Big School (Wolfenbüttel)

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Great school
School logo
type of school high school
founding 1543
place Wolfenbüttel
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 9 '55 "  N , 10 ° 32' 9"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 9 '55 "  N , 10 ° 32' 9"  E
carrier City of Wolfenbüttel
student about 900
Teachers about 60-70
management Ute Krause
Website www.grosse-schule.de

The large school , founded in 1543 as the Princely School in Wolfenbüttel , is an ancient-language humanistic grammar school in Wolfenbüttel .

history

Wolfenbüttel, Herzogliche Kommisse, 1705–1879 School building of the large school

In 1542 the reformation of the Wolfenbüttel church and school system began, in the course of which a boys' school was founded the following year, the curriculum of which included Christianity and ancient languages. In 1596, the High Princely School in Wolfenbüttel moved into a new building next to the Marienkirche , an "educational institution for logical thinking and knowledge of God". Nine years later, a Wolfenbüttler school program was created for the first time, which included the subjects of Latin , Ancient Greek , religion , dialectics , rhetoric and music as major subjects and natural sciences , history and ethics as minor subjects. In 1705 the company moved to the so-called ducal commission . In 1749 the High Princely School in Wolfenbüttel was given its current name when it was renamed the Ducal Large School .

In 1824 the first Abitur examination was held. In 1828 the gymnastics community (TG) was founded in the spirit of the reforms of the gymnastics father Jahn and the liberal-democratic aspirations of this time , which continues to this day.

In 1879 a new building for the school at Rosenwall 12 was completed. It is made of yellow brick and originally had a massive central building, two main wings and a smaller side wing, which has now been replaced by a larger new building. On the street side, the building shows the Latin saying:

DEO ET STUDIOSAE JUVENTUTI

(German: For God and the ambitious youth )

On the back towards the school yard is written:

MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO

(German: A healthy mind in a healthy body )

The main building of the large school has been located at this point to this day. The Raabe friend Wilhelm Brandes ran the school from 1893 to 1921 .

During the Nazi era there was resistance to the penetration of religious education by Nazi ideology. As a result, students were expelled from the school, the principal was suspended, and a religion teacher was transferred to prison. In 1957 the school received another building with the Elster-und-Geitelhaus , in which today the upper secondary school is taught. The new school building was named after the senior teachers Julius Elster and Hans Geitel , who became known through their research and who did pioneering work in the field of radioactivity .

The large school has been open to girls since 1966 , with two female students in the first school year.

In the headmaster's era of Peter Ensthaler, the Dr. Oskar Sommer Foundation for the promotion of international understanding was founded in 1997 by the former student Oskar Sommer (Abitur 1923), in 2001 the new building for art, music and theater was built and was named Dr. -Oskar-Sommer-Haus , from 2004 in the course of the renovation the former director's house of the school is also available for lessons and from 2010 as a media center, in 2005 the high school received the first all-day permit in Wolfenbüttel and in 2009/2010 the "Mittelriegel" designated large new building, which offers general classrooms for classes, specialist rooms for the natural sciences and IT as well as a cafeteria. After the opening of this new building in May 2010, all-day classes at the school were able to develop further. At this point in time, the fifth and sixth grades were also relocated from the Wallstrasse branch (located there since 2004) to Rosenwall.

Front view of the main building
Dr. Oskar Summer House
Rear view of the main building
Entrance to the science wing
Side view of the science wing
View of part of the school yard and the sports halls
Outbuildings

Working groups and groups

In addition to the gymnastics community (TG), which offers an extensive sports program mainly supervised by students, there is a student association with the Concilium Germanicum (CG!) . From the two groups z. B. the so-called Turnerball or the Bavarian Festival .

In addition, there is a computer AG, a chess AG, a photo AG and AGs that deal with astronomy , flying and other scientific and technical topics. The cultural offer is enriched by the theater group school orchestra and pre-orchestra, two choirs , various bands organized by the students themselves, a brass ensemble and a flute ensemble. There is also a library at the school and a group that creates what is known as the school chronicle under the direction of a teacher.

There is also a school medical service , which is available to care for injured people both in everyday school life and at school events. The members of the working group are trained in regular first aid courses by the German Red Cross . In addition, the school medical service of the large school regularly takes part in the Bremen first aid competition Hand on heart.

Course offer

The Große Schule is the only school in Wolfenbüttel to offer Latin as the first foreign language (from grade 5) and ancient Greek (from grade 8) as the third foreign language. There is also a bilingual branch and an orchestral class .

Actions

At regular intervals, the pupils of the large school volunteer for charitable purposes. Examples are the annual running event Run-for-Help for the benefit of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society and a benefit concert for the victims of the great Elbe flood. Other school activities include the annual school concert in June, at which all of the school's musical groups present their skills, in particular pupils of all grades regularly perform as soloists with an orchestra and there have already been some world premieres. At the beginning of the year, the TG Turnerball takes place, which is very popular locally.

Student exchange

In addition to the city's exchange programs, the large school has had an intensive cooperation with the Colegiul National de Mihai Eminescu , a school in the Romanian twin town of Satu Mare, since 1995 . In the course of this cooperation there are regular visits to each other, for example by the basketball school teams, but also by whole classes, as most recently in 2007. This is also supported financially by the school's own Dr. Oskar Sommer Foundation, which is committed to international understanding. Since a visit by a delegation in October 2009 under the direction of the headmaster Peter Ensthaler, there has also been a school partnership with "No. 1 High School Affiliated with Tongji University" in Shanghai, China .

Known members of the school

literature

  • until 2006 Rudolf Ordon (publisher), from 2007 Klaus Hantelmann (publisher): Schulchronik. annually since 2000
  • Doctrine, education, qualification. 450 years of the large school in Wolfenbüttel. A contribution to the history of the Protestant grammar school in Northern Germany. Exhibition catalogs of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel No. 69. Berlin 1993
  • Peter Ensthaler (Ed.), Authors: Kerstin Goebel, Barbara Bartkowski-Stiemert: Chin- ups, commemorative publication for the 175th anniversary of the gymnastics community. Wolfenbüttel 2003, ISBN 3-00-011456-4 .
  • 444 years of the Great School Wolfenbüttel (1543-1987). Ed .: Teacher u. Student d. Big school Wolfenbüttel. Responsible: Kurt Selle , Wolfenbüttel 1987.
  • Martin Biastoch : The Concilium Germanicum at the Great School in Wolfenbüttel 1910-2010: A contribution to Wolfenbüttel's educational history. Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-09-7 .

Web links

Commons : Great school  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elster and Geitel ( Memento of October 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Working groups and groups ( Memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Unfallkasse Bremen - http://www.handaufsherz.net : www.handaufsherz.net. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  4. ^ Information from the headmaster H. Frenk
  5. ↑ Biographical information in the writer Wilhelm Raabe ( memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Braunschweig Literature Center