Joachimsthal Gymnasium

The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German Joachimsthalsches or Joachimsthaler Gymnasium), was a princely high school (German Fürstenschule) for gifted boys, founded in 1607 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War, the school’s buildings were destroyed, and the school migrated to Berlin. In 1912 it moved again, to Templin, where it was a boarding school.

Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium
Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium in Templin in 2012
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Brunoldstraße 16a, Templin


Germany
Coordinates52°29′55.0″N 13°19′48.0″E / 52.498611°N 13.330000°E / 52.498611; 13.330000

Closure and re-founding

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Former building of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin

The school in Templin was closed in 1956, while the area was part of East Germany, and its buildings were used for other purposes until 1996. After that, they were left empty and fell into danger of decay.

In 2005, a new private school was refounded in Joachimsthal which took the name of the former school.

In 2013, the initiative Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium Templin was created, with the aim of converting the traditional school buildings at Templin into a new internationally oriented boarding school. On 6 December 2018, the Board of Governors of the European Schools, an NGO which has representatives of the Education Ministers of the EU Member States, decided to begin the accreditation process for a "European School Templin" (EST). Work on the renovation of the buildings is now under way, and the opening of the new school is planned for 2023.[1]

Notable Rectors

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Former pupils

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Notable teaching staff

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References

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  1. ^ "Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium - official site". Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ “Bernhard Moritz Snethlage” in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  3. ^ "Meineke, Johann Albrecht Friedrich August" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 83.
  4. ^ Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Gentz, Friedrich von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). p. 606.
  5. ^ "Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 921.
  6. ^ "Bernhardy, Gottfried" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 802.
  7. ^ "Corssen, Wilhelm Paul" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 204.
  8. ^ "Buttmann, Philipp Karl" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 890.
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