Evangelical School Center Leipzig

Evangelical School Center Leipzig
type of school	Elementary school with after-school care center, high school, high school
founding	1991
place	Leipzig
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 19 '50 " N , 12 ° 22' 38" E Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '50 " N , 12 ° 22' 38" E
carrier	Evangelical Lutheran Church District Leipzig
student	1105 (2019)
Teachers	101 (2019)
management	Annett Petzold
Website	schulzentrum.de

The Evangelical School Center Leipzig (colloquially abbreviated to Eva Schulze ) is a privately owned substitute school ; the school is operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Leipzig. In the form of a cooperative comprehensive school , the school center comprises elementary school with after-school care and secondary school as well as a grammar school . It is located in the center-south district of Leipzig , only a few meters from the Peterskirche .

profile

Main building of the Protestant school center

Well over 1000 pupils of various denominations attend the school, which among other things has set itself the goal of a good and complete integration of the disabled and foreigners . The Protestant School Center also supports its students musically in a special way. In addition to numerous working groups and leisure activities, there is an upper-level choir and an upper-level orchestra integrated into everyday school life. Every year on December 6th, the Christmas concerts take place, in which teachers, parents and pupils take part and present their musical skills.

The Protestant School Center aims to make learning fun and enjoyable for young people and to make them responsible and tolerant people. As a Christian school, the Evangelical School Center offers religious instruction from the 1st grade to the upper grades. Religion can also be taken as an advanced course there. The Christian profile also includes Monday prayers prepared alternately by all classes as well as school services at the beginning of school, at Christmas and during the Passion period . From the 6th grade onwards, the pupils of the Oberschule have the option of choosing diakonia as a subject or completing the Hauptschule certificate after the 9th grade. The 10th grade of the grammar school do a social internship.

Admission to school is based on pedagogical considerations, individual requirements of the child (special school performance or special talent) and the respective class structure (e.g. gender / denomination / migration background). As a rule, children are accepted

who have attended the elementary school of the Evangelical School Center themselves (applies to the secondary schools Oberschule and Gymnasium)
whose siblings have visited the Protestant School Center.

Children can be given preference,

whose custodians are in the service of Christian communities,
whose guardians are particularly committed to Christian communities,
within the scope of integration options.

history

The school emerged in the autumn of 1989 in the course of the Peaceful Revolution from the initiative "Free Pedagogy" of the Christian parent forums. On October 31, 1990 the Free Christian School Leipzig association was founded with the aim of building a Christian school in which children can learn, confess and develop without discrimination. In May 1991 the association was named Evangelisches Schulzentrum Leipzig e. V. and on July 10, 1991 received state approval for a primary school and a grammar school. For example, on August 24, 1991, during a festive school service in the Peterskirche, elementary school and grammar school were opened as the first Christian school in Leipzig and the first cooperative comprehensive school in Saxony. Five classes with 121 students and 7 teachers used the rooms of the Goethe School. The founding school director of the Evangelical School Center was Burkhard Jung , who was then senior director of studies in the church service . Young led the school until his election as Assistant Secretary for Youth, school and sports in February 1999, today he is Mayor of Leipzig .

The state approval for a secondary school branch followed on June 25, 1992. On May 5, 1993, the association transferred the responsibility for the school center to the former Evangelical Lutheran church districts of Leipzig-East and Leipzig-West, which merged in 2000 to form the Leipzig church district. This was followed by state recognition of elementary school on December 21, 1993 and middle school on May 6, 1994. The first secondary school qualifications were awarded in 1995, the first secondary school qualifications were awarded in 1996, and the first graduate class passed their exams in 1997. Due to the ever increasing number of pupils, the old school building became too small, so that an extension had to be built. For the 2017/2018 school year, the middle school in Saxony was converted into a high school.

Partnership and student exchange

The Evangelical School Center Leipzig, together with the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim, has had a partnership and a student exchange with the International School Kodaikanal in Kodaikanal , Tamil Nadu , South India since 2008/2009 .

building

Higher school for girls, around 1900

Ground floor plan, 1892

The new building of the primary school

In June 1994 the Protestant School Center took over the building of the former Goethe School as a leaseholder ; today it forms the main building of the school. The four-storey building was built in 1876/1877 by Max Bösenberg and Georg Häckel as a municipal high school for girls . The plastered building with sandstone structures on a three-wing floor plan was designed for a total of 840 schoolchildren and had 22 classrooms, each 52.2 m² in size, which are located on a central corridor. In 1925/1926 the school was expanded. A stylistically adapted building was created with classrooms, conference rooms, library, music, handicraft and drawing rooms, with the ground floor of the extension building on Riemannstrasse (formerly Albertstrasse) forming arcades. The gymnasium originally connected to the three-armed staircase at the rear was demolished in 1953 after war damage. The school building, which was also damaged, was rebuilt from 1953 to 1957.

