About Wolfenbüttel und Braunschweig

The coming months will see a lot of activity on the Ostfalia campus in Wolfenbüttel. Autumn 2010 marks the move of the Faculty of Social Affairs from Braunschweig to Wolfenbüttel.

The faculty will then be at Am Exer, the second campus location in Wolfenbüttel, not far from the Salzdahlumer Straße, where the Head of the University, staff and departments are situated.

Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel have a long and joint history. After all the Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel was founded in 1971 and resulted from a union of the Higher Professional School for Social Work in Braunschweig and the State Academy for Engineering in Wolfenbüttel. The Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel is now known as Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences .

Wolfenbüttel – with its 56.000 inhabitants and over 600 timber-framed buildings - is the first Renaissance city emerged from the drawing board. Over three centuries (from 1432 to 1754) Wolfenbüttel was residence of the Dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, who engaged the best master-builders and urban planners of their times. Thusly they made Wolfenbüttel highly attractive for celebrated public characters such as Lessing, Leibniz, Busch and Casanova. Until today the cosmopolitan city has not lost its charm. Not just the special charisma of the picturesque Old Town with its numerous cafes and shops makes Wolfenbüttel a place to stay and rest. Open-Air events in the castle like “KulturSommer” and the near-by natural swimming lake “Fümmelsee” with more than 13.000 square meter expanse of water contribute to the quality of life and leisure activities in Wolfenbüttel.