Collegium Novum

Collegium Novum is the grand neo-Gothic main building of the Jagiellonian University, completed in 1887 as a new home for Poland's oldest university. Its red-brick façade, pointed windows and central tower echo the medieval Collegium Maius nearby while providing modern lecture halls and the rector's offices. The ceremonial aula upstairs, hung with portraits of scholars, hosts academic assemblies. In 1939 it was the scene of the Sonderaktion Krakau, when German forces arrested professors here, an event marked by a plaque.