The Dominican monastery of St. Pauli was founded in 1236. The important chroniclers Heinrich von Herford (deceased 1370) and Hermann von Lerbeck (deceased after 1407) lived and worked here. The monastery was dissolved after the Reformation. The location of the church, which was demolished in 1774, can still be deduced today from the course of the Alte Kirchstraße. The grammar school, founded in 1530, was housed in the eastern part of the former monastery. In 1880, the school moved into a new building on Immanuelstraße. The west wing, which is still preserved today and made of medieval sandstone ashlar masonry, originally housed the Remter and Dormitorium (dining room and dormitory). After 1766, a sugar factory was established here, which was privileged by Frederick the Great (1712-1786). In 1885, the building was converted into a cigar factory, for which an extension made of exposed brick was later built on the site of the demolished church. The complex has been used for various purposes since the turn of the century.