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University and City<\/h1>\n\n\n

Wroc\u0142aw Meetings on Computational and Experimental Sciences<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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The history of the Wroc\u0142aw Alma Mater<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The University of Wroc\u0142aw<\/strong> dates back to the 17th century. At that time, a Jesuit college was established here, providing tuition at the level of the present secondary school, for which in 1671 Emperor Leopold I Habsburg donated the medieval Wroc\u0142aw castle. He also signed the Golden Bull of the Leopoldina Academy in October 1702. The newly-established University began its activity on 15th November, on St. Leopold\u2019s Day \u2013 the namesake and ancestor of the emperor-founder. Classes took place in the rooms of the old castle. The construction of the new building did not begin until 1728 when the land along the Oder River was acquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leopoldina Academy initially was developing very dynamically. However, after the Prussian occupation of Silesia in 1741, it started to deteriorate, and the construction works on the building had not been completed. In 1811 the Viadrina University from Frankfurt (Oder) was moved to Wroc\u0142aw. After this merger the combined university was reorganised into a state university \u2013 Universitas Litterarum Vratislaviensis. In the same year, the Botanical Garden was founded on land donated by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. In the following years, the first greenhouses and a palm house were built, and plants were ordered to form the nucleus of the university\u2019s botanical collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During World War II, the University of Wroc\u0142aw suffered a great deal of damage. Among other things, the central part of Collegium Maximum was destroyed. Fortunately, the most valuable interior \u2013 the Leopoldina Hall \u2013 and the magnificently decorated Imperial Staircase survived (it was not until the end of the 20th century that the representative room \u2013 the Oratory Marianum \u2013 was reconstructed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first cleaning and renovation started in the middle of May 1945, on the initative of the Scientific and Cultural Group headed by prof. Stanis\u0142aw Kulczy\u0144ski, a former rector of Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. Shortly afterwards, on 24th August the same year, by government decree, the former Wroc\u0142aw universities became Polish state universities, continuing the traditions of universities in Lviv and Vilnius. Prof. Kulczy\u0144ski became the joint rector of the University of Wroc\u0142aw and the Wroc\u0142aw University of Technology. The opening lecture took place on 15th November 1945.<\/strong> Today, the University of Wroc\u0142aw has 12 faculties<\/strong>, which together offer approx. 150 bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree programmes (both in Polish and English) in the following disciplines: humanities, philology, law and social sciences, life sciences and physical sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Leopoldina complex<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Leopoldina complex is a group of baroque university buildings, consisting of the Collegium Maximum (built and decorated in 1728\u20131741), the adjoining Church of the Holy Name of Jesus (built in 1689\u20131698, furnished and decorated until 1734) and the nearby boarding school named after St. Joseph (built in 1734\u20131753) \u2013 a former home for impoverished students. Located downtown along the banks of the Odra River, the university complex closes Ku\u017anicza Street, which runs from the Market Square. On the riverside, it forms a wall of more than 170 meters, with 36 window axes, as one of the longest Baroque facades in Central Europe. The Collegium Maximum (known today as the main building) the seat of the governing and administrative bodies of the university, it also houses the Museum of the University of Wroc\u0142aw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most interesting baroque interiors of the main building:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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