Academic Gymnasium Innsbruck

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Academic Gymnasium Innsbruck
Academic Gymnasium Innsbruck - Logo2012.png
type of school General secondary school / humanistic grammar school
founding May 12, 1562
address

Angerzellgasse 14

place innsbruck
state Tyrol
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 16 '5 "  N , 11 ° 23' 51"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '5 "  N , 11 ° 23' 51"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
student 996 (2007/08)
Teachers 96 (2007/08)
management Helmuth Aigner
Website www.agi.tsn.at

The Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck (AGI) is a humanistic high school (long form) in Innsbruck . It was founded as a Latin school by the Jesuits on May 12, 1562, making it the oldest grammar school in Western Austria , the third oldest of the five academic grammar schools in Austria and one of the oldest schools in German-speaking countries . Colloquially it is often only referred to as Gymnasium Angerzellgasse , referring to the address of the school.

Main facade

history

16th - 17th century

Wappenstein with binding shield and the year of foundation 1562 on the corner of Universitätsstrasse / Angerzellgasse

Already Emperor Maximilian had cherished the plan to set up a grammar school in Innsbruck. This should be accessible to everyone and provide higher education. However, it was to be about fifty years before, at the request of his successor, Emperor Ferdinand I , the Jesuits under the direction of Petrus Canisius founded a college, church and Latin school in Innsbruck in the course of the Counter-Reformation . The school was officially founded on May 12th and opened on June 25th, 1562 with 71 pupils (noble boys, pupils of the parish school and newcomers), but it would take a few decades before all construction work, changes and extensions were completed in 1640 were. This makes the AGI the second oldest Jesuit school in Austria after the Academic Gymnasium Vienna founded in 1553 .

Due to disagreements and outstanding negotiations between the emperor and the Jesuit order, 25 Italian Franciscan brothers were summoned in 1563 . However, the Jesuits ran the Latin school without finalizing the college and church question. The latter was resolved in 1640 with the consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Jesuit Church) and the completion of the college building and school.

Classes initially took place in the eastern wing of the new monastery (today the Folk Art Museum ). In 1575 the dispute between the Franciscans and Jesuits escalated to the point that the Liechtenstein House, a wing of the Folklore Museum that had been made available to the Jesuits for teaching purposes, had to be cleared. After long negotiations, new classrooms were built in the college garden in 1576. However, the building was only allowed to include the ground floor and a first floor in order to preserve the view and appearance of the neighborhood.

The number of pupils had grown to 250 by 1576, but had fallen back to 200 by 1580. The reason for this may have been the blatant lack of space. It is said that in 1599 two classes were taught standing up. As early as 1598 the plan was drawn up to unite the Jesuit college and grammar school in Hall with the one in Innsbruck. On December 1, 1600, however , Emperor Rudolf II gave instructions that the two foundations should remain separate. As early as 1587 , the so-called Nikolaihaus was built as a poor convent, which enabled poor students to attend grammar school and later the university .

Construction of a new building began on July 5, 1603. Due to the tense financial situation, completion took until 1606. This meant that new, more suitable rooms were available for the growing number of students.

In the plague years of 1611 and 1634 the school was closed for a few months. However, on the instructions of the Archduke, the school building was not converted into a hospital.

In the first jubilee year of 1662, the number of pupils reached the highest level of 604, including 17  noble boys and 38  counts and barons .

In 1669 the University of Innsbruck emerged from the Jesuit college . From the second half of the 17th century, the grammar school was finally referred to as an academic grammar school . This characterized a high school connected to a university and was or is carried as an honorary title.

18th - 19th century

The "Archduke High School" was damaged in an earthquake in 1689. As a result, the building could no longer be used from 1721. In a letter to Emperor Charles VI. it was stated that neither corrections nor repairs could save the building, but that a formal new building would be required. The new building planned by the court chamber builder Georg Anton Gumpp was completed in 1724. In addition to the classrooms, the new building included a theater hall, a school hall, a chapel for the academic congregation and a hall for the student congregation. The grammar school had its home here until October 1868. Today it houses the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck .

Through various school reforms in 1735, 1752 and finally in 1764, the curriculum of the grammar schools in the Habsburg Empire was reformed and state influence expanded. For example, the humanistic grammar school should only have six classes, with Greek being transferred to the university. Finally, in 1770 the kk Studienhofkommission printed a compilation of the textbooks used at grammar schools.

The number of pupils decreased steadily from 1740 and in the last year before the abolition of the order (1773) only about 292 pupils attended the school. Since the teachers could not be replaced so quickly, the students of the grammar school were taught by former Jesuits for a few more years. They were later replaced by religious and secular priests, especially servites . At the turn of the century there was no longer any Jesuit working at the grammar school.

