Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium

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Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium
Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg.jpg
type of school High school in natural sciences , technology , language, economics and social sciences ; Comenius project school
School number 0394
founding 1974
address

Friedrichstrasse 22
97082 Würzburg

place Wurzburg
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 47 '50 "  N , 9 ° 54' 44"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '50 "  N , 9 ° 54' 44"  E
carrier state
student 874 Status: 2018/19
Teachers 72 Status: 2018/19
management Marco Korn
Website fkg-wuerzburg.de

The Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium (FKG) is a natural science , technology , language, economics and social science high school in the Zellerau district of Würzburg .

history

The second natural science high school in Würzburg was founded in the 1973/74 school year and relieved the X-ray high school in Würzburg , which with over 1,800 students was the largest in Bavaria. It is named after the Würzburg printing machine developer Friedrich Koenig (the Koenig & Bauer company , which emerged from the Koenig company, supported the grammar school in a variety of ways . The school, originally conceived as a mathematics and natural science high school with a modern language branch for pupils, is connected to schools in Oulu in Finland, Hasselt in Belgium and Verona in Italy via the European Comenius program .

Since 1991 it has also had an economics branch. In the afternoons, the Diakonie Würzburg looks after the pupils as a full-day care program .

At the end of 2001 the school served as an exhibition space for the traveling exhibition "We hadn't even started living" about the youth concentration camps in Moringen and Uckermark . In the same year, the high school graduate Thomas Kleffel was the winner of the specialist work award for physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

In the 2003/2004 school year, class 11d won the school prize in the “Youth and Economy” competition organized by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of the Federal Association of German Banks . The student Kristina Dürr was awarded the biz award and the individual prize in the “Youth and Business” competition in 2004/05 for her FAZ articles . With its diverse and sustainable projects, the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium achieved 7th place in the Siemens Award 2006 for MINT-EC schools.

From June 19 to July 23, 2006, the opening exhibition of the Anne Frank traveling exhibition, mediated by the Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg and made possible by the support of the Forum for Youth and Politics of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , took place at the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium . The student Helge Lehmann received the Organic Future Prize in 2006 . The science school laboratory was founded in 2005 . In 2007 the facade of the school was partially renovated.

The school gained fame through a weather balloon ascent of six young people from the focus class in April 2012. Cameras provided video recordings from the stratosphere .

In addition, four high school graduates competed in the ARD show Quizduell with Jörg Pilawa as a studio team in 2014 and played for a jackpot of 22,000 euros.

Training directions

foreign languages

  • English from the 5th grade
  • French or Latin from the 6th grade
  • French from the 8th grade as long as the language branch was chosen
  • optional Italian from the 10th grade if Latin or French are deselected

The grammar school offers three different branches of education:

  • Scientific and technological branch
  • Linguistic branch
  • Economics and social science branch

particularities

MINT program

The Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium takes part in the nationwide MINT-EC  300 program, in which 300 pupils from all over Germany who are gifted in scientific thinking are given special support.

Student exchange

The first student exchange of the FKG took place from April 2 to 17, 1976 with students from the partner school Whitgift School Croydon , a private high school in South Croydon , Surrey, with students from X-ray high school also taking part. The return visit to Croydon took place from August 21st to September 7th of the same year. Since 1994 there has been a student exchange with Poland almost every year, which aims to break down prejudices and make the country more interesting for students. The exchange is funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Free State of Bavaria . Since 1977 there has also been an exchange with Dijon in France (partner school: Lycée Stéphen Liégeard in Brochon , Gevrey-Chambertin ) and since 1978 with Woodbridge in England (partner school: Woodbridge School Suffolk ).

FKG robots

The grammar school is the namesake of the FKG robot , which is sometimes used in school lessons and which was developed freely for several years by students in grades 10 to 12.

The RoboClub consortium deals weekly with building robots from the Lego Mindstorms product series . The regular appearances ensure national awareness. The RoboClub has been participating in the First Lego League since 2008 . He won an award for the best endurance.

School laboratory

The grammar school has its own science laboratory for students . This is to be used primarily by senior high school students interested in science and other schools. In addition to the original laboratory, there is a laser and optics laboratory where various experiments can be carried out. In order to make astronomy clearer for schoolchildren, an observatory was built jointly by pupils and teachers at Hettstadt . It was named after Hans Haffner , former professor of astronomy at the University of Würzburg , the Hans Haffner observatory .

In this context, the scientific colloquium takes place, at which scientists (e.g. Axel Haase , Jürgen Tautz or Nobel Prize winner Erwin Neher ) talk about current topics from their research.

Moving pictures

The elective course "Moving Images" deals with the shooting and animation of video , stop-motion and cartoons . The working group has already taken part in numerous film competitions with its projects. Her film “PAPP-TV” achieved second place at the national level in the Panasonic “Papphelden” competition. In addition to the X-ray grammar school, they are the organizers of the “Night of the Self-Rolled” festival, which takes place as part of the Würzburg International Film Weekend .

Scientific focus class

Since the 2009/10 school year, the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium has been offering a science specialty class. The students of the natural science and technology branch have the opportunity to voluntarily deepen their knowledge in the subjects of physics , chemistry , biology and astronomy in the afternoon. For this purpose, the students in the 8th and 9th grades have three additional hours of science lessons per week, in the 10th grade two hours. No grades are given in the experiment lessons. The intensification lessons are intended to "sustainably support students with talent and / or a great interest in natural sciences."

Others

Former students

Former teachers

  • Reinhold Behr (* 1948), student trainee 1976/1978, former fencer, who took part in the 1972 Olympics in Munich and won an Olympic silver medal for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 with the Degen team in Montreal.
  • Werner Ikenberg , senior director of studies, ministerial representative for the grammar schools in Lower Franconia

literature

  • Kurt Fauster (Ed.): 5 years Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. Wuerzburg 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg on the pages of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (km.bayern.de, accessed on July 28, 2019)
  2. Kurt Fauster: Review. In: Annual Report 1975/76. Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1976, p. 103.
  3. Hans B. Bolza-Schünemann: The Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium under the patronage of a brilliant inventor and technician. Excerpts from the speech […]. In: Kurt Fauster (Hrsg.): 5 years Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. Wuerzburg 1978.
  4. ^ Richard Braunbeck, Erich Schwenkert: The training directions of the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. In: Kurt Fauster (Hrsg.): 5 years Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. Würzburg 1978, p. 10.
  5. Photos and films from the stratosphere. Student experiment. Bayerischer Rundfunk , April 30, 2012, archived from the original on May 13, 2012 ; Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Cimander: School exchange with England. In: Josef Brecht (Ed.): Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg. Annual report 1976/77. Würzburg 1977, p. 79.
  7. Michael Döring: Return visit to Croydon from August 21 to August 7, 1976. In: Josef Brecht (Hrsg.): Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg. Annual report 1976/77. Würzburg 1977, p. 79 f.
  8. ^ Ewald Leibold: Student Exchange Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium - Whitgift School, South Croydon, Surrey. In: Annual Report 1975/76. Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1976, p. 72 f.
  9. Bernhard Rath: Our French partner school, the Lycée Stephen Liégeard in Brochon-Gevrey-Chambertin, introduces itself. In: Josef Brecht, Gerhart Gradenegger (editor): Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg. Annual report 1980/81. Edited by the directorate of the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1981, pp. 101-103.
  10. ^ Alois Krapp: German-English student exchange. In: Josef Brecht, Gerhart Gradenegger (editor): Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg. Annual report 1980/81. Published by the directorate of the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1981, p. 104 f.
  11. Horst Hübel: Basic information on the FKG robot. In: forphys.de. Retrieved February 4, 2011 .
  12. ub: Scientific focus class at the FKG. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Class parents' evening of 7th grade. Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium, September 1, 2009, pp. 20–22 , archived from the original on May 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 22, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fkg-wuerzburg.de
  13. Third-party funded project. Networking and cooperation between schools in Würzburg and the University of Würzburg. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, accessed on February 4, 2011 .
  14. Hartmut Ratz: Youth trains for OLYMPIA - ROWING. In: Annual Report 1975/76. Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1976, p. 93.
  15. ^ Eckbert Vogt: Two Olympians from the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. In: Kurt Fauster (Hrsg.): 5 years Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. Würzburg 1978, p. 51.
  16. 21st Montreal Olympics. In: Annual Report 1975/76. Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1976, p. 93.
  17. Professorship for Economics and Organization of Media Communication. Employee. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, August 5, 2007, accessed on May 18, 2014 : "Curriculum vitae [...] 1974: Abitur at Friedrich-König-Gymnasium Würzburg"
  18. ^ Eckbert Vogt: Two Olympians from the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. In: Kurt Fauster (Hrsg.): 5 years Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium. Würzburg 1978, p. 51.