Editing Heidelberg University (section)

==Campuses==
{{main|Heidelberg}}

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"I saw Heidelberg on a perfectly clear morning, with a pleasant air both cool and invigorating. The city, just so, with the totality of its ambiance is, one might say, something ideal."
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| style="text-align: left;" | — [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~it5/unispiegel/3_99/ideales.htm|title=Goethe citation, Unispiegel 3/99|access-date=20 May 2008|work=Unispiegel Homepage|quote=Ich sah Heidelberg an einem völlig klaren Morgen, der durch eine angenehme Luft zugleich kühl und erquicklich war. Die Stadt in ihrer Lage und mit ihrer ganzen Umgebung hat, man darf sagen, etwas Ideales.|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032326/http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~it5/unispiegel/3_99/ideales.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
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Heidelberg is a city with approximately 140,000 inhabitants. It is situated in the [[Rhein-Neckar|Rhine Neckar Triangle]], a [[Largest European cities and metropolitan areas|European metropolitan area]] with approximately 2.4 million people living there, comprising the neighboring cities of [[Heidelberg]], [[Mannheim]], [[Ludwigshafen]], and a number of smaller towns in the perimeter. Heidelberg is known as the cradle of [[Romanticism]], and its old town and [[Heidelberg Castle|castle]] are among the most frequented tourist destinations in Germany. Its pedestrian zone is a shopping and night life magnet for the surrounding area and beyond. Heidelberg is about 40&nbsp;minutes by train away from [[Frankfurt International Airport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heidelberg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1090707_l2/index.html|title=Heidelberg City Information|access-date=16 May 2008|work=heidelberg.de – City Homepage|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204123535/http://heidelberg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1090707_l2/index.html|archive-date=4 February 2009}}</ref>
Heidelberg University's facilities are, generally speaking, separated in two parts. The faculties and institutes of humanities and social sciences are embedded in the Old Town Campus. The sciences faculties and the medical school, including three large university hospitals, are located on the New Campus in the Neuenheimer Feld on the outskirts of Heidelberg.<ref name="map">{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/univ/besucher/wege.html |title=Maps of Heidelberg University |access-date=16 May 2008 |work=Heidelberg University Homepage |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607004818/http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/univ/besucher/wege.html |archive-date=7 June 2008 }}</ref>

===Old Town Campus===
[[File:2005 uni-03.jpg|thumb|left|The New University of 1931 as seen from the Old University]]

The so-called New University is regarded as the center of the Old Town Campus. It is situated at the ''Universitätsplatz'' (University Square) in the pedestrian zone, in direct vicinity to the University Library and to the main administration buildings. The New University was officially opened in 1931. Its erection was largely financed by donations of wealthy American families, in line with a fundraising campaign of [[Jacob Gould Schurman]], an alumnus of Heidelberg University and former [[United States Ambassador to Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news/2005schurman2.html|title=7. Jacob Gould Schurman Public Lecture at Heidelberg University: "The Idea of the American Century"|access-date=16 May 2008|work=Heidelberg University Homepage|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225065616/http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news/2005schurman2.html|archive-date=25 December 2007}}</ref> It houses the new assembly hall, the largest lecture halls, and a number of smaller seminar rooms, mostly used by faculties of humanities and social sciences. Education in humanities and social sciences takes place to a great extent in buildings spread over the ancient part of town, though most are less than ten minutes walk from University Square. The faculties maintain their own extensive libraries and work spaces for students. Seminars and tutorials are usually held in the faculty buildings.<ref name="map" />

===Neuenheimer Feld – New Campus===
{{Main|New Campus (Heidelberg University)}}

<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Neuenheimer Feld.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial perspective on the New Campus in the Neuenheimer Feld.]] -->

In the 1960s the university started building a new campus near the city district Neuenheim, called the Neuenheimer Feld. It is today the largest part of the university, and the largest campus for natural sciences and life science in Germany.<ref name="Eitel1" /> Almost all science faculties and institutes, the medical school, [[University Hospital Heidelberg]], and the science branch of the University Library are situated on the New Campus. Most of the dormitories and the athletic facilities of the university can be found there as well.

