Don Bosco Gymnasium Unterwaltersdorf
| Don Bosco Gymnasium Unterwaltersdorf | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Realgymnasium and advanced high school |
| School number | 306046 |
| founding | 1914 |
| address |
20 Don Bosco Street |
| place | Ebreichsdorf- Untererwaltersdorf |
| state | Lower Austria |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 57 '59 " N , 16 ° 25' 51" E |
| carrier | Salesians of Don Bosco |
| student | around 650 (as of 2015) |
| Website | www.donboscogym.ac.at |
The Don Bosco Gymnasium Unterwaltersdorf is a Realgymnasium and advanced high school run by the Salesians Don Bosco in the Unterwaltersdorf district in the town of Ebreichsdorf in Lower Austria .
history
The Salesians of Don Bosco, with their main branches in Italy and in Oświęcim (Auschwitz) in Poland, had built the Salesianum boys' home in the German-speaking area in Vienna- Landstrasse between 1908 and 1910 . With the Salesian employee of Don Bosco Franz Eggenberger, who had married a daughter of the mayor of Unterwaltersdorf, the initiative for a late vocational high school for the order in Unterwaltersdorf arose. The community of Unterwaltersdorf offered a 16-hectare property for this at a reasonable price. Father August Hlond , superior in the Salesianum in Vienna, later bishop and primate of Poland, received approval for the building project from Cardinal Anton Josef Gruscha on January 8, 1914 . The foundation stone was laid with Prelate Ferdinand Wimmer on April 26, 1914. The religious house with a grammar school was opened in 1914 as the Maria Hilf mission house . Due to the First World War , the first users were Polish students and priests who had to flee from the war zone. Classes began in the fall of 1915 at a private high school. The grammar school had no public rights, which is why the students took their Matura externally in Vienna or Baden. In June 1931 the Don Bosco sisters moved into a sister house in Unterwaltersdorf. When Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, the school was closed on October 5, 1938. By 1938, 892 students had entered the school, 170 graduates had taken up the spiritual profession, 132 of them became Salesians.
After the Second World War, the school was restarted as a secondary school in autumn 1945 and was granted public rights on February 2, 1949, and the first Matura was held in 1953. In 1957 the Realgymnasium was started from the age of 10 and in 1988 girls could also attend school.
Forms of education
The grammar school is run as a Realgymnasium in the lower level and as an advanced high school in the upper level. The upper level is a special form of grammar school, which enables beginners from other types of school to attend the upper level, since - except in English - all foreign languages start afresh and therefore no further requirements are necessary.
The school community of around 700 students in 27 classes with 64 professors, educators and six Salesians who also live in the house includes an active parents' association and a graduate association.
The high school also offers afternoon care as part of the half-boarding school (day care center). Children and young people are given the opportunity to spend the time from Monday to Friday between 13:05 and 16:25 under pedagogical supervision.
The half-boarding school begins with lunch. Then there is free time. The young people are instructed to spend their leisure time in a meaningful way and thus also to acquire social skills in dealing with their peers and students from other classes as well as with adults. The Café Piccolo, the leisure center, the outdoor facilities and the gyms offer the opportunity to meet and play. Combined with the active presence of the educators ("assistance"), these spatial conditions create a family atmosphere and thus the home of young people, which is the concern of Don Bosco's pedagogy .
The high school is characterized by a very diverse range of non-binding exercises and optional subjects. This offer ranges from numerous sporting exercises such as badminton, volleyball or soccer to mathematics Olympics and support for the gifted , in German and history.
management
- 1995–2015 Bernhard Maier (also pupil of this school)
- since 2015 Beatrix Dillmann
Teacher
- Alois Kothgasser , also a graduate of the school, former Bishop of Innsbruck and Archbishop of Salzburg
- Martin Radatz, Mayor of Leithaprodersdorf
student
- Gernot Blümel , Matura 2000, politician (ÖVP)
- Franz Kaindl , Matura 1953, historian, director of the Museum of Military History
- Erwin Niederwieser , Matura 1970, educational scientist and politician (SPÖ)
- Michael Roscher , Matura 1992, commentator, moderator, reporter (ORF)
- Ludwig Schwarz , Matura 1959, Bishop of Linz
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Michael Lang: Don Bosco: Maier goes, Dillmann follows. In: NÖN . April 1, 2015, accessed July 25, 2020 .
- ↑ School history. In: donboscogym.ac.at. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
- ^ P. Bernhard Maier takes over the management of the international relief fund of the Salesians. In: ordensgemeinschaften.at. October 14, 2015, accessed July 25, 2020 .