Landschaftsschule#
Landschaftsschule ("Adeliche Landt-Schuel"), name for a special type of school which existed in Austria in the 16th and 17th centuries, a Latin school mainly for young members of the nobility, established and financed by the Estates ("Landschaft"). Landschaftsschulen in Vienna, Horn, Mistelbach, Loosdorf (Lower Austria), Enns, Linz (Upper Austria), Graz, Schwanberg, Judenburg (Styria) and Klagenfurt copied German school structures and curricula. They employed teachers who were born or educated outside the area of modern Austria and gave important momentum to the development of schools in Austria. As centres of Protestantism they were dissolved in the course of the Counter-Reformation.