Einhard School Seligenstadt

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Einhard School Seligenstadt
Logo-white.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1803
address

Einhardstrasse 72-74

place Seligenstadt
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 2 '14 "  N , 8 ° 58' 21"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '14 "  N , 8 ° 58' 21"  E
carrier State education authority for the city and district of Offenbach
student about 1,400
Teachers 88 + 7 trainee lawyers
management Dieter Herr
Website www.einhardschule.de

Einhardschule Seligenstadt (short: ESS ) has been the name of the independent grammar school of the Offenbach district in Seligenstadt since May 18, 2005 , which was spun off from the comprehensive school of the same name with upper secondary school at the beginning of the 2004/2005 school year . The remaining secondary and secondary school is now called Merianschule . Various educational institutions in Seligenstadt have been named after the scholar and historian Einhard since 1803 . In 2010, for the ninth time in a row, the school was recognized as one of 92 schools in Hesse as a “school with a focus on music” from the Hessian Ministry of Culture . The logo of the Einhardschule shows the stylized Einhard basilica and the Main after the abbreviation ESS .

The facility is attended by around 1,100 students from Seligenstadt and the surrounding communities. They are divided into 34 classes and 14 tutorials. 87 teachers and 3 trainee teachers teach various subjects.

Today's main entrance to the Einhard School
Today's southern entrance to the Einhard School

Building and location

Before the start of the renovation and the separation into grammar school and secondary school and secondary school, the school consisted of three buildings. Grades 5 to 8 of the grammar school part of the former comprehensive school were in a building erected in 1959 (called the "old building"). Grades 9 to 13 were in a building that was inaugurated in 1974 (called "new building" or "main building"). Grades 5 to 8 of the former main and secondary school section were housed in a separate building (called "Gieselastraße"). Grades 9 and 10 were in the same building as grades 9 to 13 of the grammar school.

Since the school was separated and the renovation work began, there are only two buildings available for the grammar school, secondary school and secondary school. Grades 5 to 9/10 of the Hauptschule and Realschule are now located in the building that was built in 1959 and modernized in 2006, which is now the only building of the Hauptschule and Realschule. In 2007, after the modernization work was completed, the building of the secondary and secondary school was enlarged again in order to be able to accommodate students from the now closed secondary and secondary school ("Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule") in the Klein-Welzheim district .

The building, erected in 1974, was modernized and enlarged between June 2006 and October 2007 for 31.3 million euros in order to meet the new requirements. All students of the high school are now in this building. It consists of 40 class and group rooms and 15 specialist rooms and a cafeteria with a fully equipped kitchen and a large multi-purpose room with mobile partitions . During the construction phase, grades 5 to 7 were housed in the former main building of the secondary and secondary school, and grades 8 to 13 in 36 containers on the school's own sports field . However, the move was delayed by a few months as the construction work was delayed due to undetectable pollution. The building is now state-of-the-art and a showpiece, especially in the areas of IT and natural sciences. The conversion of the Einhard School and the Merian School was the largest single building project in the Offenbach district so far.

In addition, the grammar school has a modern sports hall , which was used by students from the grammar school as well as from secondary school and secondary school before the school was converted. Since the completion of the Merian School building in 2006, the students now have their own, but much smaller, sports hall. After the renovation of all buildings, the school's own sports field was completely modernized and partially equipped with a tartan track and an asphalted area. Between March 2009 and January 2010 the sports hall was also completely modernized for 2.6 million euros and partially equipped with new sports equipment. During this time, physical education took place in other sports halls, in the classrooms, in the municipal outdoor swimming pool or on the school's own sports field.

The former main building of the main and secondary school section of the comprehensive school was demolished in autumn 2009 and is being replaced by a modern, CO 2 -neutral structure for a new elementary school ("Emmaschule"). Construction of the three-room facility with integrated single-field sports hall began in autumn 2009 and should be completed after a year. Due to complications with a construction company that did not deliver components as promised, the completion is expected to be delayed until spring 2012. The costs of around 12.6 million euros are to be financed by the economic stimulus program of the state of Hesse.

In the 2009/2010 school year, all classes in grade 6 had to be accommodated in the old buildings of the former Don Bosco School, which was located right next door. The school was closed at the beginning of this school year 2009/2010 due to allegedly falling student numbers and the dilapidation of the building. Due to the neglect of the responsible politicians and the school management, too few classrooms were built despite the renovation of the Einhardschule in 2006/2007, which met with incomprehension and anger among the population in the entire region. In the meantime, it was planned to expand the school with permanent containers in order to create space for at least 7 more classrooms, although during the school renovation in 2006/2007 they had bad experiences with containers as classrooms. Instead, in November 2010, the construction of further classrooms on the southern school yard area began, which were completed in modular construction by Easter 2011. Since the building is a bit away from the main building, the students also affectionately refer to it as the “garden house”. However, the schoolyard has been greatly reduced in size by the extension. If the classrooms are no longer needed in the future, they can be easily dismantled.

history

In 1803, after the Benedictine abbey and thus also the monastery school were dissolved, the citizens of Seligenstadt wanted to enable their children to continue their education. It was not until 1840 that a " Latin school " was opened on Aschaffenburger Strasse , based on the model of the former monastery school . At that time, 28 students attended the school in two classes. A move from Aschaffenburger Strasse to Freihofplatz was completed in 1942. In the school year 1870/71, the "Latin School" was expanded into a Real-Progymnasium . In 1914, the name Einhardschule for the Progymnasium appears for the first time in history in a meeting of the local council. 80 students attended the school at that time. Girls have been admitted to the school since 1927. In the beginning they not only had separate lessons, but also a separate schoolyard. Eleven years later - in 1938 - the school received the official title “Einhardschule, Städt. High school for boys 1-5 ”. During this time, the proportion of girls was still very low (15-20%). School ended after the 10th grade and there were sometimes up to 70 students in one class. A Obersekunda (grade 11) was introduced in 1946. When the Seligenstädter Volksschule moved from today's Hans-Memling-Schule (next to the Einhardbasilika ) to the new building on Gieselastrasse in 1954, the Einhardschule was provided with 6 halls in today's Hans-Memling-Schule. In 1957 a Unterprima was introduced for the first time . Two years later, a new building (the former "old building") was inaugurated and moved into on Ratleikstrasse. From now on, the school had 15 classrooms and special rooms with its own sports hall surrounded by spacious green areas. At this time around 1000 students from Seligenstadt and the surrounding area attended the school. In 1974 the Einhardschule, which has since been allowed to call itself the “Cooperative Comprehensive School”, moved into the former “new building” in Einhardstrasse, which from now on served as the main building. In 1984 a second sports hall was added and in 1998 the facade of the main building was renovated. In 2001, the school was awarded the City of Seligenstadt's Culture Prize for outstanding achievements in the fields of music, theater and new media. Since 2002, the school has been awarded annually as a "school with a focus on music" by the Hessian Ministry of Culture. In August 2004, it was decided to separate the Cooperative Comprehensive School so that it has been divided into the Merian School and the Einhard School since the 2005/06 school year . Since the 2006/05 school year, both schools have run their own schools. In autumn 2007 the Einhardschule was able to move into its former main building in a completely rebuilt state and was officially inaugurated on November 6, 2007. Despite the renovation and modernization of the school, massive space problems arose from the 2007/2008 school year. Group rooms and specialist rooms had to be converted into classrooms. At the beginning of November 2008, the school’s own sports field was completed after a modernization phase. In December 2008, the school's own rock band D'Einhard won the “Schulstar” competition on the radio station You FM . The main prize was the band Madsen for an exclusive concert at the school. In 2009 a band contest was held at the school for the first time, in which five different young bands from the area took part. The band contest was organized and staged by the 12th class at the time. The winner was the “Circle of Damnation” band.

International contacts

The Einhard School has a total of four partner schools with which a student exchange takes place at regular intervals. Two of the partner schools are in the USA, one in Italy and one in France:

media

At the school there is the Einhard TV (ETV) working group , which has existed since 1984 and is therefore the oldest student-produced television magazine in Germany. ETV productions have already received several national and international awards.

Working and interest groups

music

  • Choir for grades 5, 6, 7 and 8–13
  • orchestra
  • D'Einhard Piccolo for grades 5–8
  • Instrumental ensemble for grades 5–7
  • Recorder ensemble for grades 5 and 6 as well as 12 and 13
  • Big Band
  • D'Einhard
  • Guitar ensemble

media

  • Einhard TV (ETV school television) (only until school year summer / 19)

Sports

  • Athletics  - talent development group for grades 5–7
  • Athletics - talent building group
  • Athletics - running fitness training for grades 5–9
  • Akrobatik AG (only girls)
  • Lifeguards (DLRG)
  • Fistball
  • Soccer AG

Others

  • Theater youth 5-6
  • Writing workshop Q1 / Q3
  • Vivarium AG
  • School medical service

Support association

The school has its own support association, which calls itself "Friends of the Einhard School Seligenstadt" and has 365 members (mostly parents whose children go to school). It was founded on April 29, 1989. The first chairman is Norbert Gassel (former teacher of the school), the deputy chairman is the headmaster Dieter Herr. Fritz Haas, longstanding member and longstanding chairman, was made an honorary member in 2009. The association supports the school with financial means (around 10,000 euros per year), most of which benefit the working groups and interest groups, but also support school musicals and performances in various classes and the procurement of working materials. He also supports school and year trips. The club also helps out at sports and school festivals. The very popular “alumni meetings” are also organized and hosted by him together with the school.

Individual evidence

  1. Working groups. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  2. Working groups. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  3. Working groups. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .