Cecilien High School in Düsseldorf

Cecilien High School
type of school	high school
School number	164392
founding	1907
address	Schorlemerstrasse 99
place	Dusseldorf
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 14 '19 "  N , 6 ° 44' 57"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '19 "  N , 6 ° 44' 57"  E
carrier	State capital Düsseldorf
student	about 1000
Teachers	81
management	Rita M. Becker
Website	homepage.ceci.de

Entrance to the Cecilien High School

The Cecilien-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel , the municipal Cecilienschule , was founded on April 16, 1907 as the “Higher Girls' School in Obercassel”. From 1972 it was called the Städtisches-Cecilien-Gymnasium - secondary level I (with Montessorizweig) and II .

history

The school for higher daughters was opened with 61 students and four teachers at Roonstrasse 9 and 11, today Sonderburgstrasse, by the then director Auguste Otterbein (1877–1967), who later became the wife of the Mayor of Heerdter Nikolaus Knopp. In the house on Roonstraße 9, bought by the community, a "higher boys' school", later the Comenius grammar school, was also housed from 1908. The gymnasium behind the former garden (playground) was used jointly. In 1909, due to the strong demand caused by the incorporation of Oberkassel , Niederkassel and Lörick into Düsseldorf , a new building was started on Wettiner Straße / Arnulfstraße, which was inaugurated in 1910. In 1911 the school was named after the Crown Princess Cecilie and expanded into a ten-class lyceum . Professor Freiburg took over the management. Auguste Otterbein stayed with the school as a teacher until she left the school in 1927. Aenne Franken (1890–1958) took over the management of the school from autumn 1927. She belonged to the Center Party and was also active in the Catholic Women's Association, which promoted social equality for women in the women's movement of the time , in order to promote women in particular through education. Franken was in turning the school operations as defined by Nazi ideology considered unsuitable and the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service for the simple school teacher downgraded and the Luisenschule shifted to look out for the war , as part of the reparations , took over the management of this school. In autumn 1935 Hermann Bruns took over the office of director. The school was quickly redesigned in line with National Socialist ideology, teachers were subjected to an opinion test, and the school library was cleaned up. Jewish pupils had to leave school after the Reichspogromnacht of 1938.

Middle building of the elementary school at Niederkasseler Straße 36

In the 1940s, the middle section of the elementary school on Niederkasseler Strasse was used for housekeeping lessons at the Cecilie grammar school, which from 1945 also included students from the “higher boys' school”. In 1943, as part of the expansion of the extended Kinderlandverschickung , organized by the NSV , the lower and middle grades of all girls' high schools were relocated to the “ Admission Region Thuringia ” and in November 1944 all schools in Düsseldorf were closed. On January 1, 1945, the school building on Wettiner Strasse was badly damaged by bombs.

After the Second World War , the politically unaffected Wilhelmina Schönheinz (1889–1977) took over the management of the school, "who stood by her students with natural authority and strong social commitment in the difficult phase of the post-war period." Due to the damage to the main building during the war, she had to the school building of the Comenius-Gymnasium on Comeniusplatz (built in 1912) can also be used. The lack of space came to an end when the new school building on Schorlemerstraße could be moved into in 1958. In 1972/73 coeducation , the reformed upper level and differentiation in the intermediate level were introduced. In 1974 a Montessori branch was established, in 1989 a bilingual branch.

Partnerships exist with the Japanese International School in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel and the International School of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth . On August 25, 2008, the Cecilien Gymnasium was awarded the title of the first European school in Düsseldorf.

In January 2009, the Cecilien-Gymnasium was awarded the seal of "career choice and training-friendly school".

chronology

• 1910: Inauguration of the new school building on Wettiner Strasse
• 1911: The naming after the Crown Princess Cecilie is approved; the high school for girls is being expanded into a ten-class lyceum
• 1919: In February the school had grown to 331 students and 16 teachers
• 1943: The lower and middle grades of all girls' high schools are relocated to Thuringia
• 1944: On November 7th, all schools in Düsseldorf are closed
• 1945: The school building is badly damaged by a bomb on January 1st
• 1945: On October 1st, the school is reopened for school operations with three branches - lyceum, college and women's high school
• 1950: Girls' grammar school and women's high school
• 1958: School starts in the new building on Schorlemerstraße
• 1959: New-language girls' grammar school and women’s high school with a natural science and home economics direction
• 1972: Introduction of co-educational education
• 1972: Gradual introduction of the reformed upper level (instruction in the course system) and differentiation in the intermediate level
• 1974: Start of Montessori work
• 1981: Establishment of the school partnership with the Japanese International School Düsseldorf
• 1982: Over 1000 pupils attend the Cecilien High School
• 1989: Introduction of the bilingual branch
• 1999: 25 years of the Montessori branch
• 1999: 10 years of bilingual branch
• 2003: The Cecilien-Gymnasium gets new windows and the renovation of the main building begins
• 2004: Start of the official partnership with the International School of Düsseldorf eV
• 2005: In April moving back into the renovated building
• 2007: 100 years of the Cecilien High School
• 2008: Cooperation agreement with NRW.BANK
• 2008: The Cecilien-Gymnasium becomes Düsseldorf's first European school
• 2009: In January the Cecilien-Gymnasium is awarded the "SIEGEL career choice and training-friendly school"

