Altstadt Gymnasium

Altstadt Gymnasium (German: Altstädtisches Gymnasium) was a German secondary school in the Altstadt quarter of Königsberg, Germany.

A parochial school (schola parochialis) was established ca. 1333 or 1335 by the original Altstadt Church. Disputes between Altstadt and Kneiphof over where students should attend classes were common, however. Grand Master Dietrich von Altenburg decided that students in northern Altstadt would attend the school in Altstadt, while students in southern Altstadt would attend school in Kneiphof; every two years the classes would switch schools. By 1381, however, students from all of Altstadt attended only the parochial school.

By 1487 the school had moved to the street Danziger Keller near Königsberg Castle. The parochial school was expanded into a Latin school in 1525 during the Protestant Reformation. Because sunlight at the Danziger Keller building was partially blocked by one of the castle's towers, Altstadt's council approved the construction of a replacement school at Altstädtischer Kirchplatz (the later Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz). The new school was built from 1592 to 1595 and dedicated on 14 August 1595. It hosted the Königsberg Public Library from 1737 to 1773.

Altstadt's school was reorganized as a humanistic gymnasium separate from Altstadt Church in 1811 and was then known as the Städtisches Gymnasium or Stadt-Gymnasium (municipal gymnasium). In the summer of 1826 classes were temporarily held at Roßgärter Markt while the original Altstadt Church was being dismantled. Altstadt's school was renamed Altstadt Gymnasium in 1831 when Kneiphof's school was reorganized as another municipal gymnasium, Kneiphof Gymnasium.

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