Arnoldi School
| Arnoldischule Gotha | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1876 |
| address |
Eisenacher Strasse 5 |
| place | Gotha |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '3 " N , 10 ° 41' 43" E |
| carrier | District Office Gotha |
| management | Clemens Festag |
| Website | www.arnoldi-gym.de |
The Arnoldischule is a state high school in Gotha , which was founded in 1876 as a higher middle school .
development
As early as 1834, the Gotha merchant Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi had a large foundation for the establishment of a higher middle school - d. H. a general vocational school going beyond elementary school - made in his hometown. However, this foundation was used in 1836 to establish the Herzogliches Realgymnasium (which was merged with the Gymnasium Illustre to form the Gymnasium Ernestinum in 1859 ). The director of all municipal schools, Dr. Eduard Zschaeck (1833–1905), since his appointment to this office in 1866, has persistently campaigned for the establishment of the educational institution originally intended by Arnoldi.
1876 to 1916
In 1876, Zschaeck's efforts were successful: in the spring, the former Gothas I. Boys' Civic School was converted into a higher civic school up to grade 10, and Zschaeck became its first director. In the absence of a school building of its own, classes initially took place until 1880 in the rooms of the Myconius School (at that time the public school) in the Bürgeraue. In terms of the teaching content, the main focus was on the practical preparation of the students for professions in trade, craft and industry; there were no traditional language lessons. In 1880 the school, which was named "Arnoldischule" in honor of the founder, moved to the building that would later become the Luther School on Hohen Strasse, where it remained until 1884. From 1884 on, the pupils were taught in the Gotthard School building (then the district school) on Gotthardstrasse.
In 1892 the Arnoldischule became a secondary school , which from 1899 was under the direction of Carl Rohrbach and to which a commercial school had also been attached since 1902 . The lack of specialist rooms in the Gotthard School, which was designed as a primary school , and the growing number of pupils prompted Rohrbach to campaign for a modern new school building, which was carried out from 1909. The Arnoldischulhaus, which was occupied in 1911, housed the classes from the Realschule as well as the classes from the first German commercial school founded by Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi in 1818.
1916 to 1933
In 1916, when the Arnoldischule was converted into a nine-year high school (grades 5 to 13), it became a full institution, from which university entrance qualifications could be acquired. It thus entered into competition with the traditional high school Ernestinum. At Easter 1922, the business school affiliated with the Arnoldischule closed down. From 1926 the classes of the newly founded State Commercial School had their headquarters in the lower rooms of the west wing of the Arnoldischule. In October 1924, Erich Burchardt took over the directorate of the Arnoldischule, which from 1931 was a reform high school with a branch in mathematics and science and a high school.
1933 to 1945
On April 1, 1933, following the Thuringian “Law on the Elimination of Parents 'Councils”, the parents' council of the Arnoldischule was dissolved. All previous forms of student self-administration were also abolished. Officially because of “reaching the age limit”, the previous director Erich Burchardt was retired on May 31 of the same year and his post was taken over by Hans Karge, who as the city district leader of the NSDAP was a “reliable” educator in the sense of the new rulers. The teacher Walter Lindemann , who had been working at the school since 1918 , was also dismissed in 1933 for “illegal political activity” for the Communist Party of Germany .
In 1937 the classes of the State Commercial School moved out of the west wing of the Arnoldischulhaus and moved into the neighboring building at Eisenacher Strasse 3. From June 1937 to the beginning of 1938, the Arnoldischule was run as a German secondary school . On April 20, 1938, Walter Kinttof took over the management of what is now the “High School for Boys”. With the outbreak of war in 1939, the Arnoldi School had to leave their ancestral schoolhouse because it is a makeshift hospital was set up. During the war years, the Arnoldi students were taught in the rooms of the Myconius School and the Ernestinum Gymnasium. From February 1943, the first 16-year-old students were deployed as air force helpers. a. increasingly difficult to maintain due to increasing air raids. In the school year 1944/1945, due to the war, the Abitur exams could no longer be carried out for the first time; in March 1945, teaching was discontinued.
