Latin School (Weißenburg)

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Half-timbering of the old Latin school
Probably the most famous rector of the Latin school: Johann Alexander Döderlein
The building in winter 2012

The school , now known as the Old Latin School, was the Latin school in the rent office of Weißenburg am Sand, today's Weißenburg in Bavaria , a large district town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building with the address Martin-Luther-Platz 9 is registered under the number D-5-77-177-279 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments . The students were taken there up to university entrance qualification . Today's Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium emerged from the school.

location

The building is located within the listed old town of Weißenburg on Martin-Luther-Platz diagonally across from the St. Andreas church, not far from Rosenstrasse and Am Hof square .

history

The building was built between 1580 and 1581 during the Renaissance as a new building in the area of ​​the old cemetery. Philipp Melanchthon probably gave the impetus for the construction of the Latin school during one of his visits in 1530. Before that, there was a Chapel of St. Catherine here . It was the second church in Weißenburg after the Carmelite Church , which was alienated from its original purpose.

The theologian Georg Michael Preu was taught here in the 1680s . In 1646 the future astronomer and mathematician Johann Christoph Sturm was a student at the school. From 1622 Georg Raumer was a student in the Protestant Weißenburg in order to keep his Protestant faith. From 1703 Johann Alexander Döderlein was rector of the Latin School for over 40 years . His predecessor was Georg Michael Nuding. In the first half of the 18th century, the children of the Forstmeyer family of musicians , including Georg Christian , Andreas Ehrenfried and David Andreas jun. The council library was housed in the school premises until 1739 .

In 1806 the school was closed. From 1896 to 1899 the Weißenburg City Library was located in the building. Today it is part of the Evangelical Community Center.

Building description

The two-storey half - timbered building has a double cantilevered east gable and a gable roof . The renaissance colors were restored. Inscription panels in Latin script are attached to the building. On the eaves side is a typical arched portal .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Web links

Commons : Latin school (Weißenburg in Bayern)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Valentin Grübel: Statistics of all rent offices of the districts of the Rhine in the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1870, accessed August 11, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Former Latin school, so-called old Latin school in the monument list of the city of Weißenburg i.Bay. (PDF)
  3. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  4. ^ Description of the building on the website of the city of Weißenburg
  5. ^ Homepage of the city of Weißenburg. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; accessed on August 11, 2015 .
  6. ↑ www.belocal.de
  7. ^ Pius Wittmann:  Preu, Georg Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 114-116.
  8. ^ Nuding, Georg Michael in the catalog of the German National Library
  9. ↑ wugwiki.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wugwiki.de  

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 54.3 "  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 11.7"  E