Ernestinum Rinteln

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Ernestinum Rinteln High School
North view of the Ernestinum Rinteln grammar school with an observatory on the roof
type of school high school
founding 1817
address

Paul-Erdniß-Str. 1

place 31737 Rinteln
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 10 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 19 ″  E Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 19 ″  E
student about 1200
Teachers about 100
management André Sawade
Website http://www.ernestinum.eu/

The Ernestinum Rinteln grammar school is a general education modern language grammar school in Rinteln ( Schaumburg district ). It also bears the title of European School .

General

Around 1200 students, mainly from the city of Rinteln and the neighboring municipality of Auetal, in grades 5 to 13 are taught at the Ernestinum . The grammar school offers its students the foreign languages English , French , Latin , Spanish and Chinese in the linguistic area and also covers the mathematical-scientific and musical-artistic areas. The Ernestinum has sponsorships with schools in Belgium , China , France , Japan , the Netherlands , Poland , Spain and the USA .

About history

The establishment of the Academia Ernestina as a grammar school illustrious in 1610 by Count Ernst zu Holstein-Schaumburg in Stadthagen took place in view of the preparation of a state university of its own. Nine years later, the institution was raised to the rank of university and moved to the Jacobean monastery of the Cistercians in Rinteln. During the Napoleonic period, King Jérôme Bonaparte ordered the abolition of the University of Rinteln and, after its closure in 1810, the transfer of the book collections to the University of Marburg . After the collapse of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia , the reestablishment of the University of Rinteln was rejected by the Hessian sovereign.

In the 19th century

The grammar school was housed there until the old university building was demolished
New building of the Royal Prussian High School from 1875 (photo 1916)
The high school in the 1940s
Extension by extension from 1956
Since 2014, the old building is the colleges square of the comprehensive school (IGS) used
1975 built new school center of the Ernestinum

It is thanks to an unsuccessful initiative by the Rinteln councilors to re-establish the university that the Ernestinum academic high school was founded in 1816 and opened in November 1817 . With initially 54 students (from the quarta, tertia and secondary grades ), it became the sixth grammar school in Kurhessen, alongside the schools in Kassel , Marburg , Hanau , Fulda and Hersfeld . Classes initially took place in the rooms of the old university building, the demolition of which around 1873 created space for the construction of a new building for the grammar school, which was completed by 1875 based on designs by the Berlin architect Gustav Knoblauch .

Although a separation into scholarly and citizen schools was planned when it was founded, the lessons were nevertheless based on the humanistic notion of “educating people to be people” in the sense of the classic Paideia . The aim was therefore primarily to deal with learning objects that were free from the purely functional idea and should more closely correspond to the educational ideal formulated by Wilhelm von Humboldt . It was hoped to achieve this ideal through extensive study of the ancient languages . Accordingly, these subjects were assigned by far the largest number of hours until the Second World War. Probably at the instigation of the urban bourgeoisie, from 1841 onwards, in addition to the purely humanistic classes, real classes were set up, the subject matter of which was more oriented towards the needs of later professional life. After 1866, Hessen-Nassau and with it the Ernestinum grammar school were under Prussian suzerainty . The school stayed at the Royal Prussian Gymnasium until 1918.

1914 to 1945

During the First World War , after the German mobilization on July 31, 1914, many students up to the Untersekunda grade (today's tenth graders) volunteered. A total of 49 active high school students took part in the war, of which 24 fell. One of the three called up teachers was seriously wounded.

Due to the war, the school's centenary did not take place until 1921. During the celebrations, the participants expressed their wish to set up an alumni association. This was founded in 1922, was merged with the Ernestina in 1966 and still exists today as an alumni network. Already in the interwar period the decision was made to erect a memorial in honor of the schoolmates killed in the war. On August 6, 1933, the memorial was erected in the school yard at Kollegienplatz, where it has stood since then.

During the years of Nazi German schools were brought into line and therefore has an impact high school Ernestinum of the National Socialist educational goals. Its implementation is based on curricula and the terms racial studies , military sports , week of the people's gas mask , dissimilar literature , liaison teachers to the Hitler Youth , parade, selection of young leaders , state youth day and air protection and blackout exercises . The school year reports of the state high school for boys in Rinteln provide information about the special features of National Socialist teaching content, school events (such as the “community reception ” of radio speeches by the Nazi greats) and examination topics (especially in the high school subjects 'German' and 'History').

On November 17, 1933, Communist students from Ernestine were expelled from school. In April 1933, the “ Law against the Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities ” restricted the proportion of students of Jewish descent in secondary schools to a maximum of 1.5% in the entire German Reich . After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, they were forbidden from attending higher schools. The Jewish citizens of Rinteln were also affected by the anti-Semitic measures, including Leo Schönfeld, who in 1913 as the best high school graduate in the Ernestine had received a book present from the German Kaiser, had been seriously wounded as a soldier in the First World War and was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.

After the start of the war in 1939, the drafting of around half of all teachers, the auxiliary services to be performed by students in companies, the lack of heating material, later the aerial warfare and, finally, the approaching front, made regular teaching at the grammar school more difficult . On March 23, 1945, the college met for a final conference. The Easter holidays in 1945 began on March 26, 1945 and lasted until October, and for some classes until December 1945. 38 active pupils from the Ernestine died as soldiers in the Second World War . The youngest student was 17 years old at the time of his death. Three teachers from the college were killed in the war, including the director of studies Friedrich Wilhelm Ande .

the post war period

After the surrender, the school temporarily became an American military shelter. After the withdrawal of the American soldiers, from autumn 1945, with the approval of the British military government, classes could be resumed in the institution now known as the "high school for boys". The work at the school was characterized by the general emergency situation and numerous organizational inadequacies. The girls from the Hildburg School were temporarily staying in the school building; lessons were held in cellars, an old kitchen, the former detention room and in the rooms of the director’s villa, which was initially also the seat of the denazification committee . The students brought kitchen chairs and stools from home. Due to the turmoil of the war, the Sextans, today's fifth graders, were often up to 14 years old, and the Primaner, often returning from the war, were up to 24 years old. Until the currency reform, the school secretariat issued food cards valid for two weeks for the teachers.

The new school center

Given the steadily growing number of pupils in the 1950s and 1960s, the pre-war school building quickly became too small. A modern extension in 1956 and the erection of two pavilions in the rear school yard in 1965 created only short-term relief, so that the city of Rinteln decided in 1969 to build a new building outside the city center for the high school. The new building was inaugurated on October 30, 1975, one day before the founding date. In its first construction phase, it included the premises not only for the Ernestinum grammar school, but also for the Hildburg secondary school. The orientation stage first moved into the building on Kollegienplatz. Since the 2012/2013 school year, the building on Kollegienplatz has been the seat of the Rinteln Oberschule . It emerged from the Hildburg Realschule on August 1, 2012 and has been run as the Integrated Comprehensive School IGS Rinteln since the 2014/15 school year .

Great teachers

Former students

Former students (with a high school diploma), [in square brackets] elsewhere

literature

  • Königliches Gymnasium zu Rinteln (Ed.): Annual report on the school years 1867 - 1915. Digitized
  • Königliches Gymnasium zu Rinteln (Ed.): Program of the Königlichen Gymnasium zu Rinteln 1885 - 1894. Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Schormann: Academia Ernestina. The University of Schaumburg in Rinteln on the Weser. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1982, p. 32ff ISBN 3-7708-0751-0
  2. ^ Laws for the Electoral Hesse States , born in 1816, No. XVI
  3. ↑ Heinrich Rieß: Mittheilungen from the history of the high school in Rinteln in: Annual report on the school year 1868 , Bösendahl, Rinteln (no year) p. 11
  4. ↑ Gustav Knoblauch, Rinteln High School. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Ernestina alumni network Gymnasium Ernestinum
  6. ↑ Gustav Kuhlmann (OStDir): Report on the school year ... 1939 and 1940 , State High School for Boys in Rinteln an der Weser, Rinteln 1940 Digital copy of the library for research on the history of education (BBF)
  7. ↑ Gustav Kuhlmann: Report on the school year ... 1939 and 1940 , p. 19
  8. ↑ ibid p. 21f

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Web links

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