Several independent research institutes, such as the [[German Cancer Research Center]] and two of the [[Max Planck Society|Max-Planck-Institutes]] have settled there. The New Campus is also the seat of several biomedical spin-off companies. The old part of town can be reached by tram and bus in about 10&nbsp;minutes. The Neuenheimer Feld campus has extensive parking lots for faculty and student vehicles for long term and short term parking, as well as visitors and patients of the various university hospitals. The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy is not located on either campus, but on the [[Heidelberg#Philosophers' Walk|Philosophers' Walk]], separated from the Old Town by the River Neckar, and some {{convert|2|km|mi|abbr=on}} away from the New Campus. It also maintains observatory facilities on the [[Königstuhl (Odenwald)|Königstuhl Mountain]].<ref name="map" />

The university maintains [[Botanical Garden of the University of Heidelberg|a botanical garden]] at Neuenheimer Feld.<ref name="BCGI">{{cite web |title=Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg |url=http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=101&ftrCountry=DE&ftrKeyword=&ftrBGCImem=&ftrIAReg= |website=www.bgci.org |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-date=21 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721184721/http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=101&ftrCountry=DE&ftrKeyword=&ftrBGCImem=&ftrIAReg= |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Bergheim Campus===
[[File:Heidelberg Haupteingang Ludolf-Krehl-Klink.JPG|thumb|The Bergheim Campus houses Economics and the Social Sciences.]]

The Bergheim Campus is located in the former Ludolf Krehl clinic (named after [[Ludolf von Krehl]]) in the inner-city suburb of [[Heidelberg-Bergheim]]. Since March 2009 it has housed the institutes economics, political science, and sociology (together the Heidelberg University Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences) that formerly resided at the Old Town campus. The Bergheim campus offers one lecture theatre, several seminar rooms, the most modern of the university libraries, and a cafe (rather than the full cafeteria present in the other campuses). Since 2019, the Bergheim Campus has also become the location of the [[:de:Centrum für Asienwissenschaften und Transkulturelle Studien|Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies]] of the Heidelberg University.

===Libraries===
{{main|Heidelberg University Library}}

[[File:Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek 2003 b.jpg|left|thumb|The main building of the University Library, built in 1905]]

The University Library is the main library of the university. Together with the branch libraries, serving the faculties and institutes, it forms the integral university library system comprising approximately 6.2 million printed volumes. The University Library's holdings exceeded one million in 1934. Today, it comprises about 3.2 million books, about 500,000 other media such as microfilms and video tapes, as well as 6,000 printed scientific periodicals. Moreover, it has 6,900 manuscripts, 1,800 [[incunabula]], 110,500 [[autographs]], and a collection of old maps, paintings, and photographs. Furthermore, the 38 branch libraries add another 3.0 million printed books. In 2022, 43,600 active users accessed 746,000 books. Additionally, the University Library provides a wide array of online resources, among them 152,000 scientific [[Academic journal#Electronic journals|e-journals]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/allg/profil/Zahlengesamt.html|title=The library system of the University of Heidelberg in numbers|access-date=10 March 2023|work=University Library of Heidelberg Homepage|archive-date=3 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203143620/https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/allg/profil/Zahlengesamt.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The origins of today's University Library date back to 1386, the year the university was founded. Surrounding the new university, the libraries of the faculty of the arts, the three higher faculties (theology, law, medicine) and the collegiate library grew. The acquisition of a box of records, which was housed in the [[Heiliggeistkirche]], through the rector, [[Marsilius of Inghen]], in 1388 contributed fundamentally to the development of the library. In the 16th century, [[Otto Henry, Elector Palatine]], combined the miscellaneous book collections accrued since the foundation of the university with the princely library housed in [[Heidelberg Castle]] to form the [[Bibliotheca Palatina]] and made them publicly accessible in the galleries of the [[Heiliggeistkirche]]. Among these collections, inherited records of the Fuggers (Augsburg, Ulrich Fugger the Elder) wereof particular importance. The majority of the library holdings, which enjoyed great contemporary renown, was looted during the [[Thirty Years' War]], transported to [[Rome]] and was gifted to [[Pope Gregory XV]] by the victorious [[Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria]] in 1622. After the secularization in 1804, the holdings of the monasteries of Salem and Petershausen formed the foundation of the reconstruction of the library collection in the 19th century. In 1816, 847 German-language manuscripts from the [[Bibliotheca Palatina]] returned to Heidelberg. As part of an exchange, the [[Codex Manesse]], which had ended up in the Royal Library in Paris, followed in 1888. [[Karl Zangemeister]] (1837–1902) became the first full-time head of the university library in 1912. Based on the designs of architect Joseph Durum, a dedicated library building, a richly ornamented, four-winged red sandstone construction, was erected from 1901 to 1905. In 1978, a branch library opened in the Neuenheimer Feld, serving the institutes of natural sciences and medicine.

