Antonius College

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Antonius College
School complex (2015)
type of school high school
School number 167204
founding 1899
address

Pastor-Schaaf-Str. 1
53819 Neunkirchen-Seelscheid

place Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 50 '22 "  N , 7 ° 20' 7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '22 "  N , 7 ° 20' 7"  E
carrier MW Malteser Werke non-profit GmbH
student 1168 (2016)
management Gerhard Müller
Website www.antoniuskolleg.de

The Antoniuskolleg is a Catholic grammar school in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid . As a Christian school, the Antoniuskolleg is sponsored by MW Malteser Werke non-profit GmbH.

Antoniuskonvikt Neunkirchen-first construction phase (picture postcard around 1904)

history

The college has had an eventful history, from the founding of the first secondary school in Neunkirchen by Pastor Heinrich Schaaf in 1899, through the closure of the school during the Nazi era on March 25, 1939, and the reopening as the Antonius College in 1957 under the Sponsorship of the Salesians Don Bosco up to the assumption of sponsorship by the Malteser Werke in 2014. At the same time, the external appearance of the school has constantly changed, from the first part of the so-called Antoniuskonvikt in 1903, through the extension in 1906 to the Expansion of the boarding school in 1959 and the school complex of today's Antonius College.

Antoniuskonvikt Neunkirchen-second construction phase (picture postcard around 1909)
Antoniuskolleg Neunkirchen - after the boarding school expansion (1958/59)
new location of the wind vane (2015)

From the beginning to the closure by the National Socialists (1899–1939)

In 1899, pastor Heinrich Schaaf (1858–1959) founded the "high school for boys from the country" in his parish in Neunkirchen. The cow and goat barn ("hip barn") of the old parsonage was rebuilt for first-class lessons, which began in early May 1899 with 17 students from the parish. When the number of pupils in the third year (1901/1902) had risen to 50, Pastor Schaaf had the former vicariate converted into a Konvikt to accommodate all boarding school students. At the same time, Schaaf's founding received state recognition as a private school in 1901 after chaplain Heinrich Kesselkaul had passed the exam as rector. Accordingly, 1901 is considered to be the year the secondary school in Neunkirchen was founded, so that in 2001 the Antoniuskolleg celebrated its centenary.

In June 1902, the first work on the actual school and boarding school building began after the school year 1902/1903 had started with 72 students. As early as Easter 1903, the first part of the new building, which had been completed by then, was moved, and St. Anthony of Padua had been chosen. As a result of the admission of new students, the secondary school in Neunkirchen developed rapidly in the school year 1905/1906, so that by Easter 1906 already 238 boys attended the school, of whom over 200 lived in the Konvikt. That is why the second construction phase of the new school and boarding school building was completed in September 1906. At that time, the school comprised the five lower grammar school classes (sixth to upper secondary). After completing the Obertertia, the students from Neunkirchen were able to take the Abitur at the secondary school in Wipperfürth , where Heinrich Schaaf founded the "St. Antonius-Konvikt" in 1904. In 1909, as in Wipperfürth, a separate chapel was built on the Antoniuskonvikt in Neunkirchen, which was attached to the former vicarage building.

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and its economic consequences stopped the upswing of the secondary school in Neunkirchen, so that absolutely necessary extensions to the buildings had to be postponed again and again. In addition, Pastor Heinrich Schaaf died on January 23, 1919. In the 1920s the facility soon recovered, so that in the 1924/25 school year with a total of 227 students, 205 of whom were internally, almost the same occupancy as in the pre-war years was achieved. From August 1925, Prelate Peter Lewen (1891–1982) headed the secondary school in Neunkirchen as director, but after 14 years in office he had to announce the closure of the school on April 1, 1939, since according to the ordinance of the National Socialist government of March 25, 1939 Konvikt and higher boys' school in Neunkirchen had been closed.

From the dissolution to the reopening (1939–1957)

After the closure of the secondary school in Neunkirchen, the buildings were initially used for Napola and teacher training. Towards the end of the Second World War , the premises became the quarters of the elite troops of Adolf Hitler (1944), who withdrew from France. After the end of the war and the American seizure of the building in May 1945, it was set up as an epidemic hospital for around 150 Allied soldiers . A year later, the "Van Gils Foundation" relocated home with around 200 children moved into the building. A few days after the opening of the children's home, the church service was celebrated again for the first time in the chapel of the former Konviktes, on the feast day of St. Antonius, who "visibly protected the house" in the words of Pastor Johannes Scheidt.

