Location & approach

By car

The campus of the TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the A45 crosses the B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by the bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund main station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the A45 crosses the B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by the bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund main station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Actively promote biodiversity and conservation

Insect hotels

09/21/2021 -

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For biodiversity, homemade insect hotels were set up in a collaborative project on campus.

For insects like wild bees and bumblebees, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find shelter and nesting sites. Because in order to create living space, nature is increasingly being pushed out of cities. The TU Dortmund Sustainability Office, the General Students' Committee (AStA), the "Campus for Future" group and the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB) have therefore built insect hotels for the campus in a joint campaign. Many endangered insect species will be able to overwinter and nest in the boxes in the future.

An insect hotel near the seminar room building

An insect hotel in the biotope behind the kindergarten

An insect hotel near the EF50

An insect hotel near the EF50 building

"With this campaign, we want to set a visible example for environmental protection. Insect protection is a concern of TU Dortmund University - just like all other sustainability topics," says Bastian Stahlbuck from TU Dortmund working group on sustainability. "The hotels can be built relatively quickly and placed on campus. What's particularly nice is that we assemble the boxes in a group. That way we also get to exchange ideas with each other."

"So you can also easily build the hotels at home for your own garden. You usually already have a lot of materials or you can buy them second-hand," says Henning Moldenhauer, who heads the sustainability office. The office was newly founded in June to support the Sustainability Working Group at TU Dortmund University in initiating and implementing sustainable projects.

Bee hotels as an art project

Two more boxes stand on the meadow between the library and Emil-Figge-Str. 50. TU student Isabell Hesse made two bee hotels as an art project as part of a seminar. The students in the seminar had the task of making statistics visible. Isabell Hesse took the statistics on forest bees in Germany as her theme. Her bee hotels therefore also show how many wild bee species are endangered or threatened with extinction in Germany.