After the US Army marched into Gotha on April 4, 1945, the Arnoldischulhaus initially remained a military hospital (as "German Military Hospital No. 77") until it was confiscated and occupied by the advancing Red Army troops on July 19 .
1945 to 1961
On October 1, 1945, the Arnoldischule, under the direction of the newly appointed director Heinrich Gaensler, resumed teaching with 13 classes, initially in the building of the Myconius School, as in the war years. It was not until August 1946 that the building on Eisenacher Strasse was released again for school purposes by the Soviet occupying forces. After clearing and repair work, the Arnoldi students could be taught again in the traditional building for the first time on October 1, 1946.
Between 1945 and 1947, 20 teachers at the Arnoldischule were dismissed from school service due to their previous membership in the NSDAP and its branches. Due to the shortage of teachers, lessons often had to be shortened or canceled by the hour in the first few years after the war.
On December 1, 1946, the classes of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule (secondary school for girls) were integrated into the Arnoldischule, on April 10, 1947 the classes of the disbanded Ernestinum Gymnasium. From 1947 to 1950, the Arnoldischule was, while maintaining its traditional name, a “high school for boys and girls”, in the 1950/1951 “twelve-year school” and since the beginning of the 1951/1952 “high school”. In January 1952 Otto Nabielek became the new director of the facility, which lost its traditional name for the first time since 1882 and was officially called “Oberschule Gotha I” in order to show the break with the bourgeois traditions of the school. But already at the beginning of the school year 1953/1954 the name Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldis was honored again and from then on the school was officially run as the “Arnoldi High School”.
In August 1958 Fritz Klein took over the directorate of the facility, which at the beginning of the school year 1959/1960 was merged with the Theodor-Neubauer-Oberschule (which thus lost its status as a high school) in the Arnoldischulhaus. With 22 classes, 559 students and 42 teachers, the Arnoldi School, housed in one building, was actually two-part - its original classes as "Arnoldischule I" continued by director Fritz Klein and the newly added classes as "Arnoldischule II" from 1959 by director Egon Heinrich - the largest high school in the Erfurt district and the only remaining Gotha high school where the Abitur could be taken. However, the division lasted only one year, and with the beginning of the school year 1960/1961 both schools were again run as one school, now under the sole directorate of Egon Heinrichs.
An application by the school management in June 1960 to name the facility “Bertolt Brecht School” and thus to erase the name of the “bourgeois” businessman Arnoldi, which was considered inappropriate for a “socialist” school, was rejected by the Erfurt district council approved, because the traditional name "Arnoldi-Oberschule" has become a quality term beyond the district boundaries thanks to good educational work.
1961 to 1991
At the beginning of the school year 1961/1962, the four-year school (grades 9 and 10 as preparatory classes, grades 11 and 12 as high school graduation classes) was officially named "Arnoldischule Extended Oberschule ", this name was to last for 30 years. Since the 1970s, the school was initially called colloquially and later officially "EOS Arnoldi". In the 1960s the school lost its old-language branch, but classes with extended Russian lessons (“R classes”) were added. With the beginning of the school year 1962/1963, some classes of the POS "Anna Seghers" (which was housed in the building of the former Ernestine) were relocated to the Arnoldischulhaus and from then on taught there. In 1968 35 teachers taught 610 students in 20 classes at the Arnoldischule.
In August 1972, Wolfgang Krause became director of the school, at which an annual "Arnoldi workshop week" with cultural events for the students was established from 1973 onwards. In 1978 military instruction was introduced at the school. In the course of the standardization of the education system in the GDR and the restructuring of the Abitur level, the 9th grade was dropped in 1981 and the 10th grade as preparatory classes for the Abitur. At the beginning of the 1982/1983 school year, 240 students were taught by 25 teachers at the Arnoldi School, which was now only two years old.
As a result of the political change in 1990 u. a. the subjects of civics and scientific and practical work . In March 1990, Wolfgang Krause, who had resigned as director in January and since then has only exercised his office on an interim basis, was replaced by Werner Buntin, who campaigned for the extended secondary school to be converted into a grammar school . At the end of the school year 1990/1991, the Arnoldischule ended as an extended secondary school.
Since 1991
In the course of the transition to grammar school, the Arnoldischule lost its ancestral name on August 1, 1991 for the second time in its history and was initially called "Staatliches Gymnasium Eisenacher Straße 5". In the same month Clemens Festag took over the position of director of the school, which started teaching as a grammar school on September 2nd. Initially, 61 teachers taught 895 students in 38 classes from grades 5 to 12. In January 1992 the Thuringian Ministry of Education gave the grammar school the traditional name "Arnoldischule". In the school year 1992/1993 the course system of the Thuringian high school was introduced at the school.
school-building
The current building of the Arnoldischule was designed by the architect and Gotha City Planning Officer Wilhelm Goette with the assistance of the then director of the secondary school, Carl Rohrbach. In 1908, Goette's design, which included construction on the site of the former cemetery I on Eisenacher Strasse, which had been cleared in 1904 , was approved by the city council with an estimated construction cost of 640,000 marks . Construction work began on April 27, 1909, and was continued by the new city building officer Ludwig Schrauff after Goette's departure from Gotha in the spring of 1910 . Mayor Otto Liebetrau was able to inaugurate the new building of the secondary school on May 29, 1911 .
Goette had designed the building, which consists of two five-storey wings with mansard hipped roofs , according to the most modern knowledge for school buildings. The large and bright classrooms have a window-independent fresh air supply that ventilates the entire building. The specialist classrooms for the natural sciences had their own preparation rooms for the teachers, in which teaching and visual materials could be stored. Originally there was also a sea water aquarium on the first floor of the west wing. In the basement of the north wing, in addition to a storage room for bicycles, a large break room was set up.
In the wide main staircase, which is entered from the school yard via a curved flight of stairs, spacious, colored tiles clad changing halls for the students have been set up on three floors, in each of which a wall fountain provides drinking water to this day. A school observatory with a rotating dome was built over the roof of the central building. One of the two side stairs of the building (on the east corner of the north wing) was designed as a spiral staircase so that the stairwell could be used for physical drop tests. A Foucault pendulum has been suspended in this stairwell since 1990 . In the large auditorium with its barrel vault there is a gallery and an organ donated by Gothaer Versicherungen in 1911 from the Echterdingen workshop organ builder Friedrich Weigle with 19 stops , two manuals and a pedal .
The school yard, which was once used as a gymnasium, is joined by the gym in the same architectural style, which was also planned by Goette and built at the same time as the school.
525,209.30 marks were spent on building the school building and 55,147.89 marks were spent on building the gym. Including all other expenses, the expenses for the entire construction project amounted to 663,292.12 marks.
In the decades that followed, only minor changes were made to the schoolhouse, the interior furnishings of which have been largely preserved in their original state to this day.
In 1918 a triptych- like memorial plaque with hinged wings was installed between two pillars in the upper foyer , on which the names of the 156 schoolchildren and four teachers who died in the First World War were recorded. This was probably eliminated in the months of the occupation period 1945/1946. It was also during this period that the life-size plaster seat portrait of Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi , which had been erected in the entrance area since the inauguration of the schoolhouse, was destroyed. The sculpture came from the Gotha sculptor Ernst Morgenroth (1874–1927), who created it for a monument to Arnoldi that had not been executed and which was intended for the front garden of the Gotha fire insurance bank on Bahnhofstrasse.
In the 1960s, the round cartouches adorning the ceiling of the auditorium with signs of the zodiac from the time it was built were painted over in one color.
In 1992 the historic drinking fountains in the lobby, which had no water since the war, could be restored and put back into operation.
In 1996 a portrait bust of Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldis by the sculptor Rüdiger Wilfroth (1942–2015) was unveiled in front of the entrance to the auditorium. It was a gift from the 1996 high school students to their school.
Between 1991 and 1997 the historical portraits of musicians decorating the music cabinet were restored thanks to donations from the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Arnoldischule (VFFA) .
From 1994 to 1998 the Arnoldischulhaus was extensively and historically carefully restored. Among other things, the organ in the auditorium could be repaired and the signs of the zodiac on the ceiling exposed again through donations from the development association. The gymnasium was also renovated during the same period. The architect and site manager received the Thuringian Monument Protection Prize for the general renovation in 1998 . The total sum for the renovation of both buildings was EUR 6.39 million.
