Babenbergerring Federal High School

Babenbergerring Federal High School
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type of school	Federal high school
founding	1666
place	Wiener Neustadt
state	Lower Austria
Country	Austria
Coordinates	47 ° 48 '58 "  N , 16 ° 14' 25"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '58 "  N , 16 ° 14' 25"  E
Website	www.bg-bab.ac.at

Grammar school on Babenbergerring (since 1910), behind the towers of the cathedral of Wiener Neustadt

Grammar school in the Jesuit college in Neunkirchner Strasse (1666–1773)

Grammar school in the Neukloster Abbey in Neuklostergasse (1804–1872)

Gymnasium on Herzog-Leopold-Strasse (1872–1910)

The Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring is a federal high school in the city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria .

history

On January 17, 1666, with a letter of majesty from Emperor Leopold I, a grammar school was founded with the Jesuits in Wiener Neustadt. When the Jesuit order was banned in 1773, the Jesuit grammar school in the Jesuit college in Neunkirchner Strasse came to an abrupt end and the city had no grammar school for 31 years. The building was given to the Pauline Order. The collegiate church was desecrated by an imperial decree of August 28, 1783. The Jesuit crypt under the church was cleared on March 2, 1787. In 1892 the building complex went to the Wiener Neustädter Sparkasse and in 1898 the church was converted into a ballroom.

Years of efforts led to a re-establishment of the grammar school in 1804 with the order of the Cistercians . The teachers were provided by the four monasteries Stift Neukloster , Stift Heiligenkreuz , Stift Lilienfeld and Stift Zwettl .

From 1872 the grammar school was run as a state grammar school in the former Carmelite monastery building and later city ​​theater in Herzog-Leopold-Straße. In 1910 the company moved to the specially built school building on Babenbergerring. From 1943 to 1945 the grammar school was housed in the rural community of Ysper in the Melk district due to the air war in World War II .

architecture

The monumental four-storey building with a risal structure was built in 1909/1910 according to the plans of the architect Georg W. Mayer. The building with a risalit has a masked area in the central risalit in the lintel area of ​​the 4th floor. The building was rebuilt by 1949 after severe war damage in World War II.

Known students

• Vinzenz Kotzina (1919–1926), Federal Minister for Buildings
• Andreas Rhoby (* 1974), Byzantinist and philologist
• Michael Stern (1897–1989), lawyer
• Wilhelm Waldstein (1897–1974), educator, writer and composer, Matura 1916, teacher 1945–1946
• Peter Wittmann (* 1957), Matura 1975, Mayor of Wiener Neustadt 1993–1997, Member of the National Council 2000–2019

literature

• 300 years of the Wiener Neustadt grammar school 1666–1966. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the Bundesgymnasium Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt 1966.
• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wiener Neustadt, Babenbergerring No. 10 / Frauengasse No. 14, Bundesgymnasium, p. 2655.

Web links

Commons : Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files