ground floor . The physical auditorium was on the first floor, and from 1784/85 there was also a collection of equipment, and student apartments were housed on the second and third floors.

Before Albert Geutebrück began building the Augusteum, he rebuilt the adjoining Senate building in 1829. The old building was dismantled down to the vaulted ground floor and redesigned as a plastered brick building. After the inner courtyard, it had a heavily banded basement and a classical entrance portal with a flat triangular gable.

A room in the dungeon on the third floor

The first floor now occupied the University Rent Office and the archive, which was established in 1825 , while the University Court met on the first floor. On the second floor of the apartments were bailiffs and caretaker and in the third the detention room of the university.

In the course of the redesign of the Pauliner area between 1892 and 1897 by Arwed Roßbach , the senate building was demolished in 1892. Around the square of the Senate building, the atrium was built between the Augusteum, Albertinum , the foyer between the two and the Johanneum . Now here is about the southwest corner of the new Augusteum.

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

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 19 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 44 ″  E