Edith-Stein-Gymnasium Speyer
| Edith-Stein-Gymnasium Speyer | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1957 |
| address |
Langensteinweg 5 |
| place | Speyer |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 19 '17 " N , 8 ° 25' 28" E |
| carrier | St. Dominikus Schools GmbH |
| student | 600 |
| Teachers | 56 |
| management | Andreas Kotulla |
| Website | www.esg-speyer.de |
The Edith-Stein-Gymnasium in Speyer , or ESG for short, is a state-recognized, private girls ' high school . The St. Dominikus Schools GmbH of the St. Dominikus Institute has been the sponsor since August 1, 2010 .
history
Today's Edith-Stein-Gymnasium, which was opened in the 1957/58 school year as a “private, state-recognized, modern-language high school for the Dominican Sisters of St. Magdalena in the west of the city of Speyer ”, has far older roots. The school goes back to the work of the Dominican women , which began around 700 years ago in Speyer. After destruction in the time of the French Revolution , King Ludwig I of Bavaria gave official approval in 1828 that the sisters “dedicate themselves to the education of young women and open schools”. Despite financial challenges in the times of the Kulturkampf , the order's schools in Speyer and the surrounding area were very popular. On April 6, 1937, the then mayor of Speyer found that the schools of the monastery community contradicted the "principles of the National Socialist state" and a closure was ordered. Some sisters then went into exile and continued their educational work in Peru and Brazil . A "poor (...) re-establishment of the monastery elementary school and the higher girls' school " in October 1945 was followed by a new building in 1957, which "still includes a grammar school and a secondary school today".
today
Today the Edith-Stein-Gymnasium is attended by 600 students who are taught by 56 teachers. The school is open to female students of all denominations, there is no compulsory school fee. The headmaster is Andreas Kotulla. The grammar school sees its focus in the field of arts and MINT subjects . An information day for interested pupils and parents usually takes place at the end of November.
The school offers pupils exchange with the partner schools Ecole Privèe Fieldgen in Luxembourg (French), Spalding High School in the Spalding twin town of Spalding (English) and in Spanish with the Colegio Beata Imelda in Chosica in Peru .
Every year the school organizes a summer concert in the Speyer town hall.
Surname
The grammar school was named Edith Steins , the Jew, philosopher, pedagogue and Carmelite who converted to Christianity in 1922 , who taught at the previous schools in St. Magdalena in Speyer from 1923 to 1931 and was murdered in 1942 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp . She was beatified on May 1, 1987, and canonized on October 11, 1998 in Rome .
Former students
Natalie Suzanne Steger , head of the ZDF studio in Warsaw
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Registration for the 5th grade. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ school management. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Music focus. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Information day. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Student exchange
- ^ Ripe for the island , Speyerer Kurier, June 22, 2018
- ^ History. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Edith Stein Society Germany eV Accessed on July 31, 2018 .
- ↑ "Natalie Suzanne Steger, former student and current director of the ZDF studio in Warsaw, gives the keynote lecture." The world's first Edith Stein school, educational institution for girls in Speyer celebrates its 60th anniversary, www.esg-speyer.de , February 13, 2017
- ↑ Natalie Suzanne Steger , pressportal.zdf.de, accessed on August 3, 2018