Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium Neuwied
| Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1869 |
| address |
In the pasture 2 |
| place | Neuwied |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 25 '56 " N , 7 ° 27' 39" E |
| carrier | Neuwied district |
| student | 1147 (as of October 2, 2015) |
| Teachers | 79 (as of January 23, 2016) |
| management | Helmut Zender |
| Website | www.rwg-neuwied.net |
The Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium (RWG) is a state high school in Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The school goes back to a private institution from 1869 and was taken over in 1876 by the city of Neuwied as the “Municipal Higher Girls' School ”. The grammar school is now attended by 1154 students who are taught by almost 80 teachers.
history
Private school
In 1869, the citizens of Neuwied decided to found a public school for girls - on an equal footing and without class barriers - which was to be handed over to the city as soon as possible. In the founding year 83 schoolgirls were already being taught, the school management had Clemens Nohl. Already existed in Neuwied a private girls' school , in addition to the Zinzendorf School of Moravians made for going beyond the general knowledge education for girls in Neuwied.
State high school for girls
Just a few years later, in 1876, the city of Neuwied took over the patronage of this school and thereby legally and financially secured the existence of its secondary girls' school. The year 1876 is regarded as the actual year of foundation. In the same year, the school and the city administration moved into a municipal building built in 1863, today's "Old Town Hall" on Pfarrstrasse. In 1905 280 girls and in 1910 already 360 girls attended school.
In 1908, under the new director Ernst Wasserzieher, the girls' school was converted into a "Lyceum with upper lyceum and seminar class". After further school reforms carried out in the first half of the 1920s, the school was promoted to an upper lyceum from 1924. This made it possible for the female pupils for the first time to obtain university admission, and in 1925 the first Abitur exams took place.
Due to the increasing number of female students, a new school building was built in 1912 at the current location at the upper end of Herrmannstrasse. During the First World War , the school building was used by the Wehrmacht and other authorities.
Teacher training institute
Shortly after it was founded in 1879, part of the school was converted into a teacher training institute. After six years of training, the pupils were able to attend school for two more years and then pass a teaching examination. In accordance with the Prussian school reform, teacher training was expanded to a three-year seminar in 1893. More than 600 teachers had been trained here by 1925.
Women's school
In the years from 1933 to 1945 there were again changes in the training and designation. In 1936, the upper lyceum became a "women's school", and domestic subjects were taught in the three-year upper school . From 1938 a linguistic branch was set up again, so that graduation made it possible to attend university again.
In September 1944, the school building was badly damaged by a bomb and school lessons were suspended. In March 1945 US troops occupied Neuwied and used the school building for their own purposes. As early as October 1945, school operations could be resumed in ten rooms in the main building. After the end of the war, Neuwied belonged to the French occupation zone . French became the first foreign language; instead of grading, the French point system and a central high school diploma were introduced. Both were abolished in 1951.
high school
After the first school reform in the 1950s, in 1960 the previous upper lyceum became a "State Gymnasium for Girls" with the language sequence French, Latin, English, in 1964 the language sequence was changed to English, Latin, French. The Mainz study level was introduced in 1975 .
In 1960, which is school sponsorship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate taken, the construction authorities remains the town Neuwied, which is coming up in 1965 to 1967 to the multi-leaf extension.
From 1971 onwards, boys could also attend the girls' high school, initially only in the 5th and 11th grades. The co-education was completed in 1977.
Language sequence: All students start in grade 5 with English as their first foreign language. From year 6 onwards, they choose French or Latin as their second foreign language. From year 9 onwards, Spanish or Latin are offered as additional foreign languages.
activities
Since October 2005 there has also been a sponsorship with the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School, which opened in 1997 in the SOS Children's Village in Byumba in the north of Rwanda. This school is attended by around 400 children, around a third of whom live in the children's village.
In the orientation level, emphasis is placed on experiential education. In this context, there is a three-day trip to the piston stone youth home. In cooperation with the ADAC, the children are made aware of the dangers of road traffic with the "Achtung Auto" campaign.
There is a student exchange with Verviers (Belgium), London (Great Britain) and Jönköping (Sweden).
Several study trips take place in the upper level (climbing and ski project, Rome, Spain and Paris trips as well as individual trips from the regular courses).
Working groups (AG)
For some time now, the school has been running working groups in collaboration with students and teachers. These are available in linguistic, but also in other subjects. In the mathematics group “Knobelseminar”, for example, students of all grades interested in mathematics can solve mathematical puzzle tasks and develop solution strategies. The school magazine “Zoom”, operated as an AG, has received several prizes, including a second prize in the Rhineland-Palatinate school newspaper competition in 2007 and the special “HIV / AIDS prevention” prize in the German school newspaper award in 2008.
Other working groups are the music group "Rock With Groove" (choir and band), a lower school choir "Chor 75", a volleyball group, a nature group and a Rwanda group. There is also a theater group whose performances in Neuwied are received with great interest. This last performed a self-written piece "Fairytale gone bad" (2017), which thrilled more than 400 spectators and served as a fundraising campaign for the "Café Asyl". The piece was written by three current and former students and addressed problems in communication and community.
The school has a school zoo and a lower school library. The school has a library for older students.
RWG students are involved in refugee work in cooperation with the Marienschule Neuwied. For this commitment, students of the RWG have been honored several times by the state government. The school is called School Without Racism - School With Courage. In the 2015/2016 school year, a big festival of cultures took place as part of a school festival. Several pupils at the school are or were winners of the Johanna Löwenherz Medal of the Neuwied district.
Former students
- Jan Bollinger , Abitur 1996, politician (AfD)
- Margarita Broich , graduated from high school in 1977
- Hans-Peter Burghof , graduated from high school in 1984, professor of banking and financial services, University of Hohenheim
- Björn Höcke , Abitur 1991, politician (AfD)
- Elke Hoff , Abitur 1976, politician (FDP)
- Johannes Huth, Abitur 2008, actor
- Aylin Madency, Abitur 2013, world champion in kickboxing
- Martina Plura , graduated from high school in 2005, director
- Monika Plura , Abitur 2005, camerawoman
- Karsten Polke-Majewski , graduated from high school in 1991, journalist
Former teachers
- Guido Ernst , politician (CDU)
swell
- Renate Schlemper-Rheinsberg in the Heimat-Jahrbuch 1977 of the district of Neuwied, pp. 29–32
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the school, sub-page number of pupils ( memento of the original from August 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the school, subpage Das Kollegium ( Memento of the original from November 24th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the school ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the school
- ^ Website of the Rock With Groove AG. Retrieved January 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Youth engagement competition: prizes for almost 30 projects in Rhineland-Palatinate | Rhineland-Palatinate | SWR news . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on March 11, 2017]).
- ^ Editing School without Racism - School with Courage: School without Racism - School with Courage: Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 3, 2017 ; Retrieved March 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hans-Peter Burghof: curriculum vitae. University of Hohenheim, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Johannes Huth: From Neuwieder Schlosstheater to the stages of the capital cities - Rhein-Zeitung Neuwied - Rhein-Zeitung . ( rhein-zeitung.de [accessed on March 2, 2017]).
- ^ Heiko Zehrer: Kung Fu in Neuwied at the Turnverein-Heddesdorf - Karlsruhe 2011. Retrieved on March 3, 2017 .
