Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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type of school Special school with upper secondary level for the blind and visually impaired
founding 1951
place King Wusterhausen
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 17 '26 "  N , 13 ° 37' 2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '26 "  N , 13 ° 37' 2"  E
carrier District of Dahme-Spreewald
student 90 (school year 2009/2010)
Teachers 25 (school year 2009/2010)
management Fred Oelschläger
Website blindenschule-kw.de
Main building of the school, formerly the state home for the blind

The Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a special needs school with upper secondary level and boarding school accommodation for blind and visually impaired students in Königs Wusterhausen . There have been facilities for blind people on the school premises - with interruptions - since 1901. The main buildings were erected in the neo-Gothic brick style as a state home for the blind according to designs by Ludwig Möckel in 1899–1901 and are now a listed building . From 1952 to 1989 the school for the blind in Königs Wusterhausen was the only school in the German Democratic Republic where the blind could acquire the Abitur .

history

Herrmann Schmidt Foundation and State Home for the Blind (1889–1933)

The Hamburg wholesaler Hermann Wilhelm Schmidt and his wife Marie Caroline Anna Schmidt born. Ursinus donated 500,000 marks with a bequest in 1889 for the construction of a “home for the German blind”. Kaiser Wilhelm II took over the patronage of the Herrmann Schmidt Foundation and made land from the Hofkammergut Königs Wusterhausen available. According to plans by Ludwig Möckel , a building complex with a main building, four residential buildings, a machine house and a workshop building was built in 1899–1901. The home was opened on April 1, 1901.

Up to 100 blind people who were fit for work could be taken into the home, who worked as brush and basket makers , weavers or rope makers and were also trained in these professions. The Ferdinand Warburg Foundation built a "Feierabendhaus" on the neighboring property for blind people who were no longer able to work. It was opened on November 1, 1911. The main building of the boarding school belonging to the blind school is located in the building of the Feierabendhaus .

Use of the building by the Reich Ministry of Propaganda (1933–1945)

In the time of National Socialism , the Reich Ministry of Propaganda used the building of the home for the blind, as the Königs Wusterhausen transmitter was located in the vicinity . At the end of the war , the building complex was used as a hospital .

Secondary school for the blind in the GDR (1951–1990)

In February 1951 a school for the blind was founded in Neue Mühle near Königs Wusterhausen, which moved into the former home for the blind at the beginning of the 1952/53 school year. In 1956, the first eight blind students were able to leave school with the Abitur.

In 1957, Hans Heinold (* 1922) took over the director's post at the school, which he held until 1968. In 1959, the Extended High School for the Visually Impaired and the Polytechnic High School for the Blind was founded here, which was the route to the Abitur for blind and visually impaired children in the GDR until the end of the GDR . In 1958, grades 9–12 of the Berlin school for the visually impaired were taken over.

Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (since 1990)

When the school was transferred from the centralized structures of the GDR education system after reunification , the Dahme-Spreewald district took on responsibility for the school, but not for the boarding school, which was initially taken over by the state of Brandenburg . In the mid-1990s, 90% of the almost 150 pupils at the school for the blind were accommodated in the boarding school. Almost a third of the boarding school students did not come from the state of Brandenburg, which caused problems with the financing of the boarding school. From 2004 to 2014 the non-profit company Sächsisches Förderzentrum Chemnitz (SFZ) was the sponsor of the boarding school. The SFZ was founded in 2001 in Chemnitz out of the vocational training center for the blind and visually impaired people, and stands in the tradition of the Chemnitz School for the Blind, with which Königs Wusterhausen cooperated as a secondary school in GDR times. The boarding school, like the school, has been sponsored by the Dahme-Spreewald district since August 2014.

School sports

The school sports club for the blind school in Königs Wusterhausen (SSV blind school) has been a state performance base since 1992. Today there are four such state support points in the state of Brandenburg in the area of disabled sports for the promotion of young athletes.

The SSV is particularly strong in goalball , has won the German championship several times (most recently in 2009 and 2010) and is part of the German national team.

Several graduates of the school for the blind have so far participated in the Paralympics and won medals there, including Siegmund Turteltaube (silver 1992 in the discus B1 and silver in 1996 in the discus F10.), Gerd Franzka (2 × silver in 1996 , each in the 4-times-100 -Meter relay T10-12 and in the 4 x 400 meter relay T10-12 .) And Rayk Haucke (silver in 1996 and bronze in 2000 in the Pentathlon P10 , and silver in 2000 in the javelin throw F11 .)

Known students

Web links

Commons : Blindenschule Königs Wusterhausen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Complete dossier as of September 3, 2010 on the Berlin-Brandenburg education server .
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, Dahme-Spreewald district ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 210 kB) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation , as of December 30, 2009, p. 18.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f History of the Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, accessed July 27, 2010.
  4. ^ Hans Heinold: Mathematics lessons at schools for the blind from a cybernetic point of view . In: Sven Degenhardt, Waltraut Rath (ed.): Pedagogy for the blind and visually impaired . Beltz, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 3-407-57216-6 , p. 149.
  5. ↑ Uta Schiller: Fear for the place in the boarding school . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 1997.
  6. ↑ Sächsisches Förderzentrum Chemnitz gGmbH at the Paritätischen Landesverband Brandenburg (The SFZ has been a member since November 2004 and has the MO No. 472/13)
  7. ↑ sf: Good performance in the SSV school for the blind . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 26, 1997.
  8. ↑ List of state support points at the Brandenburg State Sports Association ( Memento from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14 kB) accessed July 29, 2010.
  9. ↑ GOALBALL: The title defended. (No longer available online.) In: Märkische Allgemeine . April 23, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 10, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.maerkischeallgemeine.de
  10. ↑ stl: Blind from KW in Atlanta . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 21, 1996.
  11. ↑ Results of Siegmund Turtle Dove at the Paralympics on the IPC website , accessed July 29, 2010.
  12. ↑ Results of Gerd Franzka at the Paralympics on the IPC website , accessed July 29, 2010.
  13. ↑ Results of Rayk Haucke at the Paralympics on the IPC website , accessed July 29, 2010.
  14. ↑ Heide Popig: "A reunion between then and now" . In: Joana Zimmer: Blind Date - See the world with my eyes . Kösel, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-466-34588-5 , pp. 40f.