Elisabeth School (Frankfurt am Main)

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Elisabeth School
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type of school high school
founding 1867
address

Vogtstrasse 35-37

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 32"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 32"  E
carrier town Frankfurt am Main
student about 850
Teachers about 80
management Stefan Neureiter
Website www.elisabethenschule.net
Elisabeth School from Eschersheimer Landstrasse
Construction plan of the Elisabeth School

The Elisabethenschule is a grammar school in Frankfurt am Main , Nordend district . The number of pupils is around 1050. The school was named after Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731–1808), the mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832).

history

The Elisabethenschule was founded in 1876 as a girls 'high school and emerged from the girls' department of an older Frankfurt school, the model school that has existed since 1803 . It was also a teacher training college for teachers for secondary schools for girls.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Elisabeth School was still in the city ​​center opposite the stock exchange . In 1908 she moved into its current building in the Vogtstraße in Northrend, one designed by Magistrate Baurat Rudolf Reinicke incurred nouveau . The high school classes remained in the old building . In 1923 - in the run-up to the reform of teacher training in Prussia - the teachers' seminar was closed and the school was finally able to give up its old location.

With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, the Elizabeth school was brought into line . The headmaster Arnold Sander (like 10 of the 15 headteachers of the other higher schools in the city) was assessed by the new rulers as politically left-wing and removed from office. In addition to him, the teachers Erich Schwarze and Betty Schloss-Weill were also classified as politically unreliable.

The building was converted into a military hospital in 1942 . School operations continued in neighboring school buildings. During the Second World War , the building was damaged in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main ; Compared to other schools, however, the damage was minor. The US occupation forces confiscated the building in 1945. A newly founded German-American school was housed in the building. The students of the Elisabethenschule had to move into the building of the Herderschule. In 1953 the building of the Herderschule was renovated and the Elisabeth students were moved to the Lessinggymnasium. After many complaints, part of the school building was used again by the Elisabeth School in 1954. While the American community school used the lower two floors, 12 classes with 450 pupils from the Elisabethenschule moved to the upper floors.

It was not until 1954 that the building could be renovated and regular school operations resumed. Today it is a listed building .

The former girls' school has been accepting boys since 1972. After the local elections in Hesse in 1977 , the new magistrate under Walter Wallmann (CDU) began an extensive program of renovating and expanding the Elisabeth School. In 1977 a 12 million DM program for renovation was decided, in 1979 9.5 million DM were made available for a new building and a new gymnasium. The new school building was opened in 1985. The new building is located on Hansaallee across the Eschersheimer Landstrasse in the Westend district and is now available for science and sports lessons .

building

First building

For the new school to be founded, the city built a functional building made of yellow sandstone on Börsenplatz in 1875–1876 . The designs in the neo-renaissance style came from the architect Gustav Albert Behnke . It was designed for 22 classes with 1,032 girls and cost 470,000 marks . The building no longer stands today.

Today's building

In the former Liebieg'schen Park (Vogtstrasse 35–37), a new building for the “teachers' seminar with teaching kindergarten and training school” was built between 1907 and 1909 according to plans by the architect Rudolf Reinicke. The school building in neo-renaissance and art nouveau styles formed an L-shaped addition to a three-wing complex with the Fürstenberg school building that had been built 10 years earlier .

The main wing in the west on Eschersheimer Landstrasse is designed symmetrically. On the north facade facing Vogtstrasse, a risalit offset to the left with nested corrugated gables and a polygonal bay window divides the house. In addition, on the north wing there are Art Nouveau portals and reliefs (e.g. harvest of wheat and grapes) and the building inscription AD 1907 . Inside, stylish staircases and remnants of the decoration from the building period have been preserved.

The east wing houses the gymnasium with the gable and the director's house. The building is a listed building .

Personalities

principal

  • Heinrich Weismann (1876–1881)
  • Karl Rehhorn (1881–1900)
  • Ernst Ludwig Keller (1900–1903)
  • Ludwig Ehrichs (1903-1916)
  • Ernst Traub (1917–1924)
  • Arnold Sander (1924-1933)
  • Alfred Bär (1933–1945)
  • Katharina Weber (1945–1962)
  • Ruth Rahmel (1962–1982)
  • Erika Schürrer (1982–1996)
  • Gabriele Lichtenheld (1996-2005)
  • Heidrun Kaufmann-Walter (2005–2012)
  • Stefan Neureiter (2012 – today)

Teacher

student

literature

  • Heinz Schomann: The Holzhausenviertel in Frankfurt. Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-581-0 , pp. 109-110, p. 237.
  • Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. Limited special edition, Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Kurt Schäfer: Schools and school policy in Frankfurt am Main 1900–1949. (= Studies on Frankfurt History , Volume 35.) Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0453-2 , p. 178, p. 226, p. 286, p. 394, p. 417.
  • Festschrift for the centenary of the Musterschule (Musterschule-Elisabethenschule) 1803–1903. Frankfurt am Main 1903, pp. 151-156, pp. 250-258.
  • 150 years of Elisabeth School 1803–1953. Frankfurt am Main 1953.

Web links

Commons : Elisabethenschule (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Elisabeth School on the way again. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 4, 1953, p. 6.
  2. ↑ 450 schoolgirls back in their own home. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 12, 1954, p. 5.
  3. ↑ The lack of space in schools should be eliminated in three years. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 11, 1977, p. 41.
  4. ↑ New rooms for four schools. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 21, 1979, p. 28.