Facts and Figures
New Building for the Small Departments
- Official opening: May 29, 2015
- Floor area: 12,650 square meters (including the library)
- Construction time: 2.5 years
- Total construction costs: approximately 52 million euros
- Federal grant: about 18.5 million euros
- Contribution by the university: about 33.5 million euros
- Lecture halls: 3
- Seminar rooms: 12 (incl. PC seminar rooms)
- Offices: 220
- Builder: Freie Universität Berlin
- Architect: Florian Nagler Architekten GmbH, Munich
- Technical equipment: Büro Ingenieurgesellschaft W33, Berlin
- Structural engineering: Büro Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner, Berlin
- Landscaping: Häfner / Jiménez Büro für Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin
The new building includes:
The Campus Library, the Dean's Office and Administration of the Department of History and Cultural Studies, and 14 institutes and subdepartments of the Department of History and Cultural Studies:
- Egyptology
- Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology
- Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology
- Institute of Classical Archaeology
- Institute of Korean Studies
- Institute of Chinese Studies
- Institute of Islamic Studies
- Semitic and Arabic Studies
- Institute of Iranian Studies
- Institute of Turkic Studies
- Institute of Jewish Studies
- Catholic Theology
- Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion
Facts and Figures about the Campus Library:
- Holdings: About 1 million volumes from 24 institutional and departmental libraries (a total of 30 kilometers of books)
- Floor area: 5580 square meters
- Individual reading and working spaces: 950
- Group rooms: 12
- Classification system: Regensburger Classification
- Opening times: Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. / Sat. - Sun. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The following departmental libraries were consolidated in the Campus Library:
- Education and psychology
- Women's and gender studies
- Japanese studies
- Chinese studies
- Religion
- Protestant theology with religious history
- Jewish studies
- Catholic theology
- Comparative ethics
- Islamic studies
- Semitic and Arabic studies
- Iranian studies
- Turkic studies
- Prehistoric archaeology
- Classical archaeology
- Egyptology
- Ancient Near Eastern archaeology
- Ancient Near Eastern languages and civilizations
- Pharmacy
- Chemistry and biochemistry
- Biology
- Physics
- Mathematics and computer science