Erwin Strittmatter High School
| Erwin Strittmatter High School | |
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.jpg) School section "Spree" |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1860 |
| address |
Mittelstrasse 1 |
| place | Spremberg |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '21 " N , 14 ° 22' 23" E |
| carrier | District of Spree-Neisse (school administration office) |
| student | 558 Status: 2013 |
| Teachers | 50 |
| management | Odette Urban, Karin Rau (Deputy) |
| Website | www.gymnasium-spremberg.de |
The Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium is a high school in Spremberg in the Spree-Neisse district . The school is named after the writer Erwin Strittmatter , who was born in Spremberg and attended the grammar school for a while. The school was founded in 1860. In the school year 2012/2013 a total of 558 students were taught by 50 teachers in the grammar school.
Location
The school is located on Mittelstrasse 1 in Spremberg and is located on the Spree ( 51 ° 34 ′ 21.2 ″ N , 14 ° 22 ′ 22.8 ″ E ). All classes up to 12 are taught here up to the Abitur . There are also 5th and 6th grades, because the school is participating in the model experiment for performance classes.
In the meantime there was a second location, then called the “South” school section. It was located at Kraftwerkstrasse 78 in the Trattendorf district ( 51 ° 33 ′ 2.2 ″ N , 14 ° 22 ′ 48.3 ″ E ). After the extension and renovation it would be closed.
history
1860 to 1914
Due to industrialization and the increased influx of people into the cities in the 1860s, a new school was also decided in Spremberg in Niederlausitz by some Spremberg bourgeois families, as the original city school with its six classes was no longer sufficient. Initially, the higher private school "Am Markt 6" was considered a boys' school. In 1861 a secondary school was established, where the first students passed their Abitur on March 21, 1865.
New building in 1907
Due to the good reputation of the school and the resulting ever-increasing number of pupils, the city council decided in 1907 to build a new part of the school in "Mittelstraße 1", which could be inaugurated after three years of construction. The new part of the school was a little more modern and larger than the previous one. A total of twelve classrooms, three physics and chemistry rooms each, a singing hall, a teachers' library, conference room, a gym, an auditorium and other rooms were built. The director's house was connected to the school building by a connecting structure and this was therefore always present.
1914 to 1945
At the beginning of the First World War , seven primary school students took the emergency maturity examination and then voluntarily went to the front. Since numerous boys followed them, the top two classes had to be completely dissolved. Girls were also admitted to school for the first time in the 1920s. Thus not only the potential of the educational institution grew, but also the number of students, and in the following months, female students continued to be accepted. They later successfully passed their school leaving exams.
For the school year 1930/1931, it was decided to merge the two schools (“Am Markt 6” and “Mittelstrasse 1”) to form a Reform Realgymnasium . In August 1944 it was ordered that the school in "Mittelstrasse 1" should be relocated and converted into a hospital . The lessons took place in the "Heinrichstraße", in the municipal vocational school. It was not until 1949 that the students and teachers were able to return to their schools from the emergency quarters.
1945 until the schools were merged
On August 28, 1950, as part of the creation of the World Peace Council, the Student Peace Council of the newly appointed " Karl Marx High School" was founded. In the course of the state youth movements and care, working groups for leisure activities were increasingly established. In 1957, the eight-grade graduation system was converted into a ten-grade system. The school continued to lead to the Abitur, but there was a new profile of the school to the general education ten-class polytechnic high school "Karl Marx" and the extended high school "Karl Marx" for the ninth to twelfth grades. At that time it only took a student twelve years to get the Abitur. Around 1985 the eleventh and twelfth classes of the extended high school moved to the Trattendorf district, where they formed the “extended high school” section of the “Arthur Becker high school”.
School association
A certain degree of competition arose among the schools in the city and especially among the two high schools, the one in “Kraftwerkstrasse 78” in Trattendorf and the one in “Mittelstrasse 1”. In the small town of Spremberg, however, it was not possible to maintain two grammar schools at the same time, as the number of students was too small and there was no rapid growth in the number of students. That is why the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport ordered the schools to merge.
Each part of the school existed for itself until November 1, 1992. There were different teachers, different lesson times, different methods, systems and, above all, students of other age groups, in "Mittelstrasse 1" the students in grades seven to ten and in Trattendorf the grades eleven to thirteen. The newly appointed school director Elmar Schollmeier managed this task with great effort and patience. In this way, the two current sections of the "Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium", the main section in Trattendorf and the second house in the center of Spremberg, were created. Students and teachers usually refer to the two parts as Spree and Süd instead of the official names Hauptteil and Haus Zwei.
Named the Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium
From a multitude of ideas for naming, the variants “Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium” and “Spremberger-Gymnasium” were ultimately chosen, with “Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium” being the most popular among all those involved. On January 23, 1996, there was a formal naming ceremony by the District Administrator of the Spree-Neisse district, Dieter Friese. The event was broadcast live in the gymnasium due to the crowd in the auditorium.
In keeping with the occasion, the students designed a cultural program in which they reviewed the writer's school days, who also attended the secondary school at the time . They read from Strittmatter's works and read poems. The now 90-year-old building is now a listed building. From 2001 the school building in "Mittelstrasse 1" was renovated and modernized. For this it was necessary to move the lessons to the upper school center in Schwarze Pumpe for a whole year .
Awards and other special features
- The school takes part in various competitions and Olympiads. Among other things, she won the PEGASUS in the theater category at the 11th Cottbus Schoolchildren (Small) Art Days 2006 and was national winner in the foreign language competition in 2001.
- In 2007 a performance and talent class was established.
- Since the 2006 school year there has been a wind class in cooperation with the music and art school of the Spree-Neisse district.
- The "Überflieger" is the school newspaper of the high school.
- After it became known that Strittmatter had reported to the Schutzpolizei (part of the Ordnungspolizei ) during the war and had also served in the SS-Police-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18, the acting mayor of the city of Spremberg, Dr. Klaus-Peter Schulze recommended that the promenade, named after Erwin Strittmatter, be renamed. The city council of Spremberg decided against this recommendation. In this context, a renaming of the local "Erwin Strittmatter Gymnasium" was also considered. This renaming was also rejected. (In 1942 all police battalions were combined in police regiments, in 1943 all police regiments were given an SS addition, but they remained units of the Ordnungspolizei. However, there is always confusion with the police division, which in 1942 became the Waffen SS was incorporated.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport Brandenburg ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 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.
- ^ School chronicle on the homepage of the grammar school
- ↑ Spremberg quarrels with Strittmatter . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 23, 2008
