Bundesrealgymnasium Schloss Traunsee
| BRG Castle Traunsee | |
|---|---|
| type of school | AHS |
| address |
Pensionatstrasse 74 |
| place | Altmünster |
| state | Upper Austria |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 54 '29 " N , 13 ° 46' 28" E |
| student | 506 |
| Teachers | 45 |
| management | Walpurga Moser |
| Website | www.schlosstraunsee.at |
The Bundesrealgymnasium (BRG) Schloss Traunsee is a former federal boarding school in Schloss Traunsee and ancillary buildings in Altmünster ( Upper Austria ).
type of school
The BRG Schloss Traunsee combines an economics high school and a natural science high school. The focus is on languages.
student
The number of 506 pupils consists of 281 boys and 225 girls who are taught by 45 teachers. Of these, 225 students are external, 242 semi-internal and only 39 students attend the boarding school .
School history
The boarding school, which was badly damaged after the Second World War , was rebuilt under the then director Alois Bauernfeind as the BEA (Federal Education Institute) Schloß Traunsee. The BRG Schloss Traunsee was originally an all-girls boarding school. A workshop for highly gifted people called "Talent Academy" was recently opened by the Talents Foundation.
Architecture and buildings
The school consists of the Traunsee Castle and a newer classroom building. The castle was built between 1873 and 1876 as Villa Marie Therese by the architect Heinrich Adam on behalf of Duke Philipp von Württemberg , who then gave it to his wife . In 1955, the castle came to the Austrian state through the State Treaty . Embedded in a spacious school park with a pond, the school buildings are also equipped with sports fields and a dining room. The nearby district sports hall is used for sports lessons in winter.
Educational work, equipment and offers
Lower level
The economics and natural sciences high school are still taught together in the lower level. The decision only takes place in the 5th grade. In addition to the compulsory subjects, there is an additional offer of non-binding exercises and optional subjects, some of which can also be continued in the upper level:
- Choir (1st - 5th grade)
- Performing play (1st-8th grade)
- Chess (1st - 4th grade)
- Soccer (1st and 2nd grade)
- Computer science (3rd to 5th grade: ECDL )
- Latin (from 5th grade)
- Typing (1st grade - crash course)
- Spanish (from 5th grade)
- School band (2nd - 8th grade)
Upper school
In the upper level, with a fixed number of hours, students can choose from a range of elective subjects in order to deepen their individual focus:
a) additionally
- Spanish
- Computer science
- Music education / art education
- nutrition and household
b) deepening and expanding
- religion
- ethics
- German
- French
- English
- History and Social Studies, Political Education and Legal Studies
- Geography and economics
- mathematics
- Biology and environmental studies
- chemistry
- physics
- Psychology, Education and Philosophy
Crime scene theater
The school's own theater group "Tatort Theater" is led by Rudolf Neuböck (artistic director) and looked after by Natalie Spiesberger (chairwoman). The group, supported by the Kiwanis Club Gmunden and the school's parents' association, has already made a name for itself in Austria through numerous and often award-winning plays and films .
School band
The school band of the BRG Schloss Traunsee is also known under the name "Didi & the Monkeys", has existed since September 2002 and is directed by Dietmar Kuffner. It currently consists of six singers, four pianists, a saxophonist, a trumpeter, two bassists, two guitarists and three drummers.
Talents Upper Austria
The BRG Schloss Traunsee also offers courses to support very talented children. Not only students from the school can register there, but also students from other schools. The aim of these offers is to support gifted students as widely as possible as a supplement or deepening to the offers in schools. In addition to the intellectual challenge, social aspects should not be neglected either. These courses usually last between 2 and 5 days. The students can decide whether they want to stay there or not. The night takes place in a gardener's house next to the castle.
Trivia
- In 1968, filming of the film " Always Trouble with the Paukern " with Roy Black took place in the premises of the castle and its surroundings .
principal
Until the end of 2012, Hans Moser was the director of the school. From then on, Manfred Stockhammer took over the management of the school. Since the beginning of school in September 2013, Walpurga Moser has been the new director of the school.
swell
- ^ Website of the Tatort Theater. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Tatort Theater. The productions from 1999 - 2012. Archived from the original on January 8, 2014 ; Retrieved February 5, 2007 .