Since 2021, all manuscripts of the [[Bibliotheca Palatina]] are accessible digitally online (848 German-language Palatina manuscripts, 2,030 Latin, 423 Greek, 267 Hebrew and 20 manuscripts in other languages).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/bpd/index.html|title=Bibliotheca Palatina – digital|access-date=10 March 2023|work=University Library of Heidelberg Homepage|archive-date=6 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206145103/https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/bpd/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Their digitization was achieved through the cooperation of Heidelberg University Library and the [[Vatican Library]].

The university library expands its publication services: The Heidelberg document server heiDOK is an open access platform for members of the university. The university bibliography heiBIB lists all academic publications by university members. In 2015, Heidelberg University founded the publishing house Heidelberg University Publishing – heiUP, which is part of the university library. The publisher releases quality-controlled scientific publications in open access.

===Facilities abroad===
Heidelberg University founded a [[:es:Heidelberg Center para América Latina|Center for Latin America]] in [[Santiago]], Chile in 2001.<ref name="center">{{cite web|url=http://www.heidelberg-center.uni-hd.de/english/center.html|title=The Center|access-date=16 May 2008|work=Heidelberg Center for Latin America Homepage|archive-date=10 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910163433/http://www.heidelberg-center.uni-hd.de/english/center.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has the task of organizing, managing, and marketing the courses of study maintained either independently by Heidelberg University or in cooperation with the [[Pontifical Catholic University of Chile]] and the [[University of Chile]]. The center has responsibility for programs of [[postgraduate education]]. It also coordinates the activities of Heidelberg University in Latin America, and provides a platform for scientific cooperation.<ref name="center" /> Heidelberg University's [[South Asia Institute (Germany)|South Asia Institute]] maintains branch offices in New Delhi (India), [[Islamabad]] (Pakistan), [[Kathmandu]] (Nepal), and [[Colombo]] (Sri Lanka).<ref>{{cite web |title=Heidelberg South Asia Institute |url=http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/associated_chairs.php |access-date=28 May 2012 |work=Heidelberg University website |archive-date=7 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007202033/http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/associated_chairs.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

The university is also represented by a liaison office in New York. Its main tasks include promoting existing collaborations, building up new networks, creating joint study programs, and maintaining and expanding academic contacts with American universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magazine-deutschland.de/en/artikel-en/article/article/die-uni-heidelberg-in-new-york.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804090224/http://www.magazine-deutschland.de/en/artikel-en/article/article/die-uni-heidelberg-in-new-york.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 August 2012|title=Heidelberg University in New York|access-date=16 May 2008|work=Deutschland Magazin.de}}</ref>

=== Museum ===
The university has its own museum, in the main building of the old campus. Visitors are able to view the Great Hall (when not in use), and the former "student jail".<ref name="HU- Museum">{{cite web|title=About the University Museum|url=https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institutions/museums/universitymuseum_about.html|access-date=25 July 2019|publisher=Heidelberg University|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725154939/https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institutions/museums/universitymuseum_about.html|url-status=live}}</ref>