Friedrichsgymnasium (Kassel)

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Friedrichsgymnasium
Friedrichsgymnasium Humboldtstrasse 5 in Kassel.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1779
address

Humboldtstrasse 5
34117 Kassel

place kassel
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 18 '36 "  N , 9 ° 29' 18"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '36 "  N , 9 ° 29' 18"  E
carrier City of Kassel
student around 1000
Teachers around 60
management Lothar Schöppner
Website www.fg-kassel.de

The Friedrichsgymnasium is a grammar school in Kassel .

The school was founded in 1779 and is the oldest grammar school in Kassel. The Friedrichsgymnasium focuses on foreign languages ​​and arts subjects in its school program, but also offers other offers, for example it has one of the most successful school rowing clubs in Germany. In addition to the city of Kassel, the catchment area of ​​the grammar school extends to the district of Kassel and the surrounding districts as far as southern Lower Saxony.

history

The tradition of the Friedrichsgymnasium goes back to the municipal Latin school founded in 1539 . Before that, there had been three schools in Kassel from the middle of the 14th century, originally attached to the respective parishes (in the old town, the new town and the freedom), which Landgrave Philip I granted to the Landgrave of Hesse in 1539 after he had introduced the Reformation in 1526 a Latin school and placed in the cloister of St. Martin's Church . The building had to be demolished in 1776/77 due to the risk of collapse. Since the city was unable to rent or build an appropriate school building, Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel took the initiative in 1779: he made an appropriate school building available ( Königsstrasse 47) and had the school constitution reformed to that on April 23, 1779 the Latin school became the “Lyceum Fridericianum”, a so-called school of scholars to prepare for university studies. The inauguration of the Lyceum took place on August 14, 1779. Attached to the Lyceum were the teachers' seminar founded by the Landgrave on October 6, 1779, which trained teachers for the rural schools largely free of charge, and the Partim School, in which pupils in need were in the 7th (lowest ) Classes were taught free of charge, received school clothing and then received an allowance when leaving manual professions.

Towards the end of the short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia , in which the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was absorbed from 1807 to 1813, a so-called "Citizens' School" was founded in October 1812 and connected to the Lyceum by building on common elementary classes a grammar school and a "real" branch . At the same time, the teachers' college and the partim school were separated. After the restoration of Kurhessen , the teacher training college and partim school were reintegrated in 1814. In 1820 the Lyceum took over the curriculum of the newer grammar schools. In 1822 the teachers' college was separated again; it was then moved to Homberg (Efze) in October 1835 . In 1823 the Partimschule was separated and the connection between the Lyceum and the Citizens' School was dissolved.

In the course of the Hessian grammar school reform, the Hessian government founded a state grammar school with four classes in Kassel in May 1835. The Lyceum should be downgraded to a Progymnasium with only the classes sixth, fifth and fourth. This led to violent disputes and a lengthy legal battle between the state government and the city of Kassel, which the state ultimately won. On January 11, 1840, the Lyceum Fridericianum, which had taken care of in its greatly reduced role, was nationalized and merged with the Landesgymnasium founded in 1835.

With the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia after the German War in 1866, the grammar school passed to the Prussian state. When the steadily increasing number of pupils could no longer be accepted by the Lyceum Fridericianum, the Prussian state financed the construction of a second grammar school in Kassel, the “Königliche Wilhelms-Gymnasium” , which was inaugurated in May 1886 , and part of the teachers and students of the now “Königliches Friedrichs-Gymnasium (Lyceum Fridericianum) “called the school moved to the new school.

From 1919 to 1945 the school was called "Humanistic Gymnasium". Today it is called "Friedrichsgymnasium".

location

Memorial plaque at the former location of the grammar school

Until the Second World War , the school was housed in a building erected between 1840 and 1842 according to plans by the electoral chief building officer Johann Conrad Rudolph in Wolfsschlucht (number 42), where a plaque still reminds of the original location. It is now located near the Hessian State Museum on Humboldtstrasse. The school consists of an old building, which was completed in 1957 and is now a listed building, as well as an extension building opened in 1992 with a cafeteria and high school library, which is characterized by a very modern style. Another new building - the school canteen - was inaugurated at the end of 2009. In 2010, four new classrooms were opened on the west side of the old building ("building on pillars") and the Ballhof below.

