The Goethe-Oberlyzeum was a girls' gymnasium in

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, named in honor of the writer

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In 1913 a women's teaching institute (''Lehrerinnenbildungsanstalt'') was converted into a gymnasium.Albinus, p. 105

Fritz Gause Fritz Gause (4 August 1893 – 24 December 1973) was a German historian, archivist, and curator described as the last great historian of his native city, Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), East Prussia. Gause's most important work was his three-vol ...

began lecturing there in 1922.Schmidtke, p. 298 The school, which was located on Friedrichstraße in

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, was acquired by the city of Königsberg in 1925.Gause, p. 77 Its directors included Bruno Dannenbaum and Richard Scheibe. The building survived

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and was razed in January 2018, under protest from presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak and other conservationists, in

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