Georg Büchner School (Darmstadt)

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Georg Büchner School
logo
type of school high school
founding 1826
place Darmstadt
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 51 '43 "  N , 8 ° 40' 6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '43 "  N , 8 ° 40' 6"  E
carrier City of Darmstadt
student about 1000
Teachers about 90
management Christof Ganß
Website www.gbs-darmstadt.de

The Georg Büchner School ( GBS for