 In 1592 it got the status of "Landschaftsschule", that meant a school for the nobility of Lower Austria with subsidy from the estates of the knights and the lords of Lower Austria.The reason for that was that the then mainly Protestant lords and knight of the parliament of Lower Austria wanted a replacement for the short lived "Landschaftsschule" of Vienna that had been closed a few years earlier by the emperor.In 1591 they decided not to build a new "Landschaftsschule" school, but to support existing schools instead.