In 1937, the former “Technische Hochschule Hannover” started using the buildings at Schloßwender Straße 1-5, when the architecture department moved into part of the premises. The complex was built in the late 19th century for the König & Ebhardt printery. A Gutenberg monument at the corner of Schloßwenderstraße and Nienburger Straße commemorates the invention of letterpress printing.
After the Second World War, an extension to the part of the building used by the university with a striking copper lining provided space for study areas and additional rooms for the architecture department.
In the late 1970s, the company moved out of the Schloßwender Straße building complex. The university took over the entire property and created spaces for the former data centre “Regionales Rechenzentrum für Niedersachsen”, today’s Leibniz University IT Services (LUIS), as well as for the Institute of Production Engineering and the architecture department.
The former factory boiler house in the courtyard was converted into a lecture hall building. Following the relocation of the architecture department to Herrenhausen in 2003, the available space was renovated and has been used by the educational institutes since 2007. This brings together the institutes of the Faculty of Humanities at the core area of the university.
