Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum

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Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum
The Paulinum from the north
The Paulinum from the north
type of school high school
School number 709016
founding 1926
address

Paulinumweg 1

place black
state Tyrol
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 20 '4 "  N , 11 ° 42' 13"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '4 "  N , 11 ° 42' 13"  E
carrier Diocese of Innsbruck
student 620
Teachers 56
management Elmar Fiechter-Alber
Website www.paulinum.ac.at
The chapel of the Paulinum from the east
The Barbara's Column at the Paulinum
Truefer residence at the Paulinum (2012)

The Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum is a high school in the Diocese of Innsbruck in the city of Schwaz in Tyrol . In 2019 the school had 24 classes, 16 of them in the lower grades and eight in the upper grades, with a total of 620 students and 56 teachers.

prehistory

The Prince-Bishop of Brixen Vinzenz Gasser founded a boys' seminar in Brixen in 1872 , which was named Vincentinum after his death . After the First World War and South Tyrol belonged to Italy and after the fascists under Benito Mussolini came to power , the Vinzentinum was forbidden to speak German in 1923, and in 1924 its public rights were revoked, meaning that the Matura was no longer recognized at universities. Foreign students, mainly from North and East Tyrol and Vorarlberg, were banned from visiting the Vincentinum in 1926. As a direct result of the entry restrictions, the Vincentinum lost a large part of its students. As a result, the state rifle barracks and the Truefergut were purchased in Schwaz in North Tyrol and the Paulinum Episcopal Gymnasium was set up there. The teaching staff, teaching materials and inventory were divided between the Vincentinum and the Paulinum. The grammar school was re-founded in 1926 by Sigismund Waitz in Schwaz. A school partnership between the Vincentinum and the Paulinum continues to exist.

history

School operations began in November 1926 after a structural adaptation of the former barracks. Since the building in front of it served as accommodation for the families of war invalids from the First World War, these families had to be relocated from the city of Schwaz. This was followed by popular protests against the diocese. The distribution of school resources and professors created certain tensions. At the beginning, 202 students attended the seminar.

The name Paulinum, after the apostle Paulus , was given to the school in 1932 by Sigismund Waitz.

After the Anschluss in 1938 , the school was withdrawn from the church and administered by the National Socialist state apparatus. It remains a school for boys, which was named after Michael Gaißmayr . The teaching staff was dismissed and in some cases was exposed to severe persecution by the National Socialists. Many students also left the facility.

In addition to a close network with campaigns by the Hitler Youth , the school was continued according to National Socialist values. The lack of pupil numbers was compensated for with the admission of girls from 1939 onwards. As the war continued, the lack of teachers and materials grew. In addition, more and more students were drafted into the Wehrmacht . Schools ended in winter 1944 and the building became a warehouse for bombed-out families, as it had done in the interwar period, and a military hospital. On September 18, 1945, the diocese reopened the school.

The boarding school existed until 1999.

architecture

The high school has a chapel and a meditation room. The chapel was built in 1929 according to the plans of the architect Albert Bermoser . It is one of 3 churches in Tyrol that were built in the interwar period and can be assigned to the New Objectivity . The glass paintings were created by the painter Carl Rieder in 1931/1932 and 1949, a total of 14 windows, depicting the five secrets of the joyous rosary , three scenes from the life of Mary, Joseph with the baby Jesus, Christ as king with angels. The winged altar, built around 1500, shows with reliefs the coronation of Mary, the Annunciation, the birth of Christ, the visitation and the adoration of the kings. The offer to students to start the day with a laud and then have breakfast together is offered alternately for the lower and upper grades. The chapel is a listed building .

In the 1960s, a third floor was added to accommodate the smaller class sizes in a maximum of 36 students. A new boarding school as well as an indoor swimming pool and an auditorium were also built. All renewals were planned by Hermann Hanak.

Due to the poor overall condition of the new buildings, the entire school center was renovated in 2004. The financing came in cooperation with the city of Schwaz, which was able to build a regional sports center on the former land of the school. In an architectural competition with 38 participants, Koch + Partner from Munich prevailed.

pedagogy

In the school there is mediation in case of difficulties and training is offered for committed students. There is also a choir.

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literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Schwaz, churches and chapels, chapel at the Paulinum grammar school, p. 709.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c story. In: paulinum.ac.at. November 4, 2019, accessed June 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Bernhard Schretter: History. The Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum. In: paulinum.ac.at. 2004, accessed June 28, 2020 .