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1142
Founding
Founding of the abbey, probably also together with a school
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1160
Documentation
The earliest documentation of a school is a list of the names of a schoolmaster and students.
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1281
Rupert Maulrapp
The aristocrat Rupert Maulrapp sent his two sons to the monastery. The cleverer of the two was to receive higher education there. And actually became an Augustinian canon.
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1467
Graf Leonhard von Görz
The reputation of the school in Neustift was such that even Count Leonhard von Görz sent his nephew there.
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1581
THE FIRST DOCUMENTED NUMBER OF STUDENTS
In this year 25 boys attended the school. Most of them were trained as choristers.
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1807
Dissolution
Dissolution of the monastery, and with it the school, by the Bavarians.
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1816
Re-establishment of the monastery
Re-establishment of the monastery, which then took over the state grammar school in Brixen. This was also where the canonized Josef Freinademetz went to school.
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1830–1914
ONE TO TWO DOZEN BOYS
Around 20 students were attending the abbey school every year.
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1908
NEW PREMISES
The choristers’ institute moved into a new building in the abbey.
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1926
CLOSURE
The Faschist regime closed the Augustinian grammar school in Brixen.
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1919-1945
Interwar years
Because Neustift was a church school, the secondary school for students up to the age of 14 was allowed to continue. And even teach in German.
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1943
Closing
Closing of the monastery’s own school after the invasion of the German army.
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1945–1971
Bürgerschule
Establishment of a commercially oriented secondary school (‘Bürgerschule’)
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1946–1971
Juvenate
A juvenate, a private humanistic grammar school, was also opened.
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1971
Students from 11-14
Closing of the private schools in Neustift. They were replaced by a school boarding house for students from 11-14, together with a branch of a Brixen school for this age group. Older students were also accepted at the boarding house.
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1971–1977
Middle school ''Michael Pacher'
From this date on the school was a branch of the 'Michael Pacher’ secondary school.
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1977–1996
Middle school 'Arthur March'
After six years the ‘Michael Pacher’ became the ‘Arthur March’ secondary school and was known by this name until 1996.
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1996
‘OSWALD VON WOLKENSTEIN’ MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Neustift school became a branch of the ‘Oswald von Wolkenstein’ middle school. The minnesinger was incidentally a beneficiary of the abbey.
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2004
FIVE-DAY WEEK
In the 2004/05 school year the five-day week was introduced for the middle school students in the school boarding house.
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2007
Completion
Completion of the rebuilding and renovation work in the boarding house at the end of May.
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2015
Blessing
Blessing of the new open and interactive study rooms, providing the boarders with further options.
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2018/19
New provisions
Introduction of two new provisions for the younger students: ‘Exercise and Sport’ and ‘Digital Media’.
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2020/21
Redesigning
Redesigning of the common rooms with a lively colour concept.
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2022
Armin Eisendle
Appointment of Armin Eisendle as the new director of Neustift’s school boarding house.