!!!Ritterakademien

Knights´ Academies, educational institutions for the Austrian 
nobility; based on western-European models with ambitious curricula 
designed to prepare pupils for leading positions in the 
administration, at court and in the armed forces (partly in 
cooperation with the University). Knights´ Academies were not 
very popular because of the high costs. Knights´ Academies 
existed in Vienna (Academia, 1682-1749; Collegium Theresianum, from 
1746; Loewenburgsches Konvikt, from 1748; Savoyan Knights´ 
Academy, 1749); Salzburg (Collegium Virgilianum, 1702-1803, only 
admitted sons of respectable middle-class families); Kremsmuenster 
(from 1744); and Innsbruck (Collegium nobilium, from 1775). 
Joseph II abolished all denominational boarding schools for the 
nobility. Only the  Theresianum and the Innsbrucker Anstalt 
(1830-1848) were reopened after his death.


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