Casimirianum Coburg

poor people's children, who are naturally good and capable of intelligence, and the same to seek and learn, are also eager to be educated, are often overlooked, ignored and neglected; that we would not like to hear or be heard in the least..."[2] From the Bewiddungsbrief (Letter of Evaluation) of Duke Johann Casimir, the Foundation Charter of the Casimirianum, dated 3 July 1605: "Undoubtedly, in the view of these regulations and foundation of our school, the praeceptores [Latin, "teachers"] held truly and abundantly, and the public lectures multiplied.

Also the beneficium communis mensæ [Latin, "common good of the table"] must be properly conducted; it will follow and further such Christian work, to honor God, to edify Christendom, and to maintain our lands, with the time of good-hearted people and foremost our descendants, that it achieves the original goals intentionally.

On this spot, in 1605, Nikolaus Bergner and Peter Sengelaub created a Hohe Schule mit Convictorium (high school with a dormitory).

The ground floor is bisected, approximately in the middle, by a portal with a sculptured arch, which consists of overlapping rods and this entablature with an architrave, a frieze and a cornice resting on the corbels.

Left of this door is an entrance porch, with a low round arch supported by corbels with leaf volutes and topped with a cornice with a cymatium and a dentil.

On the northeast corner, facing the church, at the level of the upper floor, is the stone figure of the school's founder, Duke Johann Casimir, replaced in 1638 by Veit Dümpel.

In the middle of the roof, set on the top of the ridge, there is an outstanding polygonal stair-tower with a spiral staircase of stone, an onion dome and a lantern, from which the Gymnasium's little bell hangs.

The last enlargements 1961 were the construction of a gym with a recreation hall at the Neugasse and, between 1986 and 1988 and an additional school building with a music room in the direction of Ketschengasse.

In the festivities, the three-verse school song (melody: Vom hoh'n Olymp, From high Olympus) is also sung, the first two verses before the coronation, the last at the conclusion.