Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium Trier

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Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium
so-called "monastery building"
type of school high school
founding 1879
address

Dominikanerstrasse 2

place trier
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 45 '23 "  N , 6 ° 38' 47"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '23 "  N , 6 ° 38' 47"  E
student approx. 1100
Teachers 96 teachers and 9 trainees
management Timo Breitbach
Website avg-trier.de
Baroque portal of the former monastery and today's school building
AVG Trier, new building

The Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium (often abbreviated as AVG ) in Trier is a high school that was founded in 1879 as a municipal school and soon afterwards was nationalized.

history

In 1652 Augustinian women from Lorraine ("Welschnonnen") founded a girls' school free of charge. After the dissolution of the monastery in the Kulturkampf, a shared urban (1879), then state school was built at the same location, which has been called the Auguste Viktoria School or Gymnasium since 1913, after Auguste Viktoria , the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

The school consists of a monastery building built in 1652 and still in use today, which was renovated from 2010 to the beginning of 2016 and made barrier-free. There is also a new building erected in 1970, which is connected to the somewhat older Dewora building, which is located about 150 meters from the monastery building and serves as the main building.

profile

The school is a bilingual grammar school with a focus on mathematics, computer science and natural sciences. Today it is visited by girls and boys.

In July 2004 the Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium received the order from the Ministry of Education, Women and Youth to build the third school for gifted / international school in Rhineland-Palatinate after Kaiserslautern and Mainz . The start of this course took place at the beginning of the 2005/2006 school year.

Today the five-class school is attended by around 1,100 boys and girls from grades 5 to 13.

Unesco project school

The school strives for international understanding in a large number of school partnerships and the commitment to human rights, peace and environmental protection, which was recognized in 1996 by the AVG as a unesco project school . With its membership in the network of 4,000 schools worldwide, the AVG undertakes to continue to work on the realization of the Unesco goals in the future in teaching and in specific activities.

The Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium Trier has been a recognized unesco project school since September 11, 1996 . It is part of a global network of schools that feel particularly committed to the concerns of the United Nations and UNESCO. The unesco project schools deal in particular with the topics of human rights and peace, intercultural learning, the environment and global development (see also the guidelines of the unsesco project schools ).

Integrated into a network, the unesco project schools orient their school life inside and outside of the lessons in a special way to the ideas of international understanding and intercultural learning. They assume that an understanding of people and cultures is desirable and possible, that understanding of one's own culture grows as a result, and that a future worth living in a peaceful world can be achieved through joint action.

unesco project schools enable learning with the inclusion of new media, extracurricular learning locations and diverse groups of people in interdisciplinary structures. They involve all groups involved in the design of schools in decisions and changes and develop strategies for action in problematic situations in society, initiate and take part in specific actions aimed at raising awareness or solving social problems.

The “International Year for a Culture of Peace”, which the United Nations and UNESCO celebrated in 2000, is an example of education for peace and willingness to communicate. The German unesco project schools and the AVG took part by organizing a project day of solidarity on the topic of "Sustainable Development - Paths to a Culture of Peace".

A further development of the topic of "sustainability" takes place within the framework of a nationwide funding program of the federal-state commission for educational planning and research funding (BLK) and the Ministry of Education in Mainz. As one of seven schools in Rhineland-Palatinate, the AVG was selected to participate in this project with a support project for school education in India under the topic of “Global Social Justice”. The AVG is funded with additional teaching hours and a small budget for the development of the project, its documentation and the creation of handouts for other schools.

Specifically, the AVG supports an existing school in Cowdally and other new school buildings. A big school festival and a heel money campaign raised a total of 40,000 DM, which are used to promote school education in India. A new association “India Partnership of the AVG - for Sustainable Development” aims to mobilize further funds and support.

Projects

The school is successfully involved in school building projects in India . In 1996 she was accepted into the group of UNESCO project schools that campaign for sustainability and justice. The AVG built schools in Cowdali and also helps poor people with a dairy cow project.

The high school also takes part in Comenius Regio projects .

Famous pepole

Trivia

In 1977, the school served as a filming location for the ZDF - Youth Series school bus 13 .

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Welcome to the Auguste-Viktoria Gymnasium Trier! In: avg-trier.de. Retrieved November 24, 2007 .