Albert Einstein High School (Frankenthal)
| Albert Einstein High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1948 |
| address |
Parsevalplatz 2 |
| place | 67227 Frankenthal (Palatinate) |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 31 '58 " N , 8 ° 21' 33" E |
| carrier | City of Frankenthal (Palatinate) |
| student | about 1300 (as of 2016) |
| Teachers | around 100 (as of 2016) |
| management | Senior Director of Studies Sabine Schanz |
| Website | www.aeg-frankenthal.de |
The Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium , abbreviated to AEG , in Frankenthal (Palatinate) is a municipal school that emerged from a gymnasium and is open to all subject areas. It has been one of the BEGYS project schools since 1999 and one of the media competence-does-school project schools in Rhineland-Palatinate since 2010 .
In September 2010, 1,300 students attended the school, divided into 32 classes and 25 regular courses. They were taught by 95 teachers.
Geographical location
The AEG is located southeast of the city center on Parsevalplatz at a height of 93 m . The Karolinen-Gymnasium is directly to the west .
history
From Latin school to Progymnasium
Latin schools have a long tradition in Frankenthal that goes back to the time when the city was founded in 1577. In the royal Bavarian period after 1816, attendance at the grammar schools in Speyer or Zweibrücken was a prerequisite for attending the university .
Finally a Progymnasium was established in 1894 , which existed until the Second World War . A few years after it was founded, it was given a prestigious building in Neumayerring at Speyerer Tor . The executive architect was Albert Speer from Mannheim. He designed a stately three-storey hipped roof building with stylistic elements of the Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau . The construction was completed in 1903. Together with the “Elefanten” opposite, also drawn by Speer in 1904, the building characterizes the southern entrance to Neumayerring and the beginning of the city center.
The school building was confiscated during World War II and used as a control center for the air defense until the end of the war . The Progymnasium was replaced by a Realschule by 1948 ; The Tom Mutters School is located in the building today .
High school since 1948
In 1948 the secondary school was increased to a modern language and mathematical-natural science high school . It first moved into the building of the former Progymnasium at Speyerer Tor. In the beginning, teaching was carried out in shifts, as other higher schools in Frankenthal were destroyed or damaged by bombing and also needed rooms. In 1960 the company moved to the new building on Parsevalplatz.
At the end of the 1960s there were efforts to replace the long name of the school with a shorter, more meaningful one. By ministerial decree , the school was named Albert Einstein Gymnasium after the physicist Albert Einstein . Many students, however, had, shortly after the moon landing of Apollo 11 , astronauts Neil Armstrong advocated as a name. In local parlance, the school is only briefly called the AEG .
Until the introduction of coeducation in 1971, the AEG was a high school for boys, whereby the science branch of the upper level was also attended by girls from the neighboring Karolinen high school. At the beginning of the 1970s, the first extension buildings with additional classrooms, music and film rooms were inaugurated between the two high schools.
The Mainz study level (MSS) was introduced in the 1974/75 school year . The open-air theater fell victim to the construction of the school library together with the Karolinen-Gymnasium. In 1986 the school was enlarged by another building to the east.
BEGYS, LEA and PES
A BEGYS class was set up in 1999 for particularly gifted students. The project to promote talented students at grammar school with a reduction in school time (BEGYS) shortens school attendance to eight years, with grade 9 being skipped in the class. The first class of the project received their high school diplomas in 2005.
Further projects of the school are learning through independent work (LEA) since the school year 1998/99 and the project extended independence (PES) since 2003/04. The school's website also provides background information .
Today's Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium is, like all high schools in Rhineland-Palatinate, open to all disciplines.
Well-known students and teachers
Students who have completed their Abitur at AEG are, for example, the members of the state parliament Christian Baldauf and Martin Haller , the athletes Peter Lang and Christoph Fuhrbach , the author Walter Landin and Theo Wieder , Lord Mayor (2000–2015) of Frankenthal and chairman of the district assembly. The graphic artist and painter Paul in den Eicken (then Paul Heinrich Köppchen) attended the school since January 1959; he left it in April 1962 with the secondary school leaving certificate .
One of the first rectors of the Latin school at that time was the Swiss clergyman Johann Jakob Redinger . One of the teachers was the artist and art teacher Erwin Wortelkamp . The Catholic priest and religion teacher Raymond Arnette was regularly re-elected as trust teacher with many votes from Protestant students. From 1959 until his retirement, the linguist and composer Stephan Cosacchi worked as a music teacher at the school.
At the predecessor institution of the AEG, the Progymnasium Frankenthal, the mountain, ski, sports and nature film pioneer Arnold Fanck completed the secondary school leaving certificate before he passed his Abitur in Freiburg im Breisgau .
Architecture and art in construction
The Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium was built in 1959/60 at the current location and inaugurated in 1960. It is an unclad concrete skeleton building into which facade and window elements are suspended. The large gray walls made of exposed concrete on the inside were given a friendlier design through various art courses. The exterior, too, used to be pure white and concrete gray, was loosened up more by colors; this also includes the large-format logo of the school on the north facade. The cuboid structure has a square atrium .
This is where the main works of art in architecture are located , which, however, run through the entire building. They are works by Professor Arnold . The main theme is the Greek Theseus legend. A red paved Ariadne thread leads from here to the gym. For many, however, the stumbling block was the rusty plastic of the Minotaur made of scrap iron . In 1989 the sculptor Rudi Pabel took up the topic again and created a group of figures in the center of the inner courtyard.
School orientation and partner schools
The following foreign languages are offered:
- English as the first foreign language from the 5th school year; Basic or advanced course in the Abitur
- French or Latin as a second foreign language from the 6th school year; Basic or advanced course
- French, Latin, Russian, Spanish, Italian as a 3rd foreign language from the 9th school year
The school has partner schools with which the following exchange programs take place:
- 8. Classes with the Netherlands
- 9. Classes with France (two exchange programs)
- 10. Classes with Hungary
- 10. Classes with USA (1/2 year)
- 11th grade with USA
- 11-12 Grade with Russia
We have a long-term partnership with the Karinthy Frigyes Gimnázium in Budapest, Hungary . - The school has had a grassroots partnership with the secondary school École Ste. Bernadette in Kamonyi Rwanda .
Trivia
Today, the school generates some of the energy it needs itself using solar cells on the flat roof.
School teams from the Albert Einstein Gymnasium received support from the former company AEG . B. Jerseys.
literature
- Rudolf H. Böttcher: The Albert Einstein High School , unpublished lecture manuscript.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Location and height of the AEG on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ^ Renate Liessem-Breinlinger: Fanck, Arnold . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien 2 , Vol. 2. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-17-014117-9 , pp. 121-123, on: leo-bw.de