Erich Kästner Primary School (Cottbus)
| Erich Kästner elementary school | |
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| type of school | primary school |
| founding | 1867 |
| address |
Pushkin Promenade 6 |
| place | cottbus |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 45 '47 " N , 14 ° 19' 59" E |
| carrier | City administration Cottbus |
| student | 282 |
| Teachers | 12 |
| management | Martina Theunert |
| Website | erichkaestner-gs-cottbus.de |
The Erich Kästner elementary school is one of the oldest schools in Cottbus in a central location on the Pushkin promenade . The building is one of the city's most important monuments .
Architecture and furnishings
main building
The Berlin architect Adolph Lohse designed the post-classical building. The large three-wing complex was built under a flat gable roof , the side wings of which protrude towards the Pushkin promenade, on the corner plot of land on today's Pushkin promenade on Dreifertstrasse . Above the basement there are two main floors and a lower upper floor ( attic ), the smaller windows indicate the lower room height.
The storey and window levels are structured by cornices . A large, centrally arranged flight of stairs under an entrance hall dominates the main facade. On the mezzanine floor, the lower-lying windows are highlighted by the plaster bands . The second floor is divided by pillars , the windows are emphasized by decorative elements and cornice roofing. Above the entrance, large, formerly colored glazed arched windows point to the large auditorium . On the outer wings, the three-storey staircase buildings with arched windows have been erected on a polygonal floor plan. The interiors are kept simple, only the auditorium is more elaborate with a stucco ceiling , pillars and a console cornice. The color scheme from 1867 (stucco elements and ceiling in white, wall panels in antique red) was rediscovered during the restoration in 2001 and renewed or used.
The Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, designed by Adolph Lohse around 1863, is the model for the building . In particular, the arched windows of the auditorium and the structure of the pilasters and the basic shape of the three-wing system can be found in the building in Cottbus.
Main building with entrance stairs and front school yard
West wing
Open staircase with entrance hall
East wing
Director's residence
The director's house of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium was built in 1906/1907 on the western side of the schoolyard. The Prussian district building inspection of Cottbus under the direction of the secret building councilor Robert Beutler was responsible for the construction of the house, which stands directly on the Pushkin promenade . It is a neo-classical two-story building under a moving roof landscape with a triangular gable with oculus on the front. The facade of the ground floor is noticeable by a plaster band that follows the lintel as a square. On the upper floor, the windows are decorated with drilled fascias and gable or cornice roofing. The two right outer axes are weakly drawn forward as a risalit , which is closed by the triangular gable. An arbor with a balcony was also placed in front of the risalit. The eastern facade facing the school has a wooden veranda and a side elevation with varying window shapes.
Director's residence (Puschkinpromenade 6a)
Director's residence and front school yard
Outbuildings
During the GDR era, the coal heating system and the coal bunker were housed in the basement of the outbuilding directly behind the director's house. A workshop and the specialist cabinet for physics were set up on the ground floor . Above that on the upper floor were the chemistry and biology classrooms . From the school yard, the garbage could be disposed of through a garbage chute in the boiler room , which was burned there. After the renovation in 2001, the after-school care center is housed here.
Outbuildings seen from Puschkinallee
Outbuilding and back school yard
gym
The municipal gymnasium, inaugurated at Easter 1873, is located on Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Strasse at the corner of Zimmerstrasse, a good 350 m walk from the school. The hall building is 14 m wide and 53 m long and has a clear height of 6 m. The brick building was built in two sections in 1873 and 1889.
The construction is one of the earliest examples of gym architecture in the state of Brandenburg. The initiator of the construction was the director of the town's boys' secondary school and gymnastics supervisor of the TVC 1861 , Paul Benno Hüttig (* 1832, † 1887). In 1873 the building was erected under the direction of the Cottbus master mason Ackermann and the council carpenter Grünenthal. The design corresponded to the requirements of the then applicable Prussian regulations for school gyms. Initially, the new sports hall was used in the 19th century "to hold the compulsory gymnastics lessons for students in higher education". It was not until 1888 that physical education was introduced in elementary schools . As can be seen from the monument topography, the Cottbus gymnastics service , the gymnastics club TVC 1861 and the workers gymnastics club trained in the hall. In 1889 and 1890 a mirror-image extension was built. After 1927 an extension for gymnastics equipment followed. In the monument topography, the interior structure, which was also extended in mirror image in 1899 , is highlighted as a special feature .
