Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim

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Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim
General viewDBGL1010822 (4) .JPG
General view of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium (2015)
type of school high school
founding before 1373
address

Conrad-Wellin-Strasse 6

place Wertheim
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 45 '18 "  N , 9 ° 30' 46"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '18 "  N , 9 ° 30' 46"  E
carrier City of Wertheim
student around 780 (as of the 2014/2015 school year)
Teachers 70 (as of: school year 2014/2015)
management Reinhard Lieb
Website www.dbg-wertheim.de
First mention of the Wertheim parish school from 1373 (Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Department State Archives Wertheim)
Kilian's Chapel in Wertheim around 1900, building of the Wertheim Latin School from 1605 to 1870 (DBG school archive)
Wertheim Lyceum building from 1871 to 1965, today Edward Uihlein School (DBG school archive)

The Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim is a mathematical , scientific , ancient and modern language and, since the 2007/2008 school year, a musical high school in Wertheim . It is the oldest Latin school in Baden and was founded before 1373, making it one of the oldest schools in Germany .

history

Medieval origins

Today's Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium traces its origins as a Latin school in Wertheim back to the time of the Reformation . This school emerged from the medieval parish school of the St. Mary's Church in Wertheim, today's Protestant collegiate church.

This is evidenced by a document from 1373 in which a schoolmaster is mentioned for the first time when a funeral mass is being held. In this document, Count Eberhard von Wertheim rewards the pastor, his deputy and also the schoolmaster with money for carrying out a soul mass in the Wertheim parish church for his deceased family members:

“We, Eberhart, Count zu Wertheim, publicly confess with this letter, for ourselves and all our heirs, and make it known to all those who see, hear or read it, that we (in honor of God) and for the sake of our ancestors' souls , with the permission, resolution and consent of the noble, well-born Mrs. Katherine, Countess zu Wertheim, our dear, legitimate housewife, as with all hands, and our dear son Johannes, also Count zu Wertheim, with a well-considered mind and healthy body, as we through God's grace both (still) were able to walk and stand, irrevocably given to the house of God in Wertheim and located in Wertheim, and the same pound of annual Heller income should be given to every house master who is then at the time of Wertheim house master on Saint Martin's Day receive and take, and meanwhile (as long as) we live, it should (the memory of the year) of our dear father and mother, the blessed Count Rudolf and his wife Elsebeth, first s Count and Countess zu Wertheim, duly vowed every year on St. John's Day, to be celebrated in the way that is written below: First, he should give a pastor of Wertheim two shilling hellers and his chaplain one shilling heller and the schoolmaster one shilling heller and give one shilling heller to the bell ringer and one shilling heller to every priest who holds mass in the parish on the same day; and what is then left of the pound of money, he should put on four candles for it and from it, as is custom and custom here in Wertheim, without any delay and without contradiction. And if we then (both) die and have disintegrated due to death, then a steward of God here in Wertheim shall vow to commit our aforementioned blessed father and mother and also our annual memory every year from the aforementioned pound of annual Heller income at the time, when we have died and disintegrated, (exactly) in the manner as it is written and oathly promised, without any delay and without contradiction, and which year a steward would be in default and the annual remembrance was not celebrated as ordered in the way, As has been written above, it is said to have expired to a bailiff at Wertheim with ten Schilling Heller and the altarists ten Schilling Heller and nevertheless (be obliged) to commemorate our annual memory of the same year with the pound of money, without any delay and without contradiction . As a proof and for a good security of all previously written things, we give the aforementioned house of God in Wertheim this our open letter with our and with the aforementioned, our dear married housewife, Mrs. Katherine, Countess zu Wertheim, as with the whole hand, and with the aforementioned, of our dear son Johannes, Count there, whom we (ie Count Eberhart) asked for, attached seal, knowingly sealed for us and all our heirs. And we, Katherine and Johannes, the above-mentioned Countess and Count of Wertheim, confess that all things previously written, as they are sworn word for word in this letter; happened with our good word, will, knowledge and consent; and (we) have arranged that, for greater security, our own seal to the aforementioned of our dear Lord and Father, Graf Eberhart, Graf zu Wertheim, seal is to be knowingly attached to this letter, which was issued after the birth of our Lord Christ thirteen hundred years and then in the seventy-third year on the next Friday before St. Gregory the Holy Pope. "

- (March 11, 1373)
School service of the Wertheimer Gymnasium in the collegiate church

In 1382 the son of Count Eberhard, Count Johann I, founds a soul mass for his deceased mother Katherine and lays down the same provisions as his father in this regard. This is also confirmed in the documents from 1399 and 1402 and the schoolmaster is also always mentioned, as he participated in the spiritual masses of the priests' college of the St. Marien parish church in Wertheim (collegiate church since 1481). In addition, the Wertheim schoolmaster, together with his students, helped to liturgically organize the Mass for the Soul with Latin chants. The traditional connection of the Wertheimer Gymnasium to the collegiate church in Wertheim is continued to this day through regular school church services and the organization of concerts.

It can be assumed that the schoolmaster was one of the priests working at the St. Marien parish church in Wertheim and was appointed to this office by his fellow priests. In a Latin document from 1403 the church teacher is called "rector scolarium". When Pope Sixtus IV raised the Wertheim parish church to the rank of collegiate church in 1481, the head of the parish school was also mentioned in the document as a "scholaster".

The Wertheim schoolmasters received their salary from the Count, from the student body in the form of school fees and in the form of remunerations from the students such as light money, wood money or New Year's money. Since the founding of the Wertheim Choir Monastery by Count Johann II. In 1419, the schoolmasters' salaries have been covered by this foundation. The premises of this school were probably located in the area of ​​today's Wertheim County Museum . The first named schoolmaster to be mentioned was Johannes Ryß in 1509.

In 1448, the Cologne theology professor Conrad Wellin bequeathed his library to the collegiate church, which was probably also used in the school. This book collection, consisting of theological, legal, medical works and those of the liberal arts, is kept to this day in a separate library extension of the Wertheim collegiate church. The street in which the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium is located today was named in honor of Wellin.

The aspired professional goal of most of the students at the Wertheim Latin School in the Middle Ages was the priesthood. It can be assumed that reading and writing skills in Wertheim could also be acquired at an existing “German” school. The pupils of the “Latin” school at the Wertheim collegiate church of St. Marien were able to be ordained as priests after successfully completing their school days and become pastors at one of the numerous altars in the churches of the city or in the country. A degree was not absolutely necessary in this regard, but it improved employment opportunities. The first Wertheimer student documented by sources is a certain Johannes Stopfenheimer, who attended the newly founded Heidelberg University in 1387 with another Wertheimer student named Peter. Stopfenheimer is registered as vicar in Wertheim for 1402 and became pastor in Wertheim in 1422. Before the Reformation, other students from Wertheim were enrolled at various German universities such as Erfurt , Leipzig , Heidelberg , Ingolstadt and Freiburg im Breisgau . Almost only the student members of the Wertheim Count's House went to the University of Cologne .

Based on the number of Wertheim students, one can make vague assumptions about the number of students at the Wertheim Latin School. Up to the year 1420, nine students from Wertheim are known sources. Between the years 1451 and 1460 there are about 30 students from Wertheim at various universities. Between 1500 and 1520, a total of 35 Wertheim students are occupied.

New foundation during the Reformation

In 1524, Count Georg II forcibly introduced the Lutheran Reformation in the county of Wertheim . Johann Eberlin von Günzburg, who worked as an advisor to Count Georg II in Wertheim from 1525 to 1530, was the supervisor of the Wertheim school system based on Luther's educational concept.

The number of pupils at the Wertheim parish school presumably decreased sharply in the first years of the Reformation due to the loss of the material basis of the Mass Foundations. The school in Wertheim may even come to a complete standstill and had to be revitalized by Count Georg II, who introduced the Reformation in Wertheim. In 1530, in his “Sermon that children should be kept in school”, published a few weeks after the Count's death, Martin Luther expressly mentions Count George II as a positive example of a nobleman who had done something worthy of praise for the school system in his domain.

Count Georg's son, Count Michael III., Had a Lutheran educational institution set up in the nearby Bronnbach monastery in 1553, but had to return the monastery to the Catholic Church in 1559 after the intervention of the Würzburg bishop. Count Michael's father-in-law and successor, Count Ludwig zu Stolberg-Königstein, ended the establishment of the Bronnbach branch in 1571 and in 1572 had the Gothic Kilian's Chapel in Wertheim converted into a new school building by the former Bronnbach abbot Clemens Leuser.

Schoolhouse Kilian's Chapel

The late Gothic Kilian's Chapel opposite the collegiate church is one of the most important Gothic double chapels in Germany. Patron saint of the Franks Apostle Kilian , an Irish-Scottish missionary bishop , who along with his companions Kolonat and Totnan around the year 689 in Würzburg the martyr said to have died. The construction of the former sacred building began in 1472. A corridor with elaborate tracery parapets and a coat of arms frieze and the "Wertheim monkey" as a symbol of vanity , which is counted among the main sins in Christian , especially Catholic theology , leads around the upper floor . Originally built as a chapel for the ecclesiastical canons, it served as the building of the Wertheim Latin School from 1604. After the end of school operations due to the rebuilding of the Lyceum on the left of the Tauber, the building was reconstructed in Gothic form in 1903/04.

17th Century and Thirty Years War

Count Ludwig von Löwenstein-Wertheim initiated the reorganization of the Wertheim Latin School in 1604. The headmasters became “Rectors” and the German branch of the school was merged with the Latin branch. In the lowest class, the students were taught reading, writing and arithmetic in German. This is followed by a four-year training in Latin. The former Kilian's Chapel next to the Wertheim collegiate church became the new school building. Beam ceilings were drawn into the Gothic chapel room, creating a hall and four classrooms. The tracery windows of the former sacred space were walled up for this purpose and normal room windows were used.

During the Thirty Years' War the rectorate remained vacant several times and there were significant disruptions in school operations with fluctuating numbers of classes and students. In the period that followed, Latin was increasingly pushed into the background in favor of the German language.

