FAU provides several facilities to its students, staff, and visitors in order to create a better environment for learning and better living. These include a library, a kindergarten, a historical archive, an internet access, a gymnasium, a fitness room, a football field, sauna and clubs for sports.

FAU students enjoy doing research in a modern library which offers probably more than you can have time to read. The Library presently comprises of 330 periodicals as well as some 90,000 books, audiovisual material and approximately 15,000 sheet music items. There are about 330 periodicals stored in hard copy as well as 4,500 online periodicals that are accessible to students on campus. (http://search.epnet.com).

  • Loans
    • For students and faculty members, all material is freely accessible and most is available for loan (except periodicals). Loans are free of charge.The loan period is four weeks. A maximum of two loan extensions per item is possible. In the event that deadlines are changed, notice will be posted. However, a fine is charged for any overdue book.
  • Inter-Library Loans
    • Items that are not in the library collection can be requested online from our partner libraries as an inter-library loan or document delivery at http://www.gbv.de.
    • Requests incur a cost of € 1.50 per item.
    • The library orders and items are delivered to an Ariel document delivery station, with online documents being sent online.
  • Internet
    • The library has computers with internet access and more than 100 CD-ROM databases for research purposes.
    • All PCs are connected to a printer allowing for the printing of search results. The digital library also contains online encyclopedias and standard works, in addition to full text documents.
    • For more information about the library, http://bibliothek.thh-friedensau.de
  • Children’s Library
    • The library offers a special reading area for children.

For students who have children, there is a kindergarten on campus. Children can be registered and they attend either 5 hours or 8 hours or 10 hours every day. The fees are € 110, € 135, and € 150/month, respectively. In addition, you have to pay € 1,70 per day for food and € 0,15 for beverage per day.The kindergarten functions through the whole year and it has only a three week holiday in summer.

The Historical Archive of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe is located at Friedensau Adventist University. This provides to students and faculty a broad range of historical information, including some data that you will hardly find anywhere else in the world.

Every student at FAU enjoys a 24/7 internet access. Students living on campus have internet access from their rooms in their different residence halls. Besides, both on-campus and off-campus students have access to the internet through several computers located in the University library building.

Faithful to its holistic approach to education, FAU provides a gymnasium for physical exercises. Access is free of charge for students. In addition, students can voluntarily and are encouraged to register in different sport clubs such as volleyball club, basketball club, etc.

In case you are interested in body building, the fitness room is a place for you. You can have access to it provided that you pay a small fee. Please, contact Ralf Spiegler (ralph.spiegler@thh-friedensau.de)

For everyone who enjoys football, Friedensau offers a football field. You can sign up for use. There are possibilities to play outdoor and indoor football during summer and winter seasons respectively.

The University has its own sauna facility which is easily accessible to all students.

Students are free to join sport clubs such as basketball club, badminton, and volleyball club.

These are public spaces on campus where you can meet friendly people, enjoy non-alcoholic drinks, eat snacks, play games,  listen to music, watch TV and movies, enjoy parties and more.