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The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the Dortmund West highway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to Campus South, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 to Campus North. The university is signposted at both exits.

Public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

The H-Bahn is one of the landmarks of TU Dortmund University. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 runs every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this route in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, you can take the AirportExpress to Dortmund Central Station in just over 20 minutes and from there take the S-Bahn to the university. Düsseldorf Airport, around 60 kilometers away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the Dortmund West highway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to Campus South, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 to Campus North. The university is signposted at both exits.

Public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

The H-Bahn is one of the landmarks of TU Dortmund University. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 runs every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this route in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, you can take the AirportExpress to Dortmund Central Station in just over 20 minutes and from there take the S-Bahn to the university. Düsseldorf Airport, around 60 kilometers away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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12th International Spring Academy

03/25/2024

How can inner-city department stores and their surroundings be revitalized through alternative concepts? Around 60 students from TU Dortmund University and three other European universities addressed this question at the 12th International Spring Academy. They presented their designs on Wednesday, March 20, at the Baukunstarchiv NRW.

At the spring academy, the architecture students looked at three planned areas in Dortmund's city center. These were the area around St. Petri church with the former Kaufhof building, the central area with the Mayersche and Karstadt bookstore buildings and the area around St. Reinoldi and St. Marien churches with the P&C and C&A buildings. The twelve inter-university teams had ten days to develop their ideas for the large-volume buildings on Westenhellweg and Ostenhellweg. This year, students from TU Dortmund University, FH Potsdam, TU Eindhoven and Ghent University took part and contributed their different perspectives to the teamwork. They were accompanied by lecturers from the four universities as well as the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

"The topic is highly relevant not only in Dortmund, but in all European city centers," says Associate Professor Olaf Schmidt, who is leading the spring academy together with Associate Professor Michael Schwarz. For a long time, department stores dominated the inner-city scene. In recent years, however, there have been increasing reports of closures and vacancies, which have had an impact on the entire city center. Michael Schwarz explains: "The students have intensively analyzed the situation in Dortmund's city center and identified problems. On this basis, they have developed alternative concepts to break up the monofunctionality of the buildings and to integrate the buildings into the city with changed uses and a generally new appearance, redefining them in parts."