Germany's first private university, founded in 1983, with an unusual emphasis on liberal arts alongside its professional faculties of medicine, dentistry, economics, and law. The campus sits at the northern edge of Witten and is worth a short visit for its architecture and atmosphere — it is a conscious attempt to create a different kind of German university, and the campus design reflects that: human-scaled, full of light, and intentionally non-monumental.
It has more relevance to the visitor interested in German educational history and the long debate about whether the Humboldtian state university model serves all students than as a tourist sight, but the campus is open and pleasant for a walk.