Old high school Oldenburg

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Old high school
Portal 2007
type of school high school
founding 1573
address

Theaterwall 11

place Oldenburg
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 8 '17 "  N , 8 ° 12' 40"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '17 "  N , 8 ° 12' 40"  E
student 852
Teachers 62
management Frank Marschhausen
Website www.altesgymnasium.de

The Alte Gymnasium (AGO) is the oldest school in the former residence of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and today's Lower Saxony university town of Oldenburg .

history

The old grammar school in Oldenburg was founded in 1573 by Count Johann as a Latin school and reformed in 1792 by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig . Since 1815 it has been a day care center and center of humanistic education in the Oldenburger Land .

The neo-Gothic building at Theaterwall 11 was erected in 1878 and the "tower" was added in 1927. The walls were largely spared in the school fire on March 3, 1998; However, the superstructures from the 1970s and the historic auditorium with its wall paintings and ceiling panels were affected; they were restored in 2001. The old roof structure was also reconstructed, which had been changed in 1971 by adding the top floors.

The school was given its current name in 1957. In 1968, due to a lack of space, the school was given additional classrooms in Roonstrasse in an old villa.

After the school fire in 1998, not only was the auditorium restored, but modern scientific rooms were also created, which today represent the basis of the national scientific strength of the school.

In 2014 the Nano Laboratory was opened, it was recognized as an open all-day school and, through the renovation and redesign of the outside area in front of the portal, the school was integrated into modern Oldenburg urban development.

In 2018, the school was awarded the fortune by the city due to the high number of registrations.

Personalities

Known students

Villa Roonstrasse

The year of graduation in brackets

Known teachers

today

The rooms in Villa Roonstrasse that were formerly used for the upper level are now used for the intermediate level. The Villa Roonstraße is the former Bavarian embassy. In addition, the school received a new building that was built on the west side of the school yard. The new building, which went into operation on November 16, 2007, includes new art and music rooms as well as a cafeteria.

The old grammar school is one of the five general education municipal grammar schools in Oldenburg. It stands in the humanistic tradition and offers Latin, French and Spanish lessons based on English. Student exchange programs exist with schools in France and Poland . There are contacts to other partner schools in Israel and China .

The logo of the old grammar school, which shows a frontal view of the main building, was designed and drawn by the art teacher and German specialist Harry Schäfer.

The Holocaust memorial in front of the auditorium was designed by the art educator and ethicist Heinrich Gode; the green color symbolizes, as he explains in an article in the AGO yearbook 2002, the principle of hope.

Specifics of the curriculum

The Alte Gymnasium has three profile lines: culture, business and science. The traditional strengths lie in the areas of languages ​​and music as well as economics, recently also emphatically in the natural sciences and in the area of ​​computer science. English is continued from primary school as the first foreign language in level 5. In level 6, students then have the choice between French, Spanish and Latin as a second foreign language. As the only grammar school in Oldenburg, the school also offers interested students the option of choosing Latin from level 5. From level 8, those with proficiency in languages ​​can take French as a third foreign language as part of the compulsory elective. In addition, the school offers the option of learning a third foreign language (Spanish or Latin, starting over) from level 11. Apart from an extensive range of choirs and orchestras, which surpasses that of most schools, the Alte Gymnasium has set up its own string class as a special musical feature. The compulsory electives for levels 8–10 (lesson table II) not only include French as a third foreign language, but also allow students to set individual priorities in the areas of computer science, science, business-environment or business-Chinese. As the only grammar school in Lower Saxony, the old grammar school in Oldenburg was authorized by the state's Ministry of Culture to teach economics at a higher level and to allow it as a third examination subject. Economics is therefore on offer from grade 8 to grade 13. In addition, students can focus on science. The Alte Gymnasium supports this with its own nano laboratory. It is also a founding member of the North-West Research Center and belongs to the group of NaWigator schools.

Trivia

  • In Kai-Eric Fitzner's debut novel Willkommen im Meer , published in 2015, the protagonist Tim Schäfer is first a student, then a teacher at the AGO, which is shown here only slightly alienated as the "Alexander von Humboldt Gymnasium". The students smoke weed , the teachers are mostly alcoholics , and in the end, with the help of his wealthy mother-in-law, Schäfer succeeds in buying the school and finally converting it into a comprehensive school where students can learn independently. It is possible that the author was a former student of the AGO.

literature

  • Jürgen Weichardt (Ed.): From Latin School to Old High School Oldenburg 1573-1973 . Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1973 ISBN 3-87358-062-4 .
  • Jürgen Weichardt (Ed.): Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg 1973-1993. Contributions to its present and history. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1993 ISBN 3-89598-145-1 .
  • Ottheinrich Hestermann: School days in the Third Reich . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1994 ISBN 3-89598-222-9 .
  • Klaus Modick : Schwarten, Pauker, blue letters. Oldenburg school days in the 1960s. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1998 ISBN 3-89598-524-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the school on nwzonline.de, accessed on January 22, 2012
  2. ↑ One school - three locations , accessed November 1, 2018
  3. ↑ List of outstanding students on the school's homepage
  4. ^ Herbart, Johann Michael In: Hans Friedl (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg . Oldenburg 1992, pp. 304-305. ( PDF; 4.6 MB ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
  5. ^ Biography of Laun, Konrad Wilhelm Adolf, in: Hans Friedl / Wolfgang Günther / Hilke Günther-Arndt / Heinrich Schmidt (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p . 413–414 ( online ( memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  6. ^ Jörg Michael Henneberg: Niesmann, Adolf. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 519-520 ( online ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  7. ↑ Regina Jerichow: Portrait / Life for Art and Artists / The former high school teacher has been writing for this newspaper since 1961. In addition, he has opened 1,100 exhibitions and is involved in contemporary art in Eastern European countries. on the page of the Nordwest-Zeitung from June 6, 2013, last accessed on July 22, 2017