Academy Frankenwarte

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Academy Frankenwarte
Frankenwarte observation tower.jpg
type of school Academy for political adult education
founding 1965
address

Leutfresserweg 81-83

place Wurzburg
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 46 '50 "  N , 9 ° 54' 23"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '50 "  N , 9 ° 54' 23"  E
student more than 4000 participants per year
management Karl-Heinz Spiegel
Website www.frankenwarte.de

The Frankenwarte Academy is a political education institution in Würzburg, Bavaria .

Since the founding of the society for political education eV . In 1965 it deals with political and cultural education to strengthen social democracy and is intended to contribute to promoting and improving basic democratic values, human rights and the fair participation of all.

The Frankenwarte Academy is located about four kilometers southwest of downtown Würzburg and two kilometers west of the Marienberg Fortress . The landmark and namesake of the academy is the Frankenwarte - an observation tower built in 1894. The Frankenwarte Academy has several buildings, both historical and modern.

Interactive workshops, project days, seminars, discussion groups, lectures and readings, specialist conferences and exhibitions are organized. The purpose according to the statutes is the "imparting of knowledge and education in the sense of the democratic-social constitutional state". The focus is on questions of social justice and ecological responsibility, equality, international solidarity and historical processing.

The education center in Würzburg has 19 employees, offers 47 rooms and can accommodate more than 4,000 seminar participants annually. Around 150 events take place every year. The Akademie Frankenwarte also serves as a conference hotel.

Stephanie Böhm and Amelie Scheder have been co-directors of the Frankenwarte Academy since October 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. About us. In: www.frankenwarte.de. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  2. Marktpl. to Leutfresserweg. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ Academy - Academy Frankenwarte. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Society for Political Education. Accessed on January 10, 2019 .
  5. About us. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  6. Our educational offer. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  7. Our conference hotel - Akademie Frankenwarte. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  8. Your team at the Frankenwarte Academy. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .