Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Leonberg
| Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Leonberg | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1957 |
| address |
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse 15 |
| place | Leonberg |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 47 '52 " N , 9 ° 0' 35" E |
| carrier | City of Leonberg |
| student | 630 (as of Aug. 2018) |
| Teachers | 59 (as of Aug. 2018) |
| management | Klaus Nowotzin |
| Website | www.asgleonberg.de |
The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium (ASG) is a general education high school in the city of Leonberg near Stuttgart . It was named after the doctor, theologian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer .
history
Since the Middle Ages there has been a Latin school in Leonberg , which was closed in 1919 as one of the last in Württemberg . After that there was only one secondary school in town, namely the Realschule , which opened in 1900 . This was converted into a high school in 1937. Due to the rapid population growth after World War II, the school building became too small in the 1950s.
In November 1953, the high school was named Progymnasium . It comprised six school years. In 1954 the municipal council decided to build a new building. The first two construction phases were inaugurated on December 20, 1957.
After a 7th (today: 11th) class was set up in the 1958/59 school year, the school was called Progymnasium under construction . Albert Schweitzer gave his consent in a letter dated January 1, 1958, that the new high school could bear his name. In 1961 the first 39 students passed their Abitur . A further increase in the number of schoolchildren made structural extensions necessary in 1966 and 1967. The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium was one of the largest schools in Baden-Württemberg at the time.
In July 1967, a new Progymnasium began operations in the Albert Schweitzer Grammar School. In September 1972 it moved to a new building as the Johannes Kepler Gymnasium . Most recently, more than 1200 students had been taught in cramped conditions. The relief was temporary: the number of students at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium rose to 1,400 by 1998.
The upper school reform began in the 1978/79 school year with the introduction of the course system in year 12; In 1984 this reform was corrected.
In February 1980 the so-called atrium was opened, a roofed former atrium that is used as a quiet work room and for events.
In 1986 a volunteer-organized lunchtime table under the name Triangel opened for the two high schools and the neighboring Gerhart-Hauptmann-Realschule in the former building of the Martha-Johanna-Kindertagheim. The building was replaced in autumn 2009 by a new school cafeteria, which also offers space for quiet work, games and projects.
Leonberg was the first city in Baden-Württemberg to introduce the G8 grammar school in the 2001/02 school year . This shortened the time to school up to the Abitur by one year.
In the years 1999 to 2005 the school building and equipment were renovated and modernized. Further renovation work began in summer 2018 and is to be completed in 2020.
In mid-2019, five students at the school were investigated. They were suspected of distributing unconstitutional material in a class chat on WhatsApp . Teachers became aware of the news, after which the school principal called the police.
profile
The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium offers a natural science and a modern language course.
As in most grammar schools in Baden-Württemberg, all pupils start in the 5th grade with English, in the 6th grade French or Latin are added as a second foreign language. From the 8th grade onwards, students choose between the scientific branch with the main subject NwT (natural sciences and technology) and the linguistic branch with Spanish as a third foreign language. In grades 11 and 12 there are options in the reformed upper school system. The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium cooperates with the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, among others, on these courses.
Student exchange
The Albert Schweitzer High School maintains a student exchange program with the Lycée Gustave Courbet in Belfort , the French twin town of Leonberg, and with the Collège de Brumath.
Educational partnerships
In 2017 the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium was awarded the BoriS-Berufswahl-Siegel and is one of the schools that go beyond the required standards in terms of professional and study orientation.
Numerous educational partnerships, above all contracts with the global players Bosch and Trumpf , enable close ties to industry, science and other institutions. Further contracts were signed with GEZE , a solution provider for security technology and locking systems, and the pump manufacturer LEWA , both of which have their headquarters in Leonberg. The Kreissparkasse Böblingen has been an educational partner of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium since 2011, and contracts with the Leonberg tax office and the physical therapy and health sports center Aktivida, also located in Leonberg, followed shortly afterwards.
