GHS Eilendorf
| City Community secondary school Eilendorf | |
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| type of school | Elementary school , secondary school |
| School number | 142438 |
| founding | 1909 |
| closure | 2015 |
| address |
Kaiserstrasse 59 |
| place | Aachen - Eilendorf |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 '54 " N , 6 ° 8' 57" E |
| carrier | City Aachen |
The municipal community secondary school Eilendorf , or GHS Eilendorf for short , was the only secondary school in the Aachen - Eilendorf district . It was closed at the end of the 2014/2015 school year by a resolution of the City of Aachen on March 11, 2015. The school shared its premises with the directly connected elementary school and kindergarten. The municipal Montessori children's home is in the immediate vicinity.
Prehistory of the schools in Eilendorf 1801–1908
Eilendorf belonged to the imperial abbey Kornelimünster in the 18th century . The first school reforms followed with the Code Napoleon . The first school was built in 1801 in Eilendorf on the corner of Severinstrasse and Brückstrasse in the vicarie's rooms . In 1829 the first two-class school was set up on Steinstrasse. Five years later a three-class school was built. At that time it had to accept 260 students. This building was named Das Brown Haus by the local population during the Nazi era , as the party's local group leadership was housed in this building. In 1967 the building was demolished.
In 1864 the boys' school was supplemented by a school for girls. In 1885, a four-class school was added in today's clubhouse on Nirmer Strasse.
Construction period 1908–1910
Since the population of the formerly small town had increased almost tenfold in the last 100 years (in 1910 the population rose to 10,000 for the first time), Eilendorf was restructured. On October 1, 1908, the restructuring that had been taking place since 1904 came to an end. Among other things, streets were newly laid out and measured, including the later location of the GHS Eilendorf in Kaiserstraße. The new building site for the school was determined on March 3, 1908, and the building permit was granted on September 29, 1908. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 17, 1909 . After the school had been set up and made winter-proof on December 17, 1909, the first school enrollment took place at Easter 1910.
1910-1933
The first major turning point came during the First World War . Many teachers were drafted, including Josef Gülpen, who fell in 1917. After the war, the number of students grew to well over 500. From 1924, the economy started to pick up again; after Black Friday in October 1929 the unemployment rate in Eilendorf rose to 80%.
1933-1945
The school remained quiet until 1939, when 90% of the students started school in 1936, they were members of the Hitler Youth and the Association of German Girls . During this time three teachers were members of the NSDAP and nine teachers were members of the National Socialist Teachers Association (NSLB). The teacher Gertrud Breuer (1892-1975), who had been a teacher at the school since the 1920s, left the NSLB in 1935. She couldn't come to terms with the fact that no one was allowed to pray at the beginning of the class. Before class, she sang with her students in the school yard. She remained a member of the Association of Catholic German Teachers and the College even after the war until December 1, 1955. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II , two companies were billeted at the school on September 10, 1939, but withdrew again on September 23. By decree, the school lost its denominational Catholic status on April 18, 1940 and became a German elementary school. Teachers were called in again for the campaign. On July 14, 1943, the school was hit by fourteen incendiary bombs . Seven of them broke through the roof; the fire could be extinguished. In the attacks on May 25, 1944, the then rector Adam Geulen died with his wife and three children. In the fall of 1944 the Americans took up residence in the school.
After 1945
Schools could not be resumed until the summer of 1945. In 1946 the school again had more than 600 students. The Evangelical Congregation in Eilendorf held its services between 1947 and 1952 in what is now the teacher's room, as there was a harmonium there . Due to a lack of space, the school was expanded between 1979 and 1983 with pavilions and classrooms for chemistry, biology, technology and physics. For the 1988/89 school year, the school was expanded to include the Montessori branch. In November 2008 the new gym was inaugurated. A commemorative publication entitled “100 Years of the Kaiserstraße School” was published for the centenary. The secondary school closed in summer 2015.
literature
- 100 years of school in Kaiserstraße - Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 2009.
- Hubert Beckers and Annelies Packbier: Eilendorf in World War II , ed. from Heimatverein Eilendorf 1983 eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Early closure of the GHS Eilendorf at the end of the 2014/2015 school year , Council information from the city of Aachen from March 11, 2015