Clemens-August-Gymnasium Cloppenburg
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1914 |
| address |
Bahnhofstrasse 53 |
| place | Cloppenburg |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 50 '45 " N , 8 ° 3' 11" E |
| carrier | State of Lower Saxony |
| student | around 1370 (school year 2011/12) |
| Teachers | 103 (February 2015) |
| management | Annette Ovelgönne-Jansen |
| Website | www.cag.de |
The Clemens-August-Gymnasium is the first state high school in the city of Cloppenburg . The school is attended by around 1370 students.
history
The school was built in the neo-classical style and opened on April 24, 1914 as the “ Grand Ducal Oldenburg Realprogymnasium ”. In the early years from 1914, only grades 5 to 10 were taught. From 1920 it was expanded to a regular grammar school, in 1923 the first Abitur certificates were issued.
During the Second World War , the building was used as a military hospital and hospital, and deliveries also took place there.
In 1946 the rooms were released for school operations again, and the school reopened as the "Staatliches Gymnasium Cloppenburg". On September 28, 1949, it was renamed Clemens-August-Gymnasium after the bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen . In 1964 the previous boys' grammar school was transformed into a coeducational school , and a new language branch was added to the old language branch for the 1967/68 school year .
On August 1, 1985, the school was merged with the second state high school in Cloppenburg, which was founded in 1971, called Gymnasium II . The 2,800 m² extension was handed over to the teachers and students on September 3, 2005 and cost around € 3.2 million. The design comes from the architects Lube, Schoppa, Krampitz-Mangold from Darmstadt .
The marble sculpture of the namesake, designed in 1953 by the artist Paul Dierkes from Cloppenburg, was restored with the financial support of the regional foundation of the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg, the public insurance company, the Imsiecke couple and the alumni association. This sculpture has been presented to every visitor in the entrance area since 2006. An additional bronze plaque below the work of art provides more information about Clemens August's attitude towards the National Socialists .
In 2011, some renovations were carried out: the teachers' room was moved to the west wing and a cafeteria was built in front of the grammar school for all-day operation.
The school has seen a considerable increase in the number of pupils: from around 560 in 1997 to 760 in 2002 to over 1,485 in 2004 and to 1,641 at the beginning of the 2007/08 school year.
Since March 1st, 2014 the school has been run by Ms. Ovelgönne-Jansen. She succeeds Mr Hachmöller, who moved to the German school in Milan as headmaster in the 2013/14 school year.
European school
On August 12, 2010, the CAG was officially awarded the title “ European School ” in recognition of its diverse European activities . There are regular student exchanges with Bernay (Cloppenburg's twin town), Caen , Paris, Bytom (Poland) and Zwolle (Netherlands).
For several years the school has been actively participating in Comenius projects: 2005 to 2008 under the motto “Enjoy Your Life - Eat Properly”, 2008 to 2010 under the title “Critical Citizenship in Europe” and 2012 with the theme “Water - everything flows ". In this context, contacts were established with schools in Spain, Italy, France, Lithuania, Turkey, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. The CAG has been working with IES Domigo Miral (Jaca, Spain) for a particularly long time.
engagement
Commitment to the developing world
From 1988 to 2011 the grammar school and the Catholic parish St. Jakobus in Bad Endorf supported the agricultural school Escola Familia Agricol (EFA) in Coroatá , Maranhão , Brazil . The school was founded by Father Wilmsen (known as Father Carlos) to give the local population the opportunity to secure a livelihood through education. In the meantime, his successor, Father Alfrede, is the headmaster and the facility is under the supervision of Bishop Reinhard Pünder , who is of German descent . He has lived in Brazil since 1972 and was ordained bishop by Hélder Câmara , Archbishop of Recife . Since 1978 he has been the diocesan bishop of Coroatá. The principle of the agricultural school is to give pupils from villages a knowledge in a few weeks that these pupils can pass on to other villagers after their return. So people are given an opportunity to help themselves.
Numerous campaigns have proven to be effective in collecting donations: Advent raffle and cake sales, sale of flowers, Christmas and Easter cards, homemade clay sheep, old books, old CDs, shoeshine, reading marathon, Santa Claus and Easter bunny campaign, collections at the school fair and the Church service for high school graduates, world hunger race and hike to Brazil. The total donation volume was over € 60,000. Shortly before the retirement of Ms. Anke Engelhardt, who was largely in charge of the project, it became clear that the project would be brought to a successful conclusion.
The Clemens-August-Gymnasium has been supporting the Wakkerstroom Wes comprehensive school in South Africa since 2011 . The young people in South Africa and Germany are roughly the same age. There is a lively and regular exchange between the young people via social networks, which gives the Übersee-AG members additional insights into South African culture.
Engagement in the school medical service
Since November 2016 , the Clemens-August-Gymnasium has been offering the working group (AG) for school medical services . As participants in this working group, schoolchildren learn first aid from an early age and also expand it. The head of the school medical service is the teacher Petra Bartels. The school paramedics receive support from Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V. of the local association Garrel. These train and develop the students so that continuous learning progress with regard to first aid in school is ensured.
Personalities
- Hans Troschel (1899–1979), painter, art teacher at the Clemens-August-Gymnasium
- Heinrich Grafenhorst (1906–1970), Catholic priest and Episcopal Münsterscher official in Vechta
- Ernst Henn (1909–1945), vicar, high school diploma in 1927
- Wilhelm Wöste (1911–1993), auxiliary bishop of the Münster diocese, graduated from high school in 1931
- Helmut Ottenjann (1931–2010), folklorist and prehistoric archaeologist
- Manfred Zapatka (* 1942), German actor, lived in Cloppenburg for a long time, graduated from Clemens-August-Gymnasium in 1962.
- Ludger Lütkehaus (1943–2019), German literary scholar
- Hans Eveslage (* 1947), teacher and politician (CDU)
- Hubert Gelhaus (* 1950), author
- Heinrich Timmerevers (* 1952), auxiliary bishop in Münster, bishop in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen, Abitur 1972
- Hubert Bahl (* 1955), German microbiologist
- Katharina Köhntopp (* 1963), German actress
- Ute Tellmann (* 1971), sociologist and university professor
- Marco Beeken (* 1981), professor for chemistry didactics at the University of Osnabrück
literature
- Hermann Bitter : Clemens-August Gymnasium Cloppenburg 1914–1964. Festschrift. F. Ostendorf, 1964, DNB 450802221 (pictures, list of pupils and high school graduates from 1923 to 1964).
- Heinrich-Ferdinand Reinhardt: Directors, faculty, caretakers and other personalities from school life. Festschrift. Self-published, Cloppenburg 1994 (for the 80th anniversary).
- Heinrich-Ferdinand Reinhardt: The Clemens-August-Gymnasium is 90. How Cloppenburg got a "Grand Ducal Oldenburg Realprogymnasium". In: Volkstum und Landschaft. 71, 157, 2004, pp. 2-5.
- Clemens-August-Gymnasium Cloppenburg 1914–1989. About origin, history, students and teachers. 1989.
- Werner Nilles: I cannot avoid the truth. Vicar Henn (1909–1945), priest during the National Socialist era. dialogverlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-944974-08-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects: Clemens-August-Gymnasium
- ↑ Who we are. In: www.cag.de. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014 ; Retrieved August 30, 2012 .
- ↑ New head at the CAG. Retrieved March 3, 2014 .