Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten

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Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten
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type of school high school
founding 1833 as an agricultural and trade school
address

Eberhard-Schobacher-Weg 1

place Kempten (Allgäu)
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 42 ′ 56 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 23"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 56 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 23"  E
carrier City of Kempten (Allgäu)
student 910 (school year 2017/18)
Teachers 71
management Lothar Wagner
Website www.allgaeu-gymnasium.de

The Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten (abbreviation: AG ) is one of three state high schools in Kempten (Allgäu) in Bavaria . It was founded in 1833 and is currently attended by around 900 students (school year 2017/18).

history

Aerial view of the school building, which was inaugurated in 1969

Today's Allgäu-Gymnasium, founded in 1965, is the descendant of several higher-ranking schools located elsewhere.

Provisional school building

The grammar school is based on the establishment of an agricultural and trade school in parts of the former blacksmith's house in Kempten in 1833. From March 1834, the school was housed in the south-western wing of the former prince abbot's residence . Two school levels were taught here. In 1851, with the third grade, the institution was promoted to a “complete first-class school”.

Lyceum at the city park

Lyceum am Stadtpark, today the seat of medical practices, shops and offices

In 1857 they moved into the Lyceum on Schwaigwiese (today Albert-Wehr-Platz ). A commercial specialty was established here. In 1864 the school was renamed the Royal Industrial and Commercial School. Agriculture lessons were given up accordingly. A major renovation was carried out on the schoolhouse in 1874 with the expansion of the third floor.

With the extension of school attendance from three to six years, the pupils were able to take a written exam, the "Absolutorial Examination". With this change, the school was renamed the Royal Bavarian School in 1877 . The business school was given up.

In 1903 the commercial department was reintroduced, as a result of which the school was renamed the Royal Realschule with commercial department .

School building on Salzstrasse

From 1915 to 1969 the school building of the grammar school. The secondary school on Salzstrasse has been located here since 1969 .
Seal of the Royal Bavarian Rectorate of the Realschule

In 1910 the decision was made to build a new school building. It was decided to build the new school building just a few hundred meters from the previous one. The new angular building designed by the architects Heydecker was built in 1914/15. A year later, the school was renamed the Königliche Ludwigs-Realschule with a commercial department . In 1922, female pupils could be taught for the first time. In 1923 the Realschule was elevated to a 9-stage Oberrealschule . Here were English and French arranged as subjects.

In 1938, the upper secondary school was dubbed a secondary school in its basic form . Latin was used as a second foreign language. Since girls were able to acquire the Abitur at the girls' school, since the summer of 1939 only boys have been taught at the secondary school. Because of this, the school was renamed Oberrealschule for boys in 1940 . In 1944 there was no more school-leaving examination for the Abitur, as many students and teachers were called up for military service.

Because of constant low-flying attacks, all schools in Kempten were closed from April 13, 1945. From September 1941 to 1945, at least 124 students were killed in combat during World War II . On April 28, 1945, the school building on Salzstrasse was confiscated by the American occupation . From then on, the school building served as accommodation for refugees and displaced persons from Central and Eastern Europe .

On October 29, 1945, lessons for the first four classes with 424 students in the Illerschule on Illerstrasse were continued. Due to a lack of coal for heating, the school had to be closed from Christmas until mid-February. From October 1, 1946, classes were held again in the school building on Salzstrasse with over 690 students. Since 1943, the matriculation examination takes place for the first time in 1947. In the same year, two branches of the school were set up:

  • Linguistic branch (with Latin as a second foreign language)
  • Mathematical and scientific branch (with French as a second foreign language)

On July 8, 1947, the first school newspaper “The Squid” appeared. In 1951 the 9th grade was re-established and two years later girls were admitted to school again, but initially only for the upper grades. A third branch was introduced in 1962 with the real-gymnasiale branch with the foreign languages ​​English, Latin and French. Two years later, girls were allowed to attend secondary school without restrictions. On October 23, 1965, the upper secondary school was renamed Allgäu-Gymnasium .

School building at the hood lock

  • North schoolyard

  • Fountain in the north school yard

On October 3, 1969, the new school building at the Haubenschloß was inaugurated. With the construction of today's schoolhouse, a large part of the Hoefelmayrpark disappeared from the map. About 1000 students were initially taught here. In 1974 an extension was built and the study seminar with the subjects of sport, biology and art education was introduced. In the 1977/78 school year the proportion of girls rose to over 30 percent for the first time. The school kitchen has been organized by parents and teachers on a voluntary basis since 1978. In 1980 the pavilion was set up with four classrooms. In the 1981/82 school year, the Allgäu-Gymnasium had the largest number of pupils in its history, at 1655. In 1987, Spanish was introduced as an elective .

The European Gymnasium was established in the 1999/2000 school year . In 2006 came the study seminar for the subjects of mathematics and physics. In the same year, an extension was completed. In 2008 the school received the study seminar for geography and Spanish, further study seminars, for example for English, followed. In 2015 the school was equipped with new subject rooms for physics and chemistry and the outdoor sports facility was modernized.

Number of students

school year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Number of students at the beginning of the school year 1,223 1,218 1,266 1,300 1,326 1.311 1,320 1,238 well 1 well 1 well 1 well 1 965

1 No data are available for these years.

profile

There are two courses offered in the course (G8) :

The Allgäu-Gymnasium offers the following foreign languages :

In French lessons there is the possibility that DELF - language certificate to purchase.

Afternoon offers

At the Allgäu-Gymnasium a large number of electives are offered in the afternoon, including two school choirs , an orchestra , various sports groups , a video group and word processing .

Partnerships

The Allgäu-Gymnasium maintains partnerships with regular student exchanges with:

A former school partnership of the high school with regular student exchange programs existed from 1964 to 1970 with the Lycée Technique in Creil in France.

Alumni at the school

Former students

Former teachers

literature

  • Gerald Dötz (Ed.): 175 years of Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten: 1833–2008. Kempten 2008, OCLC 299155899 .

Web links

Commons : Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 254 .
  3. ^ Website of the school kitchen ( Memento from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ School branches at the AG ( Memento from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Oberrealschule Kempten-Allgäu (ed.): Annual report 1964/65. P. 19 f., 23 (see also the following annual reports).