Apostle High School

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Apostle High School
Cologne-Lindenthal Biggestraße 2 Apostelgymnasium new building Frangenheim Str.jpg
type of school high school
School number 166479
founding 1860
address

Biggestraße 2

place Cologne
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 55 '56 "  N , 6 ° 54' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '56 "  N , 6 ° 54' 58"  E
carrier city ​​Cologne
student over 1000 (2018)
Teachers over 90 (2018)
management Marco Lohmann
Website www.apostelgymnasium.de

The Apostelgymnasium is a grammar school in the Cologne district of Lindenthal . The school sees itself in the tradition of the humanistic , old-language grammar school when it was founded at the time.

history

The old Apostle High School before 1939
Apostelgymnasium, older parts of the building with the Biggestraße entrance

The origins of the school lie in Cologne's old town, on the Apostelnkloster street next to the Romanesque church of St. Aposteln , at the point where the bridge , the domicile of the Kölnischer Kunstverein , stands today. The Catholic grammar school at the Apostle Church was founded there on October 9, 1860 as the third modern grammar school in Cologne. The new building was carried out according to a design by the Cologne city architect Julius Carl Raschdorff . It was largely maintained by the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund , which administers the legacy of the Cologne Jesuits and their school . The first director was high school professor Heinrich Bigge (1860–1882). Biggestraße, where the school is located today, was named after him. The nearby Karl-Schwering-Platz is also named after a director of the school, Karl Schwering .

In 1876 the school was named the Royal Catholic Gymnasium at the Apostle Church; In 1918, after the end of the German Empire, the word royal was replaced by state . Until 1933 a number of Jewish students attended the Catholic grammar school. The last one was Herbert Baum, the son of the Jewish religion teacher at APG, who had to leave grammar school with secondary school leaving certificate in 1935 and then emigrated. In 1933 there were four Jewish students at the school, including Bruno Benjamin Scheftelowitz , who emigrated with his parents that same year.

In 1939 the grammar school was officially closed and demolished because of a road breakthrough for the construction of today's Hahnenstrasse . In the same year, however, the Prussian government also closed other schools on the grounds that there were too many high schools in Cologne. The upper classes came to the Schillergymnasium in Ehrenfeld, the lower classes were divided. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the school in 1985, three teachers published a book in which the history of the school during the Nazi era was processed based on the school records.

The school was able to be re-established immediately after the Second World War . At first under the name "Staatliches Apostelgymnasium, united with the former Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium and the former Schiller Gymnasium". In November she moved into the building of the former Silberberg & Mayer straw hat factory in Lotharstrasse in Cologne-Sülz , which belonged to the grammar school fund and which has housed the Hildegard von Bingen grammar school since 1928 . In the badly damaged and unsuitable house, provisional lessons began, alternating with the Hildegardis School. This location gave it the character of a district school (actually since 1939). The Catholic character of the school remained, however.

About a third of the students - especially those from the surrounding area - were Protestant, non-Christians played almost no role after the war. The few Protestant teachers responsible for giving Protestant religious instruction had their posts at other Cologne schools. After a decree of January 17, 1946, the school was called Staatliches Apostelgymnasium. The modern age was welcomed by a move with the new languages, especially with French instead of ancient Greek as the third foreign language. In April 1949 the first discussions about a new building took place.

But it was not until 1959 that the foundation stone was laid in the green corridor between the two Cologne green belts on the Lindenthal Canal . In 1961, shortly after the centenary, under Director Otto Leggewie , the ceremonial move into the building built by Walther Ruoff and now a listed building. The school has been co-educational since 1972 . In 1973, as everywhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, the school came under municipal sponsorship and has since been called the Städtisches Apostelgymnasium, today officially only Apostelgymnasium. At the beginning of the new millennium, the buildings were expanded with several new buildings. In October 2010, the 150th anniversary of the school was celebrated as part of a festival week.

School profile

Apostelgymnasium, new building with specialist rooms

The school sees its focus on promoting ancient and modern languages. Due to the humanistic tradition of the school , ancient Greek is also offered as a third foreign language from grade 8 to students from other schools. The second compulsory foreign language, Latin or French, can be started from grade 6. For Chinese , a working group will be offered at interest from class 7th From year 8 onwards, as part of the differentiation of modern languages, Spanish and, for "old-school speakers", French can be chosen as a subject. Even in high school you can also start with Spanish. The subject technology opens up engineering study and professional fields in the upper level . You can also learn Hebrew in the school network.

In addition, the musical and athletic training should not be neglected. From the intermediate level there is a theater working group. For sport, there are cooperations with the Cologne Sport University and Cologne sports clubs. The former Catholic character of the school will be continued in such a way that students who do not take part in Catholic or Protestant religious instruction will receive instruction in practical philosophy . In addition, there are special support offers for particularly gifted or in need of support. In the context of inclusive education , students with special needs in hearing and communication receive special care and support.

Support association

In the year of the 100th anniversary, a support association was established alongside and connected to the alumni association. Even today, the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Apostle High School accompanies the development of the school.

Heinrich Bigge
August Waldeyer
Karl Schwering

principal

  • Heinrich Bigge (1860-1882)
  • August Waldeyer (1883–1901)
  • Karl Schwering (1901–1921)
  • Karl Giesen (1921–1928)
  • August Altmeyer (1929–1933)
  • Heinrich Deckelmann (1934–1939)
  • Werner Ohlendorf (1945–1951)
  • Otto Leggewie (1951–1961)
  • Hubert Lenzen (1961–1973)
  • Hans Olbertz (1973–1995)
  • Peter Schwarz (1996-2000)
  • Klaus Zimmermann (2000-2015)
  • Klaus Trier (2015-2018)
  • Marco Lohmann (2018 – present)

Well-known students

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (web links) The architect reports in the "Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, 1861": April 6, 1859 beginning of construction; October 15, 1860 grand opening.
  2. ↑ I am Catholic ... , p. 151 ff
  3. ↑ Festschrift of the APG from 1960 p. 32
  4. ↑ Festschrift APG on moving into the new building, Cologne 1961, p. 8
  5. ^ Konrad Adenauer: Wallraf, Max. In: Ulrich S. Soénius , Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen Lexikon. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2008, p. 562.

literature

  • Otto Leggewie : Festschrift 1860 1960, 100 years of the Staatliches Apostelgymnasium Cologne
  • Otto Geudtner, Hans Hengsbach, Sibille Westerkamp: I was baptized Catholic and Aryans. From the history of a high school in Cologne . Emons, Cologne 1985, ISBN 978-3924491055 . (About the Apostelgymnasium in the time of National Socialism)

Web links

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