Website www.zahlesgym.dk Founded 1851 | Phone +45 33 69 79 00 | |
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Type Private primary school and gymnasium Address Nørre Voldgade 5, 1358 København K, Denmark Similar N Zahles Seminari, Ingrid Jespersen High Sch, Gefion Gymnasi, Sankt Annæ Skole, Saint Anne High School | ||
N. Zahle's School (Danish: N. Zahles Skole) is a private school located on Nørre Voldgade in Copenhagen, Denmark. Named after its founder, Natalie Zahle, it now consists of two independently run primary schools and a Gymnasium.
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History
On 1 May 1851, Natalie Zahle launched a programme for the training of female private teachers. It developed into a proper School of education in 1861 after women had been given access to teach at Danish public schools in 1859. The gymnasium traces its history back to a programme that was introduced in 1877. The primary school now known as N. Zahles Seminarieskole was founded in 1895 as a preparatory school for the teachers college (N. Zahles Seminarium). The schools were opened to boys in the 1950s. The teachers' college was disjoined from the institution in 2002 and is now part of University College of Copenhagen.
The school's first home was a small apartment in the no longer existing street Hummergade. It later moved to larger premises on Gammel Strand and finally to a new building on Nørre Voldgade in 1877. The school later took over several of the neighbouring buildings.
Queen Margrethe II as well as her younger sisters, Princess Benedikte and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, are former pupils of both the primary school and the gymnasium.
Buildings
Nørre Voldgade 7 was designed byb Frederik Bøttger and completed in 1877. The adjoining building at No. 5 originally housed Østifternes Kreditforening and later the insurance company Forsikringsselskabet National. This building was designed by Valdemar Ingemann and is from 1775. The building which houses N. Zahles Seminarieskole faces the square Israels Plads on the other side of the block. The building was expanded with an extra floor by Rørbæk & Møller Arkitekter in 2012.