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Memorial plaque on what is now the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Culture - the last location of the school
Seal mark Realgymnasium - Drei-König-Schule - Dresden-Neustadt

The Dreikönigschule was the secondary school in the Neustadt district of Dresden . It was the oldest school in Altendresden .

history

The school was first mentioned in a document in 1495. Presumably it was founded earlier as a parish school of the Dreikönigskirche . The church and school were subordinate to the Augustinian monastery . After the Reformation , the school developed as a Latin school. The schoolhouse was located in the immediate vicinity of the Dreikönigskirche. For this reason, a part of the Rathausgäßchen, which led from the Neustadt town hall to the church, was given the name Schulgäßchen as early as the 16th century .

In addition to the schoolmaster (rector), who was the town clerk of Altendresden until the middle of the 16th century , the cantor was mentioned in 1543 and the organist (Baccalaureus or Tertius) in 1544 .

In 1670 there were over 130 students at the school. The great city fire of 1685 destroyed the school, after which it was rebuilt in the same place. In 1803 the school was converted into a high school. Rector Friedrich August Beger converted the school into a secondary school in 1845 . Under Beger in 1851 the right to take school- leaving examinations was acquired. He also made sure that math, science and French were taught instead of Greek and Hebrew.

In 1854, Karl Eberhard built a new building in Königstrasse . 327 students attended the school this year. The old school building near the Dreikönigskirche was demolished and the hotel "Zum Kronprinz" was built in its place.

This new building was already too small in 1874, so that Bruno Adam and Georg Schramm built another new building for the school. The new location was in the waterway. The street was later renamed Arminstrasse. Today it is called Wigardstrasse. In 1895, the Dreikönigschule became the first reform high school in Saxony.

Since 1927 the school has been using the school's own country home in Hetzdorf-Herrndorf for fourteen-day school trips. After the closure of the Rudolf Steiner School in Jägerstrasse by the National Socialist Cultural Administration, the Dreikönigschule took over a considerable number of its students and some of the teachers.

The school building was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in February 1945.

The Dreikönigschule Dresden grammar school, founded in 1992 on Louisenstrasse, was named after the Dreikönigschule.

Development of the number of students

Number of pupils at the Dreikönigschule
selected years from 1670 to 1920
year 1670 1854 1890 1900 1920
Number of students over 130 327 430 580 624

student

Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius , who later became the rector of the Princely School of Meissen , the journalist and art historian Paul Schumann , the agricultural scientist Bruno Steglich , the Japanese scientist Horst Hammitzsch , the architect Peter Neufert , the textile and clothing scientist and later rector of the higher technical school for textiles and Berlin clothing industry Ernst-Richard Flemming , as well as the professors of the Technical University of Dresden Kurt Beyer , Reinhard Hugershoff and Heinz Schönfeld visited the Dreikönigschule. The students included Wolfgang Klien and Herbert Gute , the mayor of Dresden from 1946 to 1958. The archaeologist Elvira Fölzer had attained university entrance qualification at the school at the age of 31 after women had been given the opportunity.

Successor building

In 1951, the institute building of the University of Education in Dresden was built on the last site of the Dreikönigschule . Above the main entrance are two sandstone friezes created by Rudolf Löhner in 1952 , which show scenes from the field of education.

The Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art has been housed in this building since 1994 . A plaque on the building reminds of the school.

literature

  • Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
  • High school diploma for the war: high school graduates in grade 39 remember . Helga Gotschlich , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3373003717 . The school and war experiences of many students of the 1939 Abitur class of the Dreikönigschule are described.

Web links

Commons : Dreikönigschule  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 28.7 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 58.5 ″  E