Eichendorff High School (Koblenz)

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Eichendorff High School
Eichendorff-Gymnasium Koblenz 2013.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1855
address

Friedrich-Ebert-Ring 26-30
56068 Koblenz

place Koblenz
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 21 '18 "  N , 7 ° 35' 44"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '18 "  N , 7 ° 35' 44"  E
carrier City of Koblenz
student about 900
Teachers 65
management Hans-Georg Meier
Website www.eichendorff-koblenz.de

The Eichendorff-Gymnasium in Koblenz is a municipal school with a musical focus. It has been one of the UNESCO schools since 2006 . Around 900 students are currently attending the grammar school, who are taught by 65 teachers.

history

Royal and Municipal Trade School

Bust of Karl Friedrich Mohr in front of the school

In 1855 the Royal and Municipal Trade School of Coblenz (Provincial Vocational School) "for the industry and the building trade," particularly at the instigation of the Koblenz chemist and pharmacist Karl Friedrich Mohr , in Kramerzunfthaus founded. Then the trade school moved from 1871 to 1907 to the old department store . An expansion and reorganization of the "higher trade school" with the "one-year-old" (secondary school leaving certificate) as a qualification was organized from 1871 to 1875. The school was expanded from 1878 to 1882 into a nine-year high school with the right to graduate from university.

Kaiser Wilhelm School

In 1907 it moved from the old town to a representative, classicist new building on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring (today Friedrich-Ebert-Ring) and was renamed "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realgymnasium und Realschule". At the beginning of World War I commanded Kaiser Wilhelm II. In GHQ , which was set from 16 to 30 August, 1914 at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-secondary school, with his generals the German armies. In 1930 the secondary school ran out and the branch of an upper secondary school was established. In 1937, the Nazi administration had the school renamed "Kaiser Wilhelm School, Upper Real School for Boys" and split the upper level into a linguistic and a mathematical and scientific branch.

In 1944 the school building was largely destroyed in a bomb attack , and lessons for some of the students were moved to Haidmühle on the Czech border. After the end of the war in 1945, lessons were continued in various buildings and the school was renamed first again to "Kaiser Wilhelm Realgymnasium", then to "Städtisches Gymnasium".

Eichendorff High School

The school building was rebuilt from 1950 to 1957. The walls and vaults that were still preserved were reused, but the building as a whole was redesigned in the then modern forms; only a few remains, such as the plinth area and columns inside, are still visible today as traces of the old design. In 1960 the overcrowded school was relieved by the separation of the mathematical and scientific branch as a new grammar school ("Max-von-Laue-Gymnasium") in the former "Collège Marceau" (school for children of the French occupation soldiers). In 1966 the school was finally named as it is still called today: The modern-language grammar school was now called by a ministerial decree "Staatliches Eichendorff-Gymnasium (modern language, musical) Koblenz", named after the writer Joseph von Eichendorff . The introduction of co-education for boys and girls progressed in 1975. From 1976 to 1979, for testing purposes, the performance subject 'Music' was introduced in the upper level as an examination subject for the Abitur under the direction of Director of Studies Neumann. It was the first time nationwide that music was offered as a major. The special range of courses in music began in 1985.

It has been officially recognized as a UNESCO project school since 2006 .

List of school principals

Inauguration Official fee Surname
1855 1864 Joh. Bernheard Heilermann
1864 1874 Adolf Felix Dronke
1874 1877 August Zieken
1877 1901 Robert Most
1901 1912 Heinrich Goossens
1912 1914 Hermann Bredtmann
1915 1933 Heinrich Egbring
1933 1945 Karl Wilhelm Jacobi
1945 1949 Philipp Bruchof
1950 1969 Wilhelm Gulde
1969 1986 Richard Ramann
1986 2005 Hartmut Froesch
2005 2010 Wolfgang Selbert
2010 2012 Margot Elsner
2012 2014 Klemens Breitenbach
2014 now Hans Georg Meier

Known students

Well-known students who passed the Abitur at Eichendorff-Gymnasium are, for example, Wolf Lepenies , Thomas Anders , Siegfried Balke , Hermann Stegemann , Michael Reufsteck , Philipp Langen , Erich Franke , Werner Weidenfeld , Karl Darscheid , Jürgen Borsch , Guido Karp , Michael Hollmann , Michael Schwertel or Klaus-Dieter Regenbrecht .

School orientation

The Eichendorff-Gymnasium has a musical focus; However, it is still possible to take the Abitur without the subject of music, as is usual at other grammar schools. Three foreign languages ​​are offered:

International Relations

The school has partner schools in:

Comenius project

  • 2011–2013 "Towns: past, present & future" with partner schools in England, France, Latvia, Portugal and Spain
  • 2008–2010 “Confluentes” with partner schools in Fourchambault, France and Attleborough, England

See also

literature

  • Teaching staff of the Städtisches Realgymnasium zu Coblenz (Ed.): Festschrift for the celebration of the inauguration of the new school building and the 52th anniversary of the institution, Koblenz, 1907, on October 12, 1907 . ( dilibri.de ).
  • Hartmut Froesch, Karl H. Kirch, Hansjörg Schütz: Eichendorff-Gymnasium Koblenz 1855-2005. A commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the founding of a Koblenz school . Bad Honnef 2005.

Web links

Commons : Eichendorff-Gymnasium Koblenz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rude awakening: Hunger follows the intoxication of war in: Rhein-Zeitung , November 3, 2014