Friedrich Spee College
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 18.6 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 34" E
The Archbishop's Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg is an educational institution of the second educational path in Neuss . As a continuing education college, it leads adults to university entrance qualification in one day . Both the advanced technical college entrance qualification and the general university entrance qualification can be acquired. The sponsor is the Archdiocese of Cologne , the legal form is a corporation under public law (KdöR).
founding
The founding of the Archbishop's Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg in Neuss goes back to the initiative and support of Prelate Johannes Becker, who died in 1971 . The first concrete plans for the educational institution later called Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg were developed in early 1963. On June 11, 1963, the school started teaching with 23 students. From the second round of admission, women were also admitted.
The name goes back to Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld .
The buildings
Initially, the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg was located at Breiten Straße 96 in Neuss. When the college of education (PH) moved into the same building, the space became very cramped. In 1971, a new school building was inaugurated on Paracelsusstrasse. The sober, clear architectural language of the 1970s is particularly expressed in the bright and large atrium. In addition to modern physics and chemistry rooms, the school has several film and media rooms.
The college leaders
The first director of the group was Paul Blomenkamp from 1963 to 1980. He was followed by Christine Heusch (1980–1992), Karl-Ludwig Wimberger (1992–1995) and Michael Roder (1995–2015). The senior college director from August 1st, 2015 is the former archbishop's school council, senior studies director in the church service, Norbert Keßler.
The teaching offer
The lessons at the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg correspond to the guidelines of the second educational path. In the two-semester introductory phase (E phase), classes are taught. Here, the focus is on the subject matter of the intermediate level and thus a sound basis for entering the subsequent 4-semester main phase (H phase). In the H-phase semesters, as at grammar schools of the first educational path, courses are taught. You choose 2 advanced courses and 6 basic courses, optionally the choice of further basic courses is possible if the timetable allows this.
The advanced courses are offered in two advanced course tracks. The offer currently includes the following six subjects:
- Latin, English, biology
- German, history, mathematics
The following subjects are only offered in the basic course area:
- religion
- Ancient Greek
- chemistry
- physics
- philosophy
- Economics
- art
- music
The Marians and the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg
By the end of the 2005/2006 school year, the pre-seminarists of the Archbishop's Collegium Marianum also attended the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg. The Collegium Marianum is a pre-seminar for spiritual professions and the sister institution of the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg; The pre-seminarists are striving for an ecclesiastical profession and in preparation for studying theology at the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg did their Abitur.
For the 2006/2007 school year, however, the Collegium Marianum moved from Neuss to Bonn to the archbishop's theological convict Collegium Albertinum , where it will remain as an independent institution. The move also involved a change of school for the Marians. You are now attending the Bonn College. A small part of the "Marians" remained in Neuss as an external community. The reason for this was that these students were already in the main semesters of the course and therefore the change of location, which would be associated with a change of school, was no longer an option.
The last Marian left the Friedrich-Spee-Kolleg at the end of 2008. This ended the era of school training for seminarians at the Neuss location.