There are also partnerships with the lead institute of the University of Tübingen and the Leonberg Concentration Camp Memorial Initiative.
Projects
An international meeting of gymnastics groups was part of the event program in Leonberg from 1970 to 1996. Groups from different countries took part in the annual performances of the Intergym . The gymnastics group of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium made return visits to five continents.
From 1986 to around 1998 a working group of the school built a so-called bio house in the Warmbronn district. The principles of ecological building were tested in practice, including green roofs, solar collectors , hypocaust heating , ventilation systems and a biological sewage treatment plant. Since then, the house has been looked after and developed by students from the University of Hohenheim .
School offers
School theater has been part of the school's cultural offerings since 1973 , initially as a study group and then as a basic literature course in the upper level. From 1973 to 2007 36 pieces were staged. Four of them came from the pen of the teacher Peter Höfer, who wrote a total of around 20 pieces for amateur theater groups and was honored for this with the 2007 SPD Leonberg Culture Prize.
Both Leonberg high schools have been working together in music for decades. Student choirs, parents' choir, orchestra and big band consist of members from both schools. Since 1981 there has been a big Christmas or annual concert at least once a year, mostly in the Catholic Church of St. John. Musicals are staged in the lower grades (5th to 7th grade) .
Other working groups are available to the students:
- Movement: soccer, wrestling and fighting, chess and circus
- Culture: middle and upper school choir, orchestra, technology, theater, lower school choir, parents' choir
- Garden AG
- Schulsanitätsdienst AG
- Technology AG
public relation
The annual publication (formerly Schulblätter , today yearbook ) appears annually (since 1971) at the beginning of the new school year and includes the events of the previous year.
A support association has existed since 1984. Since 1987 it has been called the Friends of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Leonberg e. V.
Previous headmistress
- Friedrich Schwab (secondary school 1947 to 1958)
- Willy Schumacher (1959 to 1967)
- Werner von Bühler (1968 to 1981)
- Jürgen Mertens (1981 to 1998)
- Angela Schulz (1999 to 2005)
- Ulrich Thiele (2005 to 2007)
- Urte Burkhardt (2007 to 2009 - provisional)
- Klaus Nowotzin (since 2009)
Personalities
student
- Rolf Gössner (* 1948), lawyer and publicist
- Gerhard Buess (1948–2010), surgeon and university professor
- Günter Müller (* 1948), business IT specialist, Abitur 1967
- Jörg Lutz (* 1963), Lord Mayor of Lörrach, graduated from high school in 1982
- Erwin Staudt (* 1948), manager and president of VfB Stuttgart
- Martin Strohhäcker (* 1959), organist and university professor, graduated from high school in 1978
- Sebastian Lechner (* 1980), politician (CDU) and member of the state parliament, Abitur 2000
Teacher
- Otto Klett (1910–1976), expellee official, teacher from 1947
- Eberhard Röhm (* 1928), religious educator and author, teacher until 1972
Web links
swell
- Hans-Ulrich-Schwarz: Fifty years young , in: ASG-Schulblätter 2008, Leonberg, pp. 14–30, with numerous references.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Funding for the ASG Leonberg: Waiting is rewarded with 2.2 million euros. Leonberger Kreiszeitung, June 19, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
- ^ Leonberg: Nazi symbols in chat group cause scandal at high school. In: welt.de. July 26, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Sexism, Hitler and slurs: Ninth graders send racist messages. In: Leonberger Kreiszeitung. July 26, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ a b website of the ASG
- ↑ Boris: Boris. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ ASG receives the BORIS seal of approval for special achievements - Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Siegfried Kümmerle: Once upon a time there was an organic house ... , in: ASG-Schulblätter 2008, Leonberg, pp. 43–44.
- ^ Rolf Beuchert: Viva la musica , in: ASG-Schulblätter 2008, Leonberg, pp. 36–39.