Casimirianum Coburg

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Casimirianum Coburg
Coburg-Casimirianum.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1605
address

Gymnasiumsgasse 2-4

place Coburg
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 15 '25 "  N , 10 ° 57' 56"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '25 "  N , 10 ° 57' 56"  E
student 522 (as of 2011)
management Burkhard Spachmann
Website www.casimirianum.de

The Casimirianum is a high school in Coburg , Bavaria . It was founded in 1605 and named after the school donor Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg (1564–1633). Today the Casimirianum is a linguistic and humanistic grammar school with the language sequence Latin from the fifth grade, English from the sixth grade and Italian, ancient Greek, French or Spanish as the third compulsory foreign language. Since the 2019/20 school year, the reverse order is also possible, English from the fifth grade, Latin from the sixth grade. With the 2009/10 school year, the profile was expanded to include a scientific and technological branch with Latin as the first foreign language. The school participated in the school experiment European School in part and (provisionally in 2015) one of 44 MODUS21 - model schools . Since October 19, 2015, the Casimirianum has been an official member of the “School without Racism - School with Courage” alliance.

The oldest grammar school in Coburg has a student association . The Casimiriana is a non-political and independent association founded in 1861 by students and former students of the Casimirianum. The boys band has the colors black-gold-green. The Fuxenband the colors gold-green. Both have a golden percussion . The hat is green.

history

On September 2nd, 1601 the foundation stone was laid by Duke Johann Casimir, on July 3rd, 1605 the Renaissance building built by Peter Sengelaub was inaugurated. According to the duke's deed of foundation, this state school should be "a medium or means" between a trivial school and a high school or academy. The lectures were “publice et gratis”. A convictorium (boarding school) was set up "with two tables, up to twenty four boys, one table for free, and a seven-dollar allowance from each person on a weekly basis ". The Duke knew “ how sometimes poor people are children, who by nature have good vigilance, and who want to discipline them and Lahr, also like to be educated, are often ignored, neglected and neglected, which we then do not like to know or hear in the slightest woltten ... ".

From the letter of acceptance of Duke Johann Casimir, the deed of foundation of the Casimirianum, dated July 3, 1605: “Undoubted caution, when over this our ordinances and foundations steiff and vest adhered, the preceptors honest and vleisig, and the public lectures increased, too the beneficim communis mensae properly conducted, it will be done in a Christian way to honor God, to inherit Christianity, and to prosper our lands, in time by kind people and first and foremost to follow ours, increased and promoted to such an extent that it attains what was initially intended ".

On November 11, 1677, Emperor Leopold I granted the imperial privilege to establish a new university in Coburg. In 1705, Coburg University was proclaimed on the occasion of the school's centenary. However, due to disputes among the seven Ernestine princes involved and a lack of financial resources, the efforts of a joint committee to establish a second university next to Jena were given up in 1723 . The Casimirianum grammar school retained the structure from 1607.

architecture

Opposite the Morizkirche , on the corner plot of the Neugasse, the Ratskornhaus, built in 1496 as a granary, stood until 1601. Duke Johann Casimir had it torn down and by 1605 Nikolaus Bergner and Peter Sengelaub, who lived in the house opposite, built a "high school with convictorium" (boarding school). For Bergner it was the second of his three magnificent buildings in Coburg. The construction of the government chancellery was just completed, that of the armory was still to follow. The two-storey gable roof building in the Renaissance style is determined by a row of six dwelling houses with richly structured tail gables and a pyramid each as a pointed end. Both three-storey gable sides are very ornate with volute braces and five pyramids each on the ends of the storeys. The eight to three window axes are designed as large windows with central mullions on the upper floors; the central windows are only simple on the gable ends. The ground floor is divided in two by a round arched portal in the middle, which consists of overlapping round bars and whose entablature with architrave , bulge and cornice rests on consoles . To the left of this gate there is an entrance portal with a low round arch supported by laced leaf volute consoles, which is closed by a cornice with an egg stick and tooth cut . On the north-east corner, facing the church, there is a stone figure of the grammar school founder, Duke Johann Casimir, renovated in 1638 by Veit Dümpel . Originally the gable side to the right of the figure was painted with pictures of famous scientists. On the back there is the polygonal stair tower with a stone spiral staircase , onion dome and lantern , in which the high school bell hangs , rising one and a half stories above the roof ridge . In the auditorium of the grammar school there are wooden panel pictures with the allegories of the seven virtues , which were discovered in the Münzmeisterhaus in 1957. The current high school complex was created through numerous alterations and additions carried out over the course of 400 years, as well as the demolition of surrounding town houses. The last extensions were in 1961 a gym with a break hall on Neugasse and from 1986–1988 another school building with a music room in the direction of Ketschengasse.

tradition

Casimirianum Coburg 1975

At the end of each school year, as part of the annual foundation festival, the stone figure of the school's founder, Duke Johann Casimir, is "wreathed" on the corner of the school's Renaissance building. A pupil of the 11th grade or, before 2011, the 12th grade from the upper third of the grade gives a speech, then he or she climbs up a ladder to the figure of the school founder and puts a wreath on him the head of stone. Another wreath is attached to the arm of the former ruler. Then the students are given three glasses of beer one after the other (occasionally apple spritzer as a substitute), which he or she empties with the words "Gymnasium Casimirianum vivat", "crescat" and "floreat in aeternum" (translation: "The Gymnasium Casimirianum may rejoice, grow." and bloom forever ”) and throws to the ground. The shards of the glasses are eagerly picked up by the students, as they should bring good luck and good grades in the next school year. To celebrate, the school song with three stanzas (melody: Vom hoh'n Olymp) is sung, the first two stanzas before the act of wreath, the last at the end.

With the Casimiriana there has been a student association at the grammar school since 1861 .

Grading controversy

In July 2013, an anonymous criminal complaint was filed against the school director Burkhard Spachmann for abuse of office, after the headmaster had disregarded the second correctors in all 86 cases during the 2013 German Abitur and raised the grades by one point without informing the teaching staff. According to the teachers, the exams were "corrected in a more student-friendly way". As chairman of the examination board, he also confirmed with his signature that the examination result was properly achieved. After an exceptionally long examination, the Coburg District Court issued a penalty order against the director of the Casimirianum for false authentication in office . In the last instance, the Bamberg Higher Regional Court acquitted Spachmann on June 8, 2015, since the court believed that the higher school leaving certificate was not a false certification. Due to violations of the official duties and the grammar school regulations, the Ministry of Education resumed the dormant disciplinary proceedings. The Bavarian Administrative Court finally confirmed a judgment of the first instance of the Ansbach Administrative Court on January 15, 2019 . It planned to cut the headmaster's salary by ten percent for three years, since the correction of the high school diploma theses was a “blatant violation of the right to examinations”. The judges did not see a complete loss of confidence in the headmaster's work.

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Known teachers

Quotes

  • He had spent his youth at the Coburg grammar school, which was one of the first among German educational institutions. There he had laid a good foundation in languages ​​and what was otherwise considered a learned education. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe about his father Johannes Caspar Goethe, quoted from From my life, poetry and truth , first book)

literature

  • Invitation from the Casimirianum high school in Coburg to the closing ceremony . Coburg, 1856–1914 ( digitized version )
  • Norbert Enser, Rudolf Brückner (Ed.): 125 years of Casimiriana: the history of Casimiriana and the life of Aktivitas then and now . Old gentlemen's association of Casimiriana Coburg e. V., Coburg, 1986.
  • Joachim Goslar, Wolfgang Tasler (eds.): Musarum Sedes 1605–2005, commemorative publication for the 400th anniversary of the Casimirianum Coburg high school . Casimiranium High School, Coburg, 2005
  • Casimirianum high school, Casimiriana school association (ed.): Casimirianum - Casimiriana: Festivities of the Casimirianum school association in Coburg for the 400th school foundation festival of the Casimirianum grammar school in Coburg . Old gentlemen's association of Casimiriana Coburg e. V., Coburg, 2005; Student History Association of the Coburg Convent, Würzburg, 2005
  • Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments. Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV , p. 48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-87490 590-X
  • The register of the high school Casimirianum Academicum in Coburg 1606–1803. Edited in list form, supplemented and provided with biographical information by Curt Hoefner. Schöningh, Würzburg 1958 (Publications of the Society for Franconian History, Series 4: Matriculations of Franconian Schools, Vol. 6)
  • The register of the high school Casimirianum Academicum in Coburg 1606–1803. Supplementary booklet edited by Curt Hoefner. Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 1976 (Publications of the Society for Franconian History, Series 4: Matriculations of Franconian Schools, Vol. 6A) ISBN 3-7686-4029-9

Web links

Commons : Casimirianum Coburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Supplement to the Official Gazette of the Bavarian State Ministries for Education and Culture and Science, Research and Art, Number 5, published in Munich on March 15, 2011, year 2011
  2. ↑ Casimiriana
  3. ↑ infranken.de: February 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Finished grades in the Abitur: the headmaster doesn't have to pay a fine. In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2015, accessed December 31, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Steffi Wolf: Abitur corrected: Spachmann remains headmaster at the Casimirianum . np-coburg.de, January 16, 2020