Albert Einstein School Bochum
| Albert Einstein School Bochum | |
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| Albert Einstein School with sculpture by Otto Herbert Hajek |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1967 |
| closure | 2010 |
| address |
Querenburger Strasse 45 |
| place | Bochum |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '4 " N , 7 ° 13' 55" E |
| carrier | City of Bochum |
| management | Rainer Zeyen (from 1994) |
| Website | www.aes-bochum.de |
The Albert Einstein School Bochum in Bochum was a modern language and natural science high school . Around 900 pupils were recently taught here. It was named after the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein .
The school buildings were located south of Bochum city center in the Wiemelhausen school center . In 2010 the Albert Einstein School and Gymnasium at Ostring merged to form the New Gymnasium Bochum .
history
In the Second Development Plan for New Schools in Bochum , discussed in 1958, the Bochum City Council considered the construction of a new high school for boys to be necessary. Immigration and the increased number of births in the post-war period led to spatial constraints and increased stress on the Goethe School in the Stadtpark and the Graf Engelbert School on Königsallee .
The search for a suitable site for this tenth high school in the city, however, dragged on until 1966. As an interim solution, the Goethe School was renovated during the short school years 1966/1967 and received an extension. After the 1967 summer vacation, two sixths , a quinta and two fourths with a total of around 200 students were spun off from the Goethe School and housed as a pre-formed Albert Einstein School in pavilions on Uhlandstrasse.
On September 7, 1970, the Albert Einstein School with 477 pupils and 30 pupils - co-education was introduced at the same time - moved to the school center in Wiemelhausen in 15 classes. In the summer of 1974 the first “Einstein generation” received their Abitur. By 1977 the grammar school had grown to 1,070 students.
In 1982 there was a strike of eight hundred students because of the planned transfer of three teachers due to the "overhang of posts", which was perceived as "forced transfer". In September 1989 the school received approval to introduce bilingual teaching in German and English for the 1990/1991 school year.
The Albert Einstein School was certified as a European school in the 2000s . She took part in the SchülerUni.Bochum , an initiative of the Ruhr University Bochum for the individual promotion of the performance potential of students from North Rhine-Westphalia .
School life
Student exchanges
After French guest students stayed at the Albert Einstein School in 1972, a student exchange with the Lycee classique et modern mixte d'Argenteuil began in cooperation with the Hildegardis School . A return visit to Argenteuil was organized in 1973. The student exchange was continued in the years 1974-1976 as part of the Franco-German Youth Office . Another twin town in France was Aurillac in the 1990s .
1976 began a student exchange with the senior high school in Coon Rapids ( Minnesota , USA). Since 1977, regular visits and return visits have taken place at the participating exchange schools every two years.
In 2008 an exchange with the Liceo Maffei from Verona (Italy) took place for the sixth time .
In 2009, together with the Wath Comprehensive School ( Wath-upon-Dearne , Great Britain) and the Collegi Pare Manyanet ( Barcelona , Spain), the Comenius environmental project "Making a world of difference" was launched and funded by the European Commission . In the course of the project, students from the schools involved worked together and visited each other at their schools. The project was continued at the New Gymnasium Bochum and completed in July 2011.
Participants in the “ Jugend forscht ” working group have repeatedly received awards. As part of the project, there was a mutual visit with participants from Namibia.
Musical and publicity activities
The school orchestras, choirs, theater working groups and high school courses made it possible to perform several music, musical and theater performances per year.
For the official inauguration of the school in 1970, the school opera Der Jasager by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was performed.
Initiated by Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens , there was an almost annual series of podium discussions with well-known representatives of public life from 1999 onwards, under the name “Dispute” .
medical corps
The AES had its own school medical service in cooperation with the German Red Cross , which could provide first aid for rare minor injuries .
Publications
The school's school newspaper was called Neustein until it was re-established at the end of 1997 , after which it was published as alberts . For its presence on the World Wide Web at the time , it was awarded the title of “best online student newspaper in Westphalia” by a large insurance company in 2000. From 2001 the school management published the EinsteINfo newsletter .
Halloween party
For the opening of the new upper school center in 2000, the 2001 graduate school class held a Halloween party there for the first time , which has since been held annually by the respective graduate school classes as an upper school party.
Structural environment and pollution
The Wiemelhausen school center was built between 1968 and 1970 as a collection of two- to three-storey functional buildings. The site slopes from south to north and was the location of the brick factory of the Friederika colliery from 1925 to 1959 . The load-bearing reinforced concrete skeleton of the school building was extended to the outside in the roof area and held circumferential steel grating , which divided the facade horizontally and was intended to serve as escape routes on the upper floors. Prefabricated facade panels in the characteristic exposed aggregate concrete look completed the functional overall impression.
On the lowest level of the terrain, bounded in the north by the Bochum Nord-Bochum-Weitmar railway line , is the sports field facility at Querenburger Strasse 35anlage37. The building of the Hans Böckler Realschule rises to the south. Its main entrance, like the one to the triple sports hall and the adjoining swimming pool , is located on the middle step. To the west is the further education college of the city of Bochum, an institution of the second educational path , with the postal address Querenburger Straße 37. The buildings of this northern part of the ensemble were renovated in the 2010s. To the east, the geological garden closes off the area, which, as a former quarry, is even lower than the sports field.
To the south stood the auditorium building , with a representative foyer on the middle and access to the stage and music room on the upper level. The main building of the Albert Einstein School was in the middle, with entrances on both the middle and the upper level. On this upper level, in the southeast corner, slightly delimited by the music room, stood the building of the Carl Arnold Kortum secondary school, which was closed in 2000 and which was then used as the upper level center by the years 11-13 of the Albert Einstein School. The science building of the Albert Einstein School was located in the south-west corner, next to Querenburger Strasse and at the site of today's parking lot.
In addition, there was a pavilion east of the auditorium as an alternative classroom as well as a northern and a western outbuilding, each with a caretaker's apartment and functional rooms , the latter also with the so-called learner driver's room . In the center of the school yard was a complementary-colored concrete sculpture by Otto Herbert Hajek , which disappeared when the school was demolished in 2010/2011, as did the fair-faced concrete façade of the auditorium , which was shaped and colored in the same style - three-dimensional abstractly meandering . Not connected to the school, but most recently used as a serving place for meals on long school days, was the neighboring house of the Protestant church Querenburger Straße 47, which was empty in 2008 and demolished in 2014.
It has been known since 2000 that indoor air was polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls , plasticizers that diffused from the seals in the joints between the precast concrete panels from which all buildings were constructed. The gymnastics room and the auditorium (which was then mockingly referred to as the “PCB arena”) were exposed to the greatest loads due to insufficient ventilation. A possible exposure to asbestos was also examined. According to a letter from the Bochum School Administration Office dated November 13, 2006, the investigation carried out in two rooms of the school revealed an exposure to asbestos below the “specified target values”.
In view of the age of the buildings, the city of Bochum then had to decide whether to clean up pollutants or to demolish the Wiemelhausen school center. On December 13, 2007, in the year of its 40th anniversary, it was decided to merge the Albert Einstein School with the Gymnasium am Ostring in view of the declining number of pupils . A referendum on July 22, 2008 supported this approach.
In 2010, the merger resulted in the New Bochum High School. For the duration of the construction work, it was temporarily housed in the former building of the Erich Kästner School on Markstrasse. The buildings of the previous Albert Einstein School on the southern part of the Wiemelhausen school center were demolished. The new construction of the New Gymnasium Bochum (design: Hascher + Jehle ) began with the groundbreaking on March 18, 2011 and was opened in autumn 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henning Sußebach: Sussebach's school visit: "We have to save the world" . In: The time . No. 52/2010 . Zeit-Verlag, December 22, 2010, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de ).
- ^ Homepage of the New High School in Bochum
- ↑ Letter from the Bochum School Administration Office dated November 13, 2006 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )