Private School Birkloff (Schule Birklehof)

Birklehof School is a holistic educational boarding and grammar school located in Hinterzarten, High Black Forest, Germany, about 25 kilometers from Freiburg. It is a private, coeducational secondary school (Gymnasium in German). The school currently has roughly 230 pupils, 170 of whom are boarders who reside on-site. Kurt Hahn, an educator, founded the school in 1932 and initially welcomed both boys and girls. Hahn created Gordonstoun School, Outward Bound, Round Square, and United World Colleges in Scotland after being forced to emigrate by Nazis. The school is located in Hinterzarten's postal district, however most of the structure is located in Breitnau. Kurt Hahn, a German schoolteacher, founded Birklehof in 1932. The ancient Birklehof is a grade-listed farmhouse that dates back to 1550. In the early 1920s, a German manufacturer built a villa on the Birklehof estate. The estate was thereafter granted to Hahn for his school. After being forced from Germany by the Nazis, Hahn founded Gordonstoun in Scotland in 1934 and Atlantic College in 1962. It is also a sister school of the more famous Schloss Salem, which Hahn founded in 1920. Georg Picht, a German philosopher, reopened it in 1946.