Görres-Gymnasium

Görres-Gymnasium is a high school in Koblenz, Germany. According to its own history page, it was founded in 1582 as a Jesuit college and has a history closely tied to the city and region. It has carried the name Görres-Gymnasium for roughly nine years as of 1957, when Rhineland-Palatinate minister-president Peter Altmeier sent it a greeting. The school describes itself as a member of the MINT-EC association since 2004 and offers musical and language profiles; from the 2026/27 school year it plans to change from an altsprachlich (classical-language) profile to a non-altsprachlich profile.

According to the school's history page, Görres-Gymnasium was founded in 1582 as a Jesuit college (Jesuitenkollegium) and quickly experienced an extraordinary upswing that was hardly slowed by the Thirty Years' War. Destruction following the War of the Palatine Succession of 1688 damaged the old school building so severely that a new building was realized at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century; parts of this building complex today house Koblenz's city hall. Inscriptions on the two baroque portals on the south side of the Jesuitenplatz read 'Collegium Societatis Jesu' and 'Gymnasium Confluentinum'. After the French Revolution, Koblenz became the capital of the 'Departement de Rhin et Moselle' and the school became the 'Kurfürstliches Gymnasium'; after the reorganization of Europe by the Congress of Vienna (1814/15), Koblenz remained a capital, now of the Rhine Province. When Rhineland-Palatinate minister-president Peter Altmeier sent a greeting address in 1957, the school had existed under the name Görres-Gymnasium for just nine years, while the institution could look back on a 375-year history closely tied to the city and region.

1. 1Görres-Gymnasium Koblenz – Bildung wirkt. Ein Leben lang.goerres-koblenz.de
2. 2Geschichte der Schule – Görres-Gymnasium Koblenzgoerres-koblenz.de
3. 3Görres-Gymnasiumwikidata.org