Domgymnasium Magdeburg

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Domgymnasium Magdeburg
Domgymnasium in Magdeburg's Hegelstrasse
Building in Magdeburg's Hegelstrasse
type of school high school
founding 1991 ( 1993 )
address

Hegelstrasse 5
39104 Magdeburg

country Saxony-Anhalt
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 7 '21 "  N , 11 ° 37' 57"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '21 "  N , 11 ° 37' 57"  E
student 807
Website www.domgymnasium-magdeburg.de

The Ecumenical Domgymnasium Magdeburg is an independent Christian grammar school in Magdeburg . There is a special requirement for religion, three foreign languages ​​and IT in grades 7 and 8.

history

There are numerous eminent graduates from this school. Martin Luther was a student at the Cathedral School Magdeburg, a predecessor of the Cathedral High School.

middle Ages

The history of the Domgymnasium goes back to the early Middle Ages. In 937 , one year after his coronation, Otto I founded the Moritzkloster in Magdeburg in honor of Saint Mauritius, to which a monastery school was also affiliated. In 968 the monastery school was converted into a cathedral school .

Modern times

The Magdeburg Cathedral School ceased teaching around 1530, as the Catholic Cathedral School was subject to competition from newly founded schools during the Reformation. It was re-founded in 1676 on the occasion of the centenary of the first Protestant service at Magdeburg Cathedral, initially as an elementary school with one class, which grew steadily in the following years and was expanded until it had four classes in 1680.

In 1810 the government of the Kingdom of Westphalia ordered the dissolution of the cathedral chapter and confiscated its property. It is thanks to the commitment of the then Rector Gottfried Funk that the school premises and teacher's apartments of the cathedral school were preserved. The building at Kreuzgangstrasse 5 also belonged to the teacher's apartments . Gottfried Funk's successor was Johann Andreas Matthias in 1814 . In the same year the cathedral school was taken over by the Prussian state.

From 1822 the cathedral school was first renamed the Domgymnasium , later the Royal Cathedral Gymnasium in Magdeburg . In 1841 the student body was divided into nine classes for the first time (sixth to upper prima) and a few years later physical education was also introduced. On October 17, 1881, the Domgymnasium first moved into the newly built school building in what was then Augustastraße 5 (today: Hegelstraße).

First half of the 20th century

In 1901 a reform high school with French as the first foreign language and later Latin lessons was added to the Domgymnasium and the school flag was inaugurated. After the end of the First World War and the monarchy , the name was changed again in 1919 to Staatliches Domgymnasium zu Magdeburg .

In 1928 the State Cathedral Gymnasium Magdeburg and the pedagogy were merged to form the monastery of Our Dear Women and were henceforth called United Cathedral and Monastery High School Magdeburg . The reform high school that had been connected up to that point was gradually dismantled over the same period.

When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, there were significant cuts in the German school system . In contrast to all other higher schools in Magdeburg, the cathedral and monastery high school was allowed to continue to use the title "high school" in its official name. Even if generalized statements about the community of the high number of pupils and / or the teaching staff are not possible and there is also hardly any evidence (still), both adaptation to the National Socialist regime and resistance must be assumed: the documents that have survived in the Magdeburg state archives it can be seen, for example, that in 1933 a teacher had taken down a picture of Adolf Hitler at school and that “the Marxist-communist attitude” of another teacher was in public discourse. At the same time, in 1937, the cathedral preacher was forbidden from holding a regular school sacrament ceremony - with reference to a separation of church and state and the status of a National Socialist state school - by the principal studies. The outbreak of war in 1939 finally led to an almost complete cessation of school teaching due to volunteer registrations in the student body, while the 6th to 8th grades functioned as air force helper classes . In 1945 the teachers' library with 25,000 volumes and the roof of the auditorium were destroyed in air raids.

After the end of the war, the Bismarck School classes were integrated into the Domgymnasium. However, only grades 9 to 12 were continued and Russian was introduced as a compulsory subject. From then on, the school was subject to the regulations of the Soviet military administration and in 1950, under political pressure, it was renamed the “Humboldt High School”.

Humboldt School

The school was renamed the Humboldt School in 1949 , later the Humboldt School EOS , and had moved twice by 1972. The school was one of nine schools in the GDR that offered ancient Greek lessons (there were many more schools with Latin lessons).

After the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR in 1989, the name was changed to Humboldt-Gymnasium . The Humboldt Gymnasium had been a European school since 1997 . In 2008 the Humboldtgmynasium was closed.

