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09/27/2018 | Pressemitteilung

New physics building at HoPla: Things are getting concrete

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science of the State of Hesse have approved the specific space requirements of the University of Kassel for the construction of a new building for physics and nanostructure sciences. The state will construct a new building at Holländischer Platz for around 120 million euros and enable the move from the current location in Oberzwehren.

Image: Alia Shuhaiber.
The Holländischer Platz campus from the air at the end of 2014. In front, the future construction site for the natural sciences.

The next step will be an architectural competition for the design of the new building, Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Schäfer and Science Minister Boris Rhein said today in Wiesbaden: "In to the center of Kassel, in to the heart of the University of Kassel at the Holländischer Platz campus - and in to the future of state-of-the-art research and working conditions: All this speaks for the relocation of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. For Physics and Nanostructure Sciences, this long-cherished and justified wish of the university can now be tackled in a first step. It will further strengthen the university city and the research location Kassel."

The basis for the decision now taken was already laid in 2015, when the University of Kassel was awarded 100 million euros by the state of Hesse from the state government's HEUREKA II program for the years 2021 - 2026. The architectural competition is to be completed by the beginning of 2020. Possible start of construction is 2023.

The President of the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey, welcomed the approval for the new building: "The new building for the natural sciences is of outstanding importance for the overall development of the University of Kassel. I am all the more pleased that the Hessian state government has now approved our plans for the first construction phase. Now we need to get started quickly and press ahead with the entire project - namely the complete relocation of the natural sciences from the AVZ site to the Holländischer Platz campus."