BG / BORG Graz Liebenau
| BG / BORG Graz-Liebenau (HIB) | |
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| type of school | Federal high school |
| founding | 1854 (kuk cadet training institute) |
| address |
Kadettengasse 19-23 |
| place | Graz Liebenau |
| state | Styria |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 2 '15 " N , 15 ° 27' 27" E |
| carrier | Federation |
| student | about 1000 |
| Teachers | 137 |
| management | Wilfried Svoboda |
| Website | www.hib-liebenau.at |
The BG / BORG HIB Graz Liebenau is a grammar school with a focus on foreign languages and an upper-level secondary school with a special focus on athletic training (multi-sport and ball sports classes ), with an attached boarding school ( HIB Liebenau , federal higher boarding school ). It is located in Liebenau , the 7th district of Graz .
Liebenau Castle
The former Liebenau Castle was first mentioned in 1164 and converted into a Renaissance castle in the second half of the 16th century . Until the middle of the 17th century it was called "Vatersdorf". The old castle was finally torn down in 1852 and rebuilt in the two following years according to plans by the architect Carl Ohmeyer. Only the gate system remained from the old building.
history
Under the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I , an Austro-Hungarian cadet training institute was set up on the grounds of Liebenau Castle in 1854 .
In 1919, the school reformer Otto Glöckel transformed the institution into a federal educational institution (BEA). These boarding schools, of which there were only a handful in Austria, enabled gifted pupils to attend a first-class grammar school and boarding school regardless of their parents' financial circumstances or local opportunities.
After an interruption from 1935 to 1938 military secondary school, from April to August 1938 Wehrmacht high school, from October 1938 to 1940 high school of the Liebenau house of the large military orphanage in Potsdam, the school was continued as a BEA in 1947 until the federal educational institutions in the late 1970s in higher boarding schools of the Federal (HIB) were renamed.
The high school has been known for the athletic achievements of its students (since 1970 also female students) and an excellent choir since the post-war period. Until the late 1960s, the school had one of only two indoor swimming pools in Graz.
Infrastructure and educational offer
The school currently comprises a modern language branch (5th – 12th grade), a language branch (5th – 12th grade) and a sports and ball sports branch (9th – 12th grade).
- The modern language branch offers after English in the 1st grade from the 3rd grade Latin and from the 5th grade alternatively French or Russian.
- The language branch is run as a grammar school with four compulsory foreign languages: after English in the 1st, French from the 2nd and Latin from the 3rd grade, Spanish or Russian are alternatively available in the 5th grade.
- The multi-sport branch (from the 9th grade) offers a varied sport education. This is supplemented by additional training such as FIT instructor from BSPA Graz, rescue certificate and massage course.
- The ball sports branch, consisting of the sports soccer, handball and volleyball, has already initiated numerous careers in professional sports.
- Since 2019 there have also been collaborations with the Golf Performance Center Graz and the Ice Hockey Academy Styria.
- The campus: The HIB Liebenau with around 11 hectares is one of the largest schools in Austria in terms of area. On the site there is a historic school building and a school building that was added in the 1970s, two boarding school buildings, outbuildings, a gym wing including a swimming pool and several sports fields, as well as tennis, beach volleyball and tennis courts. Since 2014, the Blue Box, one of the most modern triple sports halls in Austria, has been on the HIB Liebenau campus.
- The school choir (hib.art.chor) under the direction of Maria Fürntratt has around 120 singers between the ages of six and twenty among its members and also performs very successfully internationally.
Language and sports excursions
At HIB Liebenau, various exchange programs, language trips and sports weeks are offered during regular teaching hours to promote language skills and to support sporting activities.
- A winter sports week takes place in the second and third grades (corresponds to 6th and 7th grades) and for the sports classes in the fifth and sixth grades (corresponds to 9th and 10th grades). This is organized by the sports teachers.
- In the fourth grade (corresponds to 8th grade) there is a Vienna week organized by the class leaders for the classes without a special focus, and language classes spend a week with English teachers and class leaders in Ireland with host families.
- A French exchange is planned for the sixth grade (corresponds to the 10th grade), in which the language classes take part. The classes with no special focus spend two weeks with host families in England.
- Language class students go to Spain or Russia for a language trip or an exchange in the seventh grade (corresponds to the 11th grade); Sports class students spend some time in Ireland or England, and all other classes take a language trip to St. Petersburg or France.
- Schoolchildren attending Chinese classes have the opportunity to take part in a language and cultural exchange with a partner school in Beijing.
Web links
- www.hib-liebenau.at - Homepage of the grammar school
- Historical (English): ( Memento of December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ The term cadet school was the more common one in Graz until the late 1960s.
- ↑ See also Federal Education Institute .
- ↑ At that time, the original name was often confused by the ignorant with “Educational Institute for the Difficult to Educate”.
- ↑ See for example here ( Memento of December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).