University of Vechta

After a change of the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act, since June 2010 it may now officially call itself a university.

Vechta as a place of study has been in existence since August 2, 1830 with the establishment of a normal school for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.

After the end of the Nazi-period, it was re-established (on 19 March 1946) as a confessionally bound State Pedagogical Academy Vechta.

In 1965, the Lower Saxony Concordat guaranteed the education of Catholic teachers in Vechta.

In the meantime the existence was massively endangered; in 1987 it even came to the recommendation of the Science Council to close the college.

Lecture building Q at the corner of Driver- und Universitätsstraße
Aula in the main building of the University of Vechta
Central Campus Square at lunchtime. In the background is the library.
Church on campus at the University of Vechta
Building M: On the ground floor is a bistro, the cafeteria upstairs.
Institute of Humanities and Cultural Sciences as well as the Institute of Catholic Religion