Freudenhain Castle

Auersperg high school
Freudenhain Castle
type of school	high school
School number	0254
address	Freudenhain 2 94034 Passau
place	Passau
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 34 '46 "  N , 13 ° 26' 56"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '46 "  N , 13 ° 26' 56"  E
carrier	Maria Ward School Foundation
student	824 (as of 2016/17)
Teachers	72 (as of 2016/17)
management	Christian Zitzl
Website	freudenhain.de

Freudenhain Castle is located in the urban area of Passau in a park of the same name on the north bank of the Danube . The complex was built from 1785 to 1792 by the Passau prince-bishop Cardinal Joseph Franz Anton von Auersperg as a summer residence. The architect and builder was Johann Georg von Hagenauer . The castle has been used as a school for over a hundred years .

history

Freudenhain Castle 1790

On the afternoon of February 26th, 1797, while fleeing from the French, the Speyer prince-bishop August von Limburg-Stirum died and was buried in the (today destroyed) Capuchin Church in Freudenhain.

In 1803, Freudenhain Castle passed into Bavarian state ownership in the course of secularization . In 1880 Freudenhain was bought by the Order of the English Misses and initially served as a training and further education center for teachers, later it was also used as a home for schoolgirls.

In 1900 the castle was expanded to include the St. Josef chapel. The high altar, side altar, communion bench, confessional and stations of the cross were created according to a design by the Munich architect Joseph Elsner in his Munich “Institute for Christian Art”. From 1911 Freudenhain served as a teacher training institute and a girls 'college, both of which were dissolved again during the Nazi era (1937 and the girls' college in 1941). After the Second World War , a teacher training institute was set up again in 1946, and in 1951 Freudenhain became a so-called classical secondary school , before it was elevated to a German grammar school in 1954 . In 1958 the teacher training college was finally closed. The remnants of the English gardens are now part of the Passau city park.

Today's use as a high school

Since 1954 the castle has housed the Auersperg high school Passau Freudenhain. The high school is run by the Maria Ward School Foundation. A total of around a thousand students attend either the business or the arts branch.

All pupils start with English as their first foreign language in the fifth grade, the pupils of the musical branch are obliged to use Latin as a second foreign language from the sixth grade; These students receive additional music lessons as well as instrumental lessons and until the 2016/17 school year were obliged to participate in a choir, orchestra or big band. Students in the industry can choose between Latin and French as a second foreign language.

From the eighth grade onwards, economics and law (= business administration, economics, law) and business informatics (= bookkeeping, data processing, dealing with spreadsheets, word processing and other computer programs) follow as subjects, for the musical branch with a reduced number of hours.

From the tenth grade onwards, all students have the option of taking their second foreign language and instead learning Spanish as a late-beginning foreign language up to the Abitur.

A warm lunch is offered to the students and teachers. Voluntary afternoon care is available for grades 5 to 7. Since the 2011/12 school year, the grammar school has been offering a closed all-day class for the fifth to seventh grade; in the afternoons they visit various groups such as B. acrobatics and ball sports, but also working hours in which they do homework.

In 2010 the high school served as a film set for the Amadeus music boarding school in the movie Rock It! .

Building description

In front of the early classical two-storey main building with its mansard roof is a rectangular courtyard of honor , which is surrounded on both sides by single-storey commercial buildings. A ramp rising from both sides leads to the portico , which is crowned with a balcony. The gable bears the coat of arms of Cardinal Count Joseph von Auersperg.

The name comes from the English park that originally surrounded the castle. Its center was the Holländerdörferl , an artificial village in which, in addition to the Prince-Bishop's villa, his most important employees owned their properties.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Wolfram Hübner: Freudenhain Palace and Park in Passau (1786 - 1795) and the previous buildings in Hacklberg = Green Row. Sources and research on garden art 26. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2007. ISBN 978-3-88462-252-0
• Gottfried Schäffer, Gregor Peda: Castles and palaces in the Passau region . Pannonia Verlag, Freilassing 1977, ISBN 3-7897-0060-6 , pp. 32-33.
• Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 56-57.

Web links

• Website of the Auersperg-Gymnasium Freudenhain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Auersperg-Gymnasium Passau on the pages of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (km.bayern.de, accessed on January 3, 2018)
2. ↑ Georg Brenninger. In: Der Storchenturm 1990, issue 48/49, p. 92/93