Zehnergasse Federal High School

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Zehnergasse Federal High School
Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse 02.jpg
type of school Bundesrealgymnasium
School number 304046
founding 1914
address

Zehnergasse 15

place Wiener Neustadt
state Lower Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 48 '47 "  N , 16 ° 13' 43"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '47 "  N , 16 ° 13' 43"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
student around 1130
Teachers about 110
management Werner Schwarz
Website www.bgzwn.at

The Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse is a grammar school in the city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria .

history

Women's education association and girls' college

A proponent committee dedicated Wiener Neustadt citizens, including prominent representatives of the nobility as the Princess Irma by Liechtenstein or the Princess Windisch Graetz, manufacturers, as the couples Karl and Emma Haberl, Hermann and Emma Elsinger, Ferdinand and Louise Porsche founded in the spring of 1914 a woman Education Association , who set himself the goal of creating a girls' college . The association was financed mainly from generous donations from wealthy citizens and (after the school opened) from school fees. The initiative proved to be successful and in September the new educational facility with 30 students and 7 teachers was opened. Friedrich Trathnigg, teacher at the state high school, was appointed the first (part-time) headmaster. But he soon had to move to the front and was replaced by Robert Braun, a teacher at the teacher training seminar.

From the Lyceum to the Reform Realgymnasium

The Lyceum was initially offered in six classes, an eight-year curriculum with a final full-fledged school- leaving examination was initially refused by the school authorities. In the school year 1918/19 all grades were occupied for the first time and the first Matura exams for intermediate maturity were successfully held. But this was not associated with a university entrance qualification. Therefore, the women's education association worked hard to be able to set up an eight-year high school for girls with Matura exams that entitle them to university studies. This was finally granted in the school year 1922/23, so that the new upper level was set up for the first time in this year and the first full Matura exams could be held in 1926. The women's education association also tried hard to get the state to take over the school, but this was consistently rejected by the authorities. After all, succeeded in 1934, the first time a full-time director, Ms. Charlotte Poelzl (she was the first woman at the Graz University in physics wrote his dissertation ) to install as principal.

The school between 1938 and 1945

Frau Poelzl's successful work was suddenly interrupted by the National Socialist takeover in Austria. She was deposed as director and replaced by the National Socialist Max Langer. After all, it is thanks to their influence that the Jewish students were met with more tolerance than elsewhere and that some of them were even able to successfully pass the Matura. In the school year 1938/39, however, there were no more Jewish pupils at the school. A long-term goal of the women's education association was to have the state take over the school. That was done during the Nazi era. But this was probably the only positive innovation from this terrible time, but those personalities who have made a great contribution to the creation, financing and maintenance of the school in the women's education association have not been thanked by the new rulers. In 1943 the school location had to be relocated to Kirchberg am Wechsel as part of the children's area. The Allied bombing raids on Wiener Neustadt made an orderly school operation in the city seem too dangerous. The students were housed in inns and had to help in the kitchen or with field work. As the Soviet troops drew closer, teaching was stopped in March 1945. Many parents were no longer able to pick up their children. So the girls had to flee with the teachers. In a total of four groups you came to the Salzkammergut , to Carinthia and one group even to Bavaria . The girls could not be handed over to their parents until several weeks after the end of the war.

Reconstruction after 1945

From the educational and structural rubble after the Nazi era and World War I, the educational and structural reconstruction began after 1945. Charlotte Poelzl was reinstated as director, the teaching team was reorganized and the clean-up work in the school building progressed rapidly. In 1948 the nationalization of the school was confirmed by the young republic. The number of schoolgirls grew steadily, so that the school building - a former residential building - no longer met the requirements. The endeavor to build a new school building led to success in 1965 - a new school building in Zehnergasse was ready for occupation. Since the major school reform in 1962, two types of school have been run in the Zehnergasse grammar school : a modern-language grammar school and an economic | secondary school for girls. Great sporting successes of the students in various school competitions led to a school trial, an eight-year sports high school for girls from 1969. 1977/78 this type of school was adopted into the mainstream school system. In 1973 the first boys were accepted into the BG Zehnergasse, but left school after only one year. Since 1977, however, the grammar school has been run co-educational . The proportion of boys in the total number of pupils is almost 40%, in the classes of the Sportrealgymnasium it is higher.

The school in the new millennium

In the past two decades, the number of students, teachers and classes has grown rapidly. The BGZ is currently attended by more than 1,100 pupils, who are taught by over 100 teachers in 45 classes. The profiles of the individual training branches have been sharpened and developed very specifically. The following school types are offered:

  • Gymnasium (GYM) with a special focus on the development of language skills.
  • Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium (WRG) with reinforced type-building subjects, especially the subject “Business and Management”, which will soon be renamed “Wirtschaftskundliches Praxis” (WTP) as part of an internal reform in the upper level and is then also suitable for the written school-leaving examination will be.
  • Sportrealgymnasium (SRG) in two areas of training - multisport or with specialization in one sport. An aptitude test is carried out for admission to the Sportrealgymnasium.
  • Kunstrealgymnasium: The KRG is offered from the school year 2021/22 onwards from the 3rd grade and focuses primarily on the fine arts, supplemented by increased teaching in music and performing games.

architecture

From 1962 to 1964, a grammar school was built at the current location according to the plans of the architects Fritz Steinfelder and Werner Jaksch. The building has a familiar, structured floor plan with efficient access to corridors with almost equally large classrooms lined up next to one another. Three central auditoriums, stacked on top of one another, combined three side wings, which divided the property into different outdoor spaces.

The expansion and renovation of the school from 2010 to 2013 with the architect Gabu Heindl take up this structure and add two additional side wings. Several smaller courtyards of different sizes were created, which were assigned different uses. In the new components, class and sports wings without corridors and without classic rooms were created, creating learning zones, classrooms and sports areas of different sizes, which can also be used to respond to the respective uses with structural changes.

