Ernst Ludwig School (Worms)

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Ernst Ludwig School in Worms

The Ernst Ludwig School is a historic, listed school building in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

Originally built as a new building for the city of Worms high school, the building, which is located at the entrance to Worms, immediately adjacent to the Nibelungen Bridge crossing the Rhine, was handed over to its intended use in 1905. From then on, the representative building housed the old-language grammar school .

During the Second World War , the building was badly damaged in 1940 by an aerial bomb that hit the roof. Subsequently, the building was occupied by troops of the German Wehrmacht. After the end of World War II, the building was used as a military hospital for a short time by American occupation forces. As early as October 1945, after extensive repair and clean-up work, school operations continued.

In 1977 the high school, now called " Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium ", moved to the education center in Von-Steuben-Straße. From now on, the building houses a primary school and is still called the "Ernst Ludwig School", named after the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig .

In 2015, significant deficiencies in load-bearing building parts were identified; which were rated as even more significant after opening various ceilings. School operations have been suspended, all pupils at the Ernst Ludwig School have been distributed to surrounding schools or have moved into emergency accommodation in containers that were provisionally set up on the sports fields of other schools. The repair measures are expected to last until 2018.

Architectural description

South-east view: the gymnasium on the left, the extension in the middle, the main building on the right

It is a representative neo-renaissance building on an L-shaped floor plan with a tower, which was built according to designs by the former Worms city architect Karl Hofmann and the government architect Beer. In addition to the school building stands on the face side of the Rhine , the cottage-like Director's residence, back on the road, the casting storey caretaker house. After the Second World War, the historical building stock was supplemented by an angled extension on Gießenstrasse and Kyffhäuserstrasse. This measure connected the previously separate gymnasium with the school building.

The school building has a major impact on the cityscape of Worms, as it is the first thing that catches the eye of visitors who come to Worms from the eastern state of Hesse after crossing the Nibelungen Bridge.

In the school building there is a war memorial that commemorates the two teachers and twelve students who died in the First World War.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ernst Ludwig School  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b News register of cultural monuments. (pdf) District-free city of Worms. In: denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de. P. 8 , accessed on February 6, 2016 .
  2. a b c d History - Ernst Ludwig School Worms. In: worms.de. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .
  3. Ernst Ludwig School remains closed until 2018: Nibelungen Kurier - The newspaper for Worms and the Nibelungenland. In: nibelungen-kurier.de. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 47.8 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 24.2"  E