Carl Ritter Education Center
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The Bildungshaus Carl Ritter is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located at Heiligegeiststraße 8, 8a on the corner of Mummental Street , in the southern part of Quedlinburg city center and is listed as a school in the Quedlinburg monument register.
Facility
The educational center is the seat of the district library Quedlinburg , the district music school Harz, Quedlinburg area and the district volkshochschule Harz GmbH . It is named after the Quedlinburg-born geographer Carl Ritter .
architecture
The current building was built between 1860 and 1862 in a round arch style . The three-storey building shows forms of northern Italian Romanesque . The light, horizontal stripes of the red brick facade are characteristic of the building's appearance. The middle of the front is accentuated by a five-axis central projection with a towering façade. On both sides of the risalit there are four-axis building sections.
Originally a statue depicting Philipp Melanchthon was enthroned above the central axis . The statue was initially made of terracotta . It was then considered too heavy and was copied from sheet copper in 1912. This figure no longer exists and may have been melted down during World War II . The terracotta figure was in the school yard until June 1913 and was then placed in the blessing hall of the St. Nicholas Church . When the interior of the church was redesigned in 1967, the figure was removed and buried in the church courtyard. In 1994 it was recovered as part of a project by the Carl-Ritter-Schule and the head was displayed on a plinth in the auditorium. On October 31, 2008, the restored figure was put back in the schoolyard.
A Latin inscription on the street-side facade (" DOCTRINAE · SAPIENTIAE · PIETATI") dedicates the building to "erudition · wisdom · reverence / piety".
The building complex also includes the manager's house to the south and a gymnasium .
Leaded -glass windows were purchased for the auditorium around 1900 through a foundation by Fritz von Dippe . The windows were created by the glass painting company Ferdinand Müller . The left window showed Plato speaking to his students in Athens . In the middle window there was a representation of the Abbess Anna who gave the foundation deed of the grammar school to Melanchthon in 1540. The right window finally showed a homage to Quedlinburg high school students for Kaiser Wilhelm I in front of the Kyffhäuser monument . At the end of the Second World War, the windows were destroyed, presumably by shrapnel and politically motivated deliberate destruction. In 1951 the windows were restored as simple leaded glazing. Three coats of arms were shown. In the left window that of the Quedlinburg monastery, in the middle the city of Quedlinburg and on the right the state of Saxony-Anhalt . From 1994 to 1996 the windows were then redesigned by the Schneemelcher glass workshop. While the middle window was made in 1992 based on the original with the image of Melanchton, the left window created in 1994 shows Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and the right window created in 1993 Carl Ritter.
history
The building was created as a school building for a grammar school and was inaugurated on May 1, 1862. Before that, the grammar school was located on the area of today's Bosseschule in the Franciscan monastery there. The grammar school was founded in 1540, with Philipp Melanchthon having a share in the foundation and an agreement with the Abbess Anna II and the Quedlinburg magistrate. A Latin inscription above the fountain in the entrance hall reminds of this :
Quedlinburg schools were established in 1540 by Abbess Anna in the free-worldly monastery
after remaining three centuries in the same location in
these new houses, which were foresightedly opened under the sublime government of
Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Passed in 1862
The school was operated as a royal high school until 1918 and then continued as a state high school. In the 1930s, it was renamed the König-Heinrich-Gymnasium . From around 1944 to 1946 there was a military hospital in the house , and in 1947 school operations could be resumed. In addition to a few emerging high school classes, the school was now run as a community school. Conceptually, it was an experimental school based on the Jena model by Peter Petersen , initiated by Werner Schackert, who had studied with Petersen and who ran the school until 1979. From 1950 to 1960, the community school led grades one to eight, then also grades nine and ten. In 1962 it was converted into a ten-class polytechnic high school , which was named Otto Grotewohl High School in 1976 . In 1990 the school was named Carl-Ritter-Schule . Until 1991 the school was still ten-grade, then it was converted to a secondary school with grades five to ten.
As part of a school reform in the Quedlinburg district , the building was given up as a school location in 2004. It was then converted into a joint location for the adult education center, music school and library. The renovation started at the end of 2008 and was completed on May 7, 2011.
A large area for the library was created on the ground floor. In order to create further opportunities for teaching, rooms were divided. The stairwells in the house no longer met fire protection regulations and were demolished in 2009. The stairs were rebuilt, which also enabled the uninterrupted use of the auditorium. The house received new windows and the parts of the building used by the music school and adult education center were completely renovated. Barrier-free access was created on the back. In addition, an elevator and new toilet facilities were built.
The concept for the facility was developed by the umbrella organization Bildungshaus Carl Ritter e. V., in which the development associations of the three educational institutions, the Harz district , the city of Quedlinburg and private individuals are members. The Harz University of Applied Sciences created a marketing concept for the project, and the district council made the building available for unlimited use by resolution. Funding from the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung, the European Union and the Federal Republic of Germany were used for the renovations. Further funds came from the city of Quedlinburg, the Harz district and private individuals.
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 744.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 129.
Web links
Individual evidence
Am Hospital 4, Heiligegeiststraße 1 | Heiligegeiststrasse 2 | Heiligegeiststrasse 3 | Heiligegeiststrasse 4 | Heiligegeiststrasse 5 | Heiligegeiststrasse 6 | Heiligegeiststraße 7 (Quedlinburg district building) | Heiligegeiststraße 8, 8a (Bildungshaus Carl Ritter) | Heiligegeiststrasse 9 | Heiligegeiststraße 10 (To the golden scales) | Heiligegeiststrasse 11 | Heiligegeiststrasse 12 | Heiligegeiststrasse 13 | Heiligegeiststrasse 14 | Heiligegeiststrasse 16 | Heiligegeiststrasse 17 | Heiligegeiststrasse 20, 21 | Heiligegeiststrasse 22 | Heiligegeiststrasse 23 | Heiligegeiststrasse 24 | Heiligegeiststrasse 25 | Heiligegeiststrasse 26 | Heiligegeiststrasse 27 | Heiligegeiststrasse 28 | Heiligegeiststrasse 29
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '16.2 " N , 11 ° 8' 44" E