Since 1900, the reform pedagogue Hugo Gaudig was the headmaster of the secondary girls 'school, to which he joined a teachers' seminar. When the girls' school split up in 1907, Gaudig moved to the second secondary school for girls, which was newly founded at Döllnitzer Strasse 2 (today Lumumbastrasse) .

Today the school management, administration, a room of silence, a library as well as cafeteria, auditorium, specialist rooms and classes 7 to 12 are located in the historic school building.

On October 15, 1999, the foundation stone was laid for the four-phase extension. Separated from the old building by an inner courtyard, a music house (house 1) and a building (orange-colored house 2) for a grade level of the orientation level were created. Another block (blue building) houses the elementary school, the after-school care center and, on the third floor, further classes of the orientation level. The new school building was inaugurated on April 25, 2001. A new, large and modern gymnasium was built on Bernhard-Göring-Straße and was inaugurated on December 8, 2003. An all-day building is located at Hohen Strasse 23.

Schille Theater House

From grade 8 onwards, the Evangelical School Center offers the selectable muse and media profile, in which the subjects of music, art, performing games, film and media studies are taught. At the end of each school year, the learning outcomes from this profile are presented as performance topics. For this purpose, the Evangelical School Center operates the Schille Theater . In the back house at Otto-Schill-Straße 7 there is a hall with 99 seats and an adjoining café with a cabaret and 40 seats.

The end of the 19th century as a Turkish coffee house constructed building was later Blue Cross church (addiction self-help church) of the Inner Mission . At the end of 1958, the Leipzig gaming community found a permanent venue here. This theater of the Evangelical Church of Saxony was founded on the occasion of the 3rd German Evangelical Church Congress in 1951 by the actress Ruth Langhammer and the deacon Herbert Dost as a private touring theater. In April 1953 the gaming community was banned from gaming and its dissolution was ordered. After the popular uprising in 1953 , the game community was allowed to play again, but since 1961 by decision of the GDR Minister of Culture only in the rooms of the regional church of Saxony and only with the restriction to games with a proclamation character. After the church stopped subsidizing the theater, it had to be closed in late 2004. Since 2005 the independent theater company Leipzig has continued to play in the tradition of the play community.

Since 1992 the house has been used by the Evangelical School Center for theater work. Since 2005 it has been under the management of the Protestant School Center, which uses the school theater, which is equipped with professional theater technology (lighting, sound system), for a wide variety of events. The rooms are also rented out for amateur and professional theater performances as well as for concerts and seminars.

Well-known former students

Alissa Jung , actress

literature

Burkhard Jung: Evangelical School Center Leipzig - 5 years - attempt to determine the current position. Baalsdorf: UniMedia o. J. [1997], ISBN 3-932019-07-5 .
Elke Urban: The Evangelical School Center Leipzig. In: Jürgen Bohne (ed.): Protestant schools in the new beginning. Schools founded in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia 1989–1994. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1998, ISBN 3-525-61357-1 , pp. 69-76.
Hugo Licht : Secondary school for girls. In: The city of Leipzig in a hygienic relationship. Festschrift for the participants of the XVII. Assembly of the German Association for Public Health Care. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 192 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelisches Schulzentrum Leipzig - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

School website

Individual evidence

^ Religious life - website of the Evangelical School Center Leipzig. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
↑ Information for prospective exchange students (English).
↑ The history of the partnership and the student exchange
↑ ^a ^b Christoph Kühn; Brunhilde Rothbauer: Monuments in Saxony. City of Leipzig. Volume 1: Southern urban expansion. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-345-00628-6 , p. 99.
↑ ^a ^b Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 347.
^ Georg Antosch: Action and Passion. 45 years of the Leipziger Spielgemeinde - the theater of the church. Leipziger Blätter , issue 28, pp. 16-20, ISSN 0232-7244 .
↑ Kathrin Messerschmidt: What happened to the "Spielgemeinde Leipzig". Deutschlandradio Kultur from December 20, 2008.
↑ theaterkompanie.leipzig , accessed on December 9, 2015.

[1] Religious life - website of the Evangelical School Center Leipzig. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .

[2] Information for prospective exchange students (English).

[3] The history of the partnership and the student exchange

[Denkmaltopographie-4] Christoph Kühn; Brunhilde Rothbauer: Monuments in Saxony. City of Leipzig. Volume 1: Southern urban expansion. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-345-00628-6 , p. 99.

[Stadtlexikon-5] Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 347.

[6] Georg Antosch: Action and Passion. 45 years of the Leipziger Spielgemeinde - the theater of the church. Leipziger Blätter , issue 28, pp. 16-20, ISSN 0232-7244 .

[7] Kathrin Messerschmidt: What happened to the "Spielgemeinde Leipzig". Deutschlandradio Kultur from December 20, 2008.

[8] theaterkompanie.leipzig , accessed on December 9, 2015.