Ferenc Földes Secondary School

Ferenc Földes Secondary School is a secondary school in Miskolc, Hungary. It is famous for being one of the best secondary schools of the country.HistoryThe school came into being in 1953 with the unification of György Fráter Catholic Secondary School and József Lévay Protestant Secondary School. As a successor of these renowned institutions it has a history of more than 450 years.The Protestant Secondary School was first mentioned in 1560 by Jenő Zoványi, in a work about the history of Protestantism in Hungary. In 1731 supervision over the school was given to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1881 the primary school was separated from the secondary school. In 1944, during the German occupation of the country the building was used for military purposes, and the school could move back only in 1946. On July 15, 1948, like all other schools in Hungary at the time, it was expropriated by the State.The other predecessor, the Catholic Secondary School was founded in 1729 by Didák Kelemen, a monk of the Minorite order. Its first building was a small one with only two classrooms. It stood on today's Kazinczy Street, not far from the present building of the school. During the following 100 years the institution had to move several times, since its building was destroyed for various reasons on numerous occasions. During the war of independence in 1848-49 the building was used as part of a military hospital. The big flood of 1878 damaged the building, and the school lost its library of several thousand books.