Pforta Abbey
| Landesschule Pforta | |
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Logo of Pforta
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| Address | |
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Schulstr. 12 Schulpforte, 06628 Germany |
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| Coordinates | 51°08′33″N 11°45′08″E / 51.14250°N 11.75222°ECoordinates: 51°08′33″N 11°45′08″E / 51.14250°N 11.75222°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Gymnasium |
| Opened | 1543 |
| Rector | Thomas Schödel |
| Staff | 48 |
| Number of students | 300 |
| Classes | 12 |
| Average class size | 22 |
| Language | German |
| Color(s) | purple, white, black |
| Yearbook | Keilzeit |
| Website | http://www.landesschule-pforta.de |
Pforta, or Schulpforta, is a school located in a former Cistercian monastery, Pforta monastery (1137–1540), near Naumburg on the Saale River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Since the 16th century the site has been a school. Notable past alumni include the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Today, it is a well-known public boarding school for academically gifted children, called Landesschule Pforta. It is coeducational and teaches around 300 high school students.
Pforta is proposed for inscription in the World Heritage List as one component of the German nomination Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut.
The abbey was at first situated in Schmölln on the Sprotta, near Altenburg. In 1127, Count Bruno of Pleissengau founded a Benedictine monastery there and endowed it with 1,100 hides of land. This foundation not being successful, on 23 April 1132, Bishop Udo I of Naumburg, a relative of Bruno's, replaced the Benedictines by Cistercian monks from Walkenried Abbey. The situation here proved undesirable, and in 1137 Udo transferred the monastery to Pforta, and conferred upon it fifty hides of arable land, an important tract of forest, and two farms belonging to the diocese.
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