Aldegrever High School

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Aldegrever High School
Aerial photo 2014
type of school high school
School number 170380
founding 1868 (as "Rectorate School")
address

Burghofstrasse 20

place Soest
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 34 '9 "  N , 8 ° 6' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '9 "  N , 8 ° 6' 37"  E
carrier City of Soest
student about 950 (as of 2005)
management Martin Fischer
Website www.aldegrever-gymnasium.de

The Aldegrever-Gymnasium is a municipal high school in Soest ( Westphalia ). It is a European school and a support school of the DFB.

history

The Aldegrever-Gymnasium was founded on January 27, 1868 as a "school punishment institution". The first class had 29 students. It was founded mainly because the beginning of industrialization required basic scientific training. A humanistic education with good knowledge of Latin and Greek was considered to be indispensable. In the years after 1871 the school was hit by the Kulturkampf . There were disputes about the confessional composition of the school board of trustees, about the renting of the first school building, which later became the sexton's house of the Hohne parish , and about the amalgamation of the Catholic and municipal rectorate schools, which took place in 1874.

In 1925 the rectorate school was converted into a secondary school. In 1928 it became an upper secondary school. Since 1928 she has been running a school camp on Lake Möhnesee . She also has a unique collection of rocks. In the entrance area of ​​the old school building there is an opaque glass mosaic wall from 1957 by the Soest artist Hans Kaiser . The grammar school is named after Heinrich Aldegrever (* 1502 in Paderborn, † between 1555 and 1561 in Soest), the important German engraver, painter and seal cutter, who worked in Soest.

Rock collection

The rock collection of the Aldegrever high school in Soest is one of the largest public rock collections in North Rhine-Westphalia. It includes over 2000 registered minerals , rocks and fossils and 1000 unregistered stones. The rock collection is currently being looked after by a small group of students.

The rock collection was once built up by the two teachers Hugo Lübeß and Heinrich Scheele between 1951 and 1968 through the exchange and purchase of rocks, minerals and fossils from various continents. During this period, the number of pieces grew daily. Over time, new showcases were built up.

Todays situation

The number of pupils in 2005 was 950, the number of teachers 64. On average, 28 pupils attend a class.

In 1996, schoolgirls in grades 6 to 10 won the national French foreign language competition. In earlier school years first and second prizes were won in French, English, Latin and Protestant religion. In 2001, level 10 pupils won prizes from Siemens for a multimedia contribution in French and in the “Future IT” competition. The district government of Arnsberg awarded prizes to the school projects “Pennäler power retirees” and “Schoolchildren, fellow citizens, solidarity (SMS)”. In 2008 the grammar school became the European school .

Partnerships

The school has school partnerships with schools in Ipswich , Roncq , Compiègne , Haddonfield (USA) and Riga . She supports a school in Albania.

Personalities who went to school here

Personalities associated with teaching at the school

literature

  • Friends and supporters of the Aldegrever-Gymnasium e. V. (Ed.), Bernhard Beumling (Red.): Our school - for the 110th anniversary of the Aldegrever-Gymnasium and the 50th anniversary of the Landheim. Soest 1978.
  • Martin Burghardt (ed.): 65 years of school camp, 125 years of Aldegrever high school. Burghardt, Soest 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Soester Anzeiger: Walls saved four times from demolition . Soest February 7, 2018.