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Each year, the institute welcomes dozens of guests who come
to make use of its outstanding working facilities, to meet
other specialists or to consult the library resources.
Bursaries are available, as is accommodation on the premises
and elsewhere. The institute makes every effort to meet the
requirements of its guests a.jpg) nd
to make their visit as beneficial as possible to both
parties. In addition, members of the general public come to
the institute as day visitors from the surrounding region to
make use of the reading room which is open to all.
Initially, the institute was located on Feldbergstrasse,
and later in its own building at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse
7 in Frankfurt’s Westend. Then came a phase of expansion and
temporary solutions, with the institute moving into the
neighbouring houses at number 9 and number 15, and then into
Friedrichstrasse 2-6. In the autumn of 1990, the institute
finally moved into its current premises in a new building on
the banks of the Nidda, where the various sub-sections of
the institute could at last be united under the same roof.
Since then, the building has proved ideal and visitors from
outside Frankfurt particularly appreciate the convenient and
quiet location. Guests of the institute can stay in guest
rooms on the premises, or at the Cornelia Cullmann House, a
guest house bearing the name of its founder, who for many
years was the institute’s librarian.
Since 1997, an annual one-week Summer School of European
Legal History has been held each July, attracting young
legal historians from
all over Europe. The summer school is headed by an external
foreign researchers. The idea behind it is to enable the
younger generation of researchers to build up Europe-wide
contacts even while they are still at university, and to use
the institute as a central place of communication for this
purpose.
For all these individuals and groups of visitors, there are
two small brochures, a "bursary guide" and a "library guide",
providing in brief outline the main information about the
institute. In addition, there is a new full-coloured
brochure available (date: spring 2001). Please contact head
of adminstration
Frau Carola Schurzmann.
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