Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn

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Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn
BG-Bonn schulhof.jpg
The school yard with a view of the Rhine
type of school high school
School number 166236
founding 1626
address

Adenauerallee 51-53
53113 Bonn

place Bonn
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 43 '50 "  N , 7 ° 6' 33"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '50 "  N , 7 ° 6' 33"  E
carrier City of Bonn
student about 950
Website www.beethoven-gymnasium.de
Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn, aerial photo (2016)
Beethoven-Gymnasium, formerly Helmholtz-Gymnasium, memorial plaque for Hermann von Helmholtz on an outer wall on Adenauerallee

The Beethoven grammar school in Bonn is a humanistic grammar school with a mathematical and linguistic focus, especially on ancient languages . It is by far the oldest secondary school in Bonn and the surrounding area and one of the largest with around 950 students.

history

Today's Beethoven-Gymnasium was founded in 1626 as a minorite high school and was initially located in Bonn's Brüdergasse. In 1673 it was taken over by the Jesuits , who moved the lessons to two buildings on the corner of Gudenaugasse and Wenzelgasse. Bombardments in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689 and a fire in 1714 destroyed the school several times; but it was rebuilt immediately. In 1736 the school moved to a newly constructed building in Bonngasse across from the Jesuit Church (today Name of Jesus Church), not far from the house where Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 .

After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the school was converted into an electoral-Cologne , i.e. state educational institution. From 1777 the grammar school formed the lower five classes of the academy ("Maxische Akademie") newly founded by Elector Max Friedrich , which was elevated to a university by a decree of Emperor Joseph II in 1786 . The grammar school remained part of it as a philological faculty; from 1789 Beethoven was also registered there.

With the beginning of the French occupation of the Rhineland in 1794, the university was closed; however, the grammar school continued and was first converted into an “École centrale”, then into an “École secondaire” and finally in 1806 into a “Lycée imperial” based on the French model. While the school buildings in Bonngasse were used by the French government for other purposes, from 1807 school operations took place in the eastern courtyard garden wing of the former electoral palace that had been prepared for this purpose .

After Bonn fell to Prussia in the wake of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , the school was named "Königlich-Prussisches Gymnasium Bonn" in 1816 and was able to move back into its old building, which had since been expanded. It remained the only grammar school in Bonn until the "Higher Citizens School" was founded in 1882 (today's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium ).

In 1888–91, a new building was built on what was then Koblenzer Strasse (today's Adenauerallee) in Bonn's southern part of the city , and the school moved into it in October 1891. After the First World War it was briefly called the " Helmholtz -Gymnasium" before it was finally given its current name in 1925.

In October 1944 the school building was partially destroyed during a bomb attack; Large parts of the library and most of the school files were also destroyed. After the end of the war, the school first took place in the rooms of the Archbishop's School of Our Lady in Königstrasse. In 1951 the school building, which had been rebuilt at the old location on Koblenzer Strasse, was moved into, and it still houses the Beethoven grammar school today. By 1952, an extension was added to the banks of the Rhine, which was built on the site of the former electoral pleasure palace Vinea Domini .

The Beethoven-Gymnasium is mentioned in passing in the novel " Views of a Clown " by Heinrich Böll .

today

Because of the ancient language focus, Latin is a compulsory subject at the Beethoven-Gymnasium. Furthermore, ancient Greek and ancient Hebrew can be selected, in addition to the compulsory subject English, the newer languages French and Italian . The school has exchange programs with the Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells , the Weald of Kent Grammer School in Tonbridge and with the Lycée Stanislas in Paris and the Liceo Cavalleri in Milan-Canegrate; Study trips to England , France , Greece , Malta and Poland are regularly undertaken.

Traditionally, a class trip is offered in grades 5, 7 and 8, whereby the one-week trips of the respective grades 7 and 8 to Hirschegg in Kleinwalsertal , on which ski lessons are given by the accompanying teachers and by alumni of the high school, stand out.

Like many other schools, the Beethoven-Gymnasium offers a large number of study groups and activities outside of school hours. Since it was founded in 1891, the school has housed the Gymnasial-Turnverein Bonn 1891 eV (GTV), today the second oldest school gymnastics club in Germany. With the Gymnasial-Ruderverein Bonn eV (GRV), which was also founded in 1895 by students from the Beethoven-Gymnasium, one of the oldest student rowing clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia is also affiliated to the school. Both clubs are organized by students and each supervised by a teacher as "protector"; there are also own alumni associations.

The Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn eV (GFF) has existed since 1953 , in which current and former pupil parents and teachers as well as former pupils participate.

In 1983 Vinea Domini Archigymnasii Bonnensis was entered in the official vineyard roll of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since then, teachers and students of the Beethoven-Gymnasium have been cultivating the Rebhügel in Bonn's Rheinaue , which is pressed under the name Rheinaue after the harvest on the Ahr .

The Beethoven-Gymnasium maintains school partnerships with a school in Afghanistan and with a school in Peru . In recent years, more than 10,000 euros in donations have flowed to these schools.

A special feature of the Beethoven-Gymnasium is the application of the so-called " teacher-subject-room principle ", which means that it is not the teachers who change rooms between lessons to visit the individual classes, but the students while each teacher is assigned a room owns. This principle was developed in the 1980s and, after it was tried and tested, served as a model for several schools.

Personalities

Well-known graduates

Well-known teachers

Web links

Commons : Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Annual report on the school course ... at the Royal High School in Bonn. 1834/35 - 1845/46 ( digitized version )
  • Program of the Royal High School in Bonn . 1846/47 - 1887/88 ( digitized version )
  • Josef Buschmann: On the history of the Bonn high school . 1891–1894 ( digitized version )
  • The book collection of the Royal High School in Bonn . Georgi, Bonn 1897/98 ( digitized version )
  • Annual report: Royal High School in Bonn . Bonn, 1888/89 - 1914/15 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Hawranke and Werner P. D'hein (eds.): Bonn ist 2000. Festbuch zum Stadtjubiläum , Frankfurt / Main a. Berlin, 1988. ISBN 3-548-34484-4 , p. 229.
  2. ↑ Article by Michael Gassmann (FAZ-Net of September 8, 2006) ( Memento of August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on Günther Scholl and his acquaintance with Grass.
  3. ↑ Grass made Günther Scholl known through the tin drum Obituary for Günther Scholl in the Bonner General-Anzeiger on September 15, 2011 (accessed on September 11, 2017)