Nørre Gymnasium

Nørre Gymnasium
School stamp from a school book from Nørre Gymnasium (Karen Kjærs School), ca. 1920
Address
Mørkhøjvej 78, 2700 Bronshoj Husum Copenhagen Denmark
Coordinates	55°43′06″N 12°28′17″E / 55.7182°N 12.4713°E / 55.7182; 12.4713Coordinates: 55°43′06″N 12°28′17″E / 55.7182°N 12.4713°E / 55.7182; 12.4713
Information
Founded	1818
Principal	Jens Boe Nielsen
Classes offered	International Baccalaureate, High School
Website	www.norreg.dk

Nørre Gymnasium is one of Copenhagen’s largest gymnasiums offering both Danish instruction as well as the International Baccalaureate curriculum. It was founded in 1818 by Caroline Wroblewsky as a school for young girls, and since 1972 it has been located in Husum, Denmark.

In 1814 a law was passed in Denmark requiring a seven-year compulsory education for all citizens. As public schools alone could not meet the demand, the new law led to a huge increase in the number of private schools. There were 127 applications for school formation between 1815 and 1818.

In 1818, the year of her father’s death, Marie Albertine Caroline Wroblewsky sent in an application for an “institution of general education for a limited amount of young girls.” She was rejected as there were already too many schools in the Trinitatis parish. In her second application she requested to form her school in the suburb of Nørrebro. The school commission queried the necessity for a girls’ school there, but the municipality's school directors approved Wroblewsky’s application on November 7, 1818, the day she turned 26.

The exact location of the school in its first year is not known, only that it was on the Nørrebrogade. It is possible to locate the school on different land titles from 1823. In 1824 the school was expanded to include older girls and Lieutenant Larsen was hired to teach French. When Vilhelm August Borgen became Copenhagen's first school director in 1844, he standardized school levels and supplied information about the new requirements. In Wroblewsky’s school there were 7 male and 2 female teachers with 40 students divided into two classes. The subjects taught were religion, Danish, German, French, history, geography, nature study, arithmetic, writing, drawing, singing and needlework. Physical education was introduced in 1848. Wroblewsky retired in 1858 after 40 years at the school. She died on 1875, at age 82.