Episcopal St.-Josef-Gymnasium Bocholt

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Episcopal St. Josef High School
Episcopal St. Josef High School
type of school Gymnasium (from 1974)
School number 167666
founding 1912, as a Progymnasium
address

Hemdener Weg 19

place Bocholt
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 50 '42 "  N , 6 ° 36' 47"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 50 '42 "  N , 6 ° 36' 47"  E
carrier Diocese of Münster
student about 850
Teachers 52
management Klaus Schepp
Website www.kapu-bocholt.de

The Bischöfliche St.-Josef-Gymnasium Bocholt , in short Kapu (from Kapuzinergymnasium ), is a Christian -oriented high school in Bocholt , which is supported by the diocese of Münster .

history

After several years of efforts by the order of the Capuchins , which began in 1905, a mission and monastery school was built from 1910 according to plans by the Swiss architect Joseph Steiner at Hemdener Weg 19 in Bocholt , which Father Josef Leonissa Bleyer officially opened on April 16, 1912 , after the first students from the Strasbourg-Königshofen (Koenigshoffen) convent school arrived on April 3 of that year and moved into the boarding school . Father Gregor Magnus Middendorf took up his post as the first headmaster. The first few years of this small school, whose purpose was initially to prepare boys and young men for missionary tasks in German South Sea regions , were shaped by the events of the First World War . Some students were called up for military service; Pupils came to Bocholt from other Capuchin monastery schools that were threatened by war. In 1917 all boarding school students had to be sent home for lack of food.

After the First World War, the school picked up again, so that by 1933 an average of 100 pupils attended the Progymnasium , which was expanded on July 4, 1921. The first monastery church was built in 1922/1923. The Unterprimaner were sent to Bensheim from 1926 , where they prepared for their Abitur in the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim Monastery . From 1929 the St.-Georg-Gymnasium in Bocholt took over its role. In 1931, Father Victor Isele, a new headmaster took office. Under his leadership, the number of pupils rose to around 130 between 1933 and 1936, including around a hundred boarding school students. In 1937 the school was expanded to include a gym. The educational policy of the Third Reich soon worsened the general conditions of the school considerably. In 1938, state officials were forced to take their students away from boarding school. On November 9, 1939, a few weeks after the start of the Second World War , the monastery school was closed and soldiers billeted in the monastery and school. On March 16 of the following year the monastery and mission school was formally dissolved and the headmaster resigned from his office. " Civilian workers " were also housed in the monastery. On March 22, 1945, a British air raid destroyed the school buildings except for the basement and the surrounding walls. Five fathers survived the attack and then lived first at Gut Hambrock, then at Diepenbrock Castle . Of around a hundred students who were drafted into the military, 35 did not return.

On January 11, 1946, the fathers resumed school service, albeit not at the school in Bocholt, which was destroyed in the war, but in the intact Capuchin monastery in Kleve . In 1947, Franz Xaver Bill, the third headmaster, took office. Under his aegis, the reconstruction of the Bocholt monastery school progressed from 1948 to 1951, so that on April 30, 1951 the school could start again with 36 students and five priests in Bocholt. As early as 1947, an emergency church for the Capuchins had been set up in the destroyed gymnasium. In 1957/1958 the Capuchin convent built a new church under the patronage of Laurentius von Brindisi . Their congregation held the status of an independent parish rectorate from 1961 to 2000 ; on July 1, 2001 it merged with the parish of St. Georg . In 1961 a new gym and a sports field could be opened. On behalf of the Rhenish-Westphalian provincial chapter of the Capuchins , in 1964, Father Roland Engelbertz initiated the preparations for a major structural expansion of the school by 1966. In 1965 he took over the post of headmaster from Bill. Since then the school has been called St. Josef College . At the beginning of the 1970s, under Engelbertz's leadership, the decisions were made to expand the Progymnasium into a grammar school and to introduce co-education in 1973 . On August 1, 1974, the school received state recognition as a full high school; In the following years the school was called St. Josef High School of the Capuchins . On June 7, 1974, the first eight students passed their Abitur there. Additional school buildings were opened in 1973 and 1974 to accommodate the growing number of students. A newly paved playground was added in 1977, and a new gymnasium in 1978. The boarding school closed on June 10, 1980. From the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1970s, it was proven that a father was sexually abused by three boarding school students. For the school year 1983/1984 the old-language grammar school also introduced English as a foreign language that can be selected in the first school year alongside Latin . On August 7, 1989, Father Paulinus Veith (1934–2003) took over the management of the school from Father Roland Engelbertz, who had been adopted on June 14th.

