Neuenheimer Feld

The Neuenheimer Feld is a new development area in the west of the Heidelberg district of New Home, housed in the predominantly ( but not exclusively) the science faculties and parts of the University Hospital of Heidelberg University.

Similar to the north adjacent glove Feld, the site was used for agriculture until the 60s. In the first half of the 20th century occurred on the north bank of the Neckar with the 1915 here laid Botanical Garden and the Department of Surgery ( 1933-39 ) first university institutions. 1935 was added, founded on private initiative Heidelberg Zoo, which was created in place of a planned cemetery.

After the Second World War there was considerable need for expansion of the university, so that the science faculties were (apart from various buildings of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy ) and a part of medicine as a campus university moved to the Neuenheimer Feld, for which almost the whole area was built. Since the turn of the millennium there is a new construction wave, numerous clinics and medical institutes leave the old hospital in Bergheim and move into new buildings on the campus has to offer. Among the facilities that are housed here in new buildings, also includes student residences, the German Cancer Research Center ( DKFZ), the South Asia Institute (SAI ) and the Max Planck Institute for International Law and Medical Research.

Also on the adjacent Handschuhsheimer area the building was expanded, here are the Institute of Sport Science, the new building of the College of Education and since 1985, the Heidelberg Technology Park.

The volatile nature of the resident population in New home and glove home have plans for a fifth Neckar crossing, which is to the Neuenheimer Feld confer a direct motorway connection. An extension of the tram network, which is to open up the area, is in the planning phase. The plan approval procedure was initiated in May 2011.