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The Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie or Knight Academy was a school for the schlesischen aristocracy established in the Seventeenth Century . It existed until 1945 and then became general High School. HISTORY The duke of Liegnitz , George Rudolf († 1653 ) of the Piast Dynasty died childless. He left in its will of 1646 substantial means for the establishment a school for noble Protestant boys from Silesia , placed under the administration of the Liegnitz Johanniskirche through the ''Johannisstiftung''. After the death of his great-nephew George William I Of Liegnitz Brieg Wohlau (born 1660, duke 1672-1675), the last governing Piasten, his territory was taken over by the Habsburg s as part of the Counter-reformation which forced Catholicism of the people of Silesia. The assets of the ''Johannisstiftung'' were taken by the emperor and the Johanniskirche was handed over to Jesuits . Only after Altranstaedter Convention of 1708 were the assets of the Johannisstifung again released for a new school for the aristocracy, in equal numbers to boys of both denominations. In the year 1811 the academy was opened up to non aristocrats and by 1901 it became a national school existing until 1945 . The main building of the knight academy was built in the years 1726 - 1738 in the Baroque style to the design of the Architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer Von Erlach . The pupils still wore a blue uniform with yellow collar and yellow cuffs, with blue-yellow garrison cap, but no weapon. From 1945 to 1992 it was the headquarters for Soviet troops stationed in Silesia, now a part of Poland . The building has since been restored. TEACHERS AND HIGH-LEVEL PERSONNEL
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