On January 1, 1993, the sponsorship of the grammar school changed from the Capuchins to the diocese of Münster. As a result, the name of the school changed to Episcopal St. Josef Gymnasium . In 1998 Hans-Dieter Kohnen took up the post of headmaster. By 2001 the Capuchins, who in the end had only formed a small part of the teaching staff, left the monastery on Hemdener Weg. Your monastery church, the parish church of St. Laurentius, was converted into an auditorium in 2002/2003 . Further structural changes to the building structure were carried out by 2011 according to plans by the Kleihues + Kleihues office in order to combine an energetic building renovation with an extension to a five-class high school for around a thousand students. On March 19, 2012, in the year of the school's centenary, the last construction phases of this expansion phase were opened. The architecture of this conversion and expansion plan (design by Josef Paul Kleihues and Norbert Hensel) was awarded the 2013 NRW School Construction Prize.

Philosophical orientation, educational offers and projects

The St.-Josef-Gymnasium regards “the Christian worldview and human image” as the basis of teaching and upbringing and strives for “holistic and responsible learning as an answer to changes in social and political demands”. The lessons are divided into 19 student councils. In addition to Latin, English can also be chosen as the first foreign language from grade 5, then Spanish or Latin or French as a second foreign language from grade 6. As a special offer, students can participate in a theater AG, in a photo- AG, in a juggling and acrobatics group called "Jokers" and in the school choir "Da Capu" open. The partner school is the Katolickie Gimnazjum i Liceum im. sw. Melchiora Grodzieckiego in Cieszyn (Teschen) in southern Poland .

Well-known students and teachers

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literature

  • Alexander Kotschetkoff: On the history of the origins of the Bocholt Capuchin monastery . In: Roland Engelbertz (Ed.): 75 years of the Capuchin in Bocholt: From 1912 to 1987 - and tomorrow too. In the spirit of St. Francis in the service of people . Verlag des St.-Josef-Gymnasium der Kapuziner, Bocholt 1987, pp. 16–24.
  • Alexander Kotschetkoff: The Capuchin Monastery Bocholt and its school . In: Roland Engelbertz (Ed.): 75 years of the Capuchin in Bocholt: From 1912 to 1987 - and tomorrow too. In the spirit of St. Francis in the service of people . Verlag des St.-Josef-Gymnasium der Kapuziner, Bocholt 1987, pp. 25–41.
  • Alexander Kotschetkoff, Hugo Stahl: The Capuchin Monastery in Bocholt . In: Unser Bocholt , vol. 51 (2000), pp. 37-40.

Web links

Commons : Saint Joseph Gymnasium (Bocholt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the extensive information material in the Capuchin Mission Collection of the University and State Library of Münster
  2. ↑ List of companies that profited from forced labor during National Socialism , p. 8, PDF ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the ns-in-ka.de portal , accessed on January 31, 2016
  3. ↑ Philologists' handbook for higher education . 1965, p. 329
  4. ↑ Three cases of abuse at the Kapuziner boarding school . Article from August 17, 2010 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on January 30, 2016
  5. ^ Renate Witteler: Cases of abuse at the Kapuziner boarding school in Bocholt . Article from March 19, 2010 in the portal wn.de , accessed on January 30, 2016
  6. ↑ St. Josef Gymnasium Bocholt, 2002–2011 , website in the portal kleinhues.com , accessed on January 30, 2016
  7. ^ Ministry of Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.) School building award 2013: Award of exemplary school buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia , PDF in the portal aknw.de , Düsseldorf 2013, p. 8 f.