Charles Hallgarten School
| Charles Hallgarten School | |
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| Main building of the Charles Hallgarten School | |
| type of school | Special school (special focus learning) |
| founding | 1913 |
| address |
Am Bornheimer Hang 10 |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '58 " N , 8 ° 43' 14" E |
| carrier | town Frankfurt am Main |
| student | 189 (as of 2005) |
| Teachers | 60 |
| management | Christoph Kleemann |
| Website | charles-hallgarten-schule.de |
The Charles Hallgarten School (formerly only Hallgarten school ) is a special school in the Frankfurt area Bornheim beneath the Bornheimer slope . The building was designed by Ernst May as part of the Bornheimer Hang estate of the Neues Frankfurt project and is a listed building .
The school building
The school building was built between 1928 and 1930 by Ernst May for the Röderberg reform school . May took into account both the principles of " New Building " and reform pedagogical ideas. Above all, it was important to him that the school should not, as usual, be a barrack-like imposing building in the midst of traffic noise; the students should get a school in the country with lots of light, fresh air and easy access to nature . The building was laid out as a so-called open space school at the foot of the Bornheimer slope in the triangle between the districts of Bornheim , Seckbach and Riederwald ; it is located on a spacious, tree- lined property in the middle of allotment gardens .
The school consists of a main building that runs almost exactly in a north-south direction and faces east. The main wing north of the central staircase is divided into three stories with many large terraces ; The school library and four classrooms are located on the slightly higher ground floor ( mezzanine floor ) , from which the green school yard can be reached via a continuous balcony and four stairs . Most of the rooms on the upper floors have access to terraces . South of the stairwell is the auditorium and then the gym ; both are illuminated through rows of windows at the level of the upper floor and can be opened to the outside through a front of folding doors along their entire length.
The main building is on the south by the residential buildings of the Administrator concluded that ends in a round-Ling with panoramic views.
In front of the northern main house, down the slope, are three parallel bars, which are connected to the central staircase in the south by a cross passage. Each bar contains four classrooms ; the connecting corridor is illuminated with skylights . The eastern wall of the classrooms (down the slope) consists of a window front that extends from the floor to the ceiling and brightly illuminates the room; a door allows direct access to the green area between the bars. In summer, however, solar radiation can lead to strong warming of some rooms. What was new at the time was the dissolution of the classic school desks, which were replaced by loosely grouped chairs and tables that can be arranged in rows or groups according to the respective purposes of the lesson .
At the time, the school was a luxury object: It was equipped with extremely generous specialist and utility rooms for this time, such as a gymnastics terrace , showers , dining room, kitchen and a film projector room. The plan for the teaching kitchen came from Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , the creator of the Frankfurt kitchen . Ernst May originally also built a swimming pool in the courtyard of his reform school ; but this was filled in in the 1960s. Instead, two elongated, barrack-like pavilions were placed in the schoolyard, which now house art and work rooms, a billiard room and a student disco .
The global economic crisis delayed construction activity. On September 23, 1930, the Röderberg Reform School was able to move in, which was also renamed the Friedrich Ebert School. As early as 1933 it was renamed the Dietrich Eckhart School in the Third Reich , and the teaching staff, students and teaching principles were strictly aligned with Nazi ideology . During the Second World War the building was rededicated as a hospital ; After the war it was used in this function by the American troops and was finally returned to the revived Friedrich Ebert School in 1954.
A state-run model school trial was introduced here in 1956 and the school was run as a day-care center with all-day instruction (exclusively from 1965), the first such model school in Hesse . In contrast to later concepts of the all-day school, there were no lessons in the afternoons, but instead a variety of games, handicrafts and homework supervision by teachers after lunch and for the little ones an afternoon nap .
In 1977 the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule moved and the Hallgarten School was able to move into the building. In the years 1997 to 1999 the city of Frankfurt donated a comprehensive renovation to the school, in which the building was restored according to modern building regulations, but as true to the original as possible by the Frankfurt architectural office hgp Architekten. All corridors and rooms are white and bright.
Above the school's are now at the Bornheimer Hang Panoramabad and the Sports Center Bornheim the Turngemeinde Bornheim .
Road construction has now overtaken Ernst May's plans: directly opposite runs the elevated A 661 (section Kaiserleikreisel to the Unfallkrankenhaus) and thunders the school with traffic noise. The planned Riederwaldspange with connection to the A 66 (towards Hanau ) is likely to exacerbate this situation.
The school
The Hallgarten School was founded in 1913 as the third “auxiliary school” in the city of Frankfurt. Originally it was in the north end on Kleiststrasse. Like the nearby Hallgartenstrasse, it was named after the German - American philanthropist Charles Hallgarten , who had already initiated the first Frankfurt auxiliary school. The old rooms soon became too small; In 1977 she was able to move into Ernst May's building. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Charles Hallgarten's death, the school was officially renamed “Charles Hallgarten School” in May 2008 in order to emphasize the relationship with the namesake.
The Charles-Hallgarten-Schule is a special school for learning assistance and care school (with an advisory function) for Frankfurt schools. Your catchment area is the whole of Frankfurt, with a focus on the north and east of Frankfurt. The students are led up to the special school leaving certificate and, if they are suitable, to the secondary school leaving certificate. It has its own sports field , a school garden , a photo laboratory , computer room, rooms for art and music , handicrafts and clay work with a kiln , a billiards room and a student disco, a teaching kitchen and a dining room where students can have lunch.
The school accepts what the house has to offer and Ernst May's architecture has proven itself even after 75 years: the classrooms create a unity between inside and outside; When the weather is nice, the lessons can be spontaneously moved outside, and the students are encouraged to exercise their urge to move around on the premises, even during small breaks. The school promotes the "moving Pause" by the students during the breaks have the ability to borrow movement toys ( pedalos , Dutch , scooter , scooters , etc.).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helen Barr / Ulrike May / Rahel Welsen: Das Neue Frankfurt - Walks through the Ernst May housing developments and the architecture of his time , B3 Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-938783-20-7 .
- ^ Ernst May in "New Building New Design - The New Frankfurt / The New City", a magazine between 1926 and 1933.
- ↑ Chronicle of the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule, Frankfurt am Main on friedrich-ebert-schule.de ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (history up to 2000 including a school trial day home school)
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Hallgarten School In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen