Ernst Abbe High School (Eisenach)

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Ernst Abbe High School
ESA ABBEGYM Haus1.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1843
place Eisenach
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 58 ′ 19 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 30 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 19 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 30 ″  E
carrier Free State of Thuringia (= state high school)
student about 550
Teachers 48
management Elke Menzel
Website www.ernstabbegymnasium.de
School building (House II) on Theaterplatz
Former school building (House III) on Theaterplatz

The Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium is one of three high schools in the city of Eisenach in Thuringia . The school is named after the physicist and social reformer Ernst Abbe , who was born in Eisenach in 1840 and was once a student at this grammar school.

In September 2018 the high school celebrated its 175th anniversary. Since 1966, it has been part of the school tradition to hand over the Abitur certificates every year in the ballroom of the Palas of the nearby Wartburg .

The school was founded in 1843. From 1950 until the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR she was an advanced secondary school and was responsible for teaching ancient languages ​​( Latin and Greek ) in the districts of Erfurt , Gera and Suhl (with an affiliated boarding school at Fritz-Koch-Straße 5). It was one of nine schools in the GDR that offered ancient language lessons (Latin and ancient Greek).

present

Equipment and offers

The school is on languages and natural sciences oriented seminar school . English , French , Latin and Russian are offered as foreign languages . The foreign language Latin can be completed after 7 years with the Latinum .

The main building in Wartburgallee (house 1) has a chemistry laboratory, two physics rooms, an IT room, an art room, a music room, a geography room, a work room with PCs for teachers and students, a sports hall, a cafeteria and an Abbe club. At Theaterplatz  - about 600 m to the north - there is a physics room, an IT room, an art room, a music room, a geography room, a second sports hall and the so-called human nature technology room in building 2 . House III was also located on Theaterplatz; it was abandoned as a school building before 2010 because of the desolate building fabric from the 19th century. As early as 1952, the Wilhelminian-style villa at Fritz-Koch-Strasse 5 was acquired by the district school administration and used as a boarding school; this was where foreign students were housed, and the villa was also used for leisure events. According to the ideas of the school administration, the grammar school is to be gradually modernized by an extension ( south wing ) on the adjoining site on Grimmelgasse , which has already been applied for ; House II on Theaterplatz would then be omitted.

Every year there is a project week and a theater day, a spring ball and a schoolyard festival. In addition, the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium offers an open day and a trial day for future Abbeans.

Seminary school

There has been a training association with the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Eisenach since 2009 . There, trainee teachers receive purely practical training, while in the “Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium” seminar school their theory-based and practical support is provided by instructed specialist instructors.

public relation

The support association Ernst-Abbe-Schule zu Eisenach eV was founded in 1990 by students of the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium. Furthermore, the students of the grammar school publish the school newspaper , the editorial team includes students of all grades. In addition to current topics from society and politics, the magazine also covers school and regional events. It should provide suggestions for everyday school life and serve as a basis for discussion for lessons and leisure time.

history

19th century

On March 10, 1843, the Eisenach city council decided to found a secondary school for children of less well-off parents, which was opened on July 11, 1843. The first classrooms were in the Eisenach Citizens' School on the Esplanade above the Eisenach market square.

From 1848 the headmaster was Karl Mager . In 1850 the company moved into its first school building at today's Schmelzerstraße 19 . After the school started teaching as a secondary school based on the Prussian model from 1862 , the first new school building was inaugurated on Schmelzerstrasse on June 24, 1863, the birthday of Grand Duke Carl Alexander . By demolishing the surrounding buildings, the building could be expanded to include a gymnasium. During the German War in 1866 the school building served as a troop headquarters. Due to the increasing population of Eisenach, the number of students also increased, which is why parts of the classrooms had to be outsourced in the 1870s. Ferdinand Senft , who taught at the school from 1843 to 1875, made a contribution to the development of science classes . The last decades of the 19th century were marked by the further expansion of the school, around 250 pupils were taught at the turn of the century.

