The Pestalozzi-Gymnasium in Biberach an der Riß

Biberach an der Riß

Biberach is a town in the south of Germany. It is the capital of Biberach district, in the Upper Swabia region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg...

, Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

, Germany

Germany

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 is a Gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

(high school) founded in 1860. In 2005 it has some 1,250 students and 100 teachers.

The school was founded by Fortunée Niederer, a student of Swiss educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach....

, and was originally named the Paritätische private Töchterschule ("Equal participation private daughters' school"). Originally an all-girls' school, in 1970 it was renamed "Pestalozzi-Gymnasium" at the same time it became co-educational.