Ritterakademie on the cathedral courtyard

Anyone who wanted to do something better in Prussia - or should - had to go to school. Future Prussian civil servants had to complete training at a knights' academy, according to a decree by the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1729. One was in the city of Brandenburg, wall to wall with the cathedral, which can be seen from afar and is the city's more than 850-year-old landmark.
The knight academy is still part of the building complex on the cathedral island between Beetzsee and Havel, at that time a professional school for the nobility, later also for the bourgeoisie. served in 1945
the building as a municipal school, the auditorium as a gym for a while.

It is now the Protestant cathedral grammar school in Brandenburg

The Knight Academy in Brandenburg Cathedral, or after its incorporation in 1929 in Brandenburg an der Havel, was a school founded in 1704, which was affiliated with St. Peter and Paul (Brandenburg an der Havel). Wikipedia