Schulpforta
| Landesschule Pforta | |
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Logo of Pforta
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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 former Cistercian monastery, Pforta Abbey (1137–1540), near Naumburg on the Saale River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is now a famous German public boarding school for academically gifted children, called Landesschule Pforta. Notable alumni include the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. It is coeducational and teaches around 300 high school students.
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 April 23, 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.
The patroness of the abbey was the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first abbot was Adalbert, from 1132 to 1152. Under the third abbot, Adetold, two daughter houses were founded under Pforta's auspices, in the Mark of Meissen and in Silesia, and in 1163, the monasteries of Altzella and Leubus were also established in the latter province. At this period the monks numbered about eighty. In 1205, Pforta sent a colony of monks to Livonia, founding there the monastery of Dünamünde. The abbey was distinguished for its excellent system of management, and after the first 140 years of its existence its possessions had increased tenfold.
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