Erasmus Education Center (Offenbach am Main)

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The Erasmus educational center in the Westend district of Offenbach am Main is a multilingual educational institution for children from one to ten years of age, independently operated . With its all-day operation in German , English and Spanish from the day nursery , daycare center and elementary school , it can claim nationwide uniqueness for itself. It is named after Erasmus from Rotterdam .

The school operated by the Bildungshaus is an approved multilingual substitute school according to the Hessian School Act . The building in which the educational center has its headquarters is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Facilities

The facility has three crawling groups at its headquarters with care places for ten children each. There are also three day care center groups with childcare options for 25 children each and four primary school classes with a capacity for 25 children each. The total capacity of the facility is 200 children. In addition, the crèche has three branches, one of them in Bürgel with 36 childcare places.

concept

The basic concept of the entire educational facility is the playful introduction of children to living multilingualism . This is done without learning through the immersion method . Mother- tongue educators speak to all children in their mother tongue right from the start - including in the crèche . For this purpose, German, English and Spanish are spoken in the facility. The focus is also on the promotion of independent research and understanding, the development of curiosity and the personality of each child, for themselves and with others. With increasing age of the children, educational reform approaches also find importance, in that individuality as well as project-oriented action and independent action are promoted.

The conception of the elementary school also envisages operation as an all-day school as well as the wearing of school clothes . The course material is predominantly subject-related on a weekly basis - and discussed with the students and partly developed. Care hours from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and only 25 closed days per year within the entire facility are intended to promote the compatibility of family and work .

With its all-day operation in German, English and Spanish from the day nursery, daycare center and elementary school, it can claim nationwide uniqueness for itself.

history

In 2007 a parents' association was founded with the aim of establishing a multilingual elementary school, day-care center and crèche in Offenbach based on the Erasmus concept. The project's patron was Birgit Simon, then Offenbach's mayor. After the project was financially secure, the health department, which was no longer used at the time, was found as the premises for the education center. The facility opened its doors to 25 first graders for the first time in the 2009/10 school year. Kindergarten and crèche followed in January 2010 with initially 30 children. In August 2010 there were already around a hundred kindergarten and crèche children and two school classes in the converted and renovated building. The facility has been in use since mid-2012.

Today the institution is run by Erasmus-Offenbach gGmbH.

criticism

In the initial phase of the project, criticism of its financial support by the city of Offenbach flared up in both the public discussion and local politics. The main reason for the critics was that the costs for the renovation of the premises amounted to 4.6 million euros and had to be borne by the city as owner and landlord of the building. In the opinion of the critics, the money is missing from the expansion of existing schools and would instead benefit the establishment of a private elite school. In addition, the facility is permanently subsidized by the city through the construction of the rental agreement . However, after the facility opened and its operation was successful, the criticism came to a standstill.

Building at Dreieichring 24

Listed part of the Erasmus Education Center

The building in which the Bildungshaus is located was built in 1899 as the first villa on Dreieichring, near the city limits of Frankfurt am Main in the Westend of Offenbach's Westend. The neighboring Dreieich-Park was already laid out at that time. The brick villa was designed by the architects August Martenstein and Philipp Josseaux and executed by the local construction company Gebrüder Hasenbach . The building is made of dark bricks and has a defiant tower and semicircular, high windows. The roof is designed as a hipped roof with dormers . A risalit with a richly decorated gable juts out to the street front .

In 1934 the property was sold to the city of Offenbach, which rented it to the SA Brigade Offenbach until it came into the possession of the NSDAP in 1936 , which housed the National Socialist People's Welfare there. After 1945 the building fell back into the ownership of the city, which settled the health department there. In the course of this use, extensions were built between 1966 and 1971, which corresponded to the villa in terms of material and design. Use by the health department ended in 2005.

The building is a listed building .

Extension of the education center

When the building was converted into an educational center, the large glass fronts of the extension were provided with handwriting by the artist Holmer Schleyerbach .

Support association

Logo of the sponsoring association Offenbacher Kaiserlei Kids, Elterninitiative eV

The sponsoring association Offenbacher Kaiserlei Kids, Elterninitiative eV was founded in December 2007 to support the establishment of the Erasmus educational center. Today the focus of the association is on the awarding of scholarships for pupils of the educational house as well as the financing and implementation of projects, such as the design of the outdoor area, construction of the school library or the establishment of a workshop.

Others

The school has had the German Chess School seal of quality since 2012 . The Erasmus-Bildungshaus is the first school in the entire Rhine-Main area to receive this award. With the Bildungshaus there are 19 schools nationwide. The school received the award because it maintains several chess groups with different levels for both elementary school and kindergarten children and regularly takes part in tournaments with them.

Web links

Commons : Erasmus Education House  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Downloads: Kindergarten and crèche. In: erasmus-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ New Erasmus crèche opens! ( Memento from October 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Julia Radgen: Multilingual Erasmus crèche wants a daycare center. In: op-online.de. January 7, 2016, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The daycare / crèche concept - in a nutshell. From: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ school concept. From: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ School program of the Erasmus Primary School Offenbach, page 9. On: erasmus-offenbach.de , July 7, 2014, accessed on October 22, 2014, (PDF; 3.76 MB).
  7. ↑ Jörg Muthorst: One year Erasmus school: daycare and school under one roof. In: fr-online.de. August 18, 2010, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Parents Association. From: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  9. ↑ Erasmus Education Center: History of the two buildings in Offenbach. On: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014, (PDF; 31 kB).
  10. ↑ Imprint. From: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ Matthias Dahmer: Elite accusation: parents' association and mayor cannot understand the criticism of the Erasmus school. In: op-online.de. February 19, 2010, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Denis Düttmann: The opening of the Erasmus school in Offenbach marks the successful completion of the development work. With contributions to the discussion. In: op-online.de. September 28, 2010, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Erasmus project forces the city to provide subsidies. In: op-online.de. March 5, 2010, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  14. ↑ The luxurious villa of the first Offenbach manufacturers. In: offenbach.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 10, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Dreieichring 24 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen .
  16. ↑ What do the writing on the panes mean? - Leaflet by the artist Holmer Schleyerbach. On: erasmus-offenbach.de , accessed on October 22, 2014, (PDF; 173 kB).
  17. ↑ Monica Bielesch: Checkmate with cheers. (PDF; 352 kB) In: Frankfurter Rundschau. From: erasmus-offenbach.de, January 14, 2012, p. R12 , accessed on October 22, 2014 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 49.1 ″  E