Welcome to the campus tour!

Our tour begins directly at the main entrance on Nordhäuser Straße. There you will find the impressive Audimax building, which was built in the 1950s. It houses two seminar rooms and the Lernwerkstatt (university learning workshop) on the ground floor. On the first floor is the former Auditorium maximum (Audimax for short), the university's largest lecture hall. Unfortunately, it is currently closed because it has to be extensively renovated. However, once the construction work is complete, the hall will once again be available as an auditorium or ballroom.

Opposite the Audimax building is the administration building, which houses the central administration of the University of Erfurt. These are the university management and the

staff units and departments

• Research and Graduate Services
• University Communications
• International Office
• Office of the Head of Administration and staff units of the Head of Administration
• President's Office and University Development staff unit
• Quality Management in Studies and Teaching

and departments

• Department 1: Registrar's Office
• Department 2: Human Resources
• Department 3: Financial Services
• Department 4: Facility Management
• Department 5: Planning, Controlling and Procurement

The ground floor of the administration building is also home to the "Lecture Hall 7" café, which is run by the Studierendenwerk.

Building C03, which is directly adjacent to the Audimax building, houses the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences and the Language Centre of the University of Erfurt, as well as lecture halls 3 and 4 and numerous seminar rooms.

The cafeteria building is located directly opposite the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences on Hieranaplatz. Here, the Thuringian Student Services Organisation (Studierendenwerk) provides students, employees and guests of the University of Erfurt with food every day. Take a look at the current menu! Please note that payment in the cafeteria is only possible with student identity card thoska (or EC card at guest price).

The Studierendenwerk info point is located in the cafeteria building, right next to the terrace. It offers a wealth of information and services relating to studying. You can also book slots for flexible childcare here.

Teaching Building 2 (C07), the headquarters of the Faculty of Education, is located in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria building on Hieranaplatz, with its two annexes - the technical workshops of the Faculty of Education (C06) and the rehearsal rooms of the Music department (C08).

The building also houses lecture halls 5 and 6, various seminar rooms, work rooms for scholarship holders and early career researchers, the Erfurt Laboratory for Empirical Research (ErfurtLab), the eduroom - workshop for media education, the Smart Classroom (a room equipped with state-of-the-art technology that offers an interactive, collaborative and personalised teaching, learning and conference experience) and the subject teaching laboratory for student teachers as well as the "Room of Silence". The latter is available to members of the student communities or all members of the university who are looking for a place of retreat, e.g. for prayer or contemplation or similar. The Room of Silence is also regularly used for meditation exercises. It is accessible on weekdays from 8 am to 7 pm.

From the Max Kade House, you can see an elongated building with a flat roof: the "House of Projects". It houses rooms for student projects as well as storage rooms for tools and materials from the educational garden. The building is in serious need of renovation and demolition is planned for the medium term.

If you look from the "Haus der Projekte" towards the sports hall, you will see residential home 4 on the left, where the Thuringian Student Services Organisation (Studierendenwerk) provides flats for students.

The sports hall on the university campus is also currently being renovated. Teaching on the "Sport and Movement Education" degree programme normally takes place here. The hall is also home to the University Sports Club(USV Erfurt), which offers a wide range of sports activities for members and affiliates of Erfurt's universities. A beach volleyball court and a calisthenics sports facility are connected to the hall. The campus educational garden, where prospective primary school teachers are trained to teach educational gardening, is also located in the immediate vicinity.

Villa Martin is a special building on the University of Erfurt campus. It houses parts of the Faculty of Catholic Theology and not only stands out visually, but also has an exciting history: the seed grower Franz Martin had the building constructed in 1923 and 1924 by Erfurt architect Erich Fabianski as a residence for his family. At that time, it still stood in undeveloped open countryside on the edge of his nursery, which extended as far as the then independent village of Marbach (incorporated into Erfurt in 1950). The villa has a basement, a ground floor and two upper floors and from an architectural point of view is extremely simple, functional and matter-of-fact on the outside. There are only a few decorative elements on the façade, such as floral decorations in the sandstone door arch on the north-west side. After several changes of ownership over time, the university acquired the building, which was in need of renovation, at the end of the 1990s with the aim of establishing the headquarters of its Faculty of Catholic Theology here.