Ecumenical cathedral high school

The Domgymnasium was privately re-founded in 1991 as an Ecumenical Gymnasium by a parents' initiative with the participation of the Bremen pedagogue Erika Opelt-Stoevesandt and renamed the Ecumenical Domgymnasium (ÖDG) in 1993 . In 2000, the Domgymnasium was able to move back into the original building at Hegelstrasse 5. The Ecumenical Domgymnasium is a member of the working group of Christian-oriented schools in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . In 2006 the Ecumenical Domgymnasium was awarded the status of a European school by the Minister of Culture Jan-Hendrik Olbertz .

Well-known students of the Domgymnasium

Sorted by year of birth

Well-known teachers at the Domgymnasium

Well-known rectors of the cathedral high school

Well-known students of the pedagogy for the monastery of Our Dear Women

Well-known teachers of the pedagogy for the monastery of Our Dear Women

literature

historical literature

  • Karl Funk: The new director's responses. In: Program of the royal cathedral high school in Magdeburg. Pp. 49-53. Magdeburg, 1839 ( digitized version )
  • Program of the royal cathedral high school in Magdeburg. Magdeburg, 1838/1839 ( digitized version )
  • Karl Funk: Conditions for attending school in the Domgymnasium. In: Program of the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg (1938). Magdeburg, 1843 ( digitized )
  • To the public examination of the students of the Royal Cathedral-Gymnasium in Magdeburg ... invites you devotedly . Magdeburg, 1861–1862 ( digitized version )
  • Johannes Horkel: Two speeches by the director . In: To the public examination of the students of the Royal Cathedral-Gymnasium in Magdeburg ... invites you devotedly. Magdeburg, 1861 ( digitized version )
  • School news from Easter 1895 to Easter 1896 . Magdeburg, 1896 ( digitized version )
  • Friedrich Aly: The Magdeburger Domgymnasium of the sixties: Inaugural address of the director. In: Annual report of the Royal Victoria High School in Burg (1890). Castle, 1890 ( digitized )
  • Otto Laeger: Biographical directory of the teachers of the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg. In: Friedrich Holzweissig annual report on the Royal Cathedral Gymnasium in Magdeburg. Magdeburg, 1902 ( digitized version )
  • Otto Laeger: Life sketches of the teachers of the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg . In: Annual report on the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg. Magdeburg, 1903 ( digitized version )

annual reports received

  • Program of the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg 1839-1860 ( digitized version )
  • Reports on the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg 1862–1895 in the University and State Library Düsseldorf ( digitized version )
  • Annual reports on the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg 1896–1915 in the University and State Library Düsseldorf ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Wiggert: About Martin Luther's school life in Magdeburg and the local association of the brothers from living together in the valley of h. Hieronymus, also called Trulbrüder (Nulbrüder, Lulharden). In: Program of the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg (1839). Magdeburg 1839 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ A. Kolberg: The Vita secunda Sancti Adalberti of St. Bruno based on the Prague manuscript XIII D 20 . In: Journal for the history and antiquity of Warmia . tape 15 , 1905 (with German translation).
  3. ^ Sancti Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz (Ed.): Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Scriptores 4th Hanover 1841, p. 125-127 .
  4. ^ Hugo Holstein: History of the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg: Festschrift to celebrate its 200th anniversary on September 18, 1875 . In: History sheets for the city and state of Magdeburg: Communications of the Association for History and Antiquity of the Duchy and Archbishopric of Magdeburg . Published by the board of directors of the Magdeburg History Association. 11th year. Verlag der Schäferschen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1876, p. 94–99 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  5. ^ Jürgen M. Pietsch, Giselher Quast: The Magdeburg Cathedral . Edition Schwarz Weiss, Spröda 2005, ISBN 3-00-015279-2 .
  6. ↑ School news from Easter 1895 to Easter 1896. Magdeburg, 1896 urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-246063
  7. ^ Karl Funk: The new director's answer. In: Program of the royal cathedral high school in Magdeburg. Pp. 49-53. Magdeburg 1839 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ State Main Archives Magdeburg, Rep. C 23 Domgymnasium Magdeburg. No. 21, fol. 21st
  9. ↑ State Main Archives Magdeburg, Rep. C 23 Domgymnasium Magdeburg. No. 23, fol. 97-98.
  10. ↑ These nine extended secondary schools were GDR-wide: Heinrich Schliemann School in Berlin, Humboldt School in Potsdam, Kreuzschule in Dresden, Thomas School in Leipzig , Gerhart Hauptmann School in Zwickau, Ernst Abbe School in Eisenach, Latina August-Hermann-Francke in Halle, Humboldt School in Magdeburg and Herder School in Rostock. - Markus Gruber: On the situation of Greek teaching in the Federal Republic of Germany (2006/07) ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), p. 8, accessed on June 21, 2016.