page_title: Internationales Studentenhaus Innsbruck
section_title: Introduction
hierarchical_section_title: Internationales Studentenhaus Innsbruck / Introduction
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Eingangsbereich des ISH
context_page_description: Internationales Studentenhaus in Innsbruck, the capital of the province Tyrol in Austria, has been providing student accommodation since 1958. The company that built and owns the residence was founded on 15 February 1952. That makes ISH the oldest private student residence in Austria.
context_section_description: ISH provides accommodation for 670 students attending a university or college in Innsbruck and its surroundings. From the beginning, ISH has developed an international orientation, and in some years more than a dozen different nationalities are to be found there, although the majority naturally come from Austria and the neighbouring countries.
  All accommodation units have a bath or shower with toilet and a kitchen. The main building also contains a number of communal areas and rooms for leisure activities. The main building is located at Rechengasse 7. The annexes are located at Rechengasse 1, Rechengasse 3 and Hormayrstrasse 12.
  Location
  ISH occupies a central location, with downtown Innsbruck and the historical Old Town in walking distance and direct access to the promenade and cycle path on the banks of the River Inn. There is one bus stop opposite ISH and a tram and bus interchange about 500 m away.
  Universities
  Most institutions of further education in Innsbruck and its surroundings are within easy reach of ISH. The main building of Innsbruck University, with its Law and Humanities Faculties and some of the departments of the Natural Science Faculty are next door to it. And it is less than a five minutes’ walk to the Medical University, the new Chemistry and Pharmacy building, the University and Regional Library of Tyrol and Training Centre West (AZW) with its university of applied science programmes in healthcare (FH Gesundheit Tirol).
  Within a radius of fifteen minutes on foot lie the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, the Catholic Theological Faculty, the Department of Botany and Management Center Innsbruck (MCI). And it is just a short bus or tram ride to the Technical Faculty, the Department of Biology, the University Sports Institute (USI), the Tyrol College of Education (PHT), the Tourism College, the Media College and the Health and Life Sciences University (UMIT) in Hall in Tirol.
  The company
  ISH is run by Internationales Studentenhaus gemeinnützige GmbH. The company is owned by the Austrian federal authority with a 25 percent shareholding, and by the Tyrolean regional and Innsbruck municipal authorities, the regional authorities of Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Upper Austria, and the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce, which each hold a one-eighth share in the company. Another partner is the German Friends of Innsbruck Universities Association in Munich, which only holds a one-thousandth share in the company but is an invaluable patron of ISH in terms of both moral and material support.
caption: Foyer
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