Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau

The Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - University of Applied Sciences Zwickau is a vocational university of about 3800 students located in Zwickau. Saxony, Germany. It offers Bachelor's, Master's and traditional German Diplom degrees in three core areas: Technology, Economics, Arts, and Life Sciences. The university also has further campuses in Markneukirchen, Reichenbach im Vogtland and Schneeberg.

Zwickau's tradition of higher education reaches back to the founding of a Latin school in the late thirteenth century. The origins of the vocational university, however, are more connected to the boom of mining and industrial production in Saxony in the early 1800s. The rise of coal production and processing in the region created a demand for workers with a high level of technical training and industry pushed for the development of educational training institutions. A Sunday training school for workers was opened in 1828, followed by the “Bergschule Zwickau,” a school to teach technical skills related to mining, in 1862. By 1949, the Bergschule Zwickau had developed into a full-fledged mining engineering school. Parallel to the development of the mining school, in 1897 the engineers Paul Kirchhoff and Leander Hummel founded an engineering school in cooperation with the local municipal government.

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