Burggymnasium Essen

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Burggymnasium Essen
Burggymnasium Essen.JPG
type of school high school
School number 164756
founding 852
address

Burgplatz 4

place eat
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 27 '18 "  N , 7 ° 0' 55"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '18 "  N , 7 ° 0' 55"  E
carrier City of Essen
student about 800
Teachers about 65
management Olaf Millmann
Website www.burggymnasium.de
Royal high school from 1882, destroyed by fire bombs in 1943

The Burggymnasium in downtown Essen traces its direct origin back to the merger of two long pre-existing schools of scholars in Essen in 1819; the former Lutheran grammar school (founded in 1564) and the older Catholic collegiate school, which was founded in 852 as a school for aristocratic women.

history

A Catholic collegiate school was founded in Essen in the 9th century. In 1564 a Lutheran Latin school was founded by the city council of Essen. Under its director Johann Heinrich Zopf, this became a model for the first school reforms aimed at practice-oriented training in the 18th century. His student Johann Julius Hecker founded the Prussian secondary school system. A close connection to the Collegium Groeningianum in the Prussian province of Pomerania has existed since then .

In 1819 the two denominational schools of scholars were united. When, on May 1, 1824, the two schools, which were combined to form a Prussian-royal high school, moved into the former Jesuit residence, which stood on the site of the current Burggymnasium, as a new school building, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Anzeiger wrote (May 5, 1824): “The first May of this year will and must remain a day of joy and blessing for the residents of Essen until later. ”In 1924 the school became a state high school; at that time it was called "Gymnasium am Burgplatz".

The school was named Burggymnasium in 1933. When Burgplatz was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Platz , it escaped the threat of renaming it to Adolf-Hitler-Gymnasium . Ten years later, on the night of April 3rd to 4th, 1943, the school building was completely destroyed during a bomb attack on Essen. From 1952 (class wing) to 1956 (gymnasium and auditorium) the school was rebuilt in its current form at its original location. In 1974 the former state high school became a municipal school. In 1975, co-education was officially started.

In 1992, English was introduced as the first foreign language in grade 5 and in 1995 the Burggymnasium multilingual model. In 2001, profile classes were introduced to shorten school time and promote talented students.

In 2004, the Burggymnasium also took over the premises of the Luisenschule Essen , whose school operations were closed. The secondary level II of the grammar school is housed in this branch today.

The Burggymnasium's orchestra is now a school orchestra known beyond Essen; At the school concerts in the auditorium, which has excellent acoustics, the number of visitors is over 400. In 2007 the so-called wind classes were introduced. Students in the 5th and 6th grades can register for this to learn an instrument in small groups in cooperation with the Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen. At the Ruhr-Universität Bochum , the school's big band plays annually at the farewell to the graduates of the economics faculty.

In March 2014, Peng Liyuan , the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping , attended Castle High School. In the same year the Chinese choir was founded. A delegation from the school was invited to Beijing for the closing ceremony of the Chinese-German Language Year with Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang . With the trip, the Burggymnasium also began a cooperation with the “Cao Yang No. 2 High School ”from Shanghai , which focuses on German lessons.

On January 14, 2020, the Burggymnasium was recognized as a school without racism - school with courage .

Buildings and Architecture

The building of the Burggymnasium Essen was designed in 1952 by the architect Horst Loy . This first new construction of a grammar school in Essen after the Second World War is on the city's list of monuments.

Special features of the school

music

  • Music class in grades 5 and 6 in cooperation with the Folkwang Music School Essen
  • Pre-orchestra
  • Castle Orchestra
  • Junior band
  • BurgBigBand
  • Chinese choir

theatre

  • Theater group in grades 5 and 6
  • Theater project in grades 8 and 9 under the direction of theater teacher Jens Niemeier
  • Regular participation in the Columbus project of the Grillo-Theater Essen during lessons
  • Literature courses in qualification phase I.

Language offer

  • Latin from grade 5 (parallel to English as a foreign language)
  • Intensive English (two additional lessons each in grades 5 and 6)
  • English bilingual from grade 7 (biology or a social science bilingual)
  • French or Latin as a second or third foreign language from grade 7
  • Spanish from Grade 8 or Grade 10 (upper level) as a third or fourth foreign language
  • Chinese from grade 10 (upper level)

Fall Academy

This is a project for grade 11, which is carried out at the beginning of the first half of the school year. In addition to introductions to life at the university and exercises for applications and job interviews, a rhetoric course and behavior training, the program also includes concentration training and relaxation exercises, including a dance course. The courses are supervised by external lecturers from the relevant departments.

Cooperations

In 2012, the Burggymnasium was the first school in the city to sign a cooperation agreement with the Essen City Library in order to ensure targeted promotion of reading. An educational partnership connects the high school with the House of Essen History , the archive of the city of Essen .

In the upper level, the school cooperates with the Essen Viktoria-Gymnasium to enable less demanding courses such as French, Latin and basic chemistry courses and SoWi and history courses.

Since 2014 the Burggymnasium has also had a cooperation with the “Cao Yang No. 2 High School “from Shanghai . To this end, the school has a cooperation with the Confucius Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

ZEUS

The Burggymnasium regularly on the project ZEUS ( Ze itung U nd S part chule), which in Essen by the publishers of the WAZ and NRZ is supported. As part of the approximately seven-week project, level 8 students receive the daily newspaper, read and discuss it in class. In addition, they create their own articles that can be published online or in the local section.

Former students of the Burggymnasium Essen

literature

  • Gronewald, Andreas: The Essen Burggymnasium 1824–1945: A high school in the mirror of changing political power systems . Essen 2012.
  • Josten, Monika / Sternberg, Brigitte: "Time is iron and fate is mighty." Two schools in Essen during the First World War. In: "The First World War". Rhine-Maas History, Language and Culture Vol. 5 (2014), ed. from the Institute for Lower Rhine Cultural History and Regional Development. Pp. 158-167.
  • Festschrift 175 years of the Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1999.
  • Festschrift 150 years of the Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1974.
  • Festschrift for the centenary of the grammar school on Burgplatz in Essen. Baedeker, Essen 1924.
  • Eduard Heyden: Gallery of famous and strange Reussenlanders: a biographical collection . Frankfurt am Main 1858. pp. 171f.
  • Karl Overmann: The history of the higher educational institutions in Essen in the 17th and 18th centuries with special consideration of the Evangelical Lutheran Gymnasium and its director Johann Heinrich Zopf. In: Essen contributions, 1928.

Web links

Commons : Burggymnasium in Essen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google books: Eduard Heyden - Gallery of famous and strange Reussenlanders; a biographical collection… Frankfurt am Main, 1858; P. 171ff. , last viewed on August 5th, 2011
  2. ^ Hugo Bloth: "Building bridges between the Burg- and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Essen and Stargard for more than 150 years." In: Festschrift 150 years of the Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1974. p. 32f.
  3. ↑ Martin Spletter: Students from Essen meet Chancellor Merkel in China . ( derwesten.de [accessed on September 22, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Recognition of the Burggymnasium as "School without Racism - School with Courage" ; Press release of the city of Essen from January 14, 2020
  5. ↑ Burggymnasium in Essen's list of monuments (PDF; 875 kB), last viewed on August 5, 2011
  6. ↑ Our cooperation partners. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .