When the philosopher and universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz visited Hundisburg in 1704, there were not only constructions going on in the castle, but his host Johann Friedrich von Alvensleben also tried to establish a new school building in the village.

This plain half-timbered building contained besides the teacher's flat only one class room with a size of about 30 m for at that time 44 pupils.

The increasing number of pupils caused the construction of 2 additional buildings in the village and an enlargement of the old class room until the end of the 19th century.

In this condition the room with it's old "Kreuzstock"- windows and it's oiled wooden floor is preserved until today. Even the teacher's desk which the master of carpently Rhese made in 1887 remained in the same spot ever since.

That´s why it didn't take much to set up a school museum in 1988. Nowadays visitors are welcome to use the virtually all authentic equipment. Just the slates were reproduced. But looking exactly like the old ones, they're free to be used especially by younger visitors.

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