Couven high school

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Couven high school
Couven-Gymnasium Aachen.JPG
type of school high school
founding 1818
address

Lütticher Strasse 111a
52074 Aachen

country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 45 '49 "  N , 6 ° 4' 16"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '49 "  N , 6 ° 4' 16"  E
student around 1100
Teachers 101
management Michael Goebbels
Website www.couven-gymnasium.de

The Couven-Gymnasium (also: Couvengymnasium and in proper spelling : Couven Gymnasium ) is a municipal high school with a mathematical and scientific tradition in Aachen . It goes back to the foundation of a building trade school in 1818 and was given its current name when it reopened in 1945 in memory of the Aachen architect and master builder Johann Joseph Couven . The grammar school is a recognized MINT-EC school and European school with a German-English bilingual language train .

history

The beginnings of today's Couven-Gymnasium go back to the school reform in the Rhine province after the liberation from the French occupation. On January 15, 1818, the mayor Cornelius von Guaita founded the “Royal Provincial Trade School” as a building trade school in the Bergdriesch area with an attached craft school on the initiative of the Secret Chief Finance Councilor Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth . The first teachers at this school included the agricultural inspector Johann Peter Cremer and the town builder Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel . In 1820 it was raised to a provincial trade school and in 1835, under its new director Johann Josef Kribben (1804–1855) from Elberfeld, it moved into a building complex on Aachen's monastery square in the immediate vicinity of Katschhof . In 1837 a reorganization took place, which expanded the provincial trade school with the alignment of a "higher citizen school", which corresponded to the modern needs of that time and was officially designated as the "combined higher citizen and provincial trade school in Aachen". As early as 1851 and after the realignment of the Prussian school landscape on July 5, 1850, the combined school was divided up again, but managed by a joint director until 1880. This remained until 1855 Josef Kribben, who was succeeded from 1862 to 1865 by the later rector of the TH Aachen , Adolf Wüllner , and from 1866 by the mathematics and trade teacher Joseph Pützer . From 1880 the school management was finally split up and the trade teacher Joseph Spennrath (1852–1902) took over the management of the provincial trade school, which in the 20th century became what is now the “Mies van der Rohe school”, and until 1900 Pützer kept the school .

School building from 1866 to 1892 in the Alte Redoute
School building from 1892 to 1965 in Vinzenzstrasse

Under Pützer's management, the “Higher Citizens School” moved into the premises of the Alte Redoute in Aachener Comphausbadstraße in 1866 , which was upgraded to a secondary school in 1883 and until 1882 still had specialist classes for mechanical engineering and chemical-technical professions as well as the crafts school. After the school building was no longer able to cope with the increasing number of pupils, the new school building built according to plans by Joseph Laurent in what was then Vinzenzstraße (today: Kármánstraße ) was moved into in 1892 . A year later, it was recognized as an upper secondary school and in 1893 the status of a municipal reform secondary school , whose school leaving certificate gave access to the technical university as well as access to the study of mathematics and the natural sciences with the right of admission to the examination for teaching at higher schools made possible. In 1903, under Pützer's successor, Latin lessons were introduced, which now also offered students the opportunity to acquire prior training in historical and humanities.

In order to avoid confusion with the existing second Realgymnasium in Aachen, the later Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium , the school in Vinzenstrasse was renamed “Hindenburgschule” on the occasion of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg's 70th birthday on October 2, 1917. During the period of National Socialism that followed, the head of the regime, who was critical of the regime, was dismissed from office in 1933 and replaced by a regime-friendly school management that implemented an appropriate reform of school life. These new currents were also felt by Jewish students, including Fredy Hirsch , who had foreseen to leave school in 1931.

School life came to a standstill during the Second World War and only after the end of the war was the previous Hindenburg School reopened on November 14, 1945 under the new name “Couven-Gymnasium”. At the same time, the Couvengymnasium entered into a cooperation with the St. Leonhard Gymnasium in 1945 and 1946 and a cooperation with the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium from 1945 to 1958 and provided their pupils and teachers with premises as a replacement for their war-torn school. Finally, in 1965, the Couvengymnasium moved again to a large, contemporary new building on Lütticher Straße and the former school building was taken over by RWTH Aachen for its newly founded philosophy faculty.

Twelve years later, co-education was introduced at the Couvengymnasium and the school was later expanded into a MINT-EC school as well as a European school with a German-English bilingual language train, for which it received the "QuisS" (quality in language-heterogeneous schools) award. Around 1,100 pupils are taught in a five-course lower secondary level and a six-course upper secondary level. The school continues to offer the Abitur after eight or nine years.

Known teachers

  • Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), who taught from 1836, became a senior teacher here in 1850 and a professor in 1855
  • Friedrich Haagen (1806–1879), historian, taught history and geography as well as literature and French as senior teacher (1845) and professor (1873).
  • Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach (1807–1876), botanist and entomologist, taught from 1837 to 1876
  • Heinrich vom Kolke (1821–1856), physicist, taught mathematics, physics and chemistry from 1852
  • Wolfgang Nestler (* 1943), art teacher, taught from 1972 to 1977

Known students (selection)

Web links

literature

  • Couven Gymnasium (ed.), Festschrift of Couven Gymnasium on the inauguration of the new school building . Aachen 1965.
  • Couven Gymnasium (ed.), Commemorative publication of the Couven Gymnasium on the inauguration of the extension to the school , Aachen 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessica Jumpertz in 70 years from place of learning to place of life , in: Aachener Zeitung of November 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Aachen School Development Plan , Appendix 1, Slide 28, on the website of the City of Aachen
  3. ^ College. In: www.couven-gymnasium.de. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ school management. In: www.couven-gymnasium.de. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  5. ^ Sarah Maria Frantzen: Like a school from the last century , in: Aachener Nachrichten of November 5, 2007
  6. ↑ Portrait on schulen.de