Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Hürth
| Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Hürth | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 166911 |
| founding | 1961 |
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Bonnstrasse 64-66 |
| place | Huerth |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 52 '51 " N , 6 ° 52' 41" E |
| carrier | City of Huerth |
| student | 1000 |
| Teachers | 93 |
| management | Martin Welz |
| Website | www.emg-huerth.de |
The Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium is the older of the two high schools in Hürth .
history
The grammar school was founded in 1961. At that time it was the first grammar school in a municipality in the area around Cologne, alongside the grammar school in the city of Brühl . The city of Frechen followed a year later. It was founded as a co-educational , modern language grammar school with a mathematical / scientific branch. Both were innovative at the time. For the time being, lessons began for the 74 students, including 14 girls, in barracks at the Hermülheim secondary school in Krankenhausstrasse. The school found its final location in 1965 on Bonnstrasse, in the then newly built center of the then large community . The solemn inauguration of the new building in the presence of representatives from politics (including District Administrator of the Cologne District , Joseph Hürten , and OKD Victor von Dewitz) and both churches took place on Saturday, July 23, 1966. The first extension was built in 1969, as the number of students had risen sharply. At Easter 1998 we moved into the second extension south of the school yard. It was created as a replacement for barracks that were demolished and made way for a new, more beautifully designed schoolyard. The inauguration of the new building took place in mid-September 1998. Component E was demolished due to asbestos contamination , and the newly constructed replacement building has been in use since the 2002/2003 school year. With the establishment of the second grammar school in 1974, the school, which was previously called the Hürth grammar school, had to be named Hürth grammar school on Bonnstrasse or Bonnstrasse grammar school for short. In June 2004 the school name was changed to Ernst-Mach -Gymnasium following a decision by the school conference and after approval by the school authority . The EMG Hürth and a school in Haar near Munich ( Mach spent his twilight years in nearby Vaterstetten ) are the only schools that bear Mach's name. The table shows the dynamics of the school's development:
- 1961 Foundation of the first two-course grammar school (at that time still Krankenhausstrasse)
- 1965 Final location in Bonnstrasse
- 1969 Due to the strong increase in students, an extension was built
- 1973 The number of pupils increased to almost 1,500, making a second grammar school desirable
- 1974 second grammar school in the Sudetenstraße school center (later Albert Schweitzer grammar school)
- 1998 at Easter the extension building D could be occupied - inauguration in September
- 2002 After the summer vacation, part E was moved into the new building
- 2004 Since June 2004 the grammar school has been called Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium
- 2013 From the 2013/14 school year onwards, the school is expanding its range of bilingual classes by introducing the bilingual Abitur in English. The students are only separated for the courses in the bilingual subjects, so that the generally higher-performing students remain in their classes as "beacons".
Mission statement
The EMG sees itself as a traditional grammar school with the aim of a comprehensive and technically solid general education. The motto is "Learn with all your senses". It follows the philosophical approach of the namesake Ernst Mach . The aim is to achieve a balance between the humanities and languages on the one hand and the natural sciences on the other. In the middle school, history, and later geography and social sciences (politics) are offered in English. For this purpose, preparations for the qualification in the foreign languages are offered through the respective national diplomas of the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency and the DELF for French. Some of these diplomas are already completed during school days. For Spanish, as in other advanced courses, we cooperate with the Hürther Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium. In other languages, Italian and Russian are offered optionally or as working groups. The natural sciences are reinforced in the interdisciplinary math-physics-computer science courses . These differentiation courses were virtually invented by the school (Horst Becker, deputy headmaster). They are the basis for attending later advanced courses.
Motivation and talent are promoted through participation in competitions, holiday academies, early attendance of university courses (with a leave of absence for the missed lessons) and events with lectures by well-known scientists (sometimes also pupil parents) at the Dies Academicus and Ernst-Mach-Forum .
Social integration, globalization and integration into the school community are promoted through a world tour project , which invites the younger ones as guests to local families with a different culture (migrant children come to families with traditional Rhenish culture), social internship and company / professional internship. In addition, there are dispute settlement, bazaars and funding runs for projects of local and regional non-profit organizations and school festivals, school trips and school projects. School partnerships are maintained with a school in the twin town Argelès-sur-Mer in the French region of Occitania and with the twin town Skawina in Poland . The school also participates in the EU's Comenius program . The project Stolpersteine with the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig was prepared and carried out for Hürth by teachers and students from the school and the city. It introduced the darker side of local and national history.
The school garden and the school beekeeping (since 2010) are ecological projects. Art, especially designed by students, can be found everywhere in the school buildings. Noteworthy is a 10 × 12 m allegory of the Occident , which was prepared in two years' advanced art course and then partly in extra hours and finally in night and weekend hours until January 1998 , which first served as a stage for the prom and then outside was hung on the facade of the entrance building (meanwhile removed).
School buildings
In 1963, the Cologne architect Marcel Felten won the tender for the construction of the first building, which was inaugurated in mid-1965 and was highly praised for its architecture and equipment (first school language laboratory in the district). The grammar school had to be expanded several times in the following period. Component E is occupied in 1974 (renewed in 2002). After a fire in 1970 following a burglary, the main building will be rebuilt in three years. In 1995 the school was expanded by the Schmitz Aachen planning office, which erected an open and colorfully designed building made of steel and glass as the end of the school complex against the slope towards the shopping center. Since spring 2014, the school has been using 12 converted rooms in the neighboring former post office building that the city acquired. For the time being, they mainly serve to teach the subjects of art and music. The main building of the school has meanwhile been converted and a cafeteria, the construction of which was approved in 2009, has now been built.
School newspaper
The school newspaper of the Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium is published several times a year. For several years it has been called Klartext , previously the name of the publication was Untitled . The plain text costs one euro. Another source of income are numerous local companies that advertise there.
Well-known teachers and graduates
Former teachers
- Fritz Schramma , Latin and Philosophy and Liaison Teacher; later Lord Mayor of Cologne.
- Ulrich Heinen , art, chemistry; since 2000 professor for design engineering and art history at the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal
Former students
- Johannes Horst , Chancellor of the German Sport University Cologne , member of the 1st school year and first Abitur year 1969, first school spokesman for the institution
- Martin Sommerhoff , writer, graduated from high school in 1976
- Dieter Prestin , footballer
- Bruno Arich-Gerz , writer, literary scholar and former junior professor at TU Darmstadt , high school diploma in 1986
- Michael Despeghel , sports scientist and bestselling author, graduated from high school in 1979
- Wolfgang Prinz , computer science, professor at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology Schloss Birlinghoven and RWTH Aachen University , high school diploma in 1980
- Dirk Schimmelpfennig , sports director of the German Table Tennis Association , graduated from high school in 1981
- Simon Hörstrup, heart researcher University of Zurich , Abitur 1986
- Kivanc Haspolat, former President FC Yurdumspor Cologne, Abitur 1986
- Holger Brantin, lawyer and Aachen local and church politician, Abitur 1983
literature
- Gymnasium Hürth, Bonnstraße (Ed.): 40 years of Gymnasium Bonnstraße, Hürth , 2001
- Various articles in the magazine Hürther Heimat , ed. from the home and cultural association. No. 3, 7, 23, and 26
- Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Hürth (Ed.): 50 years Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Hürth , 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festschrift 50 Years
- ↑ Information in the following from the chronicle in Festschrift 40 years
- ↑ Hürther Heimat No. 12/13, 1966, Chronik, p. 33
- ↑ Birgit Lehmann: In Bio, English is now hip , in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from November 9, 2012, p. 31
- ↑ DELF diplomas for the Christmas bazaar ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the grammar school, notification dated December 5, 2008, accessed on March 4, 2009
- ↑ Festschrift 50 Years, p. 108 f.
- ↑ http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1173197899676.shtml ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report Kölnische Rundschau v. March 14, 2007 (Rhein-Erft) (accessed March 2009)
- ↑ http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1099064832532.shtml ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report Kölnische Rundschau v. November 3, 2004 (accessed March 2009)
- ↑ http://www.rhein-erft-online.ksta.de/html/artikel/1231173660677.shtml ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report Kölner Stadtanzeiger v. January 14, 2009 (Rhein-Erft) (accessed March 2009)
- ↑ Ulrich Heinen: Allegorie des Abendlandes, the farewell gift of a high-level course in the Festschrift 40 Jahre Gymnasium Bonnstraße , p. 42 ff and ibid. Chronik p. 19
- ↑ Chronicle S, 13
- ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from February 14, 2014 (accessed Nov. 2014)
