Augusteum (Leipzig)

The New Augusteum 2012 is a consummate Building of the University Leipzig on Augustus Square. It was developed as part of the campus new building since construction in 2007. A building of the same name in the same place in the 19th century and up to its demolition in 1968, the main building of the University of Leipzig. The Augusteum new building is not modeled on the historic building, only the location, name, and the proximity to the Pauline are the same.

The New Augusteum adjacent to the new building of the Paulinum - Hall and University Church of St. Pauli, intellectual and spiritual center of the university. The new Augusteum is the main building of the University and includes the maximum Auditorium.

History

The Augusteum in the 19th century

The building on the west side of the square Leipzig Augustus joined the left side against the Paulinerkirche. The building was built in the years 1831-1836 according to the plans of Albert Geutebrück. The facade fell to a neoclassical design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Came early in the 1870s the building to its capacity limits, as the university was greatly increased by the rapid urban development in this period.

From 1892 to 1897, the building of Arwed Rossbach was rebuilt and extended generous. The Augusteum which originally only the main front to Augustus Square, received from the demolition of old buildings in the courtyard Paulinum and a South (1895 ), a middle and a West Wing ( 1896). These parts of the building were given the names Johanneum, Albertinum and the Pauline. The renovation also included a stylistic line with other prestigious buildings of Augustus place. Paulinerkirche and Augusteum were likewise according to plans Ross Bach facades of Renaissance Revival and neo-gothic.

Bursting at the time of the GDR

As large parts of the building fabric of the university was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in parts Augusteum in World War II. On 30 May 1968, in addition to the completely intact Paulinerkirche also Augusteum, that would have been saved by today's standards readily demolished by order of the GDR leadership. Both buildings did not fit into the ideology of a socialist- dominated university. On the beräumten terrain was until 1975 a new university complex in functional and sober GDR architecture. At the site of the main wing of the Augusteum rector's building was erected until 1971.

The Augusteum as part of the new university campus

After reunification, the citizens' initiative dedicated to the reconstruction of the University Church and Augusteum in Leipzig eV for the restoration of the old university ensembles. After years of litigation, an agreement was reached, should be without at modern facilities for teaching and research on the urban campus to the reconstruction efforts in favor of the requirements of the university. The elaborated by Erick van Egeraat design for a campus building reminiscent now with parts of the facade and a correspondingly designed auditorium at the St. Paul's Church. The Augusteum as a historic university main building he reaches into his design in the form of the portico and the north wing on again, but as a free quote and modern material. The completion of the building was originally planned for 2009, but it was only in 2012 completed.

The New Augusteum is the new main building of the university and is home to the Auditorium Maximum, the main auditorium, which seats 800. Besides building the Faculty of Mathematics and computer science, university offices, a gallery and the new interpreter training facility of the Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translational have their place.

On 2 December 2011, the new building was presented in a ceremony held for the first time to the public. The building should be passed by delays in the summer semester 2012, the university. Since June 2012, the University Computer Center is located in the first and second floor, in the summer, the Auditorium Maximum, was passed in September 2012 and took a faculty for mathematics and computer science.

The Schinkeltor the old Augusteum was integrated into the new building. The classical entrance portal is the only surviving witness of the architecture of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Leipzig. It was the main entrance of the first Augusteum - construction to redesign the Augusteum in the 1890s, where it was converted to the southern courtyard entrance. In 1981, the reconstructed portal between lecture and seminar building complex of the new building of the Karl Marx University was established. In the course of the building to the new campus, the gate was dismantled in June 2004. In 2009, it was then placed on the newly Leibniz forum again and integrated into the New Augusteum. It now acts as the input to the building from the courtyard.