Old high school (Flensburg)

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Old high school
View over the harbor to the old grammar school
type of school high school
founding 1566
address

Selckstrasse 1

place Flensburg
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 54 ° 47 '19 "  N , 9 ° 25' 41"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '19 "  N , 9 ° 25' 41"  E
carrier Flensburg
student 809 (as of 2019/2020)
Teachers 52 (28 m., 24 w.) + 3 trainee lawyers (2 m., 1 w.)
management Christoph Kindl
Website www.altesgym.flensburg.de

The old grammar school ( Danish Flensborg lærde Skole ) is a humanistic grammar school in Flensburg . It is the oldest school in the city and one of the oldest in the German-speaking area .

background

The school was founded in 1566 under the rule of the Danish King Frederik II . The theologian Lütke Namen could be won as a founder . Originally the school was named as a Latin school . The school was founded namely as trilingue school  - so as trilingual school for the languages Latin , Greek and Hebrew . The school is the only grammar school in the city where Latin can be chosen as the first foreign language , but it is not an old-language school in the traditional sense. The high school participates in the Comenius program . Students from the old grammar school regularly take part in the junior project .

The current buildings are located on a hill in the west above the Flensburg city center . The old building, built between 1912 and 1914, forms the core. There is also a new building in which mainly the natural sciences are taught, as well as a sports hall. The previously used Jens-Jessen-Haus was sold around 2010 due to high renovation costs. The area of ​​the former school garden behind the sports hall was also sold and built on.

The school is particularly known for its 60,000-volume historical library and map collection , which contains many documents from the history of Flensburg and Schleswig-Holstein . The collection is now kept in the Schleswig-Holstein State Central Library, which is also located in Flensburg .

School newspaper

A well-known institution of the old grammar school is the school newspaper “Der Turm”, whose editorial work has already won several prizes from well-known juries. a. also with the young talent award of the news magazine Der Spiegel . It has existed since 1948 and appears about four times a year. There are regular special editions and special cover topics. The editorial team is mostly made up of high school students, but every student at the school can take part in the editorial work.

Personalities

The old grammar school from the schoolyard side
The old grammar school in Flensburg seen from the east bank.

student

Teacher

See also

various

  • Before the school was built, there was a windmill on the school grounds . The windmill in question was moved to the south-west of the city in 1890 as a replacement for the burnt down Boreas mill .
  • The design of the neighboring building of the Landeszentralbank from 1922/23 was based on the old school building from 1914, which is why the two brick buildings form an architectural unit when viewed from the harbor.

literature

  • Gerhard Kraack: A previously unknown map collection in Flensburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica. Issue 17, 1998, pp. 20–24 (about the map collection of the old grammar school; online ).
  • Alfred Peters, Wolfgang Weimar : History of the Old High School Flensburg 1566–1991 (= series of publications by the Society for Flensburg City History. Volume 51). Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-33-1 .

Web links

Commons : Altes Gymnasium (Flensburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of general education schools in Schleswig-Holstein 2019/2020. In: statistik-nord.de. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein , May 2020, accessed on July 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Cheap Bauhaus on the Reepschlägerbahn? , dated: August 28, 2010; accessed on: October 11, 2019
  3. ↑ The tower. In: www.turm-fl.de. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 .;