Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium (Cologne)

Georg Büchner High School
Georg Büchner High School
type of school	high school
School number	166923
founding	1969
address	Ostlandstrasse 39, 50858 Cologne
place	Cologne - Weiden
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 56 '3 "  N , 6 ° 50' 18"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '3 "  N , 6 ° 50' 18"  E
carrier	city ​​Cologne
student	1350
Teachers	130
management	Mehmet Basata
Website	gbg.koeln

The Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium is a high school in Cologne . The school has been named after the writer, physician, natural scientist and revolutionary Georg Büchner since 1986 .

Origin and characteristics

The school was founded in 1969 as a grammar school of the community of Lövenich (since 1975 district of Cologne), initially in Königsdorf , today a district of Frechen , and in 1973 moved into a new building at the location in Weiden , which was discontinued together with the Martin Luther King secondary school ( in 2016) shared.

Until the beginning of the 21st century, the school was the only all-day high school in Cologne. Today the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium has six to seven classes and, with around 1350 students and around 130 teachers, is one of the larger grammar schools in North Rhine-Westphalia.

As part of a public-private partnership , the school building will be largely rebuilt at the old location. The construction project is scheduled to be completed in 2021.

Projects and awards

The school takes part in many competitions and offers a wide range of all-day activities with many extra-curricular work groups, supervision and a school canteen. At lower secondary level, classes with a special profile can be attended: In addition to language classes (Latin and English from class 5, French from class 7), there are wind classes in which the students form a class wind orchestra. There are student exchanges with schools in France, Great Britain, Hungary and Poland. The school theater's own productions and the school newspaper have received multiple awards. The school has been a project school for the youth debated student competition since 2001 .

2,001 students received the 10th and 11th grade for the project " thinking and memorials to the Third Reich ," the second prize of the student competition " Remembering for present and future - Dialogue for Tolerance " the Shoah Foundation , in the amount of 4000, - DM. The project group for the basic philosophy course donated half of the prize money for the laying of 13 stumbling blocks in the Cologne districts of Braunsfeld and Lindenthal .

Web links

Commons : Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium (Cologne)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Georg Büchner High School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Schools are being renovated: It took eleven years from the first decision to the award . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . ( ksta.de [accessed on December 3, 2017]).
2. ↑ gbg-koeln.de -> Installation: Stolpersteine ​​-> our course ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 2, 2016  
3. ↑ heise.de - Remembering for the Present and the Future , accessed on March 2, 2016
4. ↑ gbg-koeln.de -> Installation: Stolpersteine ​​-> our stones ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 2, 2016