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The Ostpreußische Mädchengewerbeschule or Ostpreussische Mädchengewerbeschule was a girls' vocational school in Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, Germany.
History
The school opened in 1909 on Kasernenstraße between the Burgkirche and Roßgärter Markt. Its first director was Dr. Gertrud Brostowski, followed by Marie Gosse in 1912. By 1928 it included 1,208 students.
In 1930 the Mädchengewerbeschule moved to a new building on Beethovenstraße and Loewestraße in Vorderhufen. The new school, which cost 2,092,00 or 2,245,000 RM, was designed by Hanns Hopp and Georg Lucas in the Bauhaus style and constructed from 1928 to 1930. It contained classrooms for chemistry, physics, cooking, and drawing, a gym, offices, a small boarding school, and living quarters for the director and teachers. It was colloquially known as the "Mädchenaquarium" (girls' aquarium) and "Klopsakademie". The new Mädchengewerbeschule and the Haus der Technik were the greatest works of Hopp during the 1920s.
The building survived the destruction of Königsberg during World War II and is now used as an officers' club in Kaliningrad, Russia. Its gym was also converted into a discothèque.