Alexander Coppel Comprehensive School

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Alexander Coppel Comprehensive School
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type of school comprehensive school
School number 188300
founding 1982
address

Wupperstrasse 126

place Solingen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 10 '29 "  N , 7 ° 5' 57"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '29 "  N , 7 ° 5' 57"  E
carrier City of Solingen
student 1350
Teachers 117
management Andreas Tempel LGeD
Website Alexander Coppel Comprehensive School
Site plan of the Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule Solingen

The Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule , formerly the Catholic elementary school Kannenhof and the former Städtische Gesamtschule Solingen, is the first comprehensive school in Solingen .

history

The Kannenhof school got its previous name from a saddle estate that was part of the Klauberg estate . Around 1660, Lieutenant Captain Werner Wilhelm de Cannen acquired the estate, which had been known as Cannen-Klauberg since the late 17th century. Later the name changed to today's Kannenhof.

At the end of the 19th century, the number of pupils in Solingen rose rapidly. To relieve the Catholic primary school in Augustastraße, the foundation stone for the Catholic primary school Kannenhof was laid in 1901 on the initiative of Pastor Pies from the St. Clemens community . The new building for eight classes was opened on October 31, 1902. The original school building from 1902 has been preserved as part A of today's school complex. In the first year, five teachers, one teacher and one technical teacher taught interdenominational 354 children between the ages of 6 and 14 years. The housekeeping lessons for girls that were introduced from the start were innovative for the school system of that time .

Due to the Hamburg agreement on educational reform, the conversion of the Catholic elementary school into the municipal secondary school Kannenhof took place in 1968. On August 30, 1982, the first comprehensive school in Solingen began its work. In the first year, six classes were temporarily accommodated in Elsa-Brändström-Straße. In 1983 the comprehensive school classes moved to the Kannenhof School, where a multi-level comprehensive school was built up to 1986, initially parallel to the main school. In 1986 the Kannenhof secondary school ran out. The Kannenhof School became the Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School.

The Städtische Gesamtschule Solingen was one of the first comprehensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia to receive an upper school level up to grade 13 in 1988. The first 33 high school graduates passed in June 1991. The construction of a new cafeteria building in 1993 (building section F) made it possible to set up all-day lessons at the school.

Today, well over one hundred teachers teach more than 1400 students on the approximately two hectare school grounds.

With the decision of the school authorities in the Committee for School and Further Education on April 28, 2015 and the council meeting on May 7, 2015, it was unanimously decided to rename the Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School for the 2015/16 school year as the Alexander-Coppel Comprehensive School . In this context, the application was made to become a UNESCO project school .

School today

Sport climbing in the gym

The Alexander Coppel Solingen Comprehensive School has an AG Jewish cemetery , to students since 1988 in order graves in the Jewish cemetery on Estherweg in Solingen care. These include the graves of victims of the Nazi regime . Since 1993 there has been a partnership with the Menachem Begin Junior High School, more recently (2013) in the school center with the Ben Gurion High School in Ness Ziona, Solingen's twin city 20 km southeast of Tel Aviv.

In addition, the school has a music theater group that performs a play every two years in the theater and concert hall of the city of Solingen and an art laboratory that is funded by the Mercator Foundation and MUTIK gGmbH.

The school has two sports halls available. One of the halls is equipped with a climbing wall , in which the German Alpine Club eV also offers courses during the non-teaching period. Beginning with the 2017/18 school year, a sport-oriented class will be formed in each year, in which sport lessons are intensified with the support of the club. With the Abitur class 2018/19, sport is possible again as a 4th Abitur subject.

Another focus is on the MINT area and especially the subject of technology. The Bergisches Schultechnikum BeST was founded in the Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule in 2008 and it is one of only seven general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia that offer advanced courses in technology. Several 3D printers are in use there in class.

Awards

  • 1990: Audience award from the Solinger Tageblatt for special commitment
  • 2000: 3rd prize in the competition “Solidarity of the Generations” of the BMFSFJ for the Jewish cemetery group
  • 2003: Solingen Agenda 21 Prize
  • 2003: 2nd prize in the "School of the Year" competition - in the equipment category of Unicum Abi
  • 2004: 3rd prize in the "School of the Year" competition - in the vocational preparation category of Unicum Abi
  • 2004: Award from the Jewish National Fund for the Jewish cemetery group
  • 2005: 1st prize in the nationwide reading competition for the fifth grade
  • 2007: 1st prize in the "School of the Year" competition - in the media education category from Unicum Abi
  • 2007: 3rd prize in the Rhein-Ruhr technology competition
  • 2007: Main prize in the competition "Future through Innovation" of the MIWF NRW
  • 2008: Award “The Silver Shoe” for the Jewish cemetery group
  • 2009: 1st prize in the “School of the Year” competition - in the media education category from Unicum Abi
  • 2011: 1st prize in the “School of the Year” competition - in the vocational preparation category of Unicum Abi
  • 2011: Special prize in the "bio-logisch" competition of the MIWF NRW
  • 2012: 1st prize at the Solingen School Prize
  • 2013: 1st Kurt Kreuser Prize from the Rudolf Knupp Foundation
  • 2014: School certificate for the experimental competition "Discovering Chemistry" by the MSW
  • 2015: Certificate for participation in the "Network for the Promotion of Highly Talented NRW"

Personalities

Before moving into politics, Sylvia Löhrmann taught at Kannenhof from 1984 to 1995.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Müller, Karl-Rainer Broch, Gerhard Müller: Solingen Comprehensive School. The first 10 years. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the Solingen comprehensive school. Solingen 1993.

Remarks

  1. ^ The Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School
  2. ↑ Current school information on the Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule website
  3. ↑ The house "Am Kannenhof 5" is a part of the courtyard that has been preserved to this day and is a listed building.
  4. ^ Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a city . Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. Duisburg 1969. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Current school information on the Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule website
  6. ↑ Sylvia Löhrmann's curriculum vitae.

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