Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg

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Albertus Magnus High School
Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg entrance.jpg
View of the entrance area of ​​the AMG
type of school high school
School number 167010
founding 1858
address

Kaule 3–15
51429 Bergisch Gladbach

place Kaule (Bergisch Gladbach)
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 57 '40 "  N , 7 ° 9' 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '40 "  N , 7 ° 9' 24"  E
student about 1,000 (as of September 10, 2008)
Teachers 82 (as of March 24, 2012)
management Rolf Faymonville
Website www.amg-bensberg.de

The Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg (AMG) is located in the Kaule district of Bergisch Gladbach .

history

The private high school for boys

Leopold Graf von Spee has been campaigning for the establishment of a private Catholic boys' school since 1856, when he began his work as a pastor in Bensberg . In common parlance it was called the higher school . In October 1858, two classes began, which were initially led with private tuition because they still had to wait for a state license. Initially, school rooms at Wipperfürther Straße 4 were rented, but they moved to the old castle in 1862 . When a hospital was established there, they moved to the Weier house near the Catholic Church in 1867. The culture war sparked by the May Laws of 1873 in what was then Prussia from violent unrest because two criticized at the school teaching Catholic priests from the pulpit the state laws and thus as anti-government were. On August 11, 1876, the rector of the school resigned and only served in the Bensberg parish church. Because there was no successor, the school died.

The higher boys' school from 1903

Since 1886 efforts were made to establish a higher community school through the establishment of a board of trustees. But they were unsuccessful. In November 1901, the mayor of Bensberg, Karl Rausch, took another initiative, which led to a breakthrough in 1902. A committee was set up in the Gieraths inn to set up a new secondary school. An advertisement read:

“Students for sixth and fifth find admission, supervision and event. Tutoring with the spiritual rector of the higher boys' school in Bensberg near Cologne, in a privileged climatic wonderful location. The chairman of the board of trustees notary Dr. Schmitz, Bensberg and the school director Schiffer "

- Advertisement from a Düsseldorf newspaper, 1903

At Easter 1903, the school started with two classes on Bensberger Hauptstrasse 1. Soon there were also voices calling for an additional girls' school to be set up. Then there was no longer enough space to accommodate all of the newly established classes, so the construction of a new school building was planned, which was completed and occupied at Easter 1907. Only the exterior plaster was still missing.

The completed Progymnasium Bensberg after 1907

From the Progymnasium to the full institution

After the First World War , the two previously separate schools for boys and girls merged. In the thirties the school was named Higher Community School Bensberg near Cologne . Since September 7, 1944, the school has been idle. He was resumed on January 3, 1946. Now the school was called Progymnasium Bensberg. From 1956 there were plans to expand the Progymnasium into a full institution. The approval for the gradual expansion was granted on March 25, 1958 by the Minister of Education . Initially, four rooms in a school barrack were used for additional space for teaching. On October 8, 1960, the foundation stone was laid for a new school building on the Kaule. The first graduation from high school was in Bensberg in 1961. The new building of the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium, designed by Bruno Lambart , was inaugurated on October 30, 1962.

The school building shown is still at Schloßstraße 84 in Bensberg. Today it houses the PROgymnasium Bensberg eV as a community center, meeting place for the disabled and for generations.

Working groups

There are several working groups to choose from for the students . Particularly noteworthy are the language working groups that lead to the Cambridge certificate or the DELF certificate . The theater group of the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium is known for the implementation of large theater projects such as Goethe's Faust , Antigone or the Threepenny Opera .

canteen

In the course of the conversion to the Abitur after grade 12 and the resulting introduction of long days for the students, a cafeteria was required. This has now been open since the 2011/2012 school year and offers students three different warm dishes every day.

Partner schools

The AMG has partner schools or undertakes exchanges in different countries:

  • Notre-Dame de Bellevue (Belgium)
  • Mascalls School (England - exchange trip in the 9th / 10th grade)
  • Pärnu Koidula Gümnaasium (Estonia)
  • Kiteen Lukio (Finland - exchange trip in the 9th / 10th grade)
  • Collège "Les Fontanilles" and "Lycée Jean Rostand" (France)
  • St. Brendan's College (Ireland)
  • Mikve Agricultural School (Israel - 11th grade exchange trip)
  • Liceo Classico Statale (Italy)
  • Rygiskiu-Jonas-Gymnasium (Lithuania - exchange trip in the 9th / 10th grade)
  • Penta College CSG (Netherlands - exchange trip in the 9th / 10th grade)
  • Zespol Szkol (Poland)
  • Mörbyskolan and Djursholms Samskola (Sweden - one of the two is part of the 9th grade exchange program)
  • Regional High School (Amherst, USA 10th Grade Exchange Program)
  • Fuente de la Peña (Jaén, Spain)
  • Colégio Suiço Brasileiro - Swiss School Curitiba (Brazil, Curitiba)

Well-known alumni

Progymnasium

  • Herbert Stahl (* 1936), folklorist, attended Progymnasium 1948–1954

Albertus Magnus High School

  • Walter Schneeloch (* 1947), sports official, born in 1966 (autumn).
  • Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (* 1951), astronaut, 1962–1965, then Hansa-Gymnasium Cologne
  • Wolf-Dieter Poschmann (* 1951), ZDF sports presenter, graduated from high school in 1970.
  • Marie-Luise Heuser (* 1954), philosopher, 1970–1972, then Bodelschwingh-Gymnasium Herchen / Sieg.
  • Wolfgang Kirsch (* 1955), CEO of DZ Bank , graduated from high school in 1973.
  • Thomas Breustedt (* 1959), State Secretary and government spokesman for the NRW state government since 2010, graduation class 1979.
  • Ursula Heller b. Saurbier (* 1961), journalist and television presenter, graduated from high school in 1980.
  • Jürgen Trimborn (1971–2012), writer, graduated from high school in 1990.
  • Frank Holzke (* 1971), chess player and lawyer, graduated from high school in 1990.
  • Markus Feldenkirchen (* 1975), Spiegel journalist and writer (“What belongs together”), graduated from high school in 1994.
  • Corry Berger (* 1982), national basketball player, graduated from high school in 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Adolf Hieronymi: Origin and development of the Bensberg high school to the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in: 150 years Bensberg Higher School, Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium, Chronicle 1858–2008, publisher AMG Jahrbuchteam, Wissen an der Sieg 2008 , P. 8ff.
  2. ↑ Alexandra Apfelbaum: Just no spectacular architecture. On the architectural work of the Ratinger architect Bruno Lambart in: Denkmalpflege im Rheinland, 32nd Volume No. 4, Ed. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Pulheim 2015, p. 149
  3. ↑ PROgymnasium Bensberg eV as a community center, meeting place for the disabled and generations, accessed on January 30, 2016
  4. ↑ Working groups at the AMG , accessed on December 11, 2012
  5. ↑ Theater performances on the AMG , accessed on December 11, 2012
  6. ↑ Cafeteria of the AMG , accessed on December 11, 2012.

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