From September 1, 2003 to January 2005, the listed gymnasium was completely renovated for around 2.2 million euros. The hall was connected with the auxiliary building to form an L-shaped building complex. Furthermore, underfloor heating and new stairs were installed and the sanitary facilities were renovated. The outbuilding dates from around the same time and was used for various purposes, e.g. B. from the German Red Cross . The clock, which was probably removed in the 1960s, was reinstalled during the renovation. A sword was found during the renovation of the gym.
The hall is used for physical education at the Erich Kästner elementary school and the upper school center . The cycling ball players and artistic cyclists of the Lausitzer Radsportverein eV train here too.
history
Friedrich Wilhelm's high school
The over 140-year history of the primary school goes back to the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium . In the middle of the 19th century the number of pupils in the grammar school area increased and so the space in the lyceum at the upper church became too narrow. Under Mayor Leopold Jahr it was decided that a new school building would have to be built in the city of Cottbus (see school history of Cottbus ). The promenade on the edge of the Luckauer Wall area offered itself as a location. In 1860, the city acquired the building plot in what would later be Pushkin Promenade 6 for a planned new building. The foundation stone was laid in the spring of 1865.
Built from 1865 to 1867 according to plans by the architect and Prussian court building officer Adolph Lohse by the Cottbus company of the master mason Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider (jun.). Adolph Lohse died in January 1867 before the school was inaugurated. The bricks were supplied by a brickworks south of Cottbus. Saxon sandstone was installed and by sea was blue slate from England to Goyatz transported to by horse-drawn railway to Cottbus to arrive. On April 27, 1867, the new building for the "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium" was inaugurated. It is named after Friedrich Wilhelm III, who died in 1840 .
Two side wings and a central building determine the view, inside modern classrooms are set up, but teachers and students also use a teacher and student library, a drawing room, laboratory and physics room as well as a natural history collection for lessons. There is a magnificent auditorium on the upper floor. The corridors were laid out with granite floors and the four-meter-high classrooms offered the then much stronger classes enough air to breathe. With the help of sliding slats over the doors, the teacher could easily regulate the ventilation with the cane . A ventilation system was integrated in the chandelier in the auditorium. A detention center was set up on the ground floor of the east wing to punish students by imprisonment.
318 students moved into the new school building, the two preschool classes were new . The school fees were twelve thalers, the monthly earnings of a worker. Since there was no Realschule or Oberrealschule in Cottbus at the time , two Realschule classes were introduced. A third pre-school class was also added in the school year 1867/68. In this new and large house, the number of pupils no longer had to be limited; in 1869, 508 pupils attended the school. With the outbreak of the Franco-German War , there were the first war emergency tests . For military service were included three teachers and six students. The city of Cottbus acquired a piece of land from the then cloth manufacturer G. Tutewohl and built a gym on it. This was inaugurated at Easter 1873, major repairs were carried out in the summer of 1874.
The grammar school was built on a street that served as a connecting route in a west-east direction from the three Brunschwigdörfern to the only Spree crossing to Sandow along the city fortifications on the north side of the old town, i.e. from today's Karl-Marx-Straße to Zimmerstraße / Am Spreeufer runs. This street has been known as Promenade Street since 1879 and as Promenade from 1892. In 1949 it was named after the Russian poet Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin .
The school year 1883 had the highest number of pupils in the grammar school up to that point. 419 high school students, 45 high school students and 120 preschoolers attended the school at this time. In January 1886 the first approved student association was founded . This association enjoyed great popularity for many years. Another important stage in the further development of the grammar school was the nationalization of the school. In 1886 a contract was signed between the Provincial School College and the City of Cottbus. After the construction of a secondary school in 1890, the secondary school students moved out of this grammar school. In 1903 classrooms were renovated, in 1904 the physics classroom was connected to the municipal power station . With the outbreak of World War I , many parents asked for tuition exemption of their sons for military service. In the school year 1919 a preschool class started school for the last time.
