Founded in 1490 with Papal consent (granted as early as 1395!) as a higher "municipal school" to counter the over-powerful clerical School of St. Thomas's, St Nicholas's School registers list such famous people as Thomasius, Leibniz, Seume or Wagner.
It owes its height and shape to when in 1550/60 a neighbouring house was added to the rebuilt sexton's houses, the predecessor of which had been torn down in 1512. The corner house was then also added in 1738. When the school moved in 1872, the building was, among other things used as a police station and for university purposes.

After the reconstruction was completed, with a sometimes interesting symbiosis of modern and old architecture, it is now possible to visit the University Museum of Antiquity, the Museum of Automation of the University of Applied Science and the café Kultur-Café Alte Nikolaischule.

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