Evangelical school at the gate
In 1968 the Evangelical State School at the Gate in Meinerzhagen in the Sauerland was founded on the initiative of former students of the Princely School of St. Mary at the Gate. The carrier was the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
The founding rector was the classical philologist Christian Hartlich from Tübingen, in the tradition of his father, Otto Hartlich, the former rector of the Princely School St. Afra in Meißen.
(As it was called simply for short) "national school" should the tradition of this time in the field of DDR located prince schools and related schools - Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia princely, state and convent schools (St. Afra at Meissen, St. Augustin zu Grimma, St. Marien zur Pforte near Naumburg, the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Templin and the monastery school Roßleben) - continue in the Federal Republic of Germany. It tied in with the legacy of St. Marien zur Pforte, which was the only old-language national political educational institution (Napola) during the National Socialist era .
As a humanistic boarding high school, the state school should pick up on old educational traditions and modernize them through its self-administration system in the boarding school area.
Until the late 1990s, the state school existed in a humanistic tradition. The self-administration of around 200 boarding school students, also known as “boy democracy”, played an important role. The state school in turn provided impulses for life in the city of Meinerzhagen.
Initially, the boarding high school was an educational institution for boys only. In 1977 co-education was gradually introduced.
After reunification, which also meant that the Pforta State School , the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra , the St. Augustin High School and the Roßleben Convent School revived old traditions, and in view of a noticeable lack of suitable students, the Evangelical State School became the gate to the end Closed in the 1990s and the building demolished in 2005. Only the Rector's House has been preserved and is now inhabited by private individuals.
The foundation stone of the former school building of the state school with the motto "ubi spiritus, ibi libertas" ("Where there is spirit, there is freedom") is today in the state school Pforta and reminds of the former state school.
Well-known students included Stephan Bissmeier , Uwe Bunz , Markus Hering , Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut , Cornelius Nestler , Moritz Reichelt , Oliver Tolmein , Nico Ueberholz , Erich Virch , Christian von Daniels ( van Laack ) and Lars von Saldern .
Web links
- AkeL eV, working group for former state students
- Comprehensive collection of photo albums, photo stories, videos and newspaper articles about the state school
- Pforte ante portas: On the history of the Ev. State school “Zur Pforte” in Meinerzhagen, Part I: The beginning of the end