Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium

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Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium
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type of school Gymnasium
with German-English bilingual courses
School number 170094
founding 1924
address

Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 1

place Hemer
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 23 '6 "  N , 7 ° 45' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '6 "  N , 7 ° 45' 28"  E
carrier City of Hemer
student 735 (Oct 15, 2015)
Teachers 58 (Oct 15, 2015)
management Jörg Trelenberg
Website www.woeste.org

The municipal Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium is the only gymnasium in Hemer .

history

Former school building of the grammar school, today Wulfert elementary school

Up until 1829, students from Hemeraner had to attend high schools in the region in order to receive an education that went beyond the basic level. Friedrich Leopold Woeste changed that with the establishment of a “private school for higher education”, which established itself in the following decades and enabled good conditions for attending a grammar school. In 1875 a “higher private girls' school” was founded.

In 1883 a "private rectorate school" was established to expand the private lessons that had been customary up until then. After a few years, the Rector's School was converted into a state middle school for boys and girls. The local politicians soon started planning to expand the middle school into a secondary school. For the time being, however, the First World War prevented this project.

In 1921 the school moved to the An der Steinert location after the communities of Hemer, Sundwig and Westig jointly set up an equal rectorate school. In retrospect, this development is rated as an important step towards the subsequent merging of the communities. On February 14, 1924, the minister responsible for science, art and public education decreed that a “ secondary school in development” was to be set up in Hemer . Confirmation from the provincial school council followed in April . This officially marked the birth of the secondary school system in Hemer on April 1, 1924. A year later, the facility was recognized as a full-fledged secondary school. In 1930 it became the Reformrealprogymnasium .

In times of the economic crisis, the number of pupils decreased increasingly at the beginning of the 1930s, so that in the 1930/31 school year two applications were received by the Hemer local council to close the school. Both times, however, there was a majority in favor of maintaining the grammar school, which during the Nazi era became a high school in 1937 . In 1940, the later mayor of Hemeran, Josef Kleffner, took over the post of headmaster after his predecessor was killed in the war. After the war ended, the school was closed and only reopened in 1946.

Between 1949 and 1953, the first Abitur exams took place at the new Progymnasium with a special permit. As early as December 1948, the Hemer Office, as the responsible body, applied for a full institution to be set up in order to be able to take regular school-leaving exams in the future. However, due to financial problems, this application was soon withdrawn. As a result, the upper school had to be completely dismantled in the early 1950s. The application for the misuse of the elementary school was also withdrawn during this time, so that the city planned to build a new grammar school. The costs for this were around two million DM, of which the state contributed 500,000 DM. The building was decided unanimously by the city council. The city took over the sponsorship of the school in 1958 and inaugurated a new building at the current location. Two years later, the new “modern language grammar school of the city of Hemer”, which from then on bore the name Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium , received approval to become a full institution. Rapidly increasing numbers of pupils required a major expansion of the school building in the mid-1970s, so that the number of rooms almost doubled.

Since the 1999/2000 school year there has been a bilingual class in each year , in which level 5 students received seven hours of English lessons per week in order to be taught in English in some subjects of subject group II ( minor subjects ) from year 7 onwards. For the school year 2009/10, the system was changed in such a way that no more bilingual classes were set up, but each pupil in the middle level receives some minor subjects in English, so that they can choose between German and English in these subjects in the upper level as well. Another special feature of the linguistic offering with the subjects English, French, Latin and Spanish is the subject (ancient) Greek as part of the promotion of gifted students in the upper level.

As part of the application plans for the State Garden Show 2010, the school management with Eckardt Lüblinghoff and Ulrich Vielhauer together with Mayor Michael Esken presented intentions for the city of Hemer in October 2006 to move the grammar school into the building of the Blücher barracks, which became vacant in 2007 . However, due to the high costs, this project will not be implemented.

