From the New Market Square to the City Canal

Dortu School
Dortustraße 28/29

The townhouses in the current Dortustraße were built in 1771 after the plans of the architect Georg Christian Unger (1743-1799). In 1928, one of these houses belonged to the parents of the revolutionary democrat Maximilian Dortu, who was executed in 1849 (see page XX). The Dortu family gave the estate to the municipality as a present in 1860 to be used for community purposes. In 1867, it was rebuilt as a school. Today, the Dortu school still maintains one room dating from the time of the first construction work. It has a representative Rococo stuccoed ceiling and is known as the Rose Room.