Bishop Neumann School

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Bishop Neumann School
Königstein BNS.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1946
place Königstein im Taunus
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 10 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 24"  E
carrier St. Hildegard School Society of the Diocese of Limburg
student 782
Teachers 82
management Susanne Nordhofen, Jens Henninger
Website www.bns.info
main building
Church and canteen of the school

The Bischof-Neumann-Schule is one of three grammar schools in Königstein im Taunus and a state-recognized , Catholic- sponsored private school . The school sponsor is the St. Hildegard-Schulgesellschaft mbH of the Limburg diocese . The school was named after Johannes Nepomuk Neumann , an American bishop from Philadelphia and saint of the Catholic Church. Up to the end of the 1985/86 school year the school was a pure boys' grammar school, from 1986 girls were also admitted from the beginning class (previously, since 1982, only in justified individual cases).

history

The school was founded on November 15, 1946 as St. Albert School. The boarding school was intended to train the priests of the theologians expelled from Eastern Europe . In 1947 the St. Albert School became part of the Albertus-Magnus-Kolleg eV School and boarding school building was the lower of the two Königstein barracks buildings. In 1949 the Philosophical-Theological University of Königstein began training in the upper barracks building.

The St. Albert School became a full high school in the late 1950s. At that time, 270 boys were attending school. Due to the expansion, the college and school suffered from a lack of space. When the new building was inaugurated on November 15, 1966, it was renamed the Bischof-Neumann-Schule.

Furthermore, the school was committed to the displaced persons . She reported in the annual report that 55% of the students were the sons of East German expellees. It was the only grammar school in the Federal Republic of Germany to offer Russian, Polish and Czech as elective subjects.

In 1971 the school was also opened for Protestant boys, and in 1982 for female students. At the end of the 1970s the number of 1,000 students was reached; there were up to five parallel classes per year. At times, half of the "upper house" was also adapted for school purposes. In 2001 the main building was rebuilt. The cafeteria has been opened since then.

Special school profile

The school's motto is Educare in Christum , which emphasizes the Christian orientation. There are several joint services each year.

Latin is the first foreign language for all pupils from the fifth grade to the Latinum in grade 10.

From the fifth grade onwards, English is the second foreign language (at the same time as Latin); in the eighth grade, the pupil can choose French or Ancient Greek as a third foreign language. Since 2015, natural sciences have also been available as a substitute for the third foreign language.

Protestant or Catholic religious instruction is compulsory up to the Abitur, ethics is not offered.

In 2007 the school received the award "School with a focus on dance sport" from the German Dance Sport Association .

A local community of youth associations of the Christian Life Community has existed at the grammar school since 2005 and regularly offers excursions and other activities.

School exchanges and study trips

A student exchange takes place with schools in the French city of Nantes .

In grade five there is a trip to Bad Kreuznach , in grade seven a ski course in Austria and in grade eight a trip to England . There are also study trips to Greece , Italy , Spain and the Czech Republic .

Visits by students and teachers from the partner school St. Bernhard School / Kiserian in Kenya also take place.

School partnership

Since the 60th birthday of the BNS in 2006, there has been a school partnership with the St. Bernhard School in Kiserian / Kenya. The students of the BNS have committed themselves to work out a certain amount of money every year to support the partner school (10,500 euros in the 2007/2008 school year) in order to enable poorer children to attend school.

Contact with the school is made through the Order of the Holy Spirit Sisters ( Opus Spiritus Sancti ).

Alumni Association

An alumni association with around 920 members financially supports special projects at the school. He also creates a network of former students and holds an alumni reunion every two years.

Since the first event in 1992, Karl Otto Pöhl , long-time President of the Deutsche Bundesbank , the former Federal Defense Minister Peter Struck , the publisher of the FAZ Werner D'Inka , the former Israeli ambassador to Germany Avi Primor , the former Federal Minister of Economics, have spoken here and work Wolfgang Clement and Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble .

Well-known former students

literature

  • Beate Großmann-Hofmann: School town of Königstein im Taunus; in the yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 2012, ISBN 978-3-942921-22-0 , pages 56–57
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2011/2012
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2012/2013
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2013/2014
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2014/2015
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2015/2016
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2016/2017
  • Yearbook of the Bischof Neumann School: 2017/2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Gazette annual report of the school authority St. Hildegard-Schulgesellschaft mbH 2017
  2. ^ Directory. In: www.bns.info. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .