The Abbey's Secondary & Preparatory School

final spurt on the school's own sport fields

The Abbey’s Secondary School

The secondary school in Melk Abbey has grown immensely in the last few years and is currently visited by 923 students (boys and girls). It serves as an important educational and intellectual center of the entire region.

Vital Statistics

Address:
Stiftsgymnasium Melk
Abt Berthold Dietmayr-Straße 1
A-3390 Melk
Tel: +43 (0)2752/ 555-411
Fax: +43 (0)2752/ 555-414
e-mail: direktor@mail.gymmelk.ac.at
homepage: www.gymmelk.ac.at

Number of Pupils: 923 boys and girls

Number of Classes: 36

School Types: 1^st and 2^nd years general secondary education

3^rd and 4^th years high school

5^th-8^th years preparatory school: modern language or classic high school: musical, artistic, or scientific

Foreign Languages: 1^st-4^th years English

3^rd and 4^th years Latin

5^th-8^th years English, Latin, and Greek or French
also possible: Italian, Spanish

scientific high school: English and Latin

Optional Subjects: Typing—word processing

Free Activities: choir, instrumental music, theater, soccer, volleyball, basketball, tennis, track and field, chess, biological and physical experiments, introduction to computers, creative writing

Tuition: yes - reduction for siblings

Possibility for lunch in the abbey

Director Mag. Anton Eder: Meetings by appointment (please call)

Office hours: Mon.-Fr. 7:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sa 7:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

students of the 8th class Abt Georg mit Prof. Michael Grill

Professor Christian Gruber with a guitar group Professors of the abbey's secondary school

Students and Teacher at the school's telescope 'C8'

Cultural Activities

Due to the secondary school there are many musical and theatrical performances done with the pupils. Beginning with small plays, prepared for example in class for parent evenings, these continue with performances rehearsed in the theater group and culminate in the musical performances, which have become very poplar in the last few years. On average, 100 to 150 pupils participate in the performance of a musical. There are also joint projects with the abbey choir, one of the most notable being the performance of “Carmina Burana”.

Pictures from the musical "Carmina Burana"

The music projects began in 1984 with “Jesus Christ Superstar”. This was followed by “Hair”, “Godspell”, “Touch Me”, “Don Quichote”, “Benni”, “Joseph”, “Carmina Burana”, “Godspell”, and Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation”.

Pictures from the musical "Joseph"

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