Through the transfer of the Tyrol to Bavaria on February 11, 1806 took the place of the Austrian Bavarian curriculum. From now on, the grading scale from one to six was introduced in middle school . With an interruption in 1809, the Bavarian school regulations existed until Tyrol returned to Austria in 1814.

The new Austrian teaching constitution of 1805 could not be fully implemented at the AGI until 1814. However, the subject teacher system laid down in the former was abolished as early as 1818.

After the restitution of the Jesuit order in 1814 by Pius VII , the order took over the management of the grammar school again in 1839. However, the Jesuit branch in Innsbruck was closed again on May 4, 1848 and the order finally ceased its activities at the school on July 1 of the same year.

High school reform 1849

Seal of the kk state high school

In 1849 the Ministry for Cultus and Education took the place of the previous study court commission . With the accompanying grammar school reform , the foundations for today's organization of the grammar school in Austria were laid. So the two philosophical classes, which had previously existed in the schools mainly run by religious orders, were taken over. There was a subdivision into eight classes, four each in lower and upper grades. The curriculum aimed at imparting general education from the linguistic-historical and mathematical-scientific fields. For this purpose, university-certified specialist teachers were hired. Finally, the Matura examination, now the maturity examination , was introduced at the end of the eighth grade in order to standardize university access. The subject teacher system was also reintroduced and the office of a class board was created. To move up to a higher class, it was necessary to pass the “transfer test” at the end of the year. The compulsory subjects included: religion, Latin, Greek, mother tongue, geography, history, mathematics, natural history, physics and philosophical propaedeutics. The free items included the national languages, other living foreign languages, calligraphy, shorthand, drawing, singing and gymnastics. This organizational structure has been maintained to this day with minor changes and adjustments.

From 1855 the Academic Gymnasium was renamed by a ministerial ordinance in the Imperial and Royal State Gymnasium in Innsbruck , since "this expression [...] is only to be retained where it serves to distinguish a Gymnasium from other gymnasiums located in the same location."

In 1868, classes were moved back to the Franciscan monastery building, now the Folk Art Museum, as the university's holdings continued to grow. The grammar school was housed there until the new building was completed.

In 1876 the oldest still existing Catholic middle school association, K.Ö.St.V. Teutonia Innsbruck at the grammar school, to date there are more than 250 students and graduates of the academic grammar school.

20th - 21st century

The current school building was built in 1909–1910 in the immediate vicinity of the State Museum (Ferdinandeum) , the Jesuit Church and the building of the Theological Faculty , in which the school was previously housed, on the grounds of the former botanical garden. The north wing was added in 1929.

After the Anschluss in 1938 , the Imperial German curriculum was introduced for the 1st to 6th grades, while the Austrian curriculum was retained for the 7th and 8th grades. In addition, the previous director, HR Dr. Manfred Mumelter, transported to the Dachau concentration camp and some other members of the teaching staff removed from their service. On December 15, 1943, the institution building was badly damaged by two bombs. Due to a conference, the students were out earlier. Nevertheless, one person was killed in this attack.

As a result, the school was relocated to Steinach am Brenner on February 22, 1944 as part of the Kinderland transfer, but moved to Zürs am Arlberg in April 1944 due to further bombing attacks . Regular school operations in Innsbruck could only be resumed on October 11, 1945.

In the course of the post-war period, the shortage of space became acute again. In the school year 1954/55 the school had 902 students in 30 classes. Since the rooms were not enough, you had to help yourself with changing lessons. On March 23, 1957, the school was divided into the Federal High School and the 1st Federal Real High School with 20 classes and the 2nd Federal Real High School with 13 classes. The shortage of space and the practice of alternating lessons were only ended with the construction of the grammar school in Reithmannstrasse in 1965.

With the introduction of co-education in public schools in Austria in 1975, girls could now also attend the AGI.

The alley leading to the school was later named after Prof. Franz Mair , a former pupil and teacher at the AGI, and resistance fighter during the 3rd Reich , who was shot on May 3, 1945 at the Innsbruck Landhaus . There is still a plaque commemorating him there, as well as in the former entrance hall of the school building. However, after the school was renamed in 1980, due to protests from the school management, among others, the school kept its address as Angerzellgasse 14.

The gymnasiums built in the school garden in the 1970s were demolished in 2003/04 and in their place has been the new building of the former Gilm school since 2005 , now the Innere Stadt elementary school .

During the school years 2005/06 and 2006/07, the high school building was renovated and rebuilt. During this time, school operations were relocated to a container village near the university campus in Hötting West , north of the airport . The 2007/08 school year began in the renovated building on Angerzellgasse and was inaugurated by Bishop Manfred Scheuer on December 21, 2007 as part of the Christmas service .