18th century

According to the report of the headmaster Johann Friedrich Neidhart (1744-1825) from Wertheim, there were four classes at the school in the Kilian's Chapel at the end of the 18th century. In the lower grades, girls and boys were “taught in two of their own German schools.” It continues: “In the Latin classes, the lessons, some small taxes, are given freely.” The teachers at the Wertheim school continued to draw their salaries from the Choir foundation of the Wertheimer Stiftskirche. Headmaster Neidhart himself came from a family that had been active in the Wertheim church and school service for generations. Up to the age of 16 he had been a student at the Wertheim School. To prepare for an academic course, he then switched to the Nassauische Gymnasium in Idstein , as Wertheim could not offer this qualification, and then studied in Halle an der Saale from 1763 . He completed his last year of study in 1766 in Tübingen . From 1771 Neidhart took over the rectorate of the Wertheim Latin School, which had been vacant for a long time, and ran it for 54 years. Here he was faced with the task of rebuilding the Wertheimer Bildungsanstalt into a lyceum, which should lead to university entrance qualifications. Neidhard was supported in this project from 1809 onwards by Professor Föhlisch, who came from Halle. Since Neidhart's time, annual “school programs”, the forerunners of today's yearbooks, have also been written and printed.

Expansion into a high school

Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden
Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden

During the tenure of Johann Gottlob Erdmann Föhlisch (1825-1852) the Wertheim Latin School was expanded to nine grade levels in 1841 and expanded on July 31, 1845 by the Baden Grand Duke Leopold to a high school with a humanistic character. In 1868, the heirs of Captain Heinrich Hoffmann bequeathed an ornithological collection, which still exists today, and matching display cabinets in the Biedermeier style to the Grand Ducal Lyceum Wertheim .

New construction of the historical high school building

On the initiative of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden , who had convinced himself on site of the deficient and desolate conditions of the medieval Kilian's Chapel, the Wertheim Lyceum was moved from the old chapel to a newly constructed historic sandstone building in the area to the left of the Tauber near the train station relocated. The three-storey, symmetrically laid out building with a five-axis central section and two three-axis, little protruding flank projections is crowned by a gable turret with a clock and a bell storey. It was designed in 1866 by senior building officer Fischer and building inspector Haufe.

The move to the completed building was delayed by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , as the new schoolhouse (today's Edward Uihlein School) had to serve as a hospital . Those high school students who volunteered for military service were awarded the Abitur certificate by the school principal without prior examination.

The founding of the Empire in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles on January 18, 1871 and the victory over the "perjured, blood-stained Emperor of France" with the preliminary peace of Versailles on February 26, 1871 were celebrated in Wertheim on March 3, 1871 with extensive celebrations.

The move to the new building in today's Bismarckstraße could only be celebrated on August 15, 1871 with a large parade, a festive ceremony and a subsequent feast. On June 11, 1872, the Wertheim Lyceum became the "Grand Ducal High School Wertheim am Main".

In the school year 1901/1902 the first three girls were admitted to the Grand Ducal Gymnasium. The first student to take the final exams at Wertheimer Gymnasium in 1909 was Sophie Steinberger, who had entered the upper class in 1908.

Reduction plans

In the summer of 1931, the Baden state government decided to close the Wertheimer Gymnasium as a full institution due to the precarious financial situation of the state treasury and to maintain it only as a seven-class Progymnasium. The Wertheim parents were advised to send their children to the grammar school in Tauberbischofsheim . After vigorous protests by the Wertheim school principal, the state government decided on July 13, 1936 to keep the high school in Wertheim as a full institution.

National Socialism and World War II

Forced dislocations

Immediately after the Nazi seizure of power , "shop stewards" of the NSDAP and members of the district administrator checked the readiness of the teaching staff to cooperate with National Socialism . As a result, high school professor Rüdiger was removed from service in Wertheim on October 12, 1933 due to Section 4 of the Professional Civil Service Act, as he appeared politically unreliable to the new rulers.

The headmaster Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Scharnke was forcibly transferred to Donaueschingen for the same reasons at the beginning of the school year 1934/1935 . Scharnke had got into the crosshairs of the NS district leader Schmidt, because, as a staunch Christian, he had criticized the disruption of Sunday services in the collegiate church by the Sunday morning roll calls of the NS youth associations. In Donaueschingen, action against Scharnke was even more intense. He was officially demoted after a denunciatory kettle drive and transferred to Freiburg im Breisgau as a punishment.

The rest of the colleges made their way into the NSDAP quite early on and were largely organized in the NS teachers' association until 1934 .

Co-ordination of the college

Scharnke's successor in Wertheim was, initially provisionally, and then officially from October 1st, the staunch National Socialist Karl Albert Hiß. In order to increase the military ability within the student body, Hiß immediately organized an exhibition in the two Hoffmann Biedermeier showcases with the legacies of former students from the Wertheimer Gymnasium, who had been killed as soldiers in the First World War. In September 1934 high school director Hiß was appointed district culture warden of the NSDAP. In May 1936 Hiß went to the grammar school in Offenburg and from August 1, 1940 worked in occupied Alsace , where he worked in Strasbourg until November 21, 1944 .

Ideologize everyday school life

During the tenure of the Wertheim school director Eugen Josef Karl Glassen (1936–1942), the focus of school education was shifted to physical education and thus to military training. To compensate for this, “short hours” were introduced that only lasted 45 minutes. As of September 22, 1934, Saturday was declared the “State Youth Day”, which, in addition to two hours of national political instruction, also included handicraft and physical education. The lessons were held by leaders of the Hitler Youth . However, the “State Youth Day” was abolished in 1936 due to a lack of standards.

With Hitler's so-called "seizure of power", the number of ideological school celebrations also increased enormously: swastika flags were ceremoniously hoisted, speeches to glorify Reich Chancellor Hitler were held, pictures of the "Führer" were ceremoniously displayed in the school building, Schlageter celebrations , Hitler birthdays, German founding of the Reich commemorative celebrations as well as memorial hours on the "day of the seizure of power" or the " day of Potsdam " were celebrated. In addition, the students gathered in the auditorium to listen to Hitler's speeches being broadcast on the radio. These celebrations were attended by the representatives of the Wertheim city administration and the "shop stewards" of the NSDAP. The NS youth organizations organized neo-pagan-folk winter solstice and summer solstice celebrations for the students at the newly built Kreuzwertheimer Kaffelsteindenkmal .

The so-called Hitler salute was introduced in the Wertheimer Gymnasium in autumn 1933. Fundamental works of National Socialist ideology were acquired for the school library. The acquisition of military maps and the increased staging of sporting events were intended to increase the military capability within the student body.

Nazi youth organizations

In Wertheim, which was dominated by the Nazis, Hitler's youth associations ( Hitler Youth , German Young People , Bund Deutscher Mädel ) had already formed before the "seizure of power" . These associations were able to rely on the cooperation with the school management and the teaching staff to enforce their monopoly claim with regard to the recording of the Wertheim student body. High school professor Eckerlin performed the function of a Hitler Youth leader, while high school professor Peter officiated as a youth leader. In addition, there was massive advertising for membership in the NS youth associations in school lessons, so that in autumn 1934 only 12 students at the grammar school were not integrated into one of the NS associations.

The schoolchildren who were organized in the Nazi youth associations put pressure on the teaching staff for their part. The Catholic pastor of the St. Venantius Church, Karl Bär (1880–1968), who was also the local chairman of the Center Party , was repeatedly the victim of hostility and reprisals because he made no secret of his critical attitude towards National Socialism.

Likewise, in October 1933, students denounced the Wertheim high school professor Strubel, because he had casually poked at the politics of the NSDAP in class.

As early as 1933, all of the Lutheran youth organizations in Wertheim were affiliated with the Hitler Youth. The local sponsor of this integration measure was the Protestant pastor of the Wertheimer Stiftskirche, who was a member of the NSDAP and who emerged as a co-founder of the Wertheim local group of " German Christians ". The year 1936 also saw the integration into the Hitler Youth of the Catholic youth organizations in Wertheim.

Preparatory reorganization measures

During the Nazi era, the Wertheimer Gymnasium was converted into an eight-class German secondary school in 1937 in order to meet the Wehrmacht's needs for young people in preparation for the Second World War . The ninth grade was canceled due to the Defense Act under Reich Education Minister Bernhard Rust . In the first half of 1937, two cohorts passed their Abitur. Rust also pushed through the ideologization of subject teaching (e.g. in the decree “Inheritance and race studies in teaching” of January 15, 1935). English was introduced as the first foreign language.

Provisional school operation

Headmaster Eugen Josef Karl Glassen worked in the conquered Alsace from October 1940 to March 1942, where he was supposed to re-mananize the teachers there. In the time of his absence he was represented by Professor Balter (actually Balthasar) Eberhard. From April 1942 to the first half of November of the same year, Director Glassen was again working in Wertheim, before finally moving to Alsace to the Nazi education authority in Strasbourg.

After Glazen's departure, only a provisional school was maintained at the Wertheim grammar school, with Professor Wilhelm Ost from the grammar school in Tauberbischofsheim as headmaster. Ludwig Michel, who was appointed acting headmaster of the Wertheimer Gymnasium in the spring of 1943, could not take up the post because he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht. He was killed on September 16, 1944 in fighting in Condette in northern France without ever having entered the Wertheim high school building.

The male student body had been decimated by age groups who moved in earlier and earlier. Some Alsatian teachers had been seconded to hold lessons and teachers were hired for the first time.

From October 1943, the high school students were used as air force helpers. In the autumn of 1944 the high school students from Wertheim and Tauberbischofsheim were assigned to the Vosges , where they were supposed to dig trenches under the supervision of Professor Ost to stop the approaching troops of the Allied combat units.

On March 21, 1945, classes at the Wertheim School were completely stopped as a result of the turmoil of the war. On Easter Sunday, April 1st, 1945, US troops were able to take Wertheim without a fight.

Wolfram von Eschenbach School

Codex Manesse, Wolfram von Eschenbach during the singing war

The Wertheimer Gymnasium was named "Wolfram von Eschenbach School, High School for Boys" in 1937. Nevertheless, girls could attend school. However, in the school year 1937/1938 only three students were taught. The Wertheimer Gymnasium kept the name "Wolfram von Eschenbach-Schule" until 1965. The name of the medieval minstrel Wolfram von Eschenbach was chosen as the namesake of the school, since the poet was probably associated with the Counts of Wertheim at times around 1200 and stood by the Lords of Dürn . The latter owned Wildenberg Castle in the Odenwald in the wider area of ​​Wertheim, where Wolfram is said to have written part of his Parzival . It says here:

"Min hêrre the Count of Wertheim would have been reluctant to be soldier dâ: he wants ir soldes not recovered."

Transmission:

“Sir, the Count vonwerteheim would not have wanted to be a mercenary with them. He could not have lived on her pay. "

Immediate post-war period

Under pressure from the US military government, most of the teachers in Wertheim were removed from office due to membership in the NSDAP and the school building was requisitioned. The Wertheim high school system was co-administered from Tauberbischofsheim. By decree of the US military authorities in November 1945, the eight-year schooling was canceled and the establishment of a nine-class secondary school in Wertheim was ordered. On January 8, 1946, the school was given the character of a grammar school again. At the same time, plans were discussed to completely close the high school in Wertheim and move it to Tauberbischofsheim. The Protestant Melanchthon Foundation in Wertheim argued against these intentions to close down in favor of maintaining a Protestant high school in Wertheim, invoking the right to exist for the Wertheim school as a Protestant counterpart to the Konvikt with high school in the Catholic Tauberbischofsheim.

Finally, the military government decided to provisionally resume schools in Wertheim on March 21, 1946 with two teachers for 90 boys and 47 girls. Because of the party-political past of the college, numerous teachers were not admitted to classes and until January 1947 the Wertheimer Gymnasium was co-administered from Tauberbischofsheim. The strong influx of expellees to Wertheim soon made the number of pupils at the Wertheimer Gymnasium rise. In 1948, 408 young people were being taught. In the same year 1948, the Wertheim municipal council decided that the language sequence at the Wertheim high school should be Latin-English-Greek. In 1949 an additional branch with the language sequence English-Latin-French was established. From 1954, the sequence of languages ​​Latin-English-French was established for all pupils. In 1957, the payment of school fees by the pupils' parents was completely canceled by decree.

New building of the grammar school and renaming

As the number of pupils continued to grow, it became necessary to use the youth hall of the Evangelical Melanchthon Foundation in Wertheim as an additional classroom, as only 12 rooms could be made available in the school building in Bismarckstrasse with its 9 actual classrooms for 16 classes. In 1957 the number of classes rose to 18. So they came up with plans to build a new building or to expand an existing one and an ideas competition was announced. After a jury had evaluated the work of the participants in the architectural competition for the new building of the high school on the slope near the Wertheim hospital, the models and designs were exhibited on November 8, 1959 in the original agricultural school. The local council had decided on a competition limited to Wertheim architects and three specialist architects and approved DM 30,000 for it. The architects Heinz Bonik, Christoph Schlüter, Horst Hugo Schmidt and Gerhard Latzel from Wertheim took part. As a member of the local council, the architect Kurt Lutz had decided not to participate, but was part of the jury that decided on the award. The offices of Hirsch (Karlsruhe), Schmucker / Schmechel (Mannheim) and Bregler (Stuttgart) submitted models and plans as specialist architects who received a fee of 2,500 DM each for their work. The jury awarded first prize to the architect Gerhard Latzel, who had worked for the Franconian housing association in Wertheim for a number of years and ran an office in Munich. The second prize went to the architect Hirsch and the third to the architectural consortium Schmucker / Schmechel.

During the construction, an existing agricultural school was expanded in the "Mittlere Flur" area. The expanded building was designed for 600 students in 24 classes. At Easter 1964, the first classes moved into the expanded building of the former agricultural school "Mittlere Flur".

On the occasion of the move, the teaching staff advised on renaming the grammar school to Wertheim in order to visibly erase the National Socialist stain in the history of the institution. The names Conrad Wellin, Johannes Kerer or a regional landscape designation were discussed. However, there was also a plea for keeping the name of the minstrel Wolfram von Eschenbach, with reference to the history of the town of Wertheim. In addition, it could also be argued that Wolfram von Eschenbach could not have any influence whatsoever on his appropriation at the time of National Socialism. Without considering the suggestions of the college, the then mayor Karl Josef Scheuermann, after a previous trial vote (January 4, 1965) on January 25, 1965 in the municipal council, implemented the name “Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium” in order to talk to the Lutheran theologian and representative of the Confessing Church as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was involved in the German resistance against National Socialism, to set a clear sign of anti-fascism in Wertheim, which was once strongly oriented towards National Socialism.

On May 3, 1965, the new building in the street named after Conrad Wellin was opened under the name "Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium" in the presence of Dietrich-Bonhoeffer's twin sister Sabine Leibholz , Bonhoeffer's friend Eberhard Bethge , Bonhoeffer's niece Renate Schleicher (married Bethge) , Federal Constitutional Judge Gerhard Leibholz and the Bavarian CSU politician Josef Müller (called Ochsensepp), a fellow prisoner of Bonhoeffer in the Flossenbürg concentration camp , inaugurated.

After the ceremony and the publication of the commemorative publication, Mayor Scheuermann and Senior Studies Director Dr. Hugo Max to a vigorous verbal and also written exchange of views, in which Scheuermann accused the headmaster of having agreed to the renaming in the local council, but not being sufficiently behind the new name in the college. In addition, Scheuermann rejected the festschrift published by the grammar school for the inauguration and refused to distribute it to the guests of honor of the inauguration act and to the responsible authorities. The disagreement between the city on the one hand and the school management and the college on the other dragged on for a long time.

Extension buildings

Foyer of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim

Between 1995 and 1997 an extension with an auditorium in the basement was built for the natural sciences. In 1998 the anniversary "625 years of Latin school in Wertheim" was celebrated. At the beginning of the third millennium, a wing of the old agricultural school was demolished in summer 2003 and a new class wing with a large foyer and 11 classrooms was built in its place.

High school directors

Since the expansion of the Wertheim Latin School into a high school under Johann Gottlob Erdmann Föhlisch, the following directors have worked at the school:

  • Johann Gottlob Erdmann Föhlisch (* 1778; † 1862): 1825–1852
  • Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hertlein (* 1803; † 1880): 1852–1870
  • Eduard Franz Ludwig Föhlisch (* 1816; † 1880): 1870–1875
  • Johann Heinrich Schlegel (* 1823; † 1888): 1875–1884
  • Jakob Georg Wilhelm Behaghel (* 1835; † 1920): 1884–1908
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Edmund Caspari (* 1855; † 1943): 1908–1909
  • Otto Kienitz (* 1850; † 1922): 1909–1919
  • August Friedrich Hausrath (* 1865; † 1944): 1919–1921
  • Johann Georg Schlundt (* 1865; † 1936): 1922–1931
  • Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Scharnke (* 1886; † 1948): 1931–1934
  • Karl Albert Hiß (* 1884; † 1964): 1934–1936
  • Eugen Josef Karl Glassen (* 1898; † 1990): 1936–1942
  • Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Lampp (* 1889; † 1963): 1947–1954
  • Emil Hugo Max (* 1904; † 1991): 1954–1971
  • Viktor Hermann Heller (* 1910; † 1991): 1971–1976
  • Rudi Rennier (* 1936; † 2016): 1976–1999
  • Annette von Manteuffel (* 1950): 1999-2004
  • Wilfried Weber (* 1946): 2004–2011
  • Reinhard Lieb (* 1962): since 2011

Former teachers and students

Known teachers

Known students

School life and peculiarities

School partnerships

From the 1960s onwards, the Wertheimer Gymnasium began to think about how to counteract the derailment of German history, as it had happened between 1933 and 1945. In general, an exchange between students from different countries was seen as an opportunity for young people to train intercultural competence, to improve their own language skills and to learn to become more independent by getting to know the culture in the host country, the language and the school content.

From 1966 onwards, a series of school partnerships that has continued to this day began, mainly in European partner countries. In addition, there were and are exchanges with the USA , Canada , Australia and New Zealand . Visits to foreign schools at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium came from the USA, Australia, South Africa, Ecuador and Peru.

The Martin Luther King School in El Cañon near Managua in Nicaragua has been supported by numerous aid campaigns since 1998 . The school is attended by around 250 children who come from poor living conditions and receive basic education here free of charge. This private school is financially supported by the non-profit association “Friendship Bridge Nicaragua” in Ettlingen . Due to the diverse activities of the pupils and teachers of the Wertheimer Gymnasium, donations are raised every year from an Advent bazaar in grade 5, the Christmas concert and numerous individual donations.

With the French twin town of Wertheim, Salon-de-Provence , there has been an intensive school partnership with France for a long time since 1966, which is currently being continued with the school in Marcheprime . In 1980 there was also an intensive partnership with the Italian twin town of Gubbio . Efforts in this direction have also been made with schools in Huntington, England, and Volos , Greece . After the fall of the inner-German border, there were also contacts with the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Chemnitz . Connections to Eastern Europe were established through the school partnerships with the Moricz-Zsigmond-Gimnazium and the Reformatus Gimnazium in Szentendre and the German-speaking high school in Pécs - both in Hungary .

Art installations

The sculpture was originally part of a fountain in the inner courtyard of the school, which was removed in the course of the new building work from 2003. The bird sculpture was then put back up in the green area in front of the school without the associated fountain. In 2014 they were moved to the foyer to protect them from theft. Emy Roeder created the sculpture in the 1960s for the new Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium. A copy of the Wertheim sculpture is in the museum in the Kulturspeicher in Würzburg .

  • Sculpture " Phoenix " by Emy Roeder

Emy Roeder created the wall sculpture for the new high school in 1968. The work was financed by a foundation from the Wertheim industrialist Rudolf Brand (1902–1987). The basic idea was the spiritual rebirth of the Wertheimer Gymnasium after the horrors of National Socialism and the Second World War. This is symbolized by the mythological figure of the phoenix. The term originally comes from the ancient Egyptian Benu , which means "the born again / the newborn son" . The mythical bird burns itself at the end of its life cycle in order to rise again from its ashes. The inscription under the sculpture reads: "SED DE SUO RESURGIT ROGO" (but he rises again from his own ashes). The quote comes from the work "Ennarationes in XII psalmos davidicos" by the Trier- born doctor, Ambrosius of Milan .

  • Bronze memorial plaque for the teachers and students of the grammar school who died in the wars

The inscription is written in Greek and calls to mind the suffering and death of the deceased. The original sandstone memorial for the teachers and students of the Wertheimer Gymnasium who were killed in the First World War from the 1920s was dismantled when moving from the old Lyceum to the new building on Conrad-Wellin-Straße and put back in the new building. It was destroyed by construction workers during the construction work in 2003.

  • Bronze bust "Dietrich Bonhoeffer":

The sculpture was created by the sculptor Hanna Cauer , a daughter of the sculptor Ludwig Cauer , and erected on May 21, 1980. The speech was given by Emmi Bonhoeffer- Delbrück, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's sister-in-law and wife of his brother Klaus Bonhoeffer . Originally the bust was in the stairwell. In 2005 it was installed in the newly built foyer.

  • Wall and ceiling installation in the foyer

In 2005 the Wertheim artist Johannes Schwab (* 1968) designed the central wall of the newly built foyer. The mural, which depicts lined up briefcases, extends over two floors. A stainless steel frieze is integrated into the upper mural, from which index cards cast in acrylic resin protrude. The installation is complemented by “swirling” files made of stainless steel, which seem to fly from the ceiling into the room. On a lectern made of wood and glass, which was also designed by Schwab, a résumé of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which was designed by Gisela Wolpert, is available for information. Above the lectern, Schwab created a reverse glass painting with Bonhoeffer's portrait.

  • Wall design of the gym and swimming pool

As part of a design competition among the students, a wall of the gymnasium and swimming pool was designed with a large-format picture on the subject of "Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

  • Art installations

  • Installation "Phoenix"

  • Memorial plaque for the war dead of the grammar school

  • Sculpture "water birds"

  • Bonhoeffer bust in the foyer

  • Behind glass picture of Bonhoeffer with lectern

  • Detail of the mural in the foyer

  • Exterior wall design of the sports hall of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium

  • Art installation, foyer of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim

Library

Library of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium
Hoffmann's Biedermeier showcases in the gallery of the foyer
Wertheim in Merian's Topographia Franconiae, 1656

The Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium has a rich collection of historical books from several centuries. The library has its origins in the monastery library, which has existed since 1448 and was used as a church and school library. It was not until the Enlightenment that the school principal Johann Friedrich Neidhart (1744–1825), who had been active since 1771, created an independent school library. During the confiscation of the school building by the American occupation forces, half of the oldest and most valuable prints of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Topographia Franconiae (1648/1656 ff.), Were made from the Topographia Germaniae by Matthäus Merian and all the old atlases in the Hoffmannschen Biedermeier showcases by the grammar school director Albert Hiß were stolen in 1935 and have been lost since then. For conservation reasons, the still preserved book collections have been on the initiative of the deputy grammar school director Otto Eichhorn since 1979 in the premises of the Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Wertheim State Archive Department in Bronnbach Monastery, together with the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenbergsche Archive, the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenbergsches Archives, the Bronnbach monastery archives, the Wertheim city archives and the archives of the Main-Tauber district. A smaller part of the historical book inventory can be seen in the school library or is in historical Biedermeier showcases that were donated to the school by the heirs of Captain Heinrich Hoffmann. Further historical book holdings and historical collections are kept in the various student council libraries of the school.

Natural collection

At the suggestion of superintendent Johann Eberlin, who has been active in Wertheim since 1525, the Wertheim school began to deal with “realities”, i.e. natural history. The subject of natural history was introduced in Wertheim under Rector Johann Friedrich Neidhart in 1798. From 1809, Vice-Rector Föhlisch began to set up a natural history cabinet. In 1830, Johann Philipp Henning from Wertheim gave the institution his large collection of Brazilian beetles , birds , butterflies , amphibians and types of wood . Captain Heinrich Hoffmann organized the donated collections systematically and carried out the associated taxidermy work . Eugen Langguth donated to the school in 1888, a herbarium with ferns from New Zealand . In addition, the grammar school has a plant collection that was created in the 19th century for plants from the Holy Land . In addition to numerous ammonites and other fossils , the grammar school received a mammoth tooth and a leg of a mammoth in the school year 1882/1883 , which had been found while working in the Bettingerberg tunnel.

  • Historical natural collection, impressions

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, ornithological department

  • Historical natural history collection, the inside of a turtle's armor

Sports

Indoor swimming pool of the high school

The Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium has a teaching pool of 17 m × 8 m with an adjustable pool floor. The water depths are continuously adjustable from 0.95 m to 1.80 m. There are two underwater massage jets in the pool, which can be switched on as required. The two sports halls of the grammar school are located above the swimming pool. In addition, two of the school's own plastic-covered sports fields and the Wertheim Main-Tauber multi-purpose hall are also used for teaching. The Wertheimer Tauber sports field and the Kreuzwertheim sports field are used for internal sports competitions.