School partnerships / cooperation partners

The Cecilien-Gymnasium has had a school partnership with the Japanese International School in Düsseldorf since 1981. The International School of Düsseldorf was added on January 12, 2004. Further cooperation partners are:

• the University of Witten-Herdecke
• the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
• the NRW.Bank
• the entrance GmbH
• the Diakonie Düsseldorf
• the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
• the Tonhalle Düsseldorf .

Former students

• Heide Buscher (* 1938), literary historian
• Elias H. Füllenbach (* 1977), Catholic theologian
• Christina Schütze (* 1983), athlete
• Lisa Marie Schütze (* 1996), athlete

literature

• Transport and beautification association for the left bank of the Rhine in the city of Düsseldorf e. V. (Ed.): Our century. Chronicle of a peninsula, Düsseldorf-Linksrheinisch 1904–2004 . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-89978-017-5 .

Web links

• Cecilien Municipal High School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ contact person. In: homepage.ceci.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The higher girls' school, housed in buildings at Sonderburgstrasse 9 and 11, was able to move into its stately new building in 1910. , in the annual report of the municipal high school i. E. am Comeniusplatz (Düsseldorf-Oberkassel), school year 1910. 3rd annual report, p. 5
3. ^ Annual report 1908–1909 “Gymnasiums i. E. “(high school in development) in Obercassel near Düsseldorf
4. ^ Herrmann Bruns from 1917 to 1918 Study Assessor (StAss) at the Rethel-Gymnasium (or Jacobi-Gymnasium); 1918–1933 Student Councilor (StR) at the Goethe-Gymnasium (or Auguste-Victoria-Schule), list lehrer_stand_2006: "Teachers at the former high schools"
5. ↑ See Elias H. Füllenbach, "The German Youth Is Not Wrong Around". The Cecilien School in the "Third Reich", in: 100 years Cecilien-Gymnasium Düsseldorf, Dinklage 2007, pp. 47–48.
6. ↑ In the spring of 1943, as a reaction to the ever more frequent and increasingly severe Allied air raids against the German cities, there was a further expansion of the extended children's area dispatch. In connection with a “precautionary relocation” ordered for one location, all general education schools have now been closed and evacuated as part of the KLV. in Gerhard E. Sollbach: The extended Kinderlandverschickung in World War II (PDF) , accessed on November 8, 2016
7. ↑ History of the Cecilie-Gymnasium with a picture of the school building on Wettiner Straße ( memento of the original from January 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Wilhelmina Schönheinz, being half-Jewish, was dismissed from school in autumn 1933.
9. ↑ Transport and improvement association for the left bank of the Rhine part of the city of Düsseldorf e. V. (Ed.): Our century. Chronicle of a peninsula, Düsseldorf-Linksrheinisch 1904–2004 . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-89978-017-5 , p. 20.
10. ^ Comenius-Gymnasium school history: The resumption of classes took place in October 1945 under the most difficult conditions. (...). The Cecilien Gymnasium also found accommodation in the rooms on Comeniusplatz until 1958, as its own building had been completely destroyed.
11. ↑ Cecilien High School - History. (No longer available online.) In: cecilien-gymnasium.de. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017 ; accessed on January 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ School partnerships on the website of the Cecilien-Gymnasium ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , We maintain a lively exchange with the nearby Japanese International School in Düsseldorf. This official school partnership has existed since 1981. Active participation and participation in the school festivals, observations and joint projects as well as contacts between the teaching staff have been a good tradition for almost 30 years. In November 2011 we look forward to the 30th anniversary of this partnership. On January 12, 2004, the Cecilien-Gymnasium founded another school partnership. Since then we have been cooperating with the International School Düsseldorf e. V. in many projects. We work together in the fields of art, music, theater and sport, especially in the interests of the students in the bilingual branch. 
13. ↑ School program 2015: Cooperation partners (page 46) ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 'Many projects at our school are organized in addition to normal teaching. We need help for that. That is why we have agreed cooperation and learning partnerships with various institutions in recent years. Our cooperation partners are: (...)