In the 2007/2008 school year, 996 students were taught by 96 teachers at the AGI.

School branches

The linguistic focus of the school was and is confirmed by excellent placements in the state and federal foreign language competitions, v. a. in French, English and Latin.

High school

English is taught from the first grade . In the third grade (seventh grade), students can choose between Latin and French as their second foreign language. In the fifth grade (ninth grade), those students who have chosen to take French lessons in the third grade must take Latin. The others can choose between French, Italian and Ancient Greek . From the sixth grade onwards, students can choose between several elective subjects, e.g. B. Italian , Spanish , geometric drawing, theory of sport, computer science etc.

Thus all graduates of the school have learned Latin for at least four years, according to the definition of a humanistic grammar school in Austria. You thus meet the criteria of having successfully completed the small Latinum , which is still a prerequisite for studying medicine and law today.

Bilingual

In these classes, at least two minor subjects (mostly biology , physics and geography ) are taught in English from the first grade onwards , depending on the students' knowledge of English. The remaining language modules correspond to the "Gymnasiale Zweig".

network

This branch focuses on interdisciplinary teaching and practicing "open learning" and "free work". The remaining language modules correspond to the "Gymnasiale Zweig". The social and independent behavior of the students is particularly encouraged. In the 1st – 5th Classes are taught the subject “basic skills” (“BAK” for short), in which the class community is encouraged. The "network" branch was the only one of the three to be equipped with two of the four classes.

French

In this branch, instead of English, French was taught as the first living foreign language . In the third grade, students had to choose English as their second foreign language. From the fifth grade onwards, Latin was added. In the third and fourth grade, there was a student exchange with the Collège Jean-Jaurès in Castanet-Tolosan (near Toulouse , France ). However, due to insufficient interest, this branch was discontinued. Nevertheless, the exchange with the French partner school, which has existed for over 30 years, will continue.

Extracurricular projects

Chemistry Olympiad

On the initiative of Dr. Peter Pfeifer from 1978 goes back to the history of the Chemistry Olympiad at the Academic Gymnasium. Since then, high school pupils who are particularly interested in natural sciences have been prepared in afternoon courses to encourage talented students for Chemistry Olympiad course, state and federal competitions. Around 250 schoolchildren all over Tyrol now take part in the preparatory courses every year.

IKB youth academy

As part of the cooperation with the Innsbruck municipal operations, the AGI students have explored the world of the Innsbruck sewage treatment plant in recent years , traced the traces of cremation , examined the development of waste disposal or dealt with the situation of Innsbruck homeless. During the project presentations, there was always something artistically valuable to marvel at - such as the exhibits on the "Metamorphoses" in the sewage works or various theater performances.

The topics of the past years were:

  • 2006: Waste treatment in Tyrol
  • 2005: The way you die - the way you go - death, dying and burial
  • 2004: Drinking water - comparison Innsbruck - Vancouver
  • 2003: Ein-Leuchten / Licht
  • 2002: Homeless in Innsbruck

Researching Children

Researching Children supports projects in which young people and people with disabilities are actively involved and take their worldview and concerns into account. The main focus is on the direct participation of those mentioned with or without the support of adults. The aim is therefore to directly involve young people and people with disabilities in science and research.

School and democracy

  • MEP - Model European Parliament : AGI students take part in national and international sessions of the Model European Parliament . This simulation by the European Parliament is intended to bring young people closer to the way the European Union works . The working language is English. The national meetings are organized by the participating schools in Austria and take place alternately in the different federal states. During this, the students are determined who are allowed to take part in the international meetings to represent Austria.
  • Platform for political education: The aim of this school initiative is not only to create another stage for political education and discussion, but also to directly help shape the school space. Previous events include panel discussions on:
    • Political participation in schools and universities (April 2008)
    • Tyrolean state elections 2008 (May 2008)
    • National Council elections 2008 (September 2008)
  • SIP - Schoolchildren Parliament : Since autumn 2004, various activities have been taking place at the AGI which are intended to support and expand school democracy. On September 23, 2004, the first student parliament (SIP) met, the general assembly of high school students. The aim is to give the students a greater say within the school and at the same time to guarantee more democracy within the school. As in the “parliamentary reality”, proposals on topics are first worked out in working groups, which are then presented to the plenary and voted on. Each student can propose a topic, which is then worked out in a working group. If necessary, the participants in the General Assembly can adapt these proposals by means of amendments. However, all of this has to be discussed and voted on in plenary. The approved applications are then posted in the school building and presented to the SGA (school community committee ).
  • YPAC - Youth Parliament of the Alpine Convention : Since 2006, in collaboration with the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention , the Youth Parliament of the Alpine Convention (Youth Parliament of the Alpine Convention) organized. This is intended to offer young people from the Alpine region a forum in which they can express their ideas about the Alpine region and are introduced to the work of this international organization .

