Free Waldorf School Oldenburg
| Free Waldorf School Oldenburg | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Waldorf School |
| founding | 1980 |
| address |
Blumenhof 9 |
| place | Oldenburg |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 20 ″ E |
| carrier | Association for a free school system Waldorfschulverein Oldenburg und Umgebung eV |
| student | 480 |
| Teachers | 30th |
| management | Management team |
| Website | http://www.waldorfschule-oldenburg.de/ |
The Free Waldorf School Oldenburg in Osternburg is the first school in the former residence of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and today's Lower Saxony university town of Oldenburg that is not run by the church or the public.
The building
The school building and the settlement houses on the street Blumenhof were designed in 1925/26 by the Oldenburg city building supervisor Robert Charton . The area had been used from 1830 by the Oldenburg land dragons , then by the artillery and finally by the Royal Prussian Provision Office , which was dissolved in 1920. The sum of 400,000 Reichsmarks had been approved for the construction , of which Charton only used 360,000, as the news for town and country emphasized on February 1, 1928. At the time, the building was considered one of the most generous in Germany.
Construction began on September 25, 1926, and the main building was completed on April 1, 1927. Due to a frost period, the uptake of school operations shifted from 5 January to 1 February 1928. The school was originally called popular girls' school Blumenhof , apparently after the Second World War in elementary school Blumenhof was converted. Until then, the girls' school had been on Cloppenburger Strasse.
The main building consists of four floors and a roof. The caretaker's apartment and the milk drinking room, which could also be used as a modeling room, were located in the basement. The caretaker's apartment had a separate entrance, so that if the caretaker family fell ill, no contagious diseases could be passed on to students and teachers.
Four so-called normal classes and the caretaker's room were housed on the ground floor. On the first floor there were the teachers' and a conference room, the principal's room and three normal classes. A normal class, a sewing class, the drawing room (at the same time the physics room), the collecting room and the teaching material room were housed on the second floor. The attic was not developed. Wall fountains made of clinker bricks and artificial sandstone were installed in the corridors .
The intermediate building at the Blumenhof contained separate toilet rooms for teachers and pupils as well as a gym that could be entered separately from the outside. On the upper floor was the anteroom of the singing hall, decorated with a painting by Christian Rohlfs .
In addition to the hall itself, the gymnasium contained cloakrooms and a changing room for the teacher. The singing hall including a small stage was located on the upper floor.
To the left of the main building, a school garden was created based on the model of an allotment garden, which was also looked after by the garden architect Hempel. The 2800 square meter playground contained a sand pit for the youngest age groups. There were green spaces in front of the main building. In the middle of the schoolyard there is still an expressionist- style fountain created by the sculptor Elsa Oeltjen (also Oeltjen-Kasimir ) (1887–1944) .
According to contemporary witness reports, an emergency hospital was housed in the attic during the final phase of World War II, and an air raid shelter was located in today's boiler room in the basement to the left of the main entrance.
In 1966 the last year of primary school started school. Apparently in 1975 the current secondary school moved to Gorch-Fock-Straße 3, while the Pestalozzi School Oldenburg , which had previously been located at Cloppenburger Straße 28, moved to the Blumenhofschule as a special needs school . In 1989 the school building was taken over by the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg and the Pestalozzi School evidently closed.
history
On September 13, 1980, the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg began teaching with 66 students in 3 classes on the premises of the Hermann Ehlers School. In 1989, after extensive alterations and extensions and a thorough renovation, the school was able to take over the building of the former girls' school built in 1926-27. A new pavilion was created with classrooms for eurythmy , painting, sculpting, handicrafts and other group rooms, a gym that also serves as a cultural stage, and a music hall for lessons and concerts. In 2005, seminar rooms for the Abitur preparation course were added, and in summer 2007 a newly built gymnasium was added on the former Bahlsen site . Well-known student of the school is:
- the German chansonnier and actor Tim Fischer
today
Today around 480 pupils in 13 classes are taught by 30 teachers at the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg. Most pupils either achieve the secondary school leaving certificate after grade 12, on application in some cases also after grade 11, or the Abitur after grade 13.
With the secondary school leaving certificate from the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg, it is possible to pass the technical diploma at the technical college for design only a year to obtain. The clear majority have so far achieved the Abitur after attending the two-year qualification phase in class 13. For the qualification phase for the Abitur there is a cooperation with the Waldorf Schools in Evinghausen, Cuxhaven and Aurich. In 2015, 55 pupils obtained the general university entrance qualification.
In 2015/16 the Free Waldorf School Oldenburg celebrated its 35th anniversary.
The theater and eurythmy performances, the instrumental, pop or choir concerts of the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg, but also the exhibitions on the artistic degrees in grade 12 or the presentation of the semester theses in grade 11 are always highlights of cultural life in Oldenburg and the surrounding area. A number of students complete stays abroad during their school career or complete one of the numerous internships in middle and high school abroad. In 2014 and 2015, students from the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg were successful in the "Jugend Forscht" competition in the field of physics. In 2014, 10 young people and in 2015 another 8 young people from this school were selected as scholarship holders from the Mercator Foundation and the Robert Bosch Foundation to participate in the Summer School of the Sabanci University in Istanbul.
For the first time in 2014–16 and again in 2016–17, teacher training at the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg is funded by the Erasmus + program.
literature
- The new building of the Volksmädchenschule in Osternburg. Simple and solid, but solid execution. - The most modern elementary school in Groß-Oldenburg , in: Nachrichten für Stadt und Land from February 1, 1928, p. 13.
- (Robert) Charton (ed.): Neue Stadtbaukunst Oldenburg i. O. , Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.
- City address book Oldenburg 1975/75 , p. 12.
- City address book Oldenburg 1975/76 , p. 11.