Gaienhofen Castle - Protestant boarding school on Lake Constance

Gaienhofen Castle - Protestant boarding school on Lake Constance
type of school	high school
founding	1946
place	Gaienhofen
country	Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	47 ° 40 '47 " N , 8 ° 58' 53" E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '47 " N , 8 ° 58' 53" E
carrier	Evangelical Church in Baden
student	524
Teachers	about 60
management	Dieter Toder
Website	www.schloss-gaienhofen.de

Gaienhofen Castle - Protestant boarding school on Lake Constance was a boarding school in Gaienhofen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg . It was founded in 1946 and was located together with the Ambrosius-Blarer-Gymnasium in Gaienhofen Castle . The school center last consisted of the grammar school with a general education branch and a business grammar school as well as a single-course secondary school. It was recognized by the state and pursued a church educational mandate . With the closure of the boarding school in 2013, the school was renamed Schloss Gaienhofen - Evangelical School on Lake Constance .

location

The castle was built on the Höri peninsula on the edge of the shore on Lake Constance . The location was strategically chosen directly on the Untersee , where Lake Constance narrows towards the Rhine .

history

In 1903 Gaienhofen Castle was leased to Georg von Petersenn , professor at the Berlin Music Academy . The Deutsche Landerziehungsheim für Mädchen (DLEHfM) founded in Stolpe am Wannsee in 1900 , the concept of which is based on the principles of the reform pedagogue Hermann Lietz , was relocated to Gaienhofen in 1904. The foundation by Bertha von Petersenn was based on the idea of empowering girls to become self-employed and to work through varied training. The DLEHfM was headed by their daughter Jutta von Petersenn. In 1906 Georg von Petersenn bought the castle and in 1911 his daughter Hermann Lietz married. Under the direction of Alfred Andreesen , the relationship between the DLEHfM and the educational home for girls in Gaienhofen waned. On June 8, 1925, there was a serious fire in the castle. The burned-out country education home was then rebuilt and continued until 1944 after it was sold to Elisabeth Müller from Flensburg. It was not until 1933 that the first boy was admitted to the boarding school, which had previously only been attended by girls. In the chaos of the Second World War , there were no regular school lessons.

In 1946, a year after the end of the war, efforts by the Konstanz pastor Hermann Senges and the Konstanz dean Friedrich Mono asked the school association of the Evangelical Boarding School (today the school foundation of the Evangelical Regional Church in Baden ) to take over responsibility for the boarding school - the Evangelical boarding school Schloss Gaienhofen was founded. The school took in many refugee children. The students were both Protestant and Catholic. In 1951 the first class of high school graduates left school. In 1952 the Evangelical Church bought the castle.

The castle, which was modified several times for this purpose and supplemented by new buildings, served the Protestant boarding school as a boarding house for girls. The boarding school was divided into several buildings throughout the village, with the homes separated according to gender and age.

Gaienhofen Castle and the bank section were not open to the public.

Allegations of abuse

On March 11, 2010, the school foundation of the Evangelical Church in Baden announced in a press release that five home educators or teachers at the boarding school in Gaienhofen in the period since the early 1960s [had] been dismissed for sexual abuse or in one of them Case of possession of child pornography . In a message to the former students of the boarding school, Oberkirchenrat Christoph Schneider-Harpprecht speaks of the fact that the regional church has set up a working group to clarify the suspected cases.

The writer Bodo Kirchhoff reported in Der Spiegel how he was repeatedly sexually abused by a teacher in 1960 as a twelve-year-old. He was often called into the cantor's room under pretexts and abused orally there. "Doctor games, piggies, half-baked sex" happened to him there.

literature

Udo Beenken (editor), Evangelical boarding school Gaienhofen (publisher): Schloss-Schule Gaienhofen: Evangelical boarding school 1946-1986 . Verlag Stadler, Konstanz 1986. ISBN 3-7977-0154-3