529 pupils attended grammar school in 1920 and 97 pupils attended pre-school. Since the preschool classes were running out, the renovation of the preschool building began during the summer vacation of 1931. The political changes in 1933 immediately made themselves felt in the school system. In April 1933, the first restrictions were announced under the heading “New school measures against infiltration of our school”. Children whose parents came to Germany from the east after 1914 were no longer allowed to attend grammar school.
In the school year 1923/24 a conversion from an old humanistic grammar school to a reform grammar school began. Initially, instead of Latin, English was taught as the first foreign language in the Sexta and lessons were organized according to the reform plan. Through immediate control of the ministerial administration, this process was brought to a standstill in the course of the reorganization, so that at the beginning of the school year 1924/25 it had to be returned to the form of the old humanistic grammar school.
The National Socialist and Head of Studies Dr. Ulrich Heinemann became head of the grammar school in 1934. After the air raid on February 15, 1945, many families left the city. There were no more regular school lessons, the last day of school was April 17, 1945.
At the end of the Second World War , the school choir's notes were apparently hid in a hurry in the ceiling of the auditorium. Since most of the school library's holdings had been destroyed when the Red Army marched in, the notes had been considered lost for more than 50 years. They were discovered in their hiding place during the renovation in 2000.
4. Unified school / 4. Oberschule / 1. Oberschule
On the basis of the law for the democratization of the German school , the 4th unit school was housed in the building from September 1, 1946 . That meant a school cycle from school enrollment to high school graduation . In the mid-1950s, only the four upper school classes were taught. The 4th secondary school became the 1st secondary school in the school year 1956/57. A total of 65 students from the 1st high school (Abitur classes), the Sorbian high school and the 7th elementary school received their first day of instruction in production (UTP) in the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk (RAW) on September 1, 1958. In the summer of 1960, the 1st secondary school (now EOS ) moved to today's Conservatory.
6. POS Alexander Pushkin
From 1960 to 1991 the 6th Cottbus Polytechnic School was housed here with ten grade levels. The school was extensively renovated between 1973 and 1975. Since 1975 the POS has been nicknamed " ASPuschkin ". The directorate was located in the west wing and the staff room in the east wing. Since the dining room in the eastern basement was too small for school meals for all students, the older age groups were sent to the “Stadttor” restaurant on the Cottbus city promenade . The school yard was divided, the lower grades spent their break in the front yard and the middle and high grades in the back yard. For school garden lessons, the classes were brought to Dahlitzer Straße 12 (today the Pedagogical Center for Nature and the Environment). For the ESP and productive work subjects, upper-level students took the bus to the Vetschau power plant or the Cottbus concrete plant (Dissenchener Str. 50) on a daily basis . Physical education took place in the municipal gym. Since there was no outdoor athletics facility there, the "Schlachthofstrasse sports facility" was used for long-distance running or the sports festival .
Erich Kästner elementary school
From 1991 the pupils studied here in the 16th primary school and since 1999 this has been the 14th primary school. An extensive two-year renovation began in 2000. For the renovation of the building with the exact restoration of the historical plastered facade with all details to a condition of around 1890, the office Wanta Architects was recognized at the German Facade Prize 2002. The secretariat was housed behind a glass partition in the old vestibule . The inauguration took place on August 24, 2002, and at the same time, in honor of the German writer of children's books Erich Kästner, it was renamed “Erich Kästner Elementary School”.
As part of the “Class! Music for Brandenburg ”since 2009, three wind classes from the Erich Kästner Elementary School have received their regular music lessons in the neighboring Cottbus Conservatory .
In 2010, the building's wide main entrance stairs were renovated. House II with the after-school care center “Pünktchen und Anton” was ready to move into in February 2013. Jörg Vogelsänger and Mayor Frank Szymanski were present at the opening .
School life
School profile
The primary school has a language orientation and is an all-day school . English, French and Sorbian are offered as foreign languages .
