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The Paulinum is a university building of University of Leipzig, built from 2007 until today. At the place of today's Paulinum stood the old university church, the Paulinerkirche, that was dynamited in 1968 during the communist regime of East Germany. The building was drafted by award winning architect Erick van Egeraat. Today's Paulinum contains the university's assembly hall with an oratory, as well as rooms of the faculties for information science and mathematics. The assembly hall, which was erected exactly on the same site as the old university church, will exhibit figures and other objects from the old Paulinerkirche and a room of common prayer will be part of it. The facade of the Paulinum shows features of collegiate gothic architecture as a commemoration of the original building. The name Paulinum derives from the old Collegium Paulinum (St. Pauls College) which was one of the old colleges of the University of Leipzig, the university church being part of it.
Category:Buildings and structures in Leipzig Category:Leipzig University