Gymnasium St. Augustine

Geschichte

Gymnasium St. Augustine in Grimma is the only regular gymnasium offering boarding in Saxony. It is heavily steeped in tradition as one of the foremost schools in the country. Founded in 1550 as one of the three Fürstenschulen in Saxony, it has prepared young people for university studies since then.HistoryFoundationFollowing the Protestant Reformation, Maurice, Elector of Saxony had the school founded in 1550 as the third of the Fürstliche Landesschulen ("Princely State Schools") after St. Afra in Meißen and Pforta near Naumburg (founded in 1543) with the aim of educating able and reliable scholars for the evangelical church and the administration of the Saxon lands. These schools contributed substantially to the stabilisation of the Reformation and the Lutheran church, the role of the Saxon parsonages, and the cultural development of Saxony. Originally, the new school was to be established in Merseburg, but the persevering resistance of the catholic Merseburg bishop lead to the decision to locate it in the former Augustine monastery in Grimma which had been left by the monks in 1541. After the river Mulde it was also called Collegium Moldanum. The first rector was the humanist Adam Siber (1516–1584) who applied the rules - including the compulsory use of the Latin language - of a school in Chemnitz of which he had been rector before.

"Eine sonnige Schule in einer noch sonnigeren Umgebung- das Gymnasium St Augustin strahlt nicht nur von innen!Mit freundlichen Menschen und ab und zu auch Eichhörnchen, Fledermäusen oder Spinnen darf gerechnet werden. Der Haupteingang führt direkt in den fotoristischsten Innenhof Grimmas. Und wenn Sie Glück haben, begegnen Sie auch noch zahmen Schülern in ihrem natürlichen Habitat.."