Episcopal Marienschule Mönchengladbach

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Episcopal Marienschule Mönchengladbach
logo
Logo of the Episcopal Marian School
type of school high school
School number 165037
founding 1830
address

Viersener Strasse 209

place Mönchengladbach
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '18 "  N , 6 ° 25' 26"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '18 "  N , 6 ° 25' 26"  E
carrier Diocese of Aachen
student 1300 (school year 2017/18)
Teachers 81
management Birgit Janßen
Website www.marienschule.de

The Bischöfliche Marienschule Mönchengladbach (short: BMS ) is a school in Mönchengladbach . The body responsible for the private grammar school is the Aachen diocese . The school was founded in 1830 and today has around 1300 students. It is one of the oldest and largest grammar schools in Mönchengladbach.

The school director is Birgit Janßen (status: school year 2018/19).

history

The school was founded in 1830 as a secondary school for girls and from 1855 to 1980 it was run by Franciscans as an all-girls school. Boys have only been accepted since the diocese of Aachen took over the school in 1980 and introduced co-education .

During its history, the Marienschule was often the target of hostility from the state due to its Catholic profile. Due to the Kulturkampf , it was closed from 1875 to 1882. It could not be taken over again until 1892 by the Franciscan Sisters . The school was again banned from 1939 to 1945 as a result of the church struggle.

The sharp increase in the number of pupils at the Marienschule in the 1980s meant that the school had to look out for a larger school building. In 1987, the traditional, but too small and no longer entirely contemporary rooms on Kaiserstrasse (corner of Wallstrasse) , which had been in use since 1895, were therefore abandoned. The Marienschule found a new home in the building on Viersener Strasse, which previously housed the modern language grammar school.

On December 9, 2005, a pontifical mass with the Aachen bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff took place to celebrate a double anniversary: ​​175 years of the Marienschule - 25 years of the diocese school.

Focuses and offers

As a school of the diocese of Aachen, one of the main educational focuses is of course the teaching of Christian values. The pupils are given a Christian orientation not only through religious instruction, but also through offers such as regular school services and other contemplative and social activities. Although the Episcopal Marienschule is a Catholic school, the lived ecumenism is also important, which is shown, for example, in the fact that Protestant students are also accepted into the school, for whom there are also Protestant religious lessons.

A particularly high priority outside of normal lessons at the Marienschule is above all the arts area. There are different orchestras (pre-orchestra, symphony orchestra , matches, wind project, big band etc.), a profile class "Music", several choirs ( chamber choir , school choir, "5- person choir" etc.) as well as two theater groups and a musical AG.

In the sporting field, the Rhönrad -AG (founded in 1991) is a specialty that can otherwise only be found in a few schools.

The Marienschule is also active in areas other than music or sport . The school has been a member of the MINT-EC network since 2014 and supports students in MINT subjects. For example, there is a successful chemistry group or a math and chess group. In 2016 the school was awarded the Jugend forscht school prize by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia "for long-term special support" for the pupils.

There are regular student exchange programs and encounter trips with schools in Great Britain ( England ) and France .

From the point of view of that time, the decision to set up a separate break area, the so-called “smoker's yard”, for pupils in the upper grades of the Marienschule was regarded as downright visionary. Today, however, since the introduction of the general smoking ban in all public facilities, smoking is no longer allowed there either; where it is still used for smoking. It is still only accessible to upper school students.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Imprint - Episcopal Marienschule Mönchengladbach. Accessed July 1, 2019 (German).
  2. a b History of the school - Bischöfliche Marienschule Mönchengladbach. Accessed July 1, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ School management team - Episcopal Marienschule Mönchengladbach. Accessed July 1, 2019 (German).
  4. Source website of the Marienschule