Comenius School Hanover
| Comenius School Hanover | |
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| type of school | primary school |
| founding | 1899 |
| address |
Kollenrodtstrasse 3 |
| place | Hanover |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '18 " N , 9 ° 44' 47" E |
| carrier | City of Hanover |
| management | B. Furtner ( Rector ) U. Petri-Stolz (Vice Rector) |
| Website | www.comeniusschule-hannover.de |
The Comenius School in Hanover is a coeducational elementary school named after Johann Amos Comenius in the Hanover district of List . The location of the listed school building is Kollenrodtstrasse 3 on the Bonifatiusplatz school center, which was designed as a jewel in the surrounding residential area of Lister Stadtfeld .
History and description
Today's Comenius School was created as a result of Hanover's population, which was growing rapidly due to industrialization, at the time of the German Empire and, after the older Edenschule, was built around the same time as the other schools on Bonifatiusplatz. The architect of the school on Kollenrodtstrasse was also the building officer of the Hanoverian magistrate , Paul Rowald . On the rear site of the Edenschule, another citizen school was built between 1898 and 1900 , but as a counterpart to the older Edenschule, which was built as a boys 'school , it is now a girls' school .
Right from the start, the girls' school looked “ more modern ” than its neighboring building. The plastered facade was provided with elements made of sandstone and decorated with a renaissance - early baroque decor . Compared to the older boys' school, the toilets on the inside of the floors were also a step forward compared to the older building.
The school on Kollenrodtstrasse was opened on October 10, 1899 under the name Bürgererschule 61/62 as an elementary school initially exclusively for girls . In the beginning, the students found over 15 classrooms , a drawing room and a singing room as well as - something special at the time - a shower bath .
In the 1907/08 school year there were 846 students in 16 classes, an average of 53 students in each class. At that time the 16 classes were looked after by only 22 teachers, but also by female teachers.
School teaching was severely affected by the hardships of the First World War and the German hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic . For example, in the rooms of the school at Kollenrodtstrasse 3, which has now been renamed Citizen School 22 , two further citizen schools had to be accommodated. Due to the limited space and time, the children of Citizens School 22 could only be taught on four half-days at times. During the war, a classroom was converted into a school kitchen, for the families "of the field located warrior ". Due to the lack of coal, the students move to other heated school buildings during the cold season.
From the period of 1919 to the end of the era of National Socialism , the school could find only few information: Among them, that in World War II in October 1943, after the first heavy air raid on Hannover , the children evacuated from the city were. Instead, the city building department was housed in the school building. But the Allies' attacks soon caused severe damage here too : aerial bombs shattered the roof, the singing hall burned down completely, and many windows, doors and cupboards were destroyed.
Under the British military government in June 1945, the students from Bürgererschule 22 were ordered back to Hanover - initially to be employed in various nurseries . School lessons could not be resumed until November of the same year.
In the post-war period and until the end of the school year 1953/54 there was both a great shortage of space and a lack of teachers at the educational institution, which was still run as a purely girls' school, now known as the elementary school Kollenrodtstraße . During the renovation of the school buildings, entire classes were temporarily outsourced to the Bonifatius School or alternately used the rooms of the Edenschule, which was still run as a boys' school. Up to 2,000 students were accommodated in both the Kollenrodt and Edenschule at the same time.
The former elementary school Kollenrodtstraße was not given its current name until the school year 1968/69, while co-education was introduced at the same time. Grades 1 to 4 now each had six classes mixed with boys and girls. The former boys' school on Edenstrasse was run as a secondary school at the time and was later used for the orientation level .
To counteract the shortage of teachers , in 1970 parents converted two former coal cellars in the school buildings into kindergartens for the teachers' children.
From 1973 parents were allowed to take part in school conferences for the first time . Also in the 1970s, the friends' association of the Comenius School was founded , through which, among other things, a large pergola and various play equipment in the schoolyard could be financed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k o. V .: History on the comeniusschule-hannover.de page [ undated ], last accessed on July 22, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Schools around Bonifatiusplatz , in: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , Part 1, Volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 178; as well as List in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments, pp. 12-15
- ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Bonifatiusplatz , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 94