Franciscan high school in Bolzano

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Franciscan high school in Bolzano
Franziskanergymnasium Bozen Vintlerstraße.jpg
type of school humanistic high school
founding 1780
place Bolzano
province South-TirolTemplate: Infobox School / Maintenance / ISO 2 !
Country Italy
Coordinates 46 ° 30 '4 "  N , 11 ° 21' 17"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '4 "  N , 11 ° 21' 17"  E
management Wolfgang Malsiner
Website www.franziskanergymnasium.it

The Franziskanergymnasium Bolzano is a state-recognized humanistic grammar school with middle school run by the Bolzano Franciscans , located in the old town of Bolzano in South Tyrol ( Italy ).

history

With a court decree of October 20, 1780, Maria Theresa built a grammar school in Bolzano at the request of the city government . The Franciscans took over the management and instruction at the school, which was housed in the so-called "Castiolhaus". During the Bavarian rule in Tyrol from 1810 to 1815, the grammar school was converted into a secondary school and the Franciscans were relieved of their teaching activities. Due to a lack of space, a new school building was built in the nearby Weggensteinstrasse from 1853 to 1855.

When the school was nationalized again during the years of the Kulturkampf , the Tyrolean Franciscan Province founded its own private high school in Bolzano in 1872, which soon also received public rights. Under the director and well-known naturalist P. Vinzenz Maria Gredler , the new school building was built in 1882 according to a design by the Bozen city architect Sebastian Altmann , which is structurally connected to the Franciscan monastery; the building was extended by master builder Johann Bittner. In the war years 1943–1945 the grammar school was closed. Due to the decline in the number of members of the Order, the majority of the teaching staff today consists of lay people . Up until the 1989/90 school year, only boys were taught in the grammar school. Since then, girls have also been admitted to school. Wolfgang Malsiner has been the director since 1995; he is the first layperson in this position. From 2002 to 2005 the grammar school was rebuilt and a new, underground gymnasium was built.

The cajetan room with historical frescos on the top floor of the school building

Library

Facade of the school building on the street side

The library of the Franziskanergymnasium (the so-called "professors' library ") comprises around 70,000 media units. The collection contains works from all subjects taught at humanistic grammar schools - the oldest date from the early 16th century. Tirolensia are a special collection area of ​​the library . The book inventory has increased over time through numerous acquisitions, donations and bequests. In addition to the professors' library, the Franziskanergymnasium also has a modern student library with over 7,700 media sets.

Personalities associated with the grammar school

Web links

Commons : Franziskanergymnasium Bozen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 200 years of the Franziskanergymnasium Bolzano 1781–1981. Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the Franciscan high school in Bozen. Bolzano: Athesia 1981.
  2. ↑ The story. Franziskanergymnasium Bozen, accessed on June 7, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Angelika Pedron, Reinhard Pichler, Manfred Schmidt: The library of the Bozen Franziskanergymnasium. Cataloging Historical Libraries in South Tyrol (EHB), Volume 12. Province Publishing House, Brixen 2018.
  4. ↑ Felicitas Noeske: The library of the Bozen Franziskanergymnasium , December 17, 2018, accessed on July 31, 2019.
  5. ^ Library of the Franziskanergymnasium Bozen. SFIVET: Cataloging Historical Libraries, accessed on February 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Angelika Pedron, Reinhard Pichler, Manfred Schmidt: The library of the Bozen Franziskanergymnasium. Cataloging Historical Libraries in South Tyrol (EHB), Volume 12. Province Publishing House, Brixen 2018.