Working and sports groups
A number of working groups can be attended by the students, including an AG stamp collector, AG photo club or AG model making. Participation in the school newspaper or the sparrow choir and the children's fire brigade are also possible. There is a sports community each for ball sports, ball games or basketball.
School events
School events take place regularly throughout the school year:
- Erich Kästner elementary school day
- Christmas concert
- Sports day
- Family sports festival
- School Mathematics Olympiad
- Festival of lights
- Sorbian bird wedding
- carnival
- Mathematics kangaroo competition
- Festival of Languages
- Project week
- School festival
Support association
In 1994 the "Friends of the Erich Kästner Elementary School" was founded. He supports the school with numerous events, public relations and collects funds for school projects.
principal
| Period of time from to) | principal |
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| 1867-1873 | Dr. Purmann |
| 1873-1882 | Dr. Richard F. Nötel |
| 1882-1891 | Dr. Thank God Dittmar |
| 1891-1901 | Dr. Georg Schneider |
| 1901-1921 | Dr. Bernhard Pretsch |
| 1921-1925 | Dr. O. Limann |
| 1925-1933 | Dr. Walter Isleib |
| 1933-1934 | Dr. F. Schwarzkopff |
| 1934-1945 | Dr. Ulrich Heinemann |
| 1945-1946 | Walter Knopf |
| 1946-1948 | |
| 1948-1952 | Walter Knopf |
| 1952-1955 | Erich Pompe |
| 1955-1960 | Mr. Schulze |
| 1960-1964 | Werner Lenniger |
| 1964-1965 | Richard König |
| 1965-1969 | Werner Lenniger |
| 1969-1970 | Mr. Muschick |
| 1970-1972 | Mr. Helmchen |
| 1972-1975 | Mr. Oelsner |
| 1975-1986 | Jutta Keller |
| 1986-1989 | Eveline Jelonek |
| 1989-1991 | Ricarda Gerloff |
| 1991-1999 | Rainer Rätzsch |
| 1999-2015 | Angelika Nagel |
| since 2015 | Martina Theunert |
Number of teachers and students
| school year | Teacher | student | annotation |
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| 1867 | 385 | ||
| 1869 | 508 | ||
| 1883 | 584 | 419 high school students, 45 high school students and 120 preschoolers | |
| 1920 | 626 | 529 high school students, 97 preschoolers | |
| 2007 | 291 | ||
| 2011 | 18th | 281 | 12 classes, 142 girls and 136 boys |
| 2012 | 17th | 296 | 26 students per class |
| 2013 | 18th | 282 | 12 classes, 146 girls and 136 boys |
Well-known teachers and students
| Surname | Life dates | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Ludwig Bolze | * 1813 † 1888 | Prussian teacher and writer; In the fall of 1845 he became a senior teacher at the grammar school in Cottbus, where he worked until his retirement at Easter 1882. |
| Gotthold Schwela | * 1873 † 1948 | Theologian, writer; from 1884 to 1894 high school graduate here and from 1917 to 1919 teacher here |
| Carlo Noack | * 1873 † 1959 | one of the most important Cottbus artists and most important representatives of Sorbian / Wendish local art of the 20th century; Co-founding of the first Cottbus art association; played a key role in the creation of the Cottbus sheet metal collection in the 1920s; from 1910 to 1936 drawing teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium |
| Otto Starcke | * 1887 † 1962 | Specialist in lung diseases; He attended the Friedrich Wilhelm High School in Cottbus and graduated from high school in 1906. |
| Oskar Trautmann | * 1877 † 1950 | Diplomat, ambassador to China; High school graduation here at Easter 1895 |
| Oskar Lecher | * 1893 † 1947 | Chemist; High school graduation Easter 1913 |
| Joachim Gottschalk | * 1904 † 1941 | Actor; Abitur from 1922 to 1924. |
| Johannes Bisse | * 1935 † 1984 | Botanist; involved in building the Botanical Garden in Havana , Cuba; Abitur from 1950 to 1954 |
| Klaus-Jürgen Jacob | * 1940 † 2013 | Zoologist, director of the Tierpark Cottbus (1966–2002), Abitur 1958 at the 4th unit school |
| Frank Szymanski | * 1956 | Lord Mayor of Cottbus (2006–2014); from 1978 to 1984 teacher of German and history |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Heinz Petzold: Learn for twelve thalers . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 28, 2007 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ a b Adelheid Floß: Respected controller and father figure . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 19, 2008 ( lr-online.de ). lr-online.de ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e Steffen Krestin: Chronicle of the City of Cottbus - from 1850 to 1915 . In: Cottbuser Blätter . 2002 ( heimatverein-cottbus.de ). heimatverein-cottbus.de ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Irmgard Ackermann, Marcus Cante, Antje Mues and others: Volume 2.1: City of Cottbus . In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany - Monuments in Brandenburg . Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-176-9 , pp. 408-409 .
- ↑ Measurement in the aerial photo from Google Maps.
- ↑ Ulrike Elsner: Renovation of the central gym starts in September . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 15, 2003 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ R. Ufer: Cottbus gymnastics gem . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . February 11, 2005 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Klaus Alschner: Final touches for the Cottbus gymnasium monument . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 30, 2004 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Irmgard Ackermann, Marcus Cante, Antje Mues and others: Volume 2.1: City of Cottbus . In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany - Monuments in Brandenburg . Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-176-9 , pp. 395-396 .
- ↑ Ulrike Elsner: From provincial town to industrial town . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 21, 2006 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Lausitzer Radsportverein eV
- ↑ On the postcard, the woman from the Spree Forest points to the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in the Puschkinpromenade . In: Märkischer Bote . 2011 ( maerkischer-bote.de ).
- ^ DL: Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 5, 2007 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ a b Cottbus: Jeans and blue shirt - that didn't work . In: Märkischer Bote . December 13, 2013 ( maerkischer-bote.de ).
- ↑ a b c Ulrike Elsner: Progressive thoughts in a representative guise . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 26, 2007 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Cottbus: Promenade with grammar school . In: Märkischer Bote . May 31, 2008 ( maerkischer-bote.de ).
- ^ Frank Tosch: Gymnasium and system dynamics . Regional structural change in the higher education system in the Prussian province of Brandenburg 1890–1938. Habil.-Schr. May 2006, p. 233 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Cottbus: Erich Kästner School . In: Märkischer Bote . June 12, 2006 ( maerkischer-bote.de ).
- ^ Pedagogical Center for Nature and the Environment
- ↑ architects Wanta Architekten GbR
- ^ Winner of the German Facade Prize 2002
- ↑ Ulrike Elsner: Conservatory as Cottbus event location, six-month program of the house in the Pushkin promenade . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 1, 2012 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Ulrich Littko: Extra applause for the concert of a great class, wind instruments from 6a of the Cottbus Kästner School crown the model project . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 21, 2012 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Ulrike Elsner: Cottbus is investing in the schools, 3.4 million euros are to flow into value maintenance this year alone . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . July 14, 2010 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ dst: Kästner elementary school students take possession of new after-school facilities . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . February 16, 2013 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ a b The big RUNDSCHAU school comparison . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 28, 2012 ( lr-online.de ).
- ^ School portrait of Brandenburg: self-entry by school. As of September 11, 2014, bildung-brandenburg.de
- ↑ Friends of the Erich Kästner Elementary School
- ^ Franz Kössler: Kössler, Franz . In: Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications . Volume: Ibach - Jutrosinski , 2008, p. 21 ( geb.uni-giessen.de [PDF]).
- ↑ a b Ulrike Elsner: Oldest school in the city builds bridges . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 28, 2007 ( lr-online.de ).
- ^ School data collection (as of September 19, 2011) bildung-brandenburg.de
- ^ School data collection (as of September 13, 2013) bildung-brandenburg.de
- ↑ From personal physician to councilor of commerce . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . January 10, 2005 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ Ulrike Elsner: In search of traces beyond the Neisse . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 20, 2004 ( lr-online.de ).
- ↑ ck / hhk: Carlo Noack . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 29, 2008 ( lr-online.de ).
- ^ Dl: Otto Starcke . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 13, 2007 ( lr-online.de ).