The courtyards to Zehnergasse are called the forecourt on the left and the front garden on the right, the second line on the left is the playground and the reading courtyard on the right, and the third line on the right is the afternoon courtyard and the center of the back is the Pergolahof. At the very back is the sports field, which is also used by the state vocational school behind .

A colorful ceramic wall by the painter Florian Jakowitsch (1923–2020), which depicts the life of the nun and philosopher Edith Stein (1891–1942), is part of the building's art in the old building . On the second floor there is another mural by Jakowitsch, which depicts “talented companions” of the man. In the auditorium on the first floor there is a mural in Secco by the painter Maximilian Melcher (1922–2002), which depicts The Magic Flute with Papageno and Papagena . In the school yard there are two female bronze sculptures (encounter) by the sculptor Kurt Ingerl (1935–1999).

The sculptor Manfred Wakolbinger (* 1952) created a monumental steel sculpture (cloud) of two plants on the narrow, closed main front of the central wing, which lean against the building and the former use of the property as an art in the construction of the renovation and extension remember as gardening. In the reading courtyard there is a plastic work by Almut Rink (* 1974) with WE ("we") as an embossing and ME ("I") as a relief , which is intended to remind you that learning takes place through embossing.

management

  • 1914 - 1915 Friedrich Trathnigg, full-time teacher at the Staatsgymnasium Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring
  • 1915 Maria Prodinger, interim
  • 1915 - 1921 Robert Braun, full-time teacher at the state teacher training college in Wiener Neustadt
  • 1921 - 1924 Johann List, professor at the secondary school in Wiener Neustadt
  • 1924 - 1930 Hermann Hinghofer, full-time director at the State High School
  • 1930 Stefanie Frisa, interim
  • 1930 - 1934 Heinrich Brouczek, full-time director at the state high school
  • 1934 - 1938 Charlotte Poelzl, first full-time director, dismissed for political reasons
  • 1938 - 1945 Max Langer, with 1943 also director of the secondary school
  • 1943 - 1945 Maria Suppan, provisional manager in the KLV camp in Kirchberg am Wechsel
  • 1945 - 1955 Charlotte Poelzl
  • 1955 - 1956 Adelheid Eysank, interim
  • 1956 - 1972 Elfriede Krieger
  • 1972 - 1973 Friedrich Wagner, interim
  • 1973 - 1987 Irene Stransky
  • 1987 Irene Brix, interim
  • 1988 - 2002 Bruno Stachel
  • 2002 - 2003 Sonja Koch, interim
  • 2002 - 2004 Karl Meixner, interim
  • since 2004 Werner Schwarz

Personalities

Known teachers

  • Otto Baxa (1898–1982), teacher at the BGZ 1930–1940, writer
  • Johanna Beisteiner (born 1976), classical guitarist and composer
  • Anton Faber (born 1962), teacher at the BGZ 1988/89, cathedral priest at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
  • Florian Kuntner (1933–1994), teacher at the BGZ 1968/69, provost in Wiener Neustadt and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna
  • Georg Pfligersdorffer (1916–2005), teacher at the BGZ 1945–1951, then Univ. Prof. at the University of Salzburg for classics
  • Wilhelm Waldstein (1897–1974), teacher at the BGZ 1919–1920, later section head; Composer, conductor and musicologist

Well-known graduates

literature

  • Heinrich Zwittkovits (compilation): 100 eventful years - 100 years of the Zehnergasse high school: 100 years of girls' education in Wiener Neustadt . Ed .: School Association Vital4Brain of the BG Zehnergasse. Self-published Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse, Wiener Neustadt 2014, DNB  1077069049 (Festschrift).
  1. ↑ Heinrich Zwittkovits: From the private girls' secondary school into a modern school - 100 years Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse . S. 12-59 .
  2. ↑ Bruno Stachel: 100 years of success? S. 90 .
  3. ^ Manfred Pfeiffer: Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse Wiener Neustadt - Art in Architecture . S. 116-119 .
  4. ↑ Gabu Heindl: 5 courtyards for Zehnergasse - expansion and renovation. S. 122-125 .
  • BG Zehnergasse Wiener Neustadt: Festschrift - 75 years BG Zehnergasse Wiener Neustadt . Self-published by Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse, Wiener Neustadt 1989, DNB  942536444 .
  1. ↑ Heinrich Zwittkovits: From the girls' college to the real sports school - the historical development of the BG Zehnergasse . S. 9-59 .
  2. ^ Karl Meixner: Image of women and women's education . S. 122-125 .
  • BG Zehnergasse Wiener Neustadt: Bundesgymnasium for girls and Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium for girls Wiener Neustadt for the opening of the new building in 1965 . Ed .: Directorate. Self-published by Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse, Wiener Neustadt 1965 (Festschrift).
  1. ^ Leopold Seltenhammer: From the history of the school .

Web links

Commons : Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c self-portrayal. (pdf) In: www.bgzwn.at. 2019, p. 2 , accessed March 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ School management. In: www.bgzwn.at. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Zwittkovits: School history - BGZWN. In: bgzwn.at. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Heinrich Zwittkovits: From the private girls' college to the modern (secondary) high school. (PDF; 7.5 MB) A century of Zehnergasse high school. In: bgzwn.at. February 10, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d BG Zehnergasse: 100 eventful years - noen.at. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . November 18, 2014, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Award for the renovation and expansion of the BG Zehnergasse. In: wn24.at. November 18, 2014, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ BG / BRG Wr. Neustadt - Federal Real Estate Company. In: big.at. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ B (R) G Zehnergasse Wiener Neustadt - GABU Heindl Architecture. In: gabuheindl.at. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .