Muristalden campus

Campus Muristalden Bern
Logo access Muristrasse
type of school	High school , private school , boarding school
founding	1854
address	Muristrasse 8–12 3006 Bern
place	Bern Switzerland
Canton	Bern
Country	Switzerland
Coordinates	601 622  /  199204 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '38 "  N , 7 ° 27' 36"  O ; CH1903:  601622  /  199204
carrier	Sponsoring association Campus Muristalden Campus Muristalden AG
student	around 500
Teachers	around 120
management	Ursula Käser
Website	www.muristalden.ch

The Muristalden campus is a cantonal and federally recognized grammar school up to the Matura and a private school of all levels in the Swiss city ​​of Bern . The previous institution was the Evangelical Teachers' Seminar Muristalden , founded in 1854 .

It is a state-recognized and partially subsidized, non-profit-making educational establishment with around 120 employees, attended by 497 students in 26 classes in the 2018/2019 school year. The private school brings together students from elementary level to grammar school under one roof. A special feature is the only well-attended boarding school in the city , which offers around 40 places.

School offer

Building Muristrasse 8 with the library entrance on the left

• Gymnasium: Long-term high school with interdisciplinary supplementary subjects; Optional bilingual high school diploma in mathematics, biology, physics and geography (in English and with English teaching materials), recognized in 2004.
• The elementary school from the basic level to the 9th grade is based on the cantonal curriculum and is a partner school of the University of Education in Bern , offering a day school from the basic to the intermediate level.
• Special educational integration classes (HIK) for children and adolescents whose connection to a regular class is currently not guaranteed.
• Bridging offers: 10th school year optionally with the profiles “Middle School”, “Profession” and “Design”.
• Promotion of gifted people, the visually impaired, the mobility impaired and talented young people (also in sports and music).

Affiliated are adult education offers in the theological area:

• The Kirchlich-Theologische Schule Bern (KTS): Course that lasts two years and ends with a special Matura examination, which entitles you to study theology at the Universities of Bern and Basel.
• Evangelical theological course (ETK): on behalf of the Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn , a three-year Evangelical theology course is held.
• Catechetical training: on behalf of the Reformed Churches in Bern-Jura-Solothurn, those interested in training without a secondary school diploma complete the general education course (ABK) on the Muristalden campus.

Culture

The Muristalden campus sees itself as a place of encounter and culture and organizes Bern's Café philosophique, concerts, lectures, exhibitions and large-scale events. Partnerships exist with the Education Department of the Canton of Bern, with the University of Education in Bern, with the Adult Education Center in Bern, with the Reformed Church in Bern-Jura-Solothurn, with Pro Senectute and other institutions.

The publication series Moments (published since 1998) documents the cultural offerings, questions of education, school development and everyday life.

Administration and operation

Fountain on the grounds of the Muristalden campus by architect Otto Brechbühl (1889–1984)

Legal body, sponsorship

• 1861 to 1917: run as a stock corporation (shares were personally subscribed)
• 1917 to 2001: Association of Evangelical Seminar Muristalden
• since 2001: again a stock corporation (CHF 2 million share capital held by the board of the sponsoring association)

Finances

With a current annual turnover of CHF 16 to 17 million, half must come from school fees, donations and bequests and the other half from CHF 4.5–5 million subsidies from the State of Bern and 3 to 3.5 million from rentals, events and guests.

History of the institution

Evangelical Seminary Muristalden 1863

Muristalden seminar with model school, condition after 1880

View from the southwest around 1970, building (from left): seminar building, pavilions, behind them the Konvikt and seminar school

Founding period

Compulsory schooling was anchored in the Bernese constitution relatively early, in 1831 . As a result, a cantonal teachers' seminar was set up in Münchenbuchsee ( Johanniterkommende Münchenbuchsee ). As a counterweight during the years of the Kulturkampf , pietistic -minded groups founded a Christian teacher training center. After the beginnings in Aarwangen in 1854 , the Education Directorate allowed the establishment of a school in Bern in 1855. Members of the Evangelical Community Agency in Bern, including their President Otto von Büren, set up the Evangelical Teachers' Seminar, in which over 2000 teachers were trained over the next 150 years.

Lessons began with 8 seminarians and twelve external students from the literary school . The collaboration between the initiators Vicar Friedrich Gerber (1828–1905) and Theodor von Lerber (1823–1902) also became significant for the Freie Gymnasium (so-called Lerberschule, Free Gymnasium Bern ) in Bern.

