Gymnasium Gars

The Gymnasium Gars is a '' Gymnasium'' (high school) in

Gars am Inn Gars is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany. It is the location of Gars Abbey. International relations Gars am Kamp is twinned with the following cities: * Gars am Kamp, Austria Austria, , bar, Östare ...

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. Situated on the river

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in the Gars valley, it was founded as a school of Latin by

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before 1582 AD. It became a state school in 1972. It grew quickly and had about 1000 students and 70 teachers in 2006. Today, a part of the school is still found inside the local

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monastery, but there were extensions in the 1980s and 1990s. Schools in Bavaria Mühldorf (district) 1582 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Educational institutions established in the 1580s {{Bavaria-struct-stub