Genoveva high school

Genoveva high school
type of school	high school
School number	166583
founding	1876
address	Genovevastraße 58-62
place	Cologne-Mülheim
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 57 '52 "  N , 7 ° 0' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '52 "  N , 7 ° 0' 26"  E
carrier	city ​​Cologne
student	about 800
Teachers	53
management	Michael Rudolph
Website	genoveva-gymnasium.de

The municipal Genoveva-Gymnasium (therefore colloquially "Geno" or until the beginning of 2008 officially: Städtisches Gymnasium Genovevastrasse ), located in the Cologne district of Mülheim on Genovevastrasse, was founded in 1876. Today it focuses on the integration of students with a migration background.

history

As early as 1830, the then independent town of Mülheim am Rhein had a public secondary school (which later became the Rhein-Gymnasium ), which girls initially attended until the revolution of 1848/49 . This facility was of great importance to the up-and-coming industrial city of Mülheim, which was primarily dependent on qualified young people for trade and commerce. At the same time as the revolution, however, the coeducation was ended and the institution became an all- boys school .

From 1876 the Genoveva School was set up as a secondary school for girls and was the only public school of its kind within a radius of 20 kilometers on the right bank of the Rhine. Even in the then large neighboring city of Cologne there was no municipal higher girls' school until 1870. The (upper) lyceum or girls' grammar school then emerged from the Mülheim secondary school for girls.

Between 1946 and 1954, however, the boys from the Realgymnasium, which was founded in 1830, attended the Genoveva-Gymnasium, where they were taught in "shift work". In 1972 co-education was introduced. Due to its location, the school has a significantly above average proportion of students with a migration background.

School profile

The grammar school sees itself as a cosmopolitan school and is particularly characterized by the diversity of the extended foreign language offerings. In addition to the usual foreign languages, English, Latin and French, there are also Turkish and Spanish.

Each school year, the school introduces one class as a dance profile class as part of all-day lessons . In addition to regular lessons, the students in this class receive dance pedagogical training. This training is a graded compulsory subject that falls within the organizational area of ​​responsibility of the Genoveva-Gymnasium.

The school offers all-day places for lower secondary level. Students are at school from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to the lessons, this leaves time for joint activities; this is how the children prepare their lunch, play together and do their homework under supervision. All day-long children have the additional subject of dance.

From the beginning of 2009 the grammar school will be offering voluntary school clothing. Different models are offered: polo shirts, hooded jackets and T-shirts.

Prices

The Genoveva-Gymnasium was awarded the jury prize at the 2011 German School Prize. It is the first Cologne school to receive recognition at the German School Prize.

literature

• Winand Breuer: The municipal high school for girls in Mülheim . In: History and Local History Association Rechtsrheinisches Köln e. V. (Ed.): Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. Yearbook for history and regional studies . Part 1: 1876-1945, Volume 21 (1995), pp. 27-62; Part 2: 1945-1976, Volume 22 (1996), pp. 131-170. Cologne, ISSN  0179-2938 .
• Ludwig Voss: History of the higher girls' school. General school development in Germany and history of the higher girls' schools in Cologne . Opladen 1952.
• The urban modern language girls' high school with women's high school in Cologne-Mülheim 1876–1951 . On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the school on October 18, 1951. Pickdruck, Cologne 1951. 44 pp.
• Municipal high school for girls in Mülheim am Rhein: Annual report 1902–1903 . Mülheim a. Rhine 1903.
• Tatiana Hoyer: School from the perspective of Russian-speaking immigrants . Grin, 2008, ISBN 3-638-88141-5 , p. 33 ff.

Web links

• Genoveva High School website. 

References and comments

1. ↑ Imprint. In: www.genoveva-gymnasium.de. Retrieved April 29, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jochen Hoffmann: Looking back - the history of our high school. In: www.rhein-gymnasium.de. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007 ; accessed on April 29, 2020 (History of the Rhein-Gymnasium Köln-Mülheim).  
3. ↑ While exactly from 1876, due to the Kulturkampf, the nuns of the Ursulines were no longer allowed to work in Mülheim am Rhein until 1888, where they founded a Catholic daughter school in 1860 (cf. Margaretha Linnerij - virgins should unmolested "the Meidleyn and instruct" girls education in Münstereifel . In: www.sophie-lange.de. Archived from the original on May 21, 2008 ; retrieved on May 1, 2020 (story of Margaretha Linnerij from Cologne and her efforts to educate girls, Euskirchen yearbook 1993)). 
4. ↑ Irene Franken : Headstrong teachers - famous students . In: Irene Franken: Women in Cologne. The historical city guide . JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, pp. 249-255, p. 250.
5. ^ The city of Düsseldorf only received a girls' school after Mülheim in 1878 (see Düsseldorf city history ).
6. ↑ Winand Breuer: The municipal girls' high school in Mülheim part 2: 1945 to 1976. (PDF; 2.2 MB) In: www.genoveva-gymnasium.de. Retrieved on May 1, 2020 (with list of sources and references). 
7. ^ School program of the Genoveva-Gymnasium. (Pdf) (No longer available online.) In: www.geno.kbs-koeln.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 1, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
8. ^ German School Prize: School Portraits