BMV School Essen

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BMV School Essen
BMV School Essen
type of school Gymnasium (private, state-recognized, catholic gymnasium)
School number 164860
founding 1652
address

Bardelebenstrasse 9

place eat
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '20 "  N , 6 ° 59' 46"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '20 "  N , 6 ° 59' 46"  E
carrier Augustinian choir women of the Congregatio Beatae Mariae Virginis
student around 1280
Teachers 103 including trainee lawyers (status: 2018)
management Sister M. Ulrike Michalski
Website www.bmv-essen.de
Memorial plaque on the building

The BMV school in the Essen district of Holsterhausen is a state-recognized Catholic grammar school sponsored by the Augustinian choir women BMV in Essen. The abbreviation BMV stands for Beatae Mariae Virginis , "the Blessed Virgin Mary ".

The Order of the Augustinian Choir Women was founded in Lorraine in 1597 and has as its apostolate the education of girls . From Lorraine they founded monasteries in France and in many other countries, including Germany. In 1652 three sisters went to Essen at the request of the then Princely Abbess Anna Salome von Salm-Reifferscheidt from Münster and founded the monastery and the (girls') school BMV there in 1931, due to a lack of space due to the constantly growing number of female students Essen-Holsterhausen, where the school still exists today as a girls' high school.

For the school year 2013/2014, the BMV School resulted because of the general decline in pupil numbers, the co-education and is thus not a pure Mädchengymnasium more. The school previously had around 1,350 students, not only from the Essen catchment area, and is laid out in six classes.

history

The abbess of the Essen Monastery Anna Salome von Salm-Reifferscheidt particularly promoted the educational system in the monastery area after the Thirty Years War . In order to make higher education accessible to girls, she called the Augustinian choir women, who are particularly committed to girls 'education, to Essen so that they could found a girls' school with an attached boarding school for foreign students. In 1652 the nuns opened a secondary school for girls, which remained the only one in Essen until 1830.

The monastery was excluded from the secularization after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1802, as it maintained the school. In the course of the Kulturkampf and due to Bismarck's monastery law , the elementary school and the secondary school were closed on March 31, 1876. Until 1889 the nuns lived in exile in Steyl in Holland. After their return, the secondary school was reopened on May 1st, the re-establishment of an elementary school remained forbidden.

In 1929, the first female students took the Abitur examination at the BMV school. The monastery and school moved to Essen-Holsterhausen, today's location, in 1931. The monastery and school buildings were destroyed during the Second World War , and lessons had already been banned by the Nazi regime in 1940. On October 19, 1945, the nuns resumed classes in shifts, as only two classrooms were accessible.

Partner schools

A student exchange is maintained with the private boarding school Moreton Hall in Oswestry , England. St. Mary's in Cambridge, Notre Dame des Oiseaux in Paris, and Petra Fouriera , in Slovakia, which are also sponsored by the Augustinian choir women, are partner schools. There is also a regular exchange with the Santa Ursula Maipu School of the Ursulines in Santiago de Chile .

Forest internship

Every year there is a forest internship for the 7th and 8th grade students. In youth forest homes in Lower Saxony, the young people work several hours a day in the forest for a week and get to know the living space.

Graduates

literature

  • Albrecht, Waltraud: The BMV School in Essen 1652–1997 . Essen, self-published by the Congregatio BMV Essen, 1997. 247 pp.
  • Arens, Franz: History of the monastery and the school of the Congregatio BMV in Essen 1652–1902 . In: Essener contributions, 25th issue, 1903, pp. 1-74. [1] (PDF)

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