Morgenstelle, Scientific campus district in Tübingen, Germany

Morgenstelle is a university campus on a plateau about 450 metres above Tübingen's old town, named after the Gewann and the street Auf der Morgenstelle. Its five institute towers, each roughly 60 by 25 metres with a 7.2-metre support grid and surrounding escape balconies, were built from 1974 around a lecture centre with nine windowless lecture halls holding 2,850 seats. Later additions include the 2010 renovated chemistry tower A with its rooftop technical centre and the 2016–2020 Geo and Environmental Research Centre.

The shift of the natural science institutes from the Wilhelmvorstadt up to the Morgenstelle was planned and carried out by the Universitätsbauamt under Dr. Detlef Lembke. Biology buildings 1 and 3 and the Tropikarium (1968, architect Blomeier) came first; in 1974 the five institute towers A to E and the lecture hall centre followed, modelled on the recently built Ruhr University Bochum. Later additions include building H for chemistry (2004) and the GUZ (2016–2020).

The state building programme at Morgenstelle acquired a series of art objects and realised its own art projects that refer more or less explicitly to the genius loci. These works are encountered in the outdoor areas and foyers between the institute high-rises, the lecture centre and the Mensa. The campus is served by Stadtverkehr Tübingen bus lines 5, 13, 14, X15, 18 and 19.

The Morgenstelle lies at 450 metres above the town centre and is served by city bus lines 5, 13, 14, X15, 18 and 19. The lecture centre groups nine tiered halls with 2,850 seats, a departmental library and a cafeteria, and the Mensa II also hosts concerts and festivals. The halls have no daylight, only artificial lighting.

The new botanical garden opened in 1968 and covers a large site north of the institutes, with greenhouses, a Tropikarium, outdoor beds and an arboretum. Its collection of over 10,000 plant species places it among the five most important of Germany's roughly 70 botanical gardens, and it doubles as a local recreation area.