09/12/2025

Topping-out ceremony Homburg: New building for the Anatomy Department/additional teaching facilities

Building with scaffolding and man delivering the verdict
© UdSThe topping-out ceremony for the new prosecture and anatomy preparation building and new teaching facilities for biophysics and physiology was celebrated at the Homburg campus.

A topping-out ceremony was recently held at the university's medical campus in Homburg to mark the new building for the Anatomy Department's prosection and dissection facilities, along with new teaching areas for Biophysics and Physiology. Once completed, the building will be called the 'Teaching Forum'. Numerous guests from politics, public administration, academia and medicine attended the ceremony, which traditionally celebrates an important milestone in the construction project.

The following text has been machine translated from the German with no human editing.

The modern two-storey angular building with around 2,800 m² of floor space will create optimal conditions for practical teaching and interdisciplinary research. In addition to a preparation room with 40 tables for up to 360 students, there will be a barrier-free lecture hall with 316 seats as well as laboratories, offices and seminar rooms. Completion is scheduled for the third quarter of 2027, with total costs amounting to around €33 million. The building is being constructed on the site of the former buildings 58 and 59 (formerly physiology). In the interests of sustainability, no new land is being sealed, but rather an area that was previously built on is being reused.

In the new building, students will be prepared for both the clinical part of their studies and their future medical careers. The dissection course gives prospective doctors the opportunity to experience the diversity of the human body first-hand, which is important preparation for later clinical practice. The modern premises not only offer optimal conditions for teaching anatomy, but also enable close links with other subjects such as physiology and physics. This interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for a holistic understanding of the human body. The new building is also intended to honour the donors who have made their bodies available for anatomical study.

The design of the two-storey angular building was created by Bodamer Faber Architekten, Stuttgart, and is the result of a high-calibre architectural competition, from which the firm emerged as the winner.

The numerous guests at the topping-out ceremony on the Homburg campus were welcomed by Arnold Sonntag, Director of the State Administration Office, State Secretary Torsten Lang from the Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport, Ludger Santen, President of Saarland University, and Matthias Hannig, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. University President Ludger Santen is looking forward to the future use of the building: "The new building will primarily benefit future medical students, who will then be able to complete their theoretical and practical training in premises with state-of-the-art equipment. The seminar rooms and the additional lecture hall are a wonderful addition to the new lecture hall building on the Homburg campus, which is used intensively for the high-calibre teaching of the Faculty of Medicine, but also for scientific conferences."

Building with scaffolding and man delivering the verdict
© UdSThe topping-out ceremony for the new prosecture and anatomy preparation building and new teaching facilities for biophysics and physiology was celebrated at the Homburg campus.