In 1862 the teacher training institute was moved from Junkerngasse to Muristalden to the grounds of the Thormann family ( Thormann patrician family ) and has since been called the Evangelical Teachers' Seminar Muristalden. In 1880 the newly built "Musterschule" (practice school, today elementary school) was ready for occupancy so that the future teachers could carry out their practical exercises in-house. A joint stock company emerged from the construction company.

From 1975, when there was a shortage of teachers, Muristalden received state subsidies. In 1970 the first girls were accepted into the seminar. But the withdrawal of religion from the public deprived the Protestant institute of its identity-creating basis, and from 1990 onwards, in the wake of national and international developments, teacher training was shifted from secondary to tertiary education, so that seminar teacher training became obsolete and Muristalden had to transform itself into a grammar school .

Latest time

From 1993 to 1995 Muristalden designed the new grammar school and introduced it in 1997. The Muristalden Bern campus received cantonal and federal recognition as a high school diploma in 2000, the first high school diploma was passed in 2001, and the teacher’s seminar was discontinued after the 139th doctorate left. "In the 1990s, the Evangelical Seminary Muristalden removed the term Evangelical from its name, but retained Christian values ​​in the statutes, including in the subsequent Muristalden Aktiengesellschaft".

Building history

Access to Seminarstrasse with building Muristrasse 10c on the right and building Muristrasse 12

The first seminar building on Muristalden was built in 1863, co-financed by the Protestant Society. In 1880 the so-called model school was rebuilt. After the strong growth (3 new classes from the model school and a fourth seminar class), the two buildings were connected by a central building in 1890/1891. In 1924–1926 a new seminar building with a music hall and gymnasium was built, and several pavilions were created in 1958–1964 for the subjects of drawing and handicrafts. The teacher education reform (extension of the training period to five years) required a renovation of the entire property from 1980 to 1984 with the establishment of a library, an auditorium, a new gym and a cafeteria (architects Peter and Jeannette Gygax). For the conversion of the Muristalden seminar to the Muristalden high school, the so-called Trigon was built as a new building from 2000 to 2002 on the neighboring property Muristraße 12, acquired in 1988.

Management of the seminar

• Theodor von Lerber (1823–1902), president of the management until 1869
• Friedrich Gerber (1828–1905), pastor, seminar director 1869–1905
• Walter Strasser (1863–1936), pastor, seminar director 1905–1921
• Gottfried Fankhauser (1870–1962), seminar director 1921–1938
• Fritz Burri (1876–1950), Dr., seminar director 1938–1943
• Alfred Fankhauser (1906–1987), pastor, teacher, seminar director 1943–1972
• Theo Brüggemann (1927–2014), pastor, Grand Councilor of the Canton of Bern 1986–1992, seminar director 1972–1989
• Triumvirate 1989–2001: Rev. Robert Furrer as general director, Walter Staub seminar director, Ruedi Stauffer director of the seminar school
• Christian Trepp, director 2001–2005; Franz Müller, director of the expiring seminar
• Walter Staub (1946–2011), rector of the grammar school 2000–2005, director of the Muristalden campus 2006–2011
• Martin Fischer, director 2011–2018
• Ursula Käser, director since 2018

Alumni of the Muristalden seminar and campus (selection)

• Yangzom Brauen (born 1980), actress, writer and director
• Willy Burkhard (1900–1955), composer
• Barbara Egger-Jenzer (born 1956), Councilor of the Canton of Bern 2002–2018
• Ulrich Egger (born 1958), teacher and Bernese Grand Councilor
• Alfred Fankhauser (1890–1973), writer, astrologer
• Adolf Fluri (1865–1930), historian and educator, Dr. hc of the University of Bern 1903
• Manuel Gasser (1909–1979), journalist, co-founder of Weltwoche
• Albert Häubi (1891–1963), drawing teacher and painter, president of the Olten Art Association
• Peter Hug (born 1955), historian
• Fritz Joss (1886–1939), teacher, National Councilor BGB 1919–1939, Councilor of the Canton of Bern 1926–1939
• Alain Klee (born 1963, great-grandson of Paul Klee ), geoscientific taxidermist and artist
• Andrea Leila Kühni (born 1970), director
• Ernst Löliger (1911–1984), teacher, Councilor of the Canton of Baselland 1963–1975
• Arthur Loosli (born 1926), concert singer and painter
• Jonas Lüscher (born 1976), Swiss-German writer and essayist
• Paul Michael Meyer (born 1946), teacher and writer
• Marco Michel (born 1984), actor
• Rudolf Rubi (1918–2004), teacher and local historian of Grindelwald
• Klaus Schädelin (1918-1987), ref. Pastor, politician and writer
• Nathanel Schär (born 1980), actor and singer
• René Schifer Schafer (born 1953), composer, guitarist, arranger
• Hans Ulrich Schwaar (1920–2014), teacher, writer, art collector, friend of Lapland
• Ueli Seiler-Hugova (born 1942), anthroposophical educator and author
• Christine Stückelberger (born 1947), dressage rider
• Hermann Wahlen (1901–1990), educator and writer
• Bettina Wegenast-Rohrer (born 1962), children's book author
• Martin Werner (1887–1964), professor of theology
• Hans Wüthrich (1937–2019), composer and linguist
• Alexander Wyssmann (born 1969), pianist and composer

