Pauper houses

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Pauperhäuser were municipal boarding schools for poor ( Latin pauper = poor) children. The term probably comes from the old East Prussia .

In Königsberg every city school had a municipal pauper's house. The Kneiphöfsche was rebuilt before 1580, the old town in 1631 on the Danzig cellar. 20 to 40 poor students lived there. The houses were maintained by legates and donations from the citizens .

The Pauperes were the backbone of school choirs, carolers, and funerals.

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . License issue. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pauperhaus . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 10 , issue 3/4 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0985-3 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - with first mention).