Episcopal Willigis High School

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Episcopal Willigis High School
Willigis Gymnasium - View Willigisplatz.JPG
type of school high school
founding 1852
address

Willigisplatz 2

place Mainz
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 59 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 12"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 12"  E
carrier Diocese of Mainz
student about 1000
Teachers about 100
management Roman Riedel (since April 1, 2010)
Website www.willigis-online.de
The official logo of the Willigis-Gymnasium and the Willigis-Realschule

The Bischöfliche Willigis-Gymnasium is an episcopal high school founded by Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler in 1852 under the name "St. Marienschule" in the old town of Mainz . It has been sponsored by the Diocese of Mainz since it was founded and has been named after the former Bishop of Mainz Willigis since 1964 .

The Willigis-Gymnasium forms a school network with the coeducational Willigis-Realschule , which was founded in 1969–1972, but is still an exclusive boys' gymnasium . Schoolgirls, mostly from secondary school, are also admitted to the upper level.

In 1967 the Willigis-Gymnasium was the pilot school for testing the Mainz study level .

Focus

As a church institution, the focus of the school is on Christian education, for example through compulsory religious instruction and regular church services . There is also a focus on artistic subjects.

Since the school year 2008/09, the Willigis-Gymnasium has been participating in the Rhineland-Palatinate G8 pilot project, which is intended to enable the Abitur after 12 school years.

history

The St. Marienschule was opened on the feast of Mariä Candlemas on February 2, 1852 with 43 students as an upscale model school for all stands. Ketteler appointed the Marianists to manage the school and give lessons . When the order was forbidden to accept new members in the Kulturkampf from 1874 , the activities of the school order were also severely impaired. School assistants from the city clergy and secular teachers helped bridge this period. Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner decided, despite the only four remaining school brothers, that the Marienschule had to be preserved. After planning started in 1899, in 1901 an extension of the St.-Marien-Schule was carried out according to a design by the Frankfurt architect Hans Rummel in the presence of Bishop Heinrich Brück and the Rhenish Hessian provincial director Freiherr von Gagern, the governor Paul von Collas , the mayor Heinrich Gassner , of the Mainz cathedral chapter and other prominent figures.

During the First World War , the school was converted into a military hospital. Lessons continued in the sacristy of St. Stephen , in the seminary and in the episcopal chancellery. Despite an objection from Bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo , Johannes Gärtner, the third headmaster, was expelled by the French in March 1923; The reasons for this were not known. Cathedral preacher Wettig was the next headmaster until the school closed in 1938 due to the National Socialist policy regarding church schools. Bishop Albert Stohr announced in his pastoral letter of May 1, 1938 the end of all denominational schools in the diocese. The school was not reopened until 1955 and the school gradually moved back into operation until 1960, before the name was changed to the current name Willigis-Gymnasium . In 1972, the Willigis Realschule was finally founded, which a few years later made it necessary to expand and renovate the school building due to the increasing number of students, which was finally completed in 1985. In 2011 the school was expanded to include a cafeteria building and renovated.

Directors

  • 1851–1878 Josef Enderlin from the Frères de Marie Order
  • 1878–1899 Augustin Radat of the Order of Frères de Marie
  • 1899–1923 Johannes Gärtner, secular clergyman, expelled by the French
  • 1924–1938 Heinrich Wettig, secular clergyman
  • 1938–1955 school closed
  • 1955–1960 Wilhelm Bredel
  • 1960–1969 Konrad Kraus
  • 1969–1990 Theo Binninger
  • 1990-2010 Norbert Hämmerer
  • 2010– Roman Riedel

Known teachers

Known students

The following well-known public figures have attended the Willigis-Gymnasium (or the St. Marienschule):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School history (PDF; 88 kB)
  2. ^ Annual publication 2002/03 of the Bischöflichen Willigis-Gymnasium and the Bischöfliche Willigis-Realschule, p. 14
  3. ^ Annual publication 2007/08 of the Bischöflichen Willigis-Gymnasium and the Bischöfliche Willigis-Realschule, p. 48
  4. ↑ Hessian radio documentary "The whole life is a circus" about Heinz Schenk's life
  5. ↑ mainzer-carneval-verein.de: Deep mourning for Ady Schmelz
  6. ↑ bonewitz.de: MAINZ Quarterly Issues 1/11

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