Educational history of Dieburg
According to the earliest records of Dieburg as a school town in the 15th and 16th centuries , three primary school teachers taught the boys predominantly in religion.
Shortly after the Thirty Years' War , the Capuchins ran a Latin school .
At the beginning of the 17th century a second teacher was hired. In 1715, a two-class school building was built in today's Pfarrgasse No. 2. One classroom for the "lower class" - the younger age groups - and one for the older age groups, the "upper class". Later the classes were separated by sex.
In 1816 the school moved into the converted church of the Holy Spirit Hospital, today at the corner of the old town and Spitalstrasse. The classrooms were on the ground floor , the teachers' apartments on the upper floor. Until the middle of the 19th century , school supervision was the responsibility of the religious communities. There was a Catholic denomination school in Dieburg . The wealthy Protestant families maintained tutors . The poor parents sent their children to Catholic school.
From the middle of the 19th century to 1910 there was a public Protestant school in the rooms of the Marienschule. In 1832 the schools were placed under the supervision of the state, which meant that the district administrator became the employer.
For a short time the Order of English Misses was commissioned to teach the young women. During the " Kulturkampf " the women religious were forbidden to do this. The lessons were taken over by secular teachers. With the growing population, the "boys' school" was founded in 1902 on Marienstraße.
In 1965 the city built the Gutenberg School on the Leer.
The development of high school
Primary school was initially sufficient for Dieburg's agricultural and handicraft structure. To prepare for studies, one went to private schools outside of town.
In 1869, the Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler opened the Knabenkonvikt, a Catholic private school for which school fees had to be paid. The choice of location fell on Dieburg, among other things, because the aristocratic Groschlag family had given the bishop the property "cheaply". The city council of Dieburg supported this project. Here boys should be given access to studies or the spiritual profession. External students were also accepted. In the course of the Kulturkampf, the school had to be closed in 1876.
After the Kulturkampf, the city built the “extended elementary school” in the ground floor rooms of the Knabenkonvikt in 1889, which in 1895 was named “Higher Citizens School Dieburg”. There was also a secondary school for girls in Dieburg as a private school from 1900 to 1917.
In 1908 a new school building was inaugurated in the immediate vicinity of the Konvikt in Goethestrasse. In 1914 the Konviktsschule was put on an equal footing with the other seven-class Hessian schools and taken over by the state. It was named "Grand Ducal Realschule and Progymnasium".
In 1924 the school was expanded into a nine-class full school and was named "Hessian Oberschule and Gymnasium". In 1926 the first Abitur was taken. In 1937 the name was changed again to "German High School for Boys". After the war they started to build up quickly and called this school "Realgymnasium und Gymnasium" until 1955/56 the name "Goetheschule, Gymnasium and old-language high school for the district of Dieburg" was given.
With the " educational emergency " at the beginning of the 1970s, the "Gymnasiale Oberstufe Schule Dieburg" was built on the Leer. This was later renamed the "Alfred Delp School". In this school, the students are taught in the 11th to 13th courses and thus prepared for the Abitur.
Historical sources
Sources on Dieburg's educational history can be found in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt . There documents on various Dieburg schools are archived, namely the Alfred Delp School (inventory H 54 Dieburg A), the District Administrator Gruber Schule (inventory H 54 Dieburg B) and the Goethe School (inventory H 54 Dieburg C). The holdings of the Dieburg Gymnasium (G 53 Dieburg), which date back to 1868, are also in the State Archives. The holdings are fully indexed and can be researched online.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the holdings "Alfred Delp School (H 54 Dieburg A)" Archive Information System Hessen. Retrieved January 7, 2015
- ↑ Overview of the holdings "Landrat Gruber Schule (H 54 Dieburg B)" Archive Information System Hessen. Retrieved January 7, 2015
- ^ Overview of the holdings "Goetheschule (H 54 Dieburg C)" Archive Information System Hessen. Retrieved January 7, 2015
- ^ Overview of the holdings "Gymnasium Dieburg (G 53 Dieburg)" archive information system Hessen. Retrieved January 7, 2015