TU Bergakademie Freiberg has a new representative lecture hall and library building in the heart of the campus. Finance Minister Hartmut Vorjohann and State Secretary for Science Dr. Andreas Handschuh officially handed over the new building to the Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht today.
The TU Bergakademie Freiberg has a new representative lecture hall and library building in the heart of the campus. Finance Minister Hartmut Vorjohann and State Secretary for Science Dr. Andreas Handschuh officially handed over the new building to the Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, today.
In time for the winter semester 2023/24, teachers and students will be able to use the new lecture hall and library building. In addition to the library, the new building houses two large, barrier-free lecture halls with 350 seats each, another lecture hall, seminar rooms and a cafeteria. The new university library offers space for around 720,000 books, journals and other media. Future users will also benefit from a total of 480 modernly designed learning and workstations adapted to the diverse teaching and research needs of students.
Construction work on the new university library with lecture hall center began in 2019, taking around four years. The Free State of Saxony invested about 49 million euros in the construction project, which was implemented under the direction of the State Enterprise Saxon Real Estate and Construction Management according to plans by the architectural firm Behet Bondzio Lin.
The new university library is open from Monday to Friday 7 am to 10 pm and Saturday 10 am to 6 pm. To mark the opening, the library is offering introductory courses in academic research and about the library collection to anyone interested.
Finance Minister Hartmut Vorjohann said at the ceremonial handover: "The Free State of Saxony has invested around 49 million euros in the new library and auditorium center. This underscores the high value placed on research, science and teaching in Saxony. The new building creates state-of-the-art study and working conditions. But it also impresses with its architecture. With the more than 40-meter-high tower, it makes the TU Bergakademie Freiberg visible from afar as the centerpiece of the campus."
Saxony's Secretary of State for Science Dr. Andreas Handschuh emphasized: "Teaching and research need the best conditions for the best results. The Saxon state government therefore provides in this and the next year alone for modernization and construction at the Saxon universities about half a billion euros. An example of these investments is the new lecture hall and library building in Freiberg - a state-of-the-art learning and research world, a striking flagship and not least meeting place for student and scientific exchange."
Prof. Dr Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, explained: "The new building replaces the library building constructed in the 1970s and 80s and considerably expands the lecture hall capacities. Directly on campus, the sustainably designed new building offers attractive learning spaces for our students, with which we especially promote joint, barrier-free learning and development of ideas and projects and meet the future requirements of digitalisation."