Directors
- Eduard Zschaeck (1876 to 1899)
- Carl Rohrbach (1899 to 1924)
- Erich Burchhardt (1924 to 1933)
- Hans Karge (1933 to 1938)
- Walter Kinttof (1938 to 1945)
- Heinrich Gaensler (1945 to 1951)
- Otto Nabielek (1952 to 1958)
- Fritz Klein (1958 to 1960)
- Egon Heinrich (1959 to 1972)
- Wolfgang Krause (1972 to 1990)
- Werner Buntin (1990/91)
- Clemens Festag (since 1991)
Known students
The Arnoldischule graduates include a. Antje Babendererde , Noah Bitsch , Sigrid Damm , Andy Dittmar , Katrin Göring-Eckardt , Petra Hartung , Wolfgang Ipolt , Steven Merting , Rainer Nabielek , Dirk Oschmann , Christel Riemann-Hanewinckel , Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Matthias Wenzel .
School partnerships
The Arnoldischule maintains partnerships with the Martin-Schleyer-Gymnasium in Lauda , the French college " Louise Michel " in Saint-Just-en-Chaussée (since 1995), the Lithuanian Gabijos-Gymnasium in Mažeikiai (since 1988) and the Gaston Day School in Gastonia, USA (since 1995).
Others
The gymnasium of the Arnoldi School stands on the site of the former St. Catherine's Church and Age graveyard called cemetery I . Since 2012 a memorial plaque on the gym has been commemorating the church and 18 important Gotha residents who found their resting place in the cemetery.
On May 21, the birthday of the namesake of their school, the Arnoldi students honor him by laying flowers on his tombstone. This is only a few steps away from the school on the area of the former cemetery II on Eisenacher Straße. This tradition, which had been maintained until the early 1940s, was interrupted by the Second World War. It was not taken up again in the post-war period, especially since in 1969 all of the grave monuments, including that of Arnoldi, were cleared away. With the restoration of the Arnoldi tombstone on the former cemetery area in the spring of 1993, the honor for his 215th birthday could take place again for the first time in around five decades.
The students of the Arnoldischule refer to themselves as Arnoldians , the official name is Arnoldischüler .
The first director of the Arnoldischule, Eduard Zschaeck, was married to Wilhelmine Agnes Drescher (1833–1905), a granddaughter of Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi.
The Association of Friends and Patrons of the Arnoldischule (VFFA) , based in Gotha, has existed since November 1991 . Its 590 members (as of October 2016) support the school both ideally (e.g. in lectures and excursions) and materially (through donations of around 5,000 to 8,000 euros p. A.).
In January 2011, the Arnoldischule was awarded the title of German Chess School by the German Chess Federation as the first Thuringian school .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs: History of the Arnoldischule in Gotha (1876-1996). Fulda 1997.
- Anke Marstaller: The Arnoldischulhaus anniversary 2011. Gotha 2011.
- Carl Rohrbach: The Arnoldischulhaus of the municipal secondary school in Gotha. History and description of the building. Gotha 1914.
- Eduard Zschäck: The establishment of the higher citizen school in Gotha. Gotha 1891.
Web links
- http://www.arnoldi-gym.de/ Website of the school
- https://www.schulportal-thueringen.de/schools/overview?tspi=981 Portrait of the school on the Thuringian school portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hinrichs, p. 115
- ^ Carl Rohrbach: The Arnoldischulhaus of the municipal secondary school in Gotha. Gotha 1914.
- ^ Matthias Wenzel: Gothaer monuments and memorial stones. Gotha 2004, p. 24.
- ^ General renovation of the Arnoldischule grammar school
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Remembrance of Alten Gottesacker and St. Catherine's Church ... In: Allgemeiner Anzeiger, October 11, 2012
- ^ Matthias Wenzel : Documentation on the history of the cemetery II. Gotha 2014.
- ↑ http://www.arnoldi-gym.de/ueber-uns/foerderverein/
- ^ Arnoldischule becomes the first German chess school in Thuringia. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from January 14, 2011
