Collegium Bernardi

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Collegium Bernardi - private high school and boarding school in Mehrerau
Logo of the Collegium Bernardi
type of school High school , boarding school
founding 1854
place Bregenz - Mehrerau
state Vorarlberg
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 30 '12 "  N , 9 ° 43' 11"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '12 "  N , 9 ° 43' 11"  E
carrier Territorial Abbey Wettingen-Mehrerau / Catholic Church in Austria
student 266 (2011/12)
Teachers ~ 49/12 educators
management Christian Kusche (Dir. & Regens)
Website www.collegium-bernardi.at

The Collegium Bernardi - private grammar school and boarding school Mehrerau is an eight-year private grammar school with public rights and affiliated boarding school in Bregenz - Mehrerau ( Vorarlberg , Austria ). It was founded in 1854, is the oldest existing educational institute in Vorarlberg and was run as a pure boys' high school for more than 160 years until the 2016/17 school year.

history

The Collegium Bernardi was founded on October 18, 1854 by Cistercians from Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey as a Latin school . The monks had already run a Latin school in Wettingen , which they had to leave in 1841 because of the Aargau monastery dispute.

In the first year of school, seven students attended Latin school. After two years the school got its own building. The college soon enjoyed increasing popularity. In the school year 1862/63 there were already over 50 students, and in 1883/84 more than 100. In 1886 the Collegium got its current official name: Collegium Sancti Bernardi.

During the First World War, when part of the school building was used as a reserve hospital for the imperial army, the school was able to continue operating with 150 students.

During the Second World War, school operations could no longer be maintained because the buildings served as a hospital from 1938 onwards. In 1941 the monastery was also closed by the Nazi authorities.

Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey

When the monks were able to return to the monastery in 1945, they resumed school operations that same year. However, the lessons took place on the premises of the monastery, as the school buildings were only released by the French occupying forces in 1950.

In 1974 the boarding school got another part of the building and in 1981 a new gymnasium was built. In 1996 the school building was finally completely rebuilt.

In 2003 the Vorarlberg-Mehrerau Football Academy was started as a cooperation between the Collegium and the Vorarlberg Football Association (VFV). A new concept is being implemented in promoting talent.

A year later, the existing grammar school was supplemented by a grammar school sports branch (Realgymnasium with special consideration of sports training). Since then handball (handball academy), sailing and rowing have been key sports alongside soccer.

School building, new building

Talented schoolchildren are given the opportunity to find school, extracurricular support and sports training in one location, optimally coordinated with one another. This talent promotion takes place together with cooperation partners. In addition to the gymnasium entry requirements, those pupils who want to attend the sport must also meet the relevant sporting criteria.

In the course of the discussion about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church there were also reports of previous abuse cases in the boarding school. In early 2010, for example, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported on child abuse and child abuse in the Mehrerau convent school from the 1950s to the 1990s.

In the 2011/12 school year, the Collegium Bernardi, commonly known as PG Mehrerau , had 266 students, 49 teachers and 12 educators. Since the school year 2016/17, access to the grammar school has also been open to girls. The boarding school is still reserved for male students. In May 2012, in a major fire, the carpentry, metalworking shop and a wood storage building at Mehrerau Abbey burned down to the ground, but the fire did not impose any restrictions on school operations.

With the beginning of the 2017/18 school year, a private elementary school with 28 students in two classes was introduced on the site.

management

  • 1854–1864 Martin Reimann
  • 1864–1866 Ludwig Oswald
  • 1866–1875 Martin Reimann
  • 1875–1888 Dominikus Willi
  • 1888–1889 Maurus Kalkum
  • 1889–1895 Chrysostom Rieger
  • 1895–1899 Valentin Schmidt
  • 1899–1909 Stephan Weixner
  • 1909-1919 Kassian Haid
  • 1919–1922 Eugen Faigle
  • 1922–1927 Viktorin Panhölzl
  • 1927–1938, 1945–1963 Bruno Griesser
  • 1963–1981 Adalbert Roder
  • 1981-1999 Nivard Huber
  • 1999–2010 Clemens Kurt Obwegeser
  • since 2010 Christian Kusche

Personalities

Former professors
Former students

Web links

Commons : Collegium Bernardi (Bregenz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mehrerau Monastery opens high school for girls (February 27, 2015)
  2. ↑ Childhood in the monastery school: Hell, lifelong (March 3, 2010)
  3. ↑ Do you prefer to study together or separately? (December 5, 2015)
  4. ↑ Major fire at Mehrerau monastery in Bregenz: three buildings burned down (May 4, 2012)
  5. ↑ Mehrerau: Student numbers confirm the need for the private primary school (September 11, 2017)
  6. ↑ Viktorin Panhölzl (1874-) from 1934 Professor Stiftsgymnasium St. Florian (?)
  7. ↑ P. Viktorin Panhölzl in the "Cistercienser-Chronik", 49th year, 1937
  8. ↑ Bruno Griesser (1889-1965) zisterzienserlexikon.de
  9. ↑ Cantor P. Adalbert Roder (1911–86) musiklexikon.ac.at
  10. ↑ Led by love. Golden jubilee of Father Nivard Huber Vorarlberger Kirchenblatt , August 26, 2009
  11. ↑ Harald Pfarrmaier: "Zeigerle" celebrates one year anniversary of the inn vol.at, October 17th 2011
  12. ^ School directors Collegium Bernardi