The restoration was carried out under the premise of integrating a large part of the historical building fabric into the new plans and preserving the basic structure of the villa with its design details. The ground floor, the most representative floor of the building, now houses the Deanery of the faculty, the professors' offices and a meeting room. During the renovation, the stucco ceilings were refurbished, the parquet floors with inlays were refurbished and the old library was restored and supplemented. The wall panelling with historic sliding doors was also preserved, whereas some partition walls had to be removed. An artistically crafted, spacious oak staircase leads from the stairwell with its oval porch, stained glass windows and coffered wall panelling to the first floor. There, the former hallway now serves as a communication room, around which the professors' rooms and the employees' rooms are grouped. The original colour scheme of the rooms has been restored in some places. Both the basement and the attic house further rooms for teaching staff as well as so-called ancillary function areas. Newly constructed staircases were installed to provide access to these areas in place of ancillary rooms that were no longer required.
In December 2004, the renovation of Villa Martin was completed and the building was finally handed over to the Faculty of Catholic Theology.

The Erfurt University Library was opened in 2000 as the "central laboratory of the humanities". Its holdings comprise 750,000 volumes in open stacks and 400,000 volumes in the stacks. The university library brings together media from all subject areas under one roof and offers sufficient space for reading and working.

The University Library's large reading room is open to all library visitors and allows them to work with the holdings on site. There are also 360 user workstations with PC or WLAN access and 18 carrels available for library users and university members. Workstations with desktop sockets also enable mobile working. The library building also houses five group study rooms, a lecture room, the media centre, the exhibition room and a special reading room.

The "centrepiece" of the Erfurt University Library is the "Bibliotheca Amploniana", the largest manuscript collection of a late medieval scholar in the world that is still largely intact and one of the most important collections of medieval manuscripts in Germany. It is preserved as a deposit of the city of Erfurt in the special collection of the Erfurt University Library and is researched by scholars.

The "Hilge" café is located on the ground floor of the library building. In addition to hot drinks and snacks, you can take a break from your literature research in a cosy atmosphere or recharge your batteries - even outside if the weather is nice. Readings, discussions and small exhibitions are also organised here.

The Student Council has set up a bicycle repair station on the square in front of the library. Whether it's a flat tyre or loose screws - visitors to the campus are welcome to use this free service for minor repairs or to pump up their tyres.

Teaching building 4 (C18) is located between Alfred-Weber-Platz and Alfred-Weber-Allee. It is home to the Faculty of Philosophy. The University of Erfurt's Founders Service also has its office here. There are eight seminar rooms on the top floor.

It was another milestone for the University of Erfurt - the "Weltbeziehungen" research building. The new building on campus was inaugurated on 18 October 2023. It enabled the implementation of a long-term research programme on the topic of "Attraction, Repulsion, Indifference - a comparative cultural analysis of world relations". The new building was constructed on Max-Weber-Alle between the University Library and the Centre for Communication and Information (KIZ) and houses the Max-Weber-Kolleg, the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, the Theological Research Centre and the research group "Voluntariness".

Two larger event rooms have been created on the ground floor and further small meeting rooms on the upper floors.

Another residential home for students is located at Alfred-Weber-Platz 5 on campus. It is one of a total of eight residential homes run by the Studierendenwerk in Erfurt. The rents are all-inclusive, i.e. all operating costs including water, electricity and heating are already included and range between 104 and 299 euros. The rooms are usually furnished (bed, table, chair, wardrobe, shelving and fitted kitchen with cooker and fridge).

The KIZ on Max-Weber-Alle between the University Library and Nordhäuser Straße is one of the newer buildings on the University of Erfurt campus. It was inaugurated in 2016 and, in addition to lecture halls 1 and 2 with 420 and 160 seats, also houses the University Computer and Media Center (URMZ) and four PC pool rooms with 25 workstations each. In addition, extension areas for the library stacks have been created in the basement.

The tower block at the main entrance to the University of Erfurt is a staff building. It houses the Erfurt School of Education (ESE), offices of various professorships based at the Faculty of Philosophy, the BAföG office and the counselling offices of the Thuringian Student Services Organisation (Studierendenwerk ) as well as the senate hall.

When the façade of the building was renovated in 2010, a photovoltaic system was installed, which produces around 17,300 kWh of solar power per year. This means a saving of around 2,500 euros per year in electricity not consumed.

The offices of the Staff Council and Student Council are located in the extension to the building (C24).

In order to ensure that teaching on the Sport and Physical Education degree programme can continue during the renovation of the sports hall, a temporary alternative sports hall has been built in the immediate vicinity of the "Haus der Projekte" and the calisthenics facility on campus. It is expected to be dismantled at the end of 2024, when students and the university sports club will be able to return to the newly renovated sports hall.

Buildings 3 H1a-c are located in the centre of Erfurt's old town, Am Hügel 1, in the former arts and crafts school built in 1904, a listed Art Nouveau functional building. This building houses the Arts subject area of the University of Erfurt with its studios and workshops.

The teaching buildings of the Faculty of Catholic Theology are located in the cathedral ensemble in Erfurt's old town and offer a very special atmosphere for learning and working. Martin Luther, who lived in Erfurt at the time for his liberal arts studies, already sat in the lecture and seminar rooms.

The University of Erfurt's restoration workshop is located in the centre of the Latin Quarter in Erfurt, on Michaelisstraße. The employees here take care of books and historical manuscripts from the university's libraries, among other things.

The Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt is located in Friedenstein Castle. It preserves a unique collection of manuscripts, old prints and maps and is one of the most important German libraries with historical book collections. The approximately 694,000 works include:

• 11,436 occidental and oriental manuscripts
• around 350,000 prints from the 15th to 19th centuries
• the Gotha Perthes Collection with 185,000 individual maps, 800 linear metres of archival records and an outstanding historical cartographic-geographical specialist library with 120,000 volumes from the former Perthes Verlag Gotha publishing house

The Forschungskolleg Trandkulturelle Studien / Gotha Perthes Collection Gotha sees itself as a platform for interdisciplinary research into the historical development of today's global world. Its research is orientated towards the Gotha collections since the end of the 18th century and pays particular attention to the Gotha Perthes Collection, which is preserved by the Gotha Research Library and comprises the legacy of the publishing house Justus Perthes Gotha, founded in Gotha in 1785, and its successors.

The Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt is based in the former landscape house at Schloßberg 2, where research is conducted into the history of knowledge in the early modern period. In addition to texts, the researchers also analyse graphics and maps. Since 2013, the Gotha Research Centre has also been researching topics relating to the cultural history of knowledge in the 19th and 20th centuries. One focus here is the Gotha Perthes Collection. Since then, global historical approaches have also been made fruitful for research with the Gotha collections.

The Scholarship House is located in the building directly adjacent to the Gotha Research Centre. It offers visiting scholars and scholarship holders a temporary home during their research stay at the Gotha Research Campus.

In the Perthes Forum, the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt preserves the unique Gotha Perthes Collection and makes it available for research. The collection combines the historical legacy of three scientific publishers

• the publishing house Justus Perthes Gotha,
• the Geographische Verlagsanstalt Justus Perthes Darmstadt and
• the VEB Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha.

As the only map publishing archive preserved on the European continent, the Gotha Perthes Collection contains unique source material on the development of cartography and geography in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the unity and interconnectedness of its holdings, the collection documents the last phase of the Age of Discovery, during which the interior of the non-European continents and the polar regions were explored. The maps, atlases and journals published by Perthes, above all "Stielers Handatlas" and "Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen", shaped the scientific image of the earth well into the 20th century and popularised it for a broad public. Genealogical-statistical publications formed the second focus of the publishing profile, in particular the "Almanach de Gotha"/"Gothaische Hofkalender" as the authoritative biographical encyclopaedia of the European nobility. The Gotha Perthes Collection was acquired by the Free State of Thuringia in 2003 with the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and integrated into the Gotha Research Library. Today it is housed in the Perthes Forum, which opened in 2015 on the former publishing site. The building is also home to the depot and workshops of the Friedenstein Foundation's "Baroque Universe Gotha" and the Thuringian State Archives Gotha.