Hohe Schule, Historic school building in Bern, Switzerland

The Hohe Schule was a theological school in Bern, housed from 1535 in the former Franciscan monastery at the western end of the Herrengasse. The building was demolished in 1905; nothing of it survives on the site today.

The institution was founded in 1528 as a theological seminary and gained a permanent home in 1535 at a former Franciscan monastery. By 1804, it evolved into an academy with four faculties, eventually leading to the creation of the University of Bern in 1834.

The name Hohe Schule (also Obere Schule, Gymnasium or Lateinschule) marks a theological teaching institute founded in 1528 as part of the Reformation. Its pupils included the physician and botanist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) and the Bernese Schultheiss Samuel Frisching (1638–1721). The building itself was demolished in 1905, so nothing of it survives on the Herrengasse.

The Hohe Schule no longer exists: the building was demolished in 1905, so there is nothing to visit at its former site at the western end of the Herrengasse. Its successor institutions are the University of Bern, founded in 1834, and the Gymnasium Kirchenfeld, opened in 1926.

The Hohe Schule was demolished in 1905, so nothing of it stands on the Herrengasse today; its site is at the western exit of that street, not in Kirchenfeld. The later Gymnasium Kirchenfeld, opened in 1926, is a separate institution that inherited the name tradition.