Jesuit College

The Jesuit College was founded by the Jesuit order in 1622 as part of the introduction of the Counter-Reformation in the Margraviate of Baden-Baden by Margrave Wilhelm von Baden. With the dissolution of the order by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, the college was converted into a secular lyceum and made theological studies possible. Among the professors of this period was Franz Xaver Werk. In 1808, the Baden Lyceum was merged with the Piarist school in Rastatt. Baden-Baden's first honorary citizen Josef von Lassolaye bought the college building for 20,000 guilders. Friedrich Weinbrenner converted it into a "Conversationshaus" in 1809. A casino also opened there on June 16, 1812, under the supervision of the authorities. After its relocation to the newly built right wing of the Kurhaus on the left Oos side, the building complex finally became the town hall and the seat of the city administration in 1862. Another renovation took place in 1938.