Parking spaces

In the foreseeable future, the city government will not approve new parking spots in Hohenheim.

Although the University has grown considerably in recent years, Stuttgart’s Building Authority has decided that the campus has more parking spaces than necessary.*

In the city’s determination of parking space needs, the number of University members, business, and restaurants (Denkbar, Speisemeisterei) are included as well as factors such as public transportation connections or campus residence halls.

Within its abilities, the University of Hohenheim therefore started two measures to somewhat alleviate the lack of parking spaces:

• gravel will be placed on open construction lots so they can temporarily be used as parking spaces (e.g. on the area of torn-down greenhouses)
• reducing the historically reserved parking areas: the existing parking spaces are to be made available to all University members equally

The idea of a parking garage has been under discussion for several years. Most recently, the idea was explored in detail one more time as part of the "Hohenheim Mobility Strategy."

But University management has concluded that this vision cannot be realized. There are two main reasons why a parking garage is not feasible:

• No official approval: The city will not approve additional parking spots on campus
• Not profitable: Construction work on campus is financed by the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Property and Construction. For a number of years, the state government has been opposed in principle to building new parking garages. As a consequence, the parking garage would have to be operated by a private company.
• It is hardly feasible, however, to make a profit from operating a parking garage in Hohenheim. That's because over several months per year, on most afternoons and evenings, and on weekends, there are not enough people on campus. Even during the remaining times, the parking garage would not automatically be filled to capacity as long as free or low-cost parking is available in the immediate surroundings.