University of Giessen, 1878-1879

As long ago as 1878, only three years after the company was established, Philipp and Balthasar Helfmann gained their first major contract: to build the University in Giessen, a provincial city north of Frankfurt. This is all the more impressive when one bears in mind that the founders of HOCHTIEF had started off with just a small brickworks and some horse-drawn wagons.
The two young entrepreneurs completed the building in only a year - to the client's complete and utter satisfaction, of course.

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Commitment to historic values:
HOCHTIEF and the Bauhaus