literature

• Commemorative publication on the 75th anniversary of the Evangelical Seminary on Muristalden Bern 1854–1929. From Fritz Burri et al. a. Verlag Berner Tagblatt, Bern 1929. (History of the seminar and memories of former students.)
• Jubilee publication 1854–1954, a contribution to the Bernese church and school history. by Jakob Staub u. a. Verlag Seminar Muristalden, Bern 1954. (History of the Muristalden seminar 1854–1954; the intellectual-historical situation around the middle of the 19th century (liberalism and pietism); reports from former students during the war and crisis.)
• 125 years of the Evangelical Seminar Muristalden, 100 years of the seminar school: Anniversary publication 1979. Verlag Seminar Muristalden, Bern 1979. (One hundred years of seminar school; history of the Evangelical Seminary of Muristalden 1954–1979.)
• From the Protestant seminar to the Muristalden campus [anniversary publication 1854–2004]. With contributions by Christian Trepp, Walter Staub a. a., red. Ruedi Stauffer. Edited by Campus Muristalden AG, Bern 2004. (including , inter alia: Evangelical schools in Europe, an interim balance sheet , by Eckhart Marggraf; Welt in der Schule, Schule in der Welt: Die Globalisierung in der Pädagogik , by Rudolf H. Strahm; Chronicle of the last 25 years).

Recollections from graduates

• Ursfelix Aemmer [pseudonym for Hans-Jürg Steiner]: U settig white teacher would be… ; Licorne Publishing House, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-85654-168-3 . (Experiences of a seminarist around 1960, Bern German).

archive

The library and archive of Campus Muristalden can also be used by external persons for research (by arrangement). The complete series of annual reports Seminar Muristalden since 1875 serves as an introduction to research.

Web links

Commons : Campus Muristalden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Muristalden Bern campus
• Website Kirchlich-Theologische Schule Bern
• Campus Muristalden , in: Berchtold Weber, Historisch-Topographisches Lexikon der Stadt Bern , Bern, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sponsoring Association Campus Muristalden , Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on September 17, 2018.
2. ↑ Campus Muristalden AG , Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on September 17, 2018.
3. ^ Markus Nägeli: Gerber, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
4. ^ Christine Stuber: Lerber, Theodor von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
5. ↑ Christian Trepp: Tomorrow has already started today. In: From the Protestant seminar to the Muristalden campus [anniversary publication 1854–2004]. With contributions by Christian Trepp, Walter Staub a. a., red. Ruedi Stauffer, ed. from Campus Muristalden AG, Bern 2004, pp. 14–29, especially p. 25.
6. ↑ Walter Staub: Gymnasium. In: From the Protestant seminar to the Muristalden campus [anniversary publication 1854–2004]. With contributions by Christian Trepp, Walter Staub a. a., red. Ruedi Stauffer, ed. from Campus Muristalden AG, Bern 2004, pp. 32–53, especially pp. 32f.
7. ^ Ruedi Stauffer: Secularization and Identity. In: From the Protestant seminar to the Muristalden campus [anniversary publication 1854–2004]. With contributions by Christian Trepp, Walter Staub a. a., red. Ruedi Stauffer, ed. from Campus Muristalden AG, Bern 2004, pp. 119–122, especially p. 121.
8. ^ Markus Nägeli: Gerber, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
9. ↑ Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Fankhauser, Gottfried. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
10. ↑ Kurt von Fischer: Burkhard, Willy. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
11. ^ Charles Linsmayer: Fankhauser, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
12. ↑ Urs Amacher: Albert Häubi and his mosaic in the Olten vocational school . Bifang-Verlag, Olten 2019.
13. ^ Christoph Zürcher: Joss, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
14. ^ Sibylle Rudin-Bühlmann: Löliger, Ernst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
15. ^ Christoph Zürcher: Schädelin, Klaus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
16. ↑ Max Ulrich Balsiger: Werner, Martin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .