Elster School Center Elsterwerda
| Elsterschulzentrum - primary level & lower secondary level | |
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| type of school | School center with high school and elementary school |
| founding | 1968 |
| address |
Way to school 7 |
| place | Elsterwerda |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '44 " N , 13 ° 30' 33" E |
| carrier | Elbe-Elster district |
| student | 383 (as of: school year 2017/2018) |
| Teachers | 36 (as of: school year 2017/2018) |
| management | Dietmar Koßagk |
| Website | www.oberschule-elsterwerda.de |
The Elster School Center Elsterwerda is located in the West district of the small town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg . The school has become known nationwide and internationally mainly through the local sports ensemble and the Robbi school circus. According to its own statements, the school is the only regular school in Germany that offers circus as an elective .
history
The Elster School Center can be found in the center of the Elsterwerda-West district . The school was built in the course of the new housing construction from 1967 to 1968 as a type school building in panel construction. On September 1, 1968, in the presence of the then city mayor Felix Kocksch and the district school councilor Egon Langer, the inauguration of the new school building, which was equipped with 28 classrooms, a gym and a dining room. 34 teachers were initially employed at the polytechnic high school . Werner Neissner became the first director. In the school year 1968/69 607 pupils were taught in 20 classes. In the following year, on September 27, 1969, the school was given the name of Johannes Dieckmann (1893–1969). The former journalist and liberal-democratic politician had only died in February of the same year. From 1973 the Walter-Husemann-Schule in Schillerstraße acted as a branch of the school , which until then had been attended by the majority of the students in the district and now only led grades 1 to 4.
In 1975 and 1976, after work, a multi-purpose building was built at the school, which from then on served primarily for school meals and cultural events.
In 1991 the Elsterwerda comprehensive school emerged from the polytechnic high school . 585 students were taught in 29 classes in the school year 1990/91. On September 6, 1997 the inauguration of the new gym complex with two gyms and a new outdoor sports field took place; the complete renovation of the school building finally from 2001, its conversion into a primary and high school four years later. In the same year the construction of a new auditorium began on the school premises , which was completed in March of the following year. A year later the old multi-purpose building was demolished.
Since secondary schools have been established as school centers in the state of Brandenburg since the school year 2017/18, the school in Elsterwerda-West was also reorganized into a school center. By resolution of the district council in March 2018, the official name change to “Elsterschulzentrum - Primary Level & Secondary Level I” came into force at the beginning of the 2018/19 school year.
Educational work, equipment and offers
| Previous headmistress | |||||||||
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| 1968 | Werner Neissner | ||||||||
| 1969-1973 | Helmut Tölzer | ||||||||
| 1973-1987 | Gerhard George | ||||||||
| 1987-1988 | Horst Bursee | ||||||||
| 1988-1991 | Jochen Polster | ||||||||
| 1991-1992 | Lothar Behling | ||||||||
| since 1992 | Dietmar Koßagk | ||||||||
The Elsterschulzentrum is an open all-day school .
The following qualifications are possible at the school:
- Secondary school leaving certificate
- Extended secondary school leaving certificate
- Secondary school leaving certificate
- Fachoberschulreife with entitlement to attend upper secondary school
In the upper classes, subjects such as biology, chemistry , German , English , geography , computer science , art, music, mathematics , physics, political education , history , LER and sport are offered. Furthermore, the school in addition to sports, offers WAT , French and science the tray circus as elective.
The school has an outdoor sports field, two sports halls and offers several working groups.
Sports ensemble Elsterwerda
The school in Elsterwerda-West has always been closely linked to sport since the beginning. With the opening of the school complex in 1968, the Elsterwerda sports ensemble, founded in 1953 and previously located in the Pioneer House in the city center, moved into the new training center belonging to the school.
The sports ensemble, originally founded as a sports advertising group, was already known nationwide at that time, because a few years earlier, members of the sports advertising group had starred in the DEFA children's film “Destination Erfurt” in 1962 . The sports ensemble has been regularly represented at the International German Gymnastics Festival for decades and has been recognized by numerous television appearances, such as the entertainment program “ Ein Kessel Buntes ”, which is popular in the GDR , and the sports program “ Mach with, do it after, ” hosted by Gerhard Adolph ( Adi for short ) . make it better ”or the“ Jiří Korn Show ”in Prague and other events at home and abroad. Since its inception in 1953, it has performed at more than 4,000 events in front of over three million viewers. So far, eight European countries have been visited. Other highlights for the sports ensemble were appearances in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast , a ten-minute appearance at the Olympic Ball on August 21, 1980 in the Berlin Palace of the Republic, and a tour along the Druzhba natural gas route . In addition, in addition to numerous other successes at GDR championships, a total of 20 gold medals were won.
1987
1986 in the "Palace of the Republic" (Berlin)
1986 in the "Palace of the Republic" (Berlin)
1987 in Leipzig
Robbi school circus
Since 1993, the state of Brandenburg has also implemented the Circus Makes School project advertised by the state of Brandenburg . This makes the school one of the model schools selected by the Brandenburg Ministry of Education for this project. With the approval of the Ministry of Education , since the school year 1993/94 circus lessons have been offered as an elective subject from the 7th grade onwards. As part of this subject, the students learn, among other things, juggling with various devices (scarves, balls, rings and clubs), unicycling , balancing on the ball , playing with the diabolo and building human pyramids . In addition to the compulsory elective subject, circus is also offered as a study group.
In the course of the project, the “Robbi” school circus emerged, which has also had its own tent for many years. Like the sports ensemble, he has also been able to draw attention to himself throughout Germany through numerous contributions in the media and various television appearances. Among other things, there were appearances on outsider frontrunners and on SAT.1 breakfast television . The school circus is a multiple winner of the lottery sports festival of the state of Brandenburg. In addition, the school hosted the 3rd Brandenburg Circus Festival in September 1999 . A visit to the school on March 20, 2002 by former world boxing champion Henry Maske as part of his work as patron of the Lotto sports festival in preparation for the competition that year was also a hit with the media .
Web links
- Internet presence of the Elster School Center in Elsterwerda
- Homepage of the TSC Sports Ensemble Elsterwerda
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b Portrait of the Elsterwerda secondary school for the school year 2017/18 on the education server of the State of Brandenburg , accessed on August 30, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e f g Internet presence of the Oberschule Elsterwerda , accessed on August 26, 2018
- ↑ a b c d The school circus on the homepage of the Oberschule Elsterwerda , accessed on August 30, 2018
- ^ Margarete Noack: Elsterwerda: Photo documents between 1945 and 1989 . Leipziger Verlagsgesellschaft, Verlag für Kulturgeschichte und Kunst, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-910143-14-8 , p. 95 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h 40 years of school in Elsterwerda-West . Elsterwerda 2008 (commemorative publication for the 40th anniversary).
- ↑ Dietmar Koßagk: "Elsterwerda School Celebrates 50th Birthday" in Lausitzer Rundschau , August 28, 2018
- ↑ Author collective: Elsterwerda Sports Ensemble 1953–2003 . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda (ed.): Home calendar - For the country between the Elbe and Elster . No. 55 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain OHG, Bad Liebenwerda 2003, p. 104-112 .