The photo below is of the education building at Uni Hamburg. We didn’t notice until Markus pointed it out, but the top part of the building is built at a rotated angle on the bottom part of the building.

Below is a view of the education building from the back. It has its own library!

This is a pond outside of the education building. I included this picture because of the duck house in the middle of it.

This building houses a few departments included the department of sociology I think. The AP on the building actually stands for the initials of a Chilean with connections to the university, but most of the students think that it stands for a term referring to horse stables because the building used to house horses. You can see a stone picture of a horse leading a carriage on the front of the building. Markus told us that the building used a hydraulic lift to raise the horses up to higher levels, and they could look out the windows from the upper floors.

This is an image inside the building above of a former synagogue on campus grounds. There used to be a Jewish quarter where the campus is. The University wasn’t founded until 1919, and Jewish people were deported from the country beginning not too long after that.

This plaza is a memorial and sets aside the land where the Jewish synagogue once stood. On the other side of the plaza is a Jewish school, which is fenced in and guarded by three police officers 24 hours per day. It is interesting to note that the Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, NC is also fenced in and heavily secured.

This building is called the bunker and has several small rooms inside that don’t have windows. I think it used to be used for older students who want to continue their education.

This mural depicts a shattered image of how life was before WWII. The message discusses how this was a good time to which we cannot fully return, but we should try to put the pieces back together as well as we can.

This is a picture of one of the three dining halls on campus. This one is called pig-something, and Markus said that the students say that this is because the food is bad. Markus said that all the dining halls serve the same food, and it is called this because a pig farm used to exist where it stands now.

Markus took us into one of the libraries and into the older section of it. This is a picture of a beautiful auditorium in this part of the library.

This is a plaza outside the library we visited.

This memorial honors students of a group called the White Rose, which was a resistance group against the National Socialist movement.

This is a picture of the Auditorium Maximum, which is the largest lecture hall or auditorium on campus.

Markus took us up to the top floor of the philosophy tower, which has 12 floors I think. This was the view outside of the window there.

This is a picture of one of the lecture halls in the education building. I think it would be intimidating to teach from a stage!