School sports

The upper level teams of the AGI are currently the reigning national champions in volleyball for the girls without club players (B team), and for the boys with club players (A team). In addition, the boys 'B team runner-up and the girls' A team came third in the last high school championships.

School concert

Every two years, teachers and students of the AGI organize and make music together at the school concert. The artistic spectrum ranges from classical orchestras to jazz piano and rock bands.

Give time to a social project

As part of this project, high school students regularly visit various social institutions. This voluntary commitment can z. B. in a nursing home or after-school care center.

Sparkling Science

Computer Simulations and Simulation Experiments - Essentials, Solutions and the Origin of Life

Researchers and pupils work side by side in projects, with the results also being presented on site at the schools. In this way, young people get to know the research work and the scientists receive new impulses from the young people that cannot be covered by other scientific institutions.

“Computer Simulations and Simulation Experiments” is a Sparkling Science Fellowship project in which students are continuously integrated into an existing research project throughout the school year and actively participate in the research team.

Directors

  • until 2013: Roman Nell
  • since 2013: Helmuth Aigner

Teacher

Alumni

Surname activity Final
year
Moritz Thomann Doctor and Jesuit missionary in India and Africa before 1742
Joseph Anton Hofer theologian before 1765
Johann Baptist Primisser Librarian, archaeologist and museum specialist before 1765
Philipp von Wörndle Lawyer and Tyrolean freedom fighter 1773
Gottlieb von Zötl Forest scientist around 1817
Vincent Gasser Prince-Bishop of Brixen 1827
Adolf Pichler Writer, scientist 1837
Ferdinand von Zieglauer Historian, rector of the Franz Joseph University ?
Franz Senn Co-founder of the German Alpine Club 1849
Alfons Huber historian 1852
Julius of Riccabona President of the Tyrolean Provincial Culture Council 1853
Ludwig Hörmann from Hörbach Writer and librarian, director of Innsbruck University Library from 1882 1855
Ludwig Barth zu Barthenau Chemist 1857
Leopold Pfaundler from Hadermur physicist 1857
Arthur Graf v. Enzenberg Head of Section in the Ministry of Culture and Education 1859
Albert Wildauer Abbot of the Fiecht Monastery 1859
Otto Stolz mathematician 1860
Albert Jele Director of the Tyrolean Glass Painting Company 1863
Veit Graber Zoologist, entomologist 1864
Josef Hirn historian 1866
Friedrich pride Linguist 1868
Anton Renk poet 1889
Josef Pembaur composer 1893
Otto Stolz historian 1899
Josef Leitgeb Narrator, poet 1915
Franz Mair Teacher at the AGI and resistance fighter 1930
Nikolaus Grass former professor (law, political science) at the University of Innsbruck 1932
Bert Köllensperger Entrepreneur 1938
Reinhold Stecher former bishop of Innsbruck 1939
Paul Flora Artist 1940
Otto Steiner former regional building director of Tyrol 1942
Josef Rampold former editor-in-chief of the Dolomites 1943
Andreas Khol former President of the National Council 1959
Bruno Buchberger mathematician 1960
Eckart Rainer former senior public prosecutor 1960
Walter Hengl former State Social Councilor for Tyrol 1962
Alexander Van der Bellen 9th Federal President of the 2nd Republic 1962
Franz Caramelle former state curator 1963
Herbert Lochs Rector of the Medical University of Innsbruck 1964
Bernd Rode Professor (Theoretical Chemistry) University of Innsbruck 1964
Jürgen Bodenseer President of the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce 1965
Fritz Staudigl Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Dept. South Tyrol, European Region and External Relations 1976
Georg Willi Mayor of the City of Innsbruck 1977
Rudi Mair Head of Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol 1979
Eva-Maria Posch Member of the Tyrolean Parliament (ÖVP) 1980
Christoph Hofinger Co-founder of the SORA research institute 1985
Corinna Milborn Political scientist and journalist 1991
Johannes Maria Staud Musician 1992
Matthias Schrom ORF editor-in-chief 1992
Anna Gamper Professor (Faculty of Law) University of Innsbruck 1993
Alexandra Caró Singer, songwriter and composer 2004
Yannick Shetty Politician (NEOS) 2013

without degree:

Web links

Commons : Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Bundesgymnasium and 1st Bundesrealgymnasium in Innsbruck: Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the Innsbruck high school. 1962.
  • Litterae annuae and annual reports of the AGI