University of Leipzig Building, Pauliner Church, Auditorium, Opening News
Paulinum University Leipzig Building
Higher Education Building in Saxony, Germany – design by Design Erick van Egeraat, architects
30 Nov 2017
University of Leipzig Building
Paulinum University Leipzig Building
Architects: (dEvE) Design Erick van Egeraat, NL
Official opening of the Paulinum University Leipzig
With the new main building, auditorium and Paulinum, designed by the Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, the new University of Leipzig, founded in 1409 and the second oldest University of Germany, is now finally completed.

The official opening will take place on 1st of December 2017. Prime Minister of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich, will officially open the Paulinum, the last important part of the new campus.
Erick van Egeraat says: ?By far the most challenging project in my career so far. I am very delighted with the final result. It reflects every detail of our design intentions. Leipzig can be proud.?

Erick van Egeraat won the international competition in 2004. The new Paulinum of University of Leipzig is situated on the site of the former Pauliner Church, the only church to remain undamaged during the second world war. In 1968 the complex was willfully demolished by the former GDR regime. With the design made by Erick van Egeraat, decades of debate about the reconstruction of university?s Pauliner Church came to an end.

Erick van Egeraat did not propose to rebuild the church stone by sto...