Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium

Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium
type of school	high school
founding	1565 (Augustum)
place	Goerlitz
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 9 ′ 14 ″  N , 14 ° 59 ′ 10 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 14 ″  N , 14 ° 59 ′ 10 ″  E
carrier	City administration of Görlitz School and Sports Office
student	790 (October 18, 2017)
Teachers	74 (school year 2018/19)
management	Frank Gröll
Website	anne-augustum.de

The Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium is a general school of the secondary education area, which leads to the higher education entrance qualification. The Augustum grammar school and the Annenschule merged in 2004 to form a common school. The two teaching buildings are located in the old town of Görlitz . The main building of the Anne School adjoins the Annenkapelle on Marienplatz to the west near the Frauenturm . The Augustum, in turn, is located on Klosterplatz .

The Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium is one of two high schools in the city and is sponsored by them. The grammar school offers the scientific, linguistic and artistic profile.

Surname

The name of the school is derived from the names of the once independent school sections. The Annenschule was named after the Annen Chapel, which it has been using as an auditorium and gymnasium since the end of the 19th century.

At the end of 2004, the students were asked to propose and choose a name for the combined high school. In the first vote, the Via Regia Gymnasium proposal, based on the Via Regia trade route through Görlitz, won ahead of the compound school name and other proposals. However, in a runoff between Via-Regia-Gymnasium and Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium, the compound school name was favored by the students and teachers.

history

The school was created in 2004 through the merger of the two traditional school buildings Augustum and Annenschule .

Annenschule

Since 1730, the Annenkapelle has been connected to the poor, breeding and orphanage in the west. The chapel was used as an orphan or penitentiary church. From 1845, the Catholic community held its services in the church, as their church was far outside.

In 1871 the chapel was fundamentally changed. A false ceiling was installed at the height of the cornice and a room on the ground floor that was later used as a gymnasium was set up. The pairs of windows based on the Gothic style on the ground floor were created during the renovation. The upper room served as an auditorium since 1875.

Around 1900 the orphanage was demolished and replaced by the subsequent school building. In 1903, the girls' middle school with the attached Annenkapelle was handed over as an auditorium and gym. In 1949, the artist Georg Nawroth created murals in the western part of the auditorium with scenes from the history of Görlitz. In 1987 the interior of the school was renovated. In 1992 the facade was renewed.

Augustum

As early as 1458, a so-called studium particulare was created in the former Roman Catholic Franciscan monastery , which served to train the members of the convent. The Reformation gained a foothold in the city at the beginning of the 16th century, so that a Protestant Latin school was founded in 1530, which was committed to the ideals of Philipp Melanchthon . After the Franciscan monastery was closed, the Protestant Latin school moved into the walls of the monastery in 1565. June 22, 1565 is mentioned as the date of the school consecration. The first principal of the school was Petrus Vincentius . He was a friend of Philipp Melanchthon and previously dean and rector at the University of Wittenberg . In 1566 he issued the school laws, the premises of which were trust, obedience, gratitude, humility, truthfulness and moderation. Rector Vincentius left the city after a short time for his hometown of Wroclaw .

In 1579, 611 boys were already attending school. The number rose to 648 students by 1590, including 147 primary school students . During the Thirty Years War the school closed for an extended period. During the Swedish occupation under Colonel Wancke, teachers and students were also used to carry out digging work around the city. After the Thirty Years War, Christian Funcke took over the post of rector in 1666. He was a member of the literary group Fruitful Society . Under his leadership, the number of students rose to 326 by 1674. Samuel Grosser followed in 1695. He drafted and designed plays for the pupils for the city's citizens, but also wrote works on regional history ( Lausitzische Oddies , 1714).

The school has been closely associated with the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences since it was founded in 1779. In the following years, many rectors and teachers served the society as vice-presidents, secretaries or members. With the change from eastern Upper Lusatia to Prussia in 1815 as a result of the Congress of Vienna , the subjects of German, mathematics, drawing and now also physics became the focus of teaching. A year later, the first Abitur examination could be taken at the school. In 1856 the school moved into the newly constructed building on Klosterplatz.

During the GDR era, the Augustum Polytechnic High School was called Johannes Wüsten . The schoolhouse still has the dormer windows here.

During the First World War , more than half of the teachers were drafted into military service. Some students also followed to the front. A total of 280 former Augustum students died during the war, which is remembered by a plaque in the auditorium. In the mid-1920s, the school again had 380 students in 17 classes and 24 teachers. In the time of National Socialism , the teaching content was adapted to the brown ideology and teachers who did not adapt were expelled from the school, including the director Max Müller and the social democratic teacher Paul Gatter. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , classes were suspended because the front was approaching.

During the GDR period, it was no longer possible to take the Abitur at Augustum. The only Extended Oberschule (EOS), as the schools leading to the general higher education entrance qualification were called in the GDR, was the EOS Frédéric Joliot-Curie on Wilhelmsplatz . Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the school was called Johannes Wüstens and was only a ten-class general polytechnic high school . According to a city council resolution, the school was renamed Augustum again in 1992/1993 and received the status of a grammar school with a musical profile. It was now one of four high schools in the city.

building

Annenschule

House Annenschule

The five-storey house Annenschule was completed in 1903 and adjoins the Annenkapelle from 1512. In 1871 a false ceiling was installed in the Annenkapelle at the height of the cornice and thus a room on the ground floor was set up that was later used as a gym. The pairs of windows based on the Gothic style on the ground floor were created during the renovation. The upper room served as an auditorium in the previous building of the Annenschule since 1875.

Augustum

House Augustum

The Franciscan monastery was located at the current location of the Augustum grammar school in the middle of the monastery square until the middle of the 19th century. However, since 1565 the monastery premises were used as classrooms and living quarters for the teachers. At the beginning of the 19th century the structure of the old monastery walls was in such poor condition that the first considerations were to replace the monastery with a new building. Between 1836 and 1853, a wide variety of plans were submitted that provided for a new building or preservation of the old monastery and experts were also heard to inspect the old structure. Among others, master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1837 and the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in 1844 visited the old monastery walls. Ultimately, the decision was made to completely rebuild the school on the site of the monastery. After the monastery had been demolished, the foundation stone for today's high school was laid on August 28, 1854. The building was inaugurated about two years later on October 15, 1856.

Educational work, equipment and offers

Due to the location of Görlitz on the German-Polish border, the grammar school has been offering a special form of in-depth grammar school education in Saxony since the 2003/2004 school year - a binational, bilingual, German-Polish course. This form is unique in Germany and is explicitly aimed at binational students. The pupils of the two neighboring countries learn the other language in the 5th and 6th grade separately in their home countries. From the 7th grade onwards, the Polish pupils are accepted at the school as part of the course and are brought together with their German classmates in binational classes. The aim of the course is to impart social and intercultural competence. In addition, the job opportunities for graduates in the region are to be increased in order to reduce the emigration of highly qualified young people.

The high school offers scientific, linguistic and artistic specialization within the framework of profile lessons.

High school library

The Augustum had a rich grammar school library . Its most outstanding component was the Milich Library , which was created as a private collection of the Schweidnitz lawyers Gottlieb (1650–1720) and Johann Gottlieb Milich (1678–1726) and was bequeathed to the Augustum in 1727 . In its original existence, it was predominantly shaped by law and religion.

In his will in 1726, Milich bequeathed his collection of around 7,000 books, 200 manuscripts and 500 coins to the city of Görlitz, along with a number of curiosities and peculiarities. He tied the condition that the collections had to be available to everyone twice a week for 200 years.

It was only as a grammar school library that it acquired its comprehensive profile, which was enriched not least by the old holdings of the Görlitz monastery library and Görlitz citizens' foundations (including Samuel Traugott Neumann ). After the relocation in the Second World War, the returned holdings were incorporated into the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences (OLB). Today, the holdings can be used in the OLB's reading room.

literature

• Bernhard Meth: School stories from the old Görlitz monastery . Trowitzsch & Son, Berlin 1909.
• Gymnasium Augustum Görlitz (Ed.): On the history of the Gymnasium Augustum Görlitz . on the occasion of the renaming in February 1993. Maxroi Graphics, Görlitz 1993.
• 100 years of the Annenschule . MAXROI Graphics, Görlitz 2002.

Web links

Commons : Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• School homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ COMPOSITION OF THE STUDENTS. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Number of teachers. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ A school and the agony of choosing a name . In: Saxon newspaper . May 31, 2005 ( online ).
4. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the city of Görlitz . 1st edition. tape 1 , half volume 2. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 774 .
5. ^ Ernst Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-932693-63-2 , p. 64 f .
6. ↑ anne-augustum.de: General - History - From the church building for school multi-purpose building . Retrieved January 27, 2012 . 
7. ^ Ernst Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-932693-63-2 , p. 65 .
8. ↑ Christian Speer: Piety and Politics. Urban elites in Görlitz between 1300 and 1550. (= Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. 8). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005182-6 , p. 147.
9. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the city of Görlitz . 1st edition. tape 1 , half volume 2. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 437 .
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e} anne-augustum.de: Chronicle House Augustum . Retrieved February 19, 2012 . 
11. ↑ anne-augustum.de: General - History - From the church building for school multi-purpose building . Retrieved January 27, 2012 . 
12. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the city of Görlitz . 1st edition. tape 1 , half volume 2. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 437 .
13. ↑ Jörg Nicht: School classes as social networks A network-analytical study on peer relationships in binational-bilingual school projects . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01404-9 , p. 54 .
14. ^ Johann Gottlieb Milich (1678–1726). Scholar, collector and library donor. (PDF; 83 kB) Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences (OLB), accessed on March 22, 2014 .