20th century

In 1909 a new Realschule was founded in Eisenach, which was merged with the Realgymnasium into a nine-class Realgymnasium in the course of the inauguration of the new school building in Wartburgallee on November 9, 1922. The new building on Grimmelsgasse and across from the Eisenacher Brauerei AG was characterized by the poor economic situation of the time, and the lack of money also led to the abandonment of an auditorium . On the initiative of the new director Fritz Kühner, the grammar school was named after one of its most important graduates, the scientist Ernst Abbe. Through a partnership with the Zeiss works in Jena , the technical equipment of the school with devices such as microscopes or projectors benefited in the following years .

During the Second World War , between 1939 and 1943, over 120 students and teachers at the school died. The school building suffered several damage from bombing. At times the wounded were accommodated in parts of the building, and the school served as a hospital.

After the Second World War, the educational redesign took place in accordance with the law for the democratization of German schools of 1946; and followed by the law on the socialist development of the school system in the German Democratic Republic of December 2, 1959 and the GDR school reform, the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium was finally transformed into a high school with a socialist character.

In 1950, Eisenach's evangelical Martin Luther grammar school was forcibly closed. However, the church representatives succeeded in persuading the state authorities to continue teaching the ancient languages ​​at the Ernst Abbe School. This functioned until the political turning point and the peaceful revolution in 1989 as a central extended secondary school for the so-called ancient language C-branch (= teaching in Latin from grade 9 and ancient Greek from grade 11) for the GDR districts of Erfurt , Suhl and Gera ; A boarding school at Fritz-Koch-Straße 5 therefore also belonged to the extended secondary school . Many later pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia went to school here, and numerous later doctors, philologists, archaeologists and historians graduated from high school here.

After 1990 the school became a state high school.

21st century

In addition to the main building on Wartburgallee, there is another school building on Theaterplatz. Both structures are under monument protection .

The Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium has always been a training facility for senior apprentices and since 2005 it has been a seminar school (since 2009 in association with the Elisabeth-Gymnasium Eisenach), since in addition to theoretical training by specialist instructors (otherwise study seminar), it also supports practical training in class becomes.

The Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium is based on three pillars:

The mission statement of the facility:

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principal

  • 1848–1852 Karl Mager
  • 1852–1887 Gustav Köpp
  • 1887–1923 Hermann Fredrichs
  • 1923–1934 Fritz Kühner
  • 1934–1939 Andernacht
  • 1939–194? Ferdinand Hartan
  • 1945–194? Waldemar Schiffmann
  • 1950–1959 Hans Beyer
  • 1960–1962 Erwin Janke
  • 1962–1965 Paul Paetzold
  • 1967–1990 Hans Winkel
  • 1990–1994 Günter Schmidt
  • 1994–1996 Günter Strasbourg
  • 1996-2003 Gerhard Lorenz
  • 2003–2011 Günter Strasbourg (until 2005 acting headmaster, † July 19, 2011)
  • 2011–2015 Angela Kraft
  • 2015 – to date Elke Menzel

Eminent educators

  • Friedrich Koch (1813–1872), philologist and grammarian, taught at the school from 1843 to 1872
  • Ferdinand Senft , natural history teacher from 1843 to 1875
  • Karl Mager , rector from 1848 to 1852
  • Anton Ott, teacher of ancient Greek and Latin from 1952 to 1988

Known former students

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b On ancient language teaching in the GDR : "With the exception of Eisenach, Greek teaching disappeared completely from the extended high schools in Thuringia (then the name for the schools leading to the Abitur) and, gradually, Latin teaching almost entirely in line with the GDR. Educational policy. In the entire GDR there were soon only a total of six schools with traditional language teaching. Since Eisenach was a special school with this rare educational offer, boarding school students also came from far away. In particular, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia maintained with the Ursula-Cotta-Heimen I - III three student dormitories in Eisenach, from which a not insignificant part of the East German, especially Thuringian priesthood emerged - together with representatives of many other professions, some of them eg as chief physicians in management positions. The fact that the tradition of the humanistic grammar school in Thuringia was not interrupted between 1945 and 1989/90 despite all changes due to the time, although for example the former Luther High School in Eisenach was deprived of this function in 1951, is largely thanks to State Bishop M. Mitzenheim, Mr Ott. " (From:" Anton Ott (1920–2004) in grateful memory. ", Obituary from August 2004 by Wolfgang Schenk , Eisenach, on the death of Anton Ott (born May 19, 1920 ; † July 30, 2004 in Köthen ), teacher for ancient Greek and Latin from 1952 to 1988 at this school, published in: Annual Review 2003/2004 of the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium Eisenach, pp. 79-81 ( Memento from May 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ^ Anton Ott (born May 19, 1920 in Duppau ; † July 30, 2004 in Koethen ) was a German educator and philologist. Anton Ott taught from 1952 to 1988 at the "Ernst-Abbe-Oberschule (Extended Oberschule) Eisenach" (today's Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium Eisenach), the only extended grammar school in Thuringia during the GDR era with an ancient language branch, ancient Greek and Latin and left a lasting mark on generations of students. It is Otto's personal merit that in his own way he upheld the principles of the humanistic grammar school even in the period between 1945 and 1989/90 despite all the compromises caused by the GDR. - Anton Ott received his humanistic stamping at a Jesuit grammar school near Karlsbad. After graduating from high school and studying, Ott worked for 36 years (until retirement in 1985 and beyond) as a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek in Eisenach. For Ott, ancient language teaching was more than the teaching of foreign language skills: Anton Ott brought Greek-Roman antiquity, its culture and ideals to life in the Greek and Latin texts and knew how to convey them to his students in a sustainable manner. In 1988 Ott and his wife moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, and in the 1990s they moved to Köthen, where their daughter and son-in-law (a pastor) live and where he spent the last years of his life with his wife and died in 2004. For the funeral service, numerous former students of the Ott years came from all over Germany to the St. Agnus Church in Köthen. Annual journal 2003/2004 of the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium Eisenach, p. 79 ff ( Memento from May 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) - Christian Führer about Anton Ott: “I owe a lot to this man who opened up this world to us and who entire class mentally shaped like no other. He was a pedagogue in the best sense of the word, and his basic Christian attitude could be felt without bringing it into the foreground. (...) I was deeply touched to experience something like that in an extended secondary school in the GDR. ” (Christian Führer on page 50 in: And we were there. The revolution that came from the church. The pastor of the Nikolaikirche tells his life . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-550-08746-2 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ school management. In: www.ernstabbegymnasium.de. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ These nine extended secondary schools were GDR-wide: Heinrich Schliemann School in Berlin, Humboldt School in Potsdam, Kreuzschule in Dresden, Thomas School in Leipzig , Gerhart Hauptmann School in Zwickau, Ernst Abbe School in Eisenach, Latina August-Hermann-Francke in Halle, Humboldt School in Magdeburg and Herder School in Rostock. - Source: Markus A. Gruber: Statistical information on the situation of ancient Greek teaching in the Federal Republic of Germany (2009/10). University of Regensburg , archived from the original on August 5, 2018 ; accessed on March 24, 2020 (original website no longer available).
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 150th anniversary . Wartburg-Verlag, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-86160-084-6 , p. 105 .
  4. ↑ (Eisenach) students under the swastika . In: step21 - Initiative for Tolerance and Responsibility (Ed.): Weisse Flecken . Issue 2. Hamburg 2008, p. 29 . ( Full text (PDF; 5.1 MB) as digitized version)
  5. ↑ Jürgen Bohne: Protestant schools on the move: School foundations in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia 1989-1994 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-61357-1 , p. 99 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Open Monument Day in Eisenach. In: www.eisenachonline.de. September 3, 2002, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Birgit Schellbach: 175 years of higher education in Eisenach. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de. Thüringer Allgemeine , September 9, 2018, accessed April 5, 2020 .