Friedrich Wilhelm High School (Trier)

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Friedrich Wilhelm High School
Trier Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1561
address

Olewiger Strasse 2

place trier
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 44 '52 "  N , 6 ° 38' 39"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '52 "  N , 6 ° 38' 39"  E
carrier City of Trier
student 900
Teachers 74
management Bärbel Brucherseifer
Website www.fwg-trier.de

The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (FWG) in Trier is a secondary school in Trier . It is one of the oldest grammar schools in Germany .

history

The grammar school was founded in 1561 as a Jesuit school under the name Collegium Trinitas (" Dreifaltigkeitskolleg "). The Jesuits were also the sponsors of the old University of Trier . Since 1614, classes have taken place in the building next to the Trier Jesuit Church, which today houses the seminary. The Jesuits carried the school until the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773. From this date Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen , the last Archbishop and Elector of Trier , took over the grammar school.

After the collapse of the Trier electoral state in the first coalition war , Trier was occupied by French troops in 1794. In 1801 it became the capital of the French department of Sarre . The previously electoral school was continued as the French École centrale , later as a college . After the defeat of Napoleon I and the incorporation of Trier into the Prussian province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine (from 1822: Rhine province ), the college became a royal Prussian grammar school. However , the school was only given the official name of the Königliches Gymnasium in 1858. On the occasion of the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium (today the Max Planck Gymnasium ), the Royal Gymnasium was given its current name Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (after the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. ).

The historic school building was largely destroyed in the Second World War . The lessons therefore took place from 1946 to 1961 in the building of the former Reich Abbey of St. Maximin , which was badly damaged . In 1961, for the 400th anniversary of the school, a new building was moved into at the junction of Olewiger Straße and Spitzmühle, which is still in use today. During APO times, there was an attack with a Molotov cocktail on the secretariat, in which the later member of the June 2nd Movement , Till Meyer , also took part. ("Break the bones of the flood - all power to the councilors!" Was what Jakob Schwall, the editor of Guido Groß's book : 400 years of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Trier . Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 1961, was director, in large letters in the schoolyard.) In 2011 the FWG celebrated its 450th anniversary with a big party.

The school's profile today

The school has an ancient and a modern language branch. The special figurehead of the school is the new class "Latin plus", which was introduced in the 2005/2006 school year, in which the new fifth graders are taught in parallel in English and Latin as early as the fifth grade. In the seventh and ninth grades, additional languages ​​can then be chosen. Overall, in addition to Latin and Greek, English, French and Italian are also offered for all classes.

The school is equipped with modern classrooms, computer workstations for the students and a video conference system. There is also a gym, a gym and an outdoor sports facility. In the school year 2008/2009, some of the lessons, mainly for upper school students, took place 500 meters further up until the Easter holidays 2009 in different rooms of the ERA (Academy of European Law). Since the beginning of the 2009/2010 school year, some of the lessons for high school students have been outsourced to the building of the former LLVA (State Teaching and Research Institute) in Trier.

The school participates in partnerships and exchange programs with schools in England ( Wycliffe College ), France, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Austria and Rio de Janeiro.

The school newspaper of the FWG was called "Hermes". "The Mole" was published in 1986, but subsequently banned and allowed again several times. In between there were also other school newspapers. “The Mole” has been published since 2005 with two issues a year. The publication was stopped in 2011/2012. Since 2013/2014 the school newspaper has been published again as “Hermes” with an average of two issues per school year.

The FWG often complains about the old furnishings (in some cases the original furnishings of the current building from 1961) and the unkempt buildings. In the 2006/2007 school year, for example, there were leaks on the top floor through which water dripped onto the hallways. Most of the damage has now been repaired. In the same school year there were also several thefts of bicycles, which is why the bicycle parking spaces have been surrounded by bars since summer 2007. However, there have been several thefts since then. In the 2006/2007 school year, new lockers were installed in the school building. They are rented out to the students by AstraDirect . This approach is widely criticized due to the feared commercialization of the school system.

From autumn 2003 to summer 2015, the school was no longer headed by a classical philologist, but by the physics and chemistry teacher Harald Heim.

Directors and teachers

Directors

Teacher

Known students

FWG jazz band

Today's jazz band goes back to the Dixieland formation founded in 1984 by the former music teacher Ansgar Marx. In 1989 Bernhard Nink took over the management and developed it into a jazz band. Subsequently, Stefanie Lamberti took over the management of the jazz band, who is still leading the band today.

Today the band consists of about 30 members of all ages and plays in various formations in the Trier jazz scene and the surrounding area. The arrangements are based on the New Orleans style. A number of them were written especially for the band by former band members Simon Rummel and Johannes Nink.

The band consists of clarinets, alto and tenor saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section (bass, guitar, drums, piano).

In the meantime the FWG Jazzband has released three albums ("Animi Causa", "Second Half", "Kairos").

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium winery

Already in 1570, shortly after the founding of the Collegium Trinitas , the school was opened by the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Jakob III. von Eltz endowed them with a large amount of assets to finance their operations. This included extensive vineyards. Through the vicissitudes of history, the vineyards remained in the possession of the grammar school. The new school building from 1961 was also financed by income from the foundation's assets. In 2004 the vineyards were sold to the Bischöfliche Weingüter in Trier. However, wines are still produced and sold under the name "Weingut Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium".

The vineyards of the estate Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium are among the documents Bernkasteler Badstube , Falkensteiner Hofberg, Falkensteiner Regent, Graacher provost, Graacher kingdom of heaven, Neumagener Rosengärtchen, Mehringer Goldkupp, Oberemmeler Rosenberg, Ockfener crowd Zberg Trittenheimer pharmacy and Zeltinger Himmelreich (all in the wine region Mosel ). The vast majority of Riesling wines are produced.

literature

  • Royal Friedrich Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier 1563–1913. Festschrift to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the institution on October 6th to 8th, 1913 . Jacob Lintz publishing house, Trier 1913. Digitized
  • Guido Groß : "On the history of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium". In: Jakob Schwall (Hrsg.): 400 years of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Trier . Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 1961, pp. 7-74. This book also contains a directory of directors, sweepers and high school graduates from 1913 to 1961, possibly to be borrowed from the school.
  • 425 years of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Trier. 1561-1986. Book accompanying the exhibition in the cathedral cloister 9 May to 8 June 1986 . Edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Trier. Volksfreund-Druckerei, Trier 1986.
  • 450 years of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Trier 1561–2011. The future needs an origin (Festschrift) , ed. from the association of alumni of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier eV and the school management of the FWG. Paulinus, Trier 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Schwall turns 95. Accessed December 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Martin Persch:  MÖNCH, Antonius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 1596-1598.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ↑ Sandra East:  ZIEGLER, Jakob Anton. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 1582-1586.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  4. ↑ Release concert by the FWG Jazzband and the FWG Swing Sextet. Retrieved on May 9, 2020 (German).