Lübeck Cathedral School
| Cathedral school | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Latin school |
| founding | 1163 |
| closure | 1810 |
| place | Lübeck |
| country | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 51 ′ 40 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 15" E |
| carrier | Diocese of Lübeck |
The cathedral school ( Latin schola cathedralis ) in Lübeck was the oldest school in the city as the Latin school of the Diocese of Lübeck and existed from 1163 to 1810.
history
The Lübeck Cathedral School was established with the relocation of the bishopric from Oldenburg to Lübeck under Bishop Gerold . It was affiliated to the monastery of the cathedral monastery and was under the supervision of the canons of the Lübeck cathedral chapter . The educational mission of this school went in two directions: on the one hand, the training of young clergymen ( schola interior ) and, as schola exterior, the teaching of Latin skills to the sons of the urban patriciate and the nobility from the surrounding area.
Due to the constant disputes between the city council and the diocese of Lübeck about political supremacy and mutual influence in the city, the council established another Latin school in 1262 against the will of the bishop and the cathedral chapter, which at St. Jakobi was at the expense the city was established. This dispute escalated to a particularly high degree from 1299 under Bishop Burkhard von Serkem . It was not until a settlement in 1317 that the diocese's school sovereignty was formally restored; only the four German-speaking parish schools that had been set up in the meantime remained under the supervision and control of the council and served to impart writing and arithmetic skills, especially for commercial assistants. However, they were not recognized by the church until 1418. Jacob von Melle reported in his Thorough Message in 1787 that the "old school building was laid in ashes in 1413 due to the neglect of a student." Since then, the cathedral school has existed in the vicinity of the Lübeck Cathedral and in the south wing of the Lübeck Cathedral Monastery .
With the Reformation there was a reorganization of the school system in Lübeck based on the proposals of Johannes Bugenhagen's church regulations . The Katharineum was founded in the Katharinenkloster in 1531 . The Latin school near St. Jakobi was closed. In the cathedral chapter, only the schola exterior continued to exist , since the cathedral chapter was extraterritorial for the Lübeck council and beyond any control. From now on, however, the Katharineum receives political funding from the city as a priority. Even if the city does not succeed in taking over the cathedral school, it will be sidelined by the further development.
As a low-level Latin school, it is intended to prepare students for visits to the Katharineum around 1660 and to impart skills in writing and arithmetic in addition to the necessary knowledge of Latin. A school rules dating back to 1710 has survived. In 1810, as part of the reorganization of the Lübeck school system, the school council of the city council decided to do justice to the state of the one-class school by classifying it as a middle school. At that time the cathedral school had two teachers. In 1839 it became a secondary school and in 1850 was given the former Lübeck bishopric at the cathedral courtyard as a building. In this building, after long political discussions between the citizens and the Senate (since 1865), a higher citizens' school was established in 1872 , from which the Johanneum zu Lübeck emerged as a secondary school. At the corner of the cathedral courtyard and along the model railway , an extension of the higher citizen school was put into operation in 1881, which is still used today by the later established secondary school for the cathedral .
principal
In the pre-Reformation period, the supervision of the cathedral school lay with one of the canons, the scholaster of the cathedral chapter.
- 1540–1548: Magister Bernhard Cloenewinkel
literature
- Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lübeckische Geschichte. 2nd revised edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1989, ISBN 3-7950-3202-4 .
- Richard Schult: Changes. The history of the Johanneum zu Lübeck in chronological order. In: Johanneum zu Lübeck. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary. Lübeck 1997, pp. 35-176.
supporting documents
- ↑ p. 353