Monday, July 15, 2013

Schulpforta mirroring history

worth a visit...perhaps best on a cloudy (holi)day...

even its name shows changes during its history, and interesting to consider the instability of history as reflected in even only its story in the 20th century...a bourgeois gymnasium, became a National Socialist school (ca. 1935-45), but was then unable to return to what it was before, becoming a socialist school, until the dissolution of the GDR in 1990, so that now it is maintained by the German state Saxony-Anhalt...
  

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