Stuttgart-Hohenheim. With a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony, the Tübingen-Hohenheim Student Union, the University of Hohenheim, and the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts celebrated the start of construction on the new residential complex at Fruwirthstraße 15–19. Here, 126 residential units for students of the University of Hohenheim are being built.
Affordable housing is in short supply at many university locations – and the University of Hohenheim is no exception. The new building will provide noticeable relief in this tense situation: the current stock of 1,187 residential units at the Hohenheim location will grow to a total of 1,313 places with the new project.
“We know how urgently students in Hohenheim need affordable housing – almost 1,800 applications last year speak for themselves. We are all the happier that we can finally realise the project after pandemic-related delays and species protection investigations,” explained Edith Hein, Managing Director of the Tübingen-Hohenheim Student Services Association, at today’s ground-breaking ceremony.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider, Rector of the University of Hohenheim, was also delighted that construction work has begun: ‘Affordable housing is an important criterion for young people when deciding whether and where to study. We are in competition in this regard, also internationally. The construction of student residences is therefore an important investment in the future, in the training of skilled workers and in the future economic strength of the state.’
Dr Hans J. Reiter, Ministerial Director at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, also attended the ceremony. The project is being funded as part of the ‘Junges Wohnen BW’ programme, which supports the creation of additional affordable housing for trainees and students. “The groundbreaking ceremony for the new hall of residence shows that the Student Housing Support Programme, as part of the federal-state Young Living Programme, is having an immediate impact on the ground. The state government is thus creating much-needed housing for students in Baden-Württemberg and providing concrete support to the Tübingen-Hohenheim Student Services Organisation as the builder of this hall of residence. A good supply of student housing is an important factor in the attractiveness of Baden-Württemberg as a university location,” said Dr Hans J. Reiter.
Other guests included representatives of the university, the university building authority, the student body and the student services organisation.
The plans for the new residential complex date back to an architectural competition in 2019. The Cologne-based firm barkowsky wahrer architekten GbR won the competition together with fischer heumann landschaftsarchitekten PartG mbB from Munich. Three buildings are being constructed – one four-storey and two three-storey buildings – with a total of 126 residential units, half of which are designed as single apartments and half as shared flats. The compact new building blends into a 3,700 m² hillside plot and is accessed via Fruwirthstraße to the south.
Completion of the residential complex, with an investment volume of around €13.9 million, is planned for mid-2027.
From left to right in the press photo: Markus Fromme (Head of Housing at Stuwe), Dr. Hans J. Reiter (Ministerial Director, MWK), Bianca Aschauer (AStA Executive Committee, University of Hohenheim), Edith Hein (Managing Director, Stuwe), Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider (Rector, University of Hohenheim), Ines Aufrecht (City of Stuttgart), Dietmar Topka (Head of Construction, Stuwe), Julia Schneider (UBA), Paul Haesakkers (Construction Manager).
Brief information about the project:
• The ‘Student accommodation at Fruwirthstraße 15-19’ construction project comprises the new construction of one four-storey and two three-storey residential buildings for students.
• The residential complex offers space for a total of 126 students.
• The three buildings contain 61 single apartments, 2 wheelchair-accessible apartments, 7 four-person shared flats and 7 five-person shared flats.
• The single apartments and shared flats are each equipped with a (shared) kitchen and sanitary facilities (shower, washbasin, WC). All rooms are furnished and equipped with media connections.
