Selected University Buildings: A Walk

Color photo, taken in the castle garden. The castle front with the old terrace on the left edge of the picture. In the foreground are the fountains and flowerbeds that no longer exist, in the background the EW building with concrete front, without today's cladding.

View of the student center. The facade of the building looks like wood and the windows are irregularly spaced.

Color photo with a view of the window facade of the building. Some of the windows have dark red cladding.

Black and white photo with a view of the glazed entrance area of the building

Black and white image with a view of the connecting corridor between the new library building and the old "Alte Münze" building.

Color photo of the building with a view of the main entrance. Many bicycles are parked in front of the building

View of the building from the grass verge on the Heger-Tor-Wall.

Schwarzweiß-Aufnahme von der Fassade mit Haupteingang, im Vordergrund Äste eines Baums

Black and white photo of the building, vehicles from the 1970s in the parking lot

Black and white picture with a view of the pond in the botanical garden, a young birch tree in the foreground, a sign with the Latin name "Betula nigra" hangs on a branch

Black and white photo of the building, in front of it a parking lot with vehicles from the 1970s and 1980s

View of the facade of the 19th century building.

From the bishop's residence to the heart of the university

Castle an EW-building

Made for creative life in everyday university life

Study Center

Once a furniture store, now a research center for European law

European Legal Studies Institute

Research and teaching in the former "Haus der Landwirtschaft"

Lyrastraße / Seminarstraße

Connection between old and new

University library "Alte Münze"

Teaching languages where the district was once administered

Altes Kreishaus

Learning paragraphs in the former girls' grammar school

Law and economics

Two administration buildings became one educational institution

Educational and Cultural Studies

From a steel monster to a lost place

Allgemeines Verfügungszentrum (AVZ)

The young plant world in Osnabrücks Steinbruch quarry

Botanical Garden

Concrete finally goes into the ground! Second construction phase at Westerberg

Physics / Chemistry

With the charm of Oxford: the former "lunatic asylum"

Knollstrasse

We invite you to take a walk around the university! Let us proceed from the center of our university through the Heger Tor Wall to the Katharinenviertel. Then westward, up the hill to our second campus. On to the "monstrosity of glass and rusty steel," the now abandoned AVZ building, to the other end of the campus with its rather austere-looking library, on the outside at least. Join us for a walk through the history of our university and visit a selection from a total of over 50 university buildings that are spread across the city center and the Westerberg.

In 1974, the University of Osnabrück began its teaching activities. Its defining characteristic was that, unlike other reform universities, teaching here did not take place on a newly constructed campus outside the city, but in various buildings in the city center and on the Westerberg. From the 1980s onwards, expansion was slow but steady and was highly creative: alongside new buildings, many repurposed or renovated buildings still shape the image of a very eclectic university in Osnabrück to this day.