Edertal School Frankenberg

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Edertal School
Edertal School Frankenberg
type of school high school
founding 1922
place Frankenberg (Eder)
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '42 "  N , 8 ° 48' 20"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '42 "  N , 8 ° 48' 20"  E
carrier District committee of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district
student 1460 (as of November 1st, 2012)
management Claus-Hartwig Otto
Website www.edertalschule.de

The Edertalschule is a traditional high school in Frankenberg (Eder) . It is located in the south-western part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse and is the only grammar school in the old Frankenberg district whose catchment area it still covers today. Because of this fact, it is one of the largest high schools in Hesse, despite its rather rural location.

history

Apart from a few new buildings, the grammar school is located in the buildings of the teachers ' college founded in 1904 , where it initially operated under the simple name “Aufbauschule” from 1922 and was renamed “Edertalschule” in 1925. In the heyday of the city of Frankenberg in the Middle Ages , the school system also began to revive. As early as 1254, a priest Arnoldus is referred to in chronicles as the schoolmaster of a prestigious Latin school from which some famous students emerged. Among others, the chronicler Wigand Gerstenberg , the doctor and botanist Euricius Cordus or the humanist and great neo-Latin poet Helius Eobanus Hessus . Until 1872 Protestant and Reformed clergy taught the first girls and boys classes in the adjoining rooms of the Liebfrauenkirche .

The pedagogical breakthrough came with the laws of the Prussian elementary school system, in which from now on all pupils were taught exclusively by teachers trained in seminars. Already in the following year the forerunner of the later teachers' seminar was founded with the preparandy as a higher private school, which started its service on October 1st, 1901. From 1903 the construction of the new seminar and later school building began, into which the students moved on January 9, 1904. Thus, for a short time until 1925, Frankenberg was a university location for the training of teachers. From 1922 onwards, the teachers' seminar became a state advanced school in which pupils were led to the Abitur after seven years of elementary school, before it was finally converted into a nine-stage full high school. With a short interruption, when a Wehrmacht hospital was moved from Grodno to the premises of the Edertalschule in 1944 , Frankenberg has had a full-fledged grammar school since then.

Edertal School today

The Edertal School in Geismarer Straße (front)

A special focus of the Edertal School is music lessons with early musical support and lessons in the MINT subjects .

Since 2002 the Edertal School has been recognized by the State of Hesse as a special school for music and is supported accordingly. It has a youth symphony orchestra for grades 7–12, special orchestral classes from the 5th school year onwards with a youth orchestra based on this, various choirs and a big band and has already performed numerous national and international appearances with these ensembles. Among others in Esterházy Palace , the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , the Small Opera Bad Homburg , the Palais Kassel Congress or on a concert tour in the US state of Wisconsin . The latter took place for the second time in a row from Sheboygan , where the students lived with host families.

In the field of natural sciences, great importance is attached to experimental work and Jugend forscht is regularly involved in various projects . The Edertalschule is part of the MINT Excellence Center network and offers, for example, a physics work group for the middle level, an astronomy work group, various math competitions and a Young Engineer Academy in cooperation with Viessmann Werke and the Central Hesse University of Applied Sciences .

There is also a pedagogical lunchtime supervision with cafeteria, homework supervision, entertainment program and remedial lessons in small groups. In addition to numerous sports groups, for example also in fun sports , the Edertalschule has a large and well-developed theater group which offers numerous regional and national performances. In a large media library with a library and PC workstations, the Edertalschule also provides its students with a room for research and learning purposes.

At the Edertal School, both the Abitur after grade 12 and the old regulation with 13 years of schooling are possible.

Support association

The "Friends and Patrons of the Edertal School" were founded in 1993 and have been sponsoring school matters ever since . The association has 300 members, sees itself as a link between school and parenthood and, through its financial support, has helped to set up the choirs and orchestras. In 2012 alone, he collected around € 25,000 in donations. In addition, the association establishes contacts with alumni and thus functions as an alumni network for the Edertal School.

Well-known students

This list does not claim to be complete.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Edertal School orchestra shines at three concerts. In: Frankenberger Zeitung . April 25, 2010, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  2. ^ American tour of the youth symphony orchestra. In: edertalschule.de. 2012, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Preparation for the trip to America. In: Frankenberger Zeitung . February 14, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Algae research brings in numerous prizes. In: Frankenberger Zeitung . May 28, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Presentation of the Edertal School at MINT-EC. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2015 .;
  6. ^ "The plague" after Albert Camus. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . April 27, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Theater AG of the Edertal School thrilled at Premiere. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . May 12, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  8. ↑ G8 and G9: Edertalschule applies for inclusion in the school trial. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . February 12, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Funders important for everyday school life. In: Frankenberger Zeitung . March 15, 2012, accessed June 15, 2013 .