Support association

  • On July 30, 1929, the grammar school director Schlundt, Professor Dux, Professor Haas, Pastor Bär and Pastor Kappes founded the “Association of Former Teachers and Students of the High School in Wertheim”. The association served to support needy students who “are distinguished by their commendable hard work and good behavior”.
  • As early as September 17, 1891, the "Academic Holiday Association Moenania" was founded as a student association for former students of the Wertheimer Gymnasium. The association was dissolved in May 1966.
  • On December 4, 1972, the association “Friends of Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium e. V. “founded. It serves to promote school issues such as the purchase of media, subsidies for excursion costs and cultural events as well as educational support measures. The association also awards prizes of honor. For its 25th anniversary in 1997, the Friends' Association took over the cost of restoring valuable historical books in the school library from the 16th century, such as an Aesop edition from 1517 and the herb book by Eucharius Rösslin the Younger from 1569 and the Sachsenspiegel from the same year.

Cafeteria Association

A company association was set up in the 1999/2000 school year to run a school cafeteria. The cafeteria opened on September 18, 2000.

Curiosities

Cathedral cloister in Würzburg, grave slab of Philipp Friedrich Buchner, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Kapellmeister (September 10, 1614 in Wertheim - March 23, 1669 in Würzburg)

Student complaint from the 17th century

Philipp Friedrich Buchner , Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Kapellmeister (September 10, 1614 in Wertheim - March 23, 1669 in Würzburg) complains on his grave slab in the Würzburg cathedral cloister in a Latin inscription about the inadequate educational opportunities in Wertheim:

“Sta viator et audi! Werthemium in Franconia mihi vitam dedit, sed rudem, qua arte musica polivit Francofortum, et fide catholica illustravit Polonia. In fide et arte Gallia me exercuit, perfecit Italia, reducem Herbipolis et Moguntia probavit. Quis fuerim, quis et ubi sim, rogas? Audi! Philippus Fridericus Buchner, Archiepiscopalis Electoralis Moguntiae et Episcopalis Ducalis Herbipoli, capellae fui magister annos XX, summis et infimis charus. In pulverem, de quo sumptus X. Sept. A. MDCXIV, reversus XXIII. Mar. Anno MDCLXIX, sub vicino cespite quiesco reliqua intelliges, quando conveniemus interim pro me precare et ita vive, ut conveniamus in coelis. "

(Translation: "Stand wanderer and listen! Wertheim in Franconia gave me life, but not education. Frankfurt ennobled it through the art of music, Poland enlightened it through the Catholic faith. In faith and in art, France practiced me, Italy perfected me. Würzburg and Mainz appreciated those who came home. Who I was, who and where I am, you ask? So listen! I was Philipp Friedrich Buchner, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Kapellmeister, twenty For years, worth high and low. To the dust from which I was taken on September 10, 1614, I returned on March 23, 1669 and rest under the nearby hill. You will find out the rest when we meet again. Meanwhile, pray for me and live so that we can meet again in heaven. ")

See also

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim am Main, May 3, 1965. Wertheim 1965.
  • 625 years of the Wertheim Latin School , Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim, Wertheim 1998.
  • Hermann Ehmer: The origins of the Wertheimer Gymnasium. In: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim, annual report 1977/1978. Pp. 33-37.
  • Hermann Ehmer: A look into the history of our school, the reorganization of the Wertheim Latin School in the 16th century. In: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim, annual report 1983/1984. Pp. 78-80.
  • Hermann Ehmer: The oldest timetable of the Wertheimer Gymnasium. In: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim, annual report 1985/1986. Pp. 82-87.
  • Hermann Ehmer: History of the Grafschaft Wertheim, Wertheim 1989.
  • Friedrich Engel: Documentary petitions on the history of ecclesiastical administration of the Grafschaft Wertheim 1276–1499, (special publication of the historical association Wertheim, also Wertheim Yearbook 1958), Wertheim 1959.
  • Erich Langguth: On the history of the Wertheim higher educational institution, Latin school - Lyceum - grammar school. In: Festschrift for the inauguration of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim am Main, May 3, 1965. Wertheim 1965, pp. 6-8.
  • Erich Langguth: pastor, vicar, altarist, canon; On the development and personal history of the parish and Stift Wertheim in the Middle Ages. In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch 1984/1985 1986, pp. 31–54.
  • Otto Langguth: Sources on the school history of the Grafschaft Wertheim, Würzburg 1937.
  • Johann Friedrich Neidhart: Contribution to the school history of the city of Wertheim, especially in older times, Wertheim 1790.
  • Johann Friedrich Neidhart: Topographical-statistical news from the city of Wertheim, in the county of the same name, in the Franconian district by Johann Friedrich Neidhart, Rector of the Lyceum, Nuremberg 1793.
  • Franz Platz: Contributions to the history of the Wertheimer Gymnasium (supplement to the annual report of the Großherzoglichen Gymnasium Wertheim 1875/1876), Wertheim 1876.
  • Rudi Rennier: How the Wertheimer Gymnasium got its name "Dietrich Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium". In: In memory of the 50th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's death, † April 9, 1995 Flossenbürg. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium Wertheim, Wertheim 1995, pp. 85-88.
  • Gustav Rommel: From old university registers. In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch 1931.
  • Monika Schaupp: Reorganization and upswing of the school system in the Grafschaft Wertheim through the Reformation, in: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Archivnachrichten, No. 55, September 2017, pp. 6-7.
  • Thomas Wehner: The Latin School in Wertheim from the Reformation to the Thirty Years War. Publications of the historical association Wertheim, vol. 5, Wertheim 1993.

Web links

Commons : Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Wertheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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