Erftgymnasium Bergheim

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Erftgymnasium
Erftgymnasium.jpg
type of school high school
School number 166765
founding 1842
address

Schützenstrasse 20
50126 Bergheim

place Bergheim
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 57 '28 "  N , 6 ° 38' 33"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '28 "  N , 6 ° 38' 33"  E
student around 1100
Teachers around 80
Website www.erftgymnasium.de

The Erftgymnasium is one of two high schools in the district town of Bergheim .

history

The school emerged from the Rhenish Knight Academy , which was founded in 1842 in Bedburg Castle . With the abolition of the privileges of the nobility after the First World War, the school passed into municipal ownership in 1922 . It was now called "Städtisches Realgymnasium ".

When the lignite company Neurath, as the owner of the castle building, claimed the premises for itself, the educational institution, which was now called the “Municipal High School for Boys”, was relocated from Bedburg to the district town of Bergheim, eight kilometers away, on April 1, 1939. In 1940, 110 pupils from the Catholic Higher Girls' School in Bergheim, which had been closed by the Nazi authorities , joined the school for boys up until then . Girls classes have been set up for them.

Just a few months after the end of the war in May 1945, the school started teaching again. With the approval of the British occupation authorities , the former director Alexander Kabza , who had been replaced by the National Socialists in 1939 because of his involvement in the Catholic lay movement , took over again. In 1952, Kabza became district administrator ( CDU ) for four years and in this office he particularly campaigned for the school, which was given the profile of a modern-language grammar school . Until 1969 it was the only secondary school for the 120,000 inhabitants of the then Bergheim (Erft) district that led to the Abitur.

Until the introduction of coeducational lessons in 1970, the pupils were divided according to origin, religion and gender: As a rule, the A-classes visited local Catholic boys, the B-classes Protestant and non-Bergheim Catholic boys, the C-classes were reserved for girls , which were also housed in their own building, the “girls' building”.

In 1981 the school was renamed Erftgymnasium after the previous school profile was canceled . In 1983 a big band was formed at the school .

particularities

Students can acquire the English language certificates PET , FCE and CAE as well as take the DELF language test in French. The Erftgymnasium has been participating in the European Comenius program since 2006 .

Since 1975 there has been a student exchange with Chauny ( France ) and since 2002 with Kozy ( Poland ).

In 2013 the Erftgymnasium was nominated for the German School Prize.

Former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dispute between the orchestra and the Erftgymnasium , ksta.de , January 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Award ceremony: Erftgymnasium goes away empty-handed , ksta.de , June 4, 2013.