Labenwolf-Gymnasium, Secondary school building in Nuremberg, Germany.
Labenwolf-Gymnasium is a school building in Nuremberg designed by architect Heinrich Wallraff between 1896 and 1898, showing features of Nuremberg Renaissance architecture. The sandstone structure houses about 715 students and operates as a full-day school with extended learning programs.
The 1823 founding date refers to the Higher Girls' School, which in 1898 was merged with the Portschen Institute, founded in 1842, to form the Municipal Higher Girls' School. The historicist building on Labenwolfstraße 10 was erected from 1896 to 1898 to a design by Heinrich Wallraff, head of Nuremberg's building authority. In 1912 the Ministry of Culture recognised it as a six-form Higher Girls' School, and in 1925 it was renamed Municipal Girls' Lyceum. Almost completely destroyed in the air raids on Nuremberg, it reopened in 1951–1953 as Girls' Secondary School I in shift teaching, with full teaching only after the extension finished in 1965.
The school is named after Pankraz Labenwolf, a Nuremberg bronze founder, not a merchant. Its street, Labenwolfstraße 10, carries the same name. Since 1967/68 it has run as a co-educational Musisches Gymnasium, and it belongs to the Netzwerk Schule ohne Rassismus – Schule mit Courage. Former pupil Heide Simonis (1943–2023) later became minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein.
The school stands at Labenwolfstraße 10, directly below Nuremberg Castle, so it is reached on foot from the castle side or by tram and bus in the surrounding streets. It is an active school: the building and grounds are not open to visitors, and the historic Wallraff facade is best viewed from the public street outside teaching hours.
The school's founding year 1823 refers to the Higher Daughters' School, which was merged in 1898 with the Portsches Institut, founded in 1842, to form the Municipal Higher Girls' School. The building on Labenwolfstraße was designed by Heinrich Wallraff, head of Nuremberg's building authority.
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