In July 2007 the laying of the foundation stone was celebrated

This event was actually a little bit late - the build process had already made nice progress:

Prof. Dieter Hogrefe, the Architect Hansjochen Schwieger, Prof. Kurt v. Figura, Rainer Bolli
and the Mayor of Göttingen Wilhelm Gerhardy. The speech of Prof. Hogrefe is available as pdf.
 

A capsule was prepared with things like a newspaper and a mobile phone:
 

And then this capsule was put into a hole and covered with concrete: