An Era Has Ended: Last Day With Students on Fuglesangs Allé
Friday, December 19, was the last day with students in AU's buildings on Fuglesangs Allé. Since the mid-1960s, the buildings have housed students, first as the Aarhus School of Business, which merged with Aarhus University in 2007. The student bar ‘Klubben’ (The Club), which celebrated its 60th anniversary in October, is also now empty – only the smell remains.
AU at Fuglesangs Allé
Aarhus BSS (Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences) moves activities from Fuglesangs Allé to the University City. The Department of Management and the Department of Economics and Business Economics have been housed at the address, but are now moving physically closer to the faculty's other activities in the northeast corner of the University Park. In addition, Aarhus BSS also has activities at AU's campus in Herning.
Since the 1960s, education has been provided at the address on Fuglesangs Allé, as the Aarhus School of Business was housed here. In 2007, the Aarhus School of Business merged with Aarhus University, which retained the premises.
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Since the former Aarhus School of Business moved from Hans Broges Gade to Fuglesangs Allé, students have had their way in the characteristic brick building. In 2007, the School of Business merged with Aarhus University and in recent years the Department of Economics and Business Economics and the Department of Management have been located in the buildings.
But that’s over now. Next year, Aarhus BSS will move its activities on Fuglesangs Allé to AU's new campus, the University City. Friday, December 19, was therefore the last day of teaching – and in general, the last day when students have access to the buildings. The employees will move out during January.
However, the atmosphere was not characterised by nostalgia and sadness when Omnibus stopped by on Friday morning. Most of the students we met were finishing their first semester and therefore had not had time to form particularly close ties to the address.
“It's all right to move to the University City, even though we’ll be a bit farther from uni than we are now. The lecture halls here are nice, but the classrooms are small and old," said Sarah Louise Mau Osbar and Astrid Holst, who, together with Signe Tingholm Danielsen, are studying Economics and Business Administration and were on their way to their last lecture at Fuglesangs Allé.
In Building S, most of the furniture had been picked up by movers, but there were still study spaces with students who took the opportunity to prepare for exams. Among them were Martin Naur and Kristoffer Petersen, who are also studying Economics and Business Administration in the first semester. They were also more burdened by exam preparations than by sadness, they said:
"We've only been here for five months, so we haven't really settled in yet," they said.
ONLY THE SMELL REMAINS IN ‘KLUBBEN’
The move from Fuglesangs Allé, however, puts an end to the legendary student bar ‘Klubben’, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in October. The premises in the old bicycle cellar were stripped down to the bare walls on Friday morning. The music played, and four tired student bar managers took stock of a week of demolition of the old bar. While preparing for the exam, they have been working voluntarily for up to twelve hours a day, removing the old bar stalls and other equipment from ‘Klubben’. So now it’s only the smell that reveals that people have been partying here for six decades.
“Now that the bar is gone, I'm actually looking forward to moving on,” says Victor Schmidt, who has been the bar manager since 2024 and is studying Economics and Business Administration in his fifth semester.
“I’ll admit that I’ll miss this place,” says Christian Larsen, who has been the bar manager since 2022 and is currently studying a Master's degree in Finance and International Business.
They tell how they’ve recently been contacted by former students who wanted to visit ‘Klubben’ one last time to say goodbye to the premises.
“People have met their spouses here at ‘Klubben’,” says Signe Lilli Madsen, who is also a bar manager and is studying Business Administration and Commercial Law in her seventh semester.
Out in the yard is a huge container with equipment from the Club. This is the seventh container they’re filling, the bar managers say. Much of the furniture was too worn out to take to the new premises in University City.
“But the bus that our DJs use is moving with us. We had to saw it into two pieces to get it out. But we'll get it back together," they assure.
THE PARTY CONTINUES
Victor Schmidt says that the new premises where ‘Klubben’ will be housed in the future will be somewhat smaller than today.
“We are reducing capacity from 550 to 350 in ‘Klubben’ itself. And where we used to be able to host parties for up to 1,800 people, if we include outdoor areas and Fuglesangssalen, from 2027, we will be lucky if we can reach 700-800 people. So our value proposition will be amputated. "I think that's a loss for us as students," Victor Schmidt says.
That said, the bar managers do not doubt that things will work out well in new, fresh premises. In mid-January, the reconstruction of ‘Klubben’ in the University City will begin, and the bar managers expect the party to continue in the new premises from the beginning of February.
The Friday bar at Economics and Management, Konverterbar, is also moving to the University City.
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE BUILDINGS?
From February 2026, the premises on Fuglesangs Allé will be vacated. The Danish Building and Property Agency owns the buildings on Fuglesangs Allé. According to Aarhus BSS, it’s expected that the board will transfer the property to Freja Ejendomme, a state-owned real estate company.
This text is machine translated and post-edited by Lisa Enevoldsen.
