Flade (school)
| Flade - Catholic Cantonal Secondary School St. Gallen | |
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| The monastery school house seen from Gallusplatz. The main nave of the cathedral can be seen on the left | |
| type of school | High school |
| founding | 1809 |
| place | St. Gallen |
| Canton | Canton of St. Gallen |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 746 242 / 254239 |
| carrier | Catholic denomination part of the canton of St. Gallen |
| management | Johann Schuster (monastery school house), Sonja Dietrich (Gallus school house), Markus Honegger (emergency school house) |
| Website | www.flade.ch |
The "Flade" is a secondary school in the city of St. Gallen . The school was founded in 1808 and continues the legacy of the former monastery school of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen . Today the school consists of three school buildings: Kloster , Gallus and Notker . Since the 19th century the school has been popularly known as Flade ; since 2008 she has identified herself with this name in her logo.
history
Monastery school
The history books are silent about the founding year of the monastery school in St. Gallen. There is evidence that an internal and an external school are already listed in the famous Carolingian monastery plan from 819. Presumably Otmar set up an educational establishment in "his" monastery as early as the beginning of the 8th century, at least for novices, because the Benedictine Rule that he introduced requires the monks to be familiar with writing and language. This created one of the oldest schools north of the Alps in St. Gallen . The external school was reserved for the wealthier and more influential citizens, but at that time it was the only way to get an education in the fine arts (Latin, mathematics, church music). Schooling at that time was reserved for boys. For many centuries, the monks of the monastery made a name for themselves far and wide for their way of passing on their knowledge to the next generation with strict discipline and supervision.
In the late 13th and 14th centuries, many abbots began to exchange their bishop's staffs for swords and sought fame on horseback and in distant lands. The monastery slowly fell into disrepair and its importance as an educational institution would have been completely forgotten without the help of Abbot Ulrich Rösch . He led the monastery to new strength and saved it from complete decline. It is probably also thanks to him that the monastery survived the turmoil of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation practically unscathed. After 1620, partly due to the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , which impaired studies in German lands, the St. Gallen abbots decided not to send their offspring to universities abroad. Initially in a branch monastery, later in the main monastery of St. Gallen itself, an in-house theological faculty was set up.
The monastery school closed its doors in 1805 when the monastery and the prince abbey were dissolved.
Creation of today's school
In 1808/09, a “Catholic grammar school”, whose first rector was Alois Vock , and the “Bürgererschule” with boarding school were built in the former monastery building , as the students came from different localities. The administration of the church property was entrusted to the Catholic denomination part of the canton of St.Gallen as a public corporation and legal successor to the abbey. He also acts as the employer of the school's employees.
In 1834/35 the school was renamed the Catholic Cantonal School . In addition to the grammar school, there is a Realschule (old name for secondary school , i.e. the school with high standards) and a teacher’s seminar. In 1854 the school was expanded and the Catholic girls' secondary school was founded. In 1856 the city's grammar school, teacher training college and Protestant grammar school were merged and the St. Gallen Cantonal School was founded. At first it was unclear whether the flatbread still had a right to exist. The school is then reopened as a Catholic canton secondary school (for boys) when it becomes clear that a school is still needed to prepare the children for attending the canton school. When in 1879 the denominationally separate schools of the city of St. Gallen merged and were closed as such, the schools of the denominational part were spared as cantonal schools.
In 1931 the girls received the Moosbrugg school building for the first time, a school building that was able to cope with the demands of the time. In 1952 this building was already too small again and the schoolhouse was extended by an extension. The girls' school is now called the Gallus Schoolhouse (after St. Gallus , the city's founder). In 1971 the third school building of the school opened in the east of the city; it was named Notker after the name of various monks who lived and worked in St. Gallen.
In 2009, various activities were carried out to mark the school's 200th anniversary. The monastery library dedicated a special exhibition to the topic of the monastery and its schools , under the motto flat drawing classes designed yesterday-today-tomorrow , shop windows in the city center, and stand campaigns were carried out for solidarity projects. The official ceremony took place in the cathedral from June 5th to 7th . In addition, there were class reunions in the restaurants in the city center and a party in the OLMA halls.
The school today
In 1977 the school got its name: Catholic Cantonal Secondary School (KKSS), in 2009 the name was changed to Flade - Catholic Cantonal Secondary School . The three school houses belong to it. The monastery school house in the south wing of the St. Gallen Abbey Church , where the St. Gallen Abbey Library is also located, is reserved for boys , the Gallus school house on Moosbruggstrasse outside the monastery walls is reserved for girls, in the Notker school house in Neudorf in the east of the City, the students go to school together . The school is subordinate to the Catholic denomination and is primarily financed by the church tax of the Catholics of the canton and the city of St. Gallen.
As part of the austerity efforts of the Canton of St. Gallen, the cantonal contribution to the school was lifted by the cantonal parliament for the 2016 school year. Instead, the City of St. Gallen has increased its contribution from the previous CHF 2.6 million to a maximum of CHF 4.3 million up to and including the 2018/19 school year. From the 2019/20 school year, the Flade will be integrated into the school system of the city of St. Gallen, as the Flade schools operate upper-level centers, which are open to all primary school students in the city regardless of their religious affiliation, both as a secondary school and now also as a secondary school and in small classes. Schoolchildren are now being taught at different levels of ability, with 30 percent of the total number of urban sixth graders being admitted to the Flade in future. In return, the city pays a cost-covering school fee to the denomination for all city students.
Today's name
The school is popularly called Flade . The name comes from the fact that until 1859 the school uniform , which is no longer available in St. Gallen, included a flat, dark blue flat cap with a misshapen canopy. It looked like a tart that people in eastern Switzerland refer to as flade. With this headgear, the Flade students differed from the students of the urban high school. The name "Flademannli" became common for the pupils of the Catholic school, of which Flade remained and was carried over to the entire school.
Sources and individual references
literature
- Arthur Pichler: Flade 09. 200 years, 1809 - 2009: Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the Catholic Cantonal Secondary School St. Gallen. Verlag am Klosterhof, St.Gallen 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Year of foundation of the Catholic canton secondary school; the year the monastery school was founded is not known
- ^ Diocese of St. Gallen: Significance of the cultural heritage
- ↑ Joint media release of the Catholic denomination and the city of St. Gallen from September 14, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2018.
- ↑ Why is the flatbread called flatbread? thinkquest.org ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