In cooperation with the music school of the city of Hemer, "music classes" have been set up since the 2010/11 school year, which facilitate their students' access to musical instruments and ensemble playing through practical instrumental music lessons. The commitment of music teacher Jörg Segtrop has meanwhile produced a notable school orchestra and the big band “JazzAmWo” (Jazz am Woeste).

Since the school year 2010/11, the grammar school has developed into a full-time school , partly because of the conversion to the eight-year grammar school (G8). In the “Woeste-specific” version of all-day operation, all secondary school students are taught or looked after on three days of the week from 7:50 am to 2:55 pm. On these days, the timetable includes a one-hour lunch break.

With the help of the federal government's economic stimulus package II, the chemistry department was redesigned in 2010. In addition, the previous small auditorium was expanded and converted into a cafeteria. In December 2010, the Woeste cafeteria in front of the main entrance of the old building wing was completed.

Since 2003 there has been a cooperation with the Hemeraner fittings manufacturer Grohe in the field of mathematical and scientific subjects. The school participates in the state program "Come with me ! - Support instead of staying seated" and was awarded a MINT- friendly school in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012.

numbers

In the 2016/17 school year, around 60 teachers and trainees are teaching around 700 students in around 17 classes or 3 levels. It is taught in both lower secondary level I (levels 5 to 9) and secondary level II (EF 10 to Q1 11 or Q2 12).

Projects

The "Woeste" is a cultural center of the city: the performances of the literature course, the musical AG and some other groups are popular beyond the city. In 2004 the school choir recorded a school song called “Our School”. Several school bands and the teacher band WoestCase appear on numerous occasions not only in school. Support is provided by an association with a large number of members.

Athletics teams were able to become state winners repeatedly and represented North Rhine-Westphalia seven times in a row at the national finals of " Youth trained for the Olympics ". The school team also achieved success in handball .

In the field of art, the design for the fountain was created, which was located on Friedrich-List-Platz in downtown Hemeran until the construction work as part of the state horticultural show.

The Woeste-Gymnasium is the location of a weather station of Meteomedia AG .

Partner schools

The school maintains partnerships with the Bablake School in Coventry , Great Britain , since 1991, the Collège Albert Debeyre and, more recently, with the "Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar" in Beuvry , France , since 1977, and earlier also with the Gerberstadt-Gymnasium in Doberlug- Kirchhain , Brandenburg , since 1991, as well as with Nordhoff High School in Ojai California . Exchange trips to Shcholkowo (Schelkowo) are organized at irregular intervals .

Mission statement

The school would like to offer its students a piece of living space in a “house of learning”. The preamble to the mission statement therefore states: “It is our common wish that the Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium is a place to live and learn for children, adolescents and adults, one of tolerance, fear-free atmosphere, mutual respect and appreciation is shaped. "

Former graduates and principals

Period principal
1924-1937 Heinrich Heine (1880–1950)
1937-1940 Erich Schreiber (killed in the war 1897–1940)
1939-1945 Josef Kleffner (1890–1966)
1946-1956 Rudolf Deidert (1891–1969)
1956-1970 Georg Gudelius (1905–1997)
1970-1991 Alfred Meyer (* 1928)
1991-2012 Eckardt Lüblinghoff (* 1950)
2012-2017 Ulrich Vielhauer (* 1951)
since Feb. 1, 2017 Jörg Trelenberg (* 1965)

literature

  • Richard Ebeling: Hemer is building a high school. In: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer e. V. (Ed.): The key. 1st edition, Hemer 1956.
  • Annual reports of the Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium (publisher), up to and including school year 2008/09, then discontinued, online chronicle on the Internet presence of the Woeste-Gymnasium under "Events"
  • Hemeraner school history (s), Part II Secondary schools, special schools, schools of the Allied occupation forces and the NATO armed forces, series "Die Fibel", Volume 9, Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer, 2013 (pp. 124–182).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Citizens and Local History Association Hemer e. V. (Ed.): Hemer. Contributions to local history . Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1980.
  2. ↑ woeste.org ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.woeste.org