From the reopening (1957) until today

After the children's home of the "Van Gils Foundation" was moved to Zieverich near Bergheim in 1956 , the two buildings of the former Antoniuskonvikt, completed in 1903 and 1906, were renovated and redesigned. In 1957 a contract was signed between the Salesians of Don Bosco and the "Association for the Promotion of Higher Studies eV", represented by Prelate Peter Lewen, regarding the assumption of sponsorship for the reopened secondary school in Neunkirchen. On April 25, 1957, the school was resumed under the name "Antoniuskolleg" with a total of 34 boarding students. In 1958, the extension of the boarding school, which had begun a year earlier, was completed and the nurses' house, which housed the nuns responsible for housekeeping, was inaugurated. In a further construction phase, a wing was built across the boarding school extension, which was inaugurated by Prelate Lewen in December 1959 and housed a gym on the ground floor and a new chapel on the first floor.

In 1959, construction work began on a new school building, which was inaugurated in June 1961 by Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Cleven . This created the prerequisites for the establishment of further school classes in the new building and the accommodation of the internal students in the "old building", so that on February 1, 1966 (at the end of a short school year ) the first Abitur could take place at the Antoniuskolleg. The new auditorium was built and completed a year earlier thanks to a donation from a merchant (1965), while a leisure home ( Dominikus Savio House) was built between 1967 and 1968 for the boarding school students. The first admission of girls to classes at the Antoniuskolleg in the 1970/71 school year resulted in additional space requirements, which were met between 1974 and 1975 by building school pavilions. As early as 1976, considerations were made to expand the school building, which was completed in 1961, after the number of students had meanwhile grown so that the space problems could hardly be dealt with. As a result, the construction of a new part of the building for the scientific rooms and the administration wing began in 1979 and was inaugurated in December 1980 by Cardinal Joseph Höffner (1969–1987).

After the construction of an own sports hall had already been mentioned in 1961 as one of the conditions for a "full high school", construction of a multi-purpose hall began in October 1985, which could be inaugurated a year later. In the summer of 1995, the school pavilions, which had meanwhile become dilapidated, were torn down and replaced by a two-story school building ( Franz-von-Sales -Haus), which was inaugurated in August 1996 by Cardinal Joachim Meisner (1988-2014). In February 1998 the boarding school was closed because since the school year 1965/66 the number of boarding school students had continuously decreased and the maintenance of the boarding school was no longer profitable. At the turn of the millennium, 1080 external students visited the Antoniuskolleg, which celebrated the centenary of the secondary school in Neunkirchen in 2001.

In 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the Salesians of Don Bosco at the Antonisukolleg indicated that the order would withdraw from sponsorship, this was announced in the press release of September 2008, according to which the Malteser Werke would take over sponsorship in the next few years . This step had become necessary due to the decline in the number of members of the Order and the difficulties in financing the building renovation. On August 1, 2014, the Malteser Werke non-profit GmbH officially took over the sponsorship of the Antoniuskolleg. The fundamental renovation and expansion of the school and boarding school buildings, which started with the construction of a new specialist room wing instead of the nurses' house demolished in 2006 (2012-2013), continued with the modernization of the existing school buildings (2014-2015) as well as with the demolition of the newer boarding school building and the Dominikus-Savio-Haus and the design of the new entrance area (2015). In this entrance area, the "Guardian Angel Figure" by Heribert Calleen was newly erected and inaugurated on October 2nd, 2015 .

Artistic arrangement of the boarding chapel

The new chapel, which was set up on the first floor of the boarding house extension between 1958 and 1959, was given an artistic design for which the Cologne artists Heribert Calleen and Manfred M. Ott were commissioned. While Calleen created the wind vane (copper) in the form of a "guardian angel" to crown the roof turret on the former boarding school as well as the entrance portal (oak), the tabernacle (bronze) and the tabernacle stele (Anröchter dolomite), Ott designed the glass windows and the large altar painting the boarding chapel showing the adoration of the Lamb by the twenty-four elders according to the revelation of John. According to Calleen's statement, the figure of the angel fighting the dragon at his feet with a lance in his right hand was supposed to protect the students, while the snake's head was torn off when the entrance portal to the boarding school chapel was opened.

  • Chapel with altar painting and choir window (Ott)

  • Gallery window (Ott)

  • Obergadenfenster (Ott)

  • Entrance portal (Calleen)

  • Tabernacle with stele (Calleen)

  • Wind vane on the boarding school (Calleen)

Lessons at the Antoniuskolleg

In addition to the linguistic and musical subjects of German , English , French , Latin , Spanish, art , music and literature, mathematics , biology , physics , chemistry and computer science in the natural sciences and mathematics as well as in the social sciences area of philosophy , history , geography , religion , social science, Teaches politics and education. In addition, there is sport as a subject without a specialist area.

Students can have lunch in the school's own cafeteria, and in the afternoons they can attend various study groups and offers. Until 2001, classes were held six days a week. Until the Abitur, religion has to be taken at least as a basic course; the subject can also be chosen for the Abitur examination.

In May 2007, the first business academy began to promote talented pupils, who thus create an advantage for the transition into studies or into professional life. The course is 120 hours of instruction, lasts one year and is subject to a fee. Classes take place on Saturdays; the subjects of business administration, investment and finance, human resources, economics, business law, marketing, scientific work, communication and presentation, and business ethics are taught. The course ends with a final exam. Also on Saturdays there are classes at the Technology Academy , a project idea from the Antonius College, the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and the Bonn / Rhein-Sieg Chamber of Commerce . The lessons are given by lecturers from science, research and industry. The acquired knowledge can be deepened with the help of own experiments in laboratories and workshops.

The school hours were extended from 45 to 60 minutes from the school year 2008/2009. As part of a model experiment by the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia, the school is also offering eight or nine-year access to the Abitur.

Personalities

student

  • Andreas Pinkwart (* 1960), politician (FDP) and economist, Minister of Economics for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Ralph Caspers (* 1972), television presenter, author, screenwriter and actor

Teacher

  • Reinhard Helbing (1933–2013), Provincial of the North German Province of the Salesians Don Bosco, director of the school from 1995 to 2010

literature

  • Hartmut Benz: Neunkirchen and his secondary school in the "Third Reich" (1933-1939) . In: Yearbook 16 (2001) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
  • P. Reinhard Helbing SDB: Chronicle of the Antoniuskolleg Neunkirchen from 1899 to 1939 (parts 1–3). In: Yearbook 14–16 (1999–2001) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
  • P. Reinhard Helbing SDB: History of the Antoniuskolleg after the war . In: Yearbook 22 (2007) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
  • P. Reinhard Helbing SDB: The history of the Salesians Don Bosco in Neunkirchen . In: Yearbook 27 (2012) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
  • Dieter Siebert-Gasper: On the building history of the Antoniuskollge Neunkirchen (part 1–4). In: Yearbook 27–30 (2012–2015) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
  • Dieter Siebert-Gasper: On the artistic design of the Antoniuskolleg Neunkirchen - The Cologne artists Heribert Calleen and Manfred M. Ott . In: Yearbook 30 (2015) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
  • Dieter Siebert-Gasper: The return of the "Guardian Angel" - the Cologne sculptor Heribert Calleen and the Antoniuskolleg in Neunkirchen . In: Yearbook 31 (2016) of the Rhein-Sieg district

Web links

Commons : Antoniuskolleg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://content.antoniuskolleg.de/cms/schule/index.php
  2. ↑ https://www.schulministerium.nrw.de/BP/SchuleSuchen?action=98.78801377499036&SNR=167204
  3. ↑ school management. In: antoniuskolleg.de. Retrieved August 10, 2012 .
  4. ↑ P. Reinhard Helbing SDB: Chronicle of the Antoniuskolleg from 1899 to 1939. In: Yearbook 14 (1999) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, p. 95.
  5. ↑ 100 years of the Antonius College. Neunkirchen-Seelscheid 2001
  6. ^ "Festschrift 175 years Engelbert-von-Berg-Gymnasium Wipperfürth", Wipperfürth 2005, p. 61ff.
  7. ^ P. Reinhard Helbing SDB: History of the Antoniuskolleg 1925-1939. In: Yearbook 16 (2001) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, p. 216
  8. ↑ P. Reinhard Helbing: History of the Antonius College 1925-1939. In: Yearbook 16 (2001) of the Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, p. 217
  9. ↑ 50 years of Salesian Don Bosco at the Antoniuskolleg in Neunkirchen. Neunkirchen-Seelscheid 2007
  10. ↑ content.antoniuskolleg.de. Press release
  11. ↑ Dieter Siebert-Gasper: The return of the "Guardian Angel". The Cologne sculptor Heribert Calleen and the Antoniuskolleg in Neunkirchen. In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 31 (2016), p. 149ff.
  12. ↑ A- levels in 12 or 13 years? Antoniuskolleg participates in the state government's model test on antoniuskolleg.de, accessed on September 25, 2014