The Palais Universitaire in Strasbourg is a large, neo-Renaissance style building, constructed between 1879 and 1884 under the direction of the German architect Otto Warth. It was inaugurated in 1884
Detail of façade in 2022
Rear of Palace with building dates, garden and bust of Goethe
The Grand hall, or Aula
The Palace's motto on top of the avant-corps
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The University of Strasbourg is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52000 students and 3300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a cente
Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
…it faces the equally monumental former imperial palace (Kaiserpalast). The building served for several decades as the centre of the new imperial University of Strasbourg. The old university transferred from the buildings that it had occupied for centuries at the Jean Sturm Gymnasium to the new ones located in the Neustadt…
Palais Universitaire, main building of the former Imperial University of Strasbourg
Johannes Sturm, founder of the university (1539)
The new Patio, seat of the university administration, inaugurated in 2010.