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Lutheran Lyceum and Library

Evanjelické lýceum a lyceálna knižnica
Lutheran Lyceum and Library
Evanjelické lýceum a lyceálna knižnica
Original function:
school
Current function:
school
Church:
Lutheran
Address:
Hviezdoslavova 327/18, 060 01 Kežmarok
Historical Hungarian county:
Szepes
Country:
Slovakia
GPS coordinates:
49.133236, 20.427955
Google map:
Secondary school.

History

There had been a school in the town of Késmárk already in 1383. The building was built between 1774 and 1776. It has a rich library of 150 thousand pieces. The first floor was added in 1820, the second in 1865. There was a lyceum in the building between 1787 and 1852 with faculties of theology, law and philosophy besides the 8-class grammar school. The German grammar school existed until 1944, afterwards the Czechoslovaks violently expelled the German inhabitants, the ancestors of whom founded the town.

Source:  muemlekem.hu
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