Albert Schweitzer High School (Hürth)

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Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Hürth
Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Hürth back side.jpg
type of school High school with a bilingual German / Spanish branch
School number 184706
founding 1974
address

Sudetenstrasse 37

place Huerth
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 53 '10 "  N , 6 ° 52' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '10 "  N , 6 ° 52' 26"  E
student 1400
Teachers 141
management Thorsten Juergensen-Engl
Website www.asg-huerth.de

The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Hürth (ASG) is the first and therefore oldest gymnasium in Germany with a bilingual Spanish / German branch. In addition, Hürth is the first middle-center municipality (around 50,000 inhabitants) with a second municipal high school in the Rhein-Erft district in the area around Cologne .

history

In the 1970s, the later Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium, which was founded in 1961 and steadily expanded in 1973, was bursting at the seams (1482 students), so that the city council opened a second school in 1973 at the request of the school conference of October 24, 1973 deemed necessary. Whether this school should be run as a Progymnasium , Comprehensive School , Cooperative Comprehensive School or at least as an independent high school remained in the balance for a long time. After the council decision, all permits were given in good time, and by late summer and the start of the school year, three classes were able to move into the former elementary school in Stotzheim . A year later we went to the new school center (with a secondary school as a neighbor) near the new city center and swimming pool. After the completion of the last construction phase in 1977/78, six entrance classes could already be formed. Today the school has about 1200 students.

Bilingual branch

Good performance by the students and interested teachers justified the decision of the teachers' conference of September 19, 1988 on the initiative of the Romance scholar Engelbert Wefers, who had worked for a long time at the University of Cologne , to apply for the introduction of a bilingual German-Spanish branch, which took place on October 5 was confirmed by the school conference. On November 9th, the city council and on November 14th the district government gave the “green light”. When the Ministry of Culture approved on November 25, 1988, the promotion of the educational offer in the Cologne area could begin, and so the first entrance class with Spanish as the first foreign language could be formed in the summer, as the basis for the later bilingual lessons in geography, History and Politics in Grades Seven through Nine. In 2010, twelve teachers were teaching Spanish as one of their subjects, including several with a Spanish / South American background, to the approximately 300 students of the bilingual branch, which now only exists in four schools in Germany. Since the 2011 school year, it has been possible to form three entry classes for the first time. Since the fifth graders have been starting to have good prior knowledge of English since the early 2000s, the four English lessons are enough and there are no concerns about missing something.

profile

The second grammar school always endeavored to step out of the shadow of the older school. Initiatives were quickly taken, for example in environmental protection: 1981 first project week on the initiative of the students, establishment of a wet biotope (city environmental award), photovoltaic system (1996). Commitment to the Third World by supporting a school farm in Zimbabwe (1983) with proceeds from a bazaar of DM 25,000 in the first year. Fundraising campaigns for schools in Afghanistan brought in € 25,000 in 2003, further campaigns for South America and Africa brought in over € 60,000. This ultimately led to the choice of name. Since September 23, 1991 the school can name itself after Albert Schweitzer . His motto of reverence for life , now more comprehensively expressed in the preservation of creation , and his commitment in Africa are the foundations of the school's self-image. In 2007 the school was awarded the certificate "School without Racism - School with Courage".

Front entrance

Internationalization is achieved through school partnerships with the German School in San Sebastián and schools in Belgium and Great Britain. Until 2010, class 11 could be used for self-organized exchange worldwide. The school also takes part in the Comenius program with partners in Latvia and England.

If necessary and possible, advanced courses are organized in cooperation with the Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium.

Close cooperation with the Hürth sports clubs, especially in rowing, and the Knapsack Chemical Park complete the profile.

Well-known graduates

literature

To introduce the bilingual branch:

  • Engelbert Wefers: Experience report on the bilingual German-Spanish train at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Hürth , in: Hispanorama 58, pp. 143-144 (part I) and 59, pp. 133-137 (part II) (1991) ,.
  • Engelbert Wefers: Language acquisition in the bilingual German-Spanish course: Ideas - Claims - Reality , in: Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprache (Ed.): Foreign languages ​​for the future - neighboring languages ​​and multilingualism , 97-105 (1993).
  • Engelbert Wefers: Theory of German-Spanish geography lessons in the initial phase -description and reflection- . Part 1, in; NEWSLETTER , Eichstätt-Kiel project on immersion and bilingual teaching (1993)
  • Ingeborg Christ: The first bilingual German-Spanish course is 20 years old , Hispanorama 128; Nuremberg (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift 40 Jahre Gymnasium Bonnstraße , Hürth 2001, chronicle p. 14
  2. ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , JP Bachem-Verlag, Cologne 2009, p. 210 above
  3. ↑ The information is based on the self-presentation and the information on the school history on the school's website
  4. ↑ Angela Sommersberg: Bilingual lessons, a lot of work but also a lot of fun , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from June 25, 2009