Foreign languages ​​and electives

Particular emphasis is placed on Latin as the first foreign language from the 5th grade. English is started as a second foreign language in the fifth grade at the same time or is continued from primary school. From the eighth grade onwards, in addition to the foreign languages ​​ancient Greek and French, “integrated natural sciences” and rowing are offered as elective subjects. As additional foreign languages, Italian and Russian are offered as working groups.

School partnerships

The school has a school partnership with the Italian Liceo Ginnasio Statale Niccolò Machiavelli-Gino Capponi in Florence and the Russian Гимназия №1 in Novy Urengoy and offers student exchanges there and in other countries such as Vietnam.

Musical subjects

The Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel has several orchestras and choirs that make up part of the musical focus. In addition to preliminary, main and extra choirs and preliminary, intermediate and main orchestras, additional offers have been created in recent years by the big band and a flute or guitar ensemble. In addition, so-called “music classes” are offered there, which are specially designed for children with musical talent.

Other working groups

In addition to several working groups in linguistic (Italian, Russian, literature café), the school also offers working groups in natural science (astronomy, computer science) and the opportunity to work on the award-winning school newspaper or the school yearbook. Participation in the Berlin Model United Nations (BERMUN) and the Theaterhaufen at the Friedrichsgymnasium is also possible. Attached to the school is also the largest and most successful school rowing club in Hesse, the RVFG (rowing club Friedrichsgymnasium).

School community

In addition to the parents' council, the student council and the teaching staff, the Friedrichsgymnasium is characterized by the inclusion of various other groups in the school community. In addition, the school also creates exchange opportunities for the various parts of the school community within the framework of so-called FG forums. Various associations have jointly and in some cases for a long time taken responsibility for the school:

  • Ruderverein Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel eV - the oldest club of the school that carries out rowing at the school with its own boathouse on the Kassel Fulda ,
  • Association of former Friedrichsgymnasiasten in Kassel eV - the alumni association, which tries to intensify the contact of the former students among themselves and to the school and to support the school,
  • Förderverein Friedrichsgymnasium eV - the development association that tries to support the school through the commitment of parents,
  • Mensaverein Mensa Fridericiana eV - the Mensaverein which runs the cafeteria and the cafeteria and supports the learning center of the school through the commitment of the school and parents.

Personalities

Teacher

Rectors

student

Footnotes

  1. ^ Carl Friedrich Weber: History of the urban school of scholars in Cassel. Fischer, Kassel, 1846, p. 21
  2. ^ Carl Friedrich Weber: History of the urban school of scholars in Cassel , Fischer, Kassel, 1846, p. 293
  3. ^ Karl AF Knabe: The oldest independent secondary school in the province of Hessen-Nassau , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , New Series, Eighteenth Volume, Kassel, 1893, pp. 1-112 (here 20-28)
  4. ^ Heinrich Heppe: Church history of both Hesse , second volume. Kraatz, Marburg, 1876, p. 393
  5. ^ Karl AF Knabe: The oldest independent secondary school in the province of Hessen-Nassau , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , New Series, Eighteenth Volume, Kassel, 1893, pp. 1-112 (here 69)
  6. ^ Heinrich Heppe: Church history of both Hesse , second volume. Kraatz, Marburg, 1876, p. 391
  7. ^ Karl AF Knabe: The oldest independent secondary school in the province of Hessen-Nassau , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , New Series, Eighteenth Volume, Kassel, 1893, pp. 1-112 (here 68)
  8. ^ Heinrich Heppe: Church history of both Hesse , second volume. Kraatz, Marburg, 1876, p. 393
  9. See e.g. B. Supplement to the Frankfurter Journal , No. 114, April 25, 1835
  10. See e.g. B. Negotiations of the Electoral Hesse State Parliament opened on November 22, 1836 ; Third and last volume of supplements , Kassel, (1838?), Supplement 313, columns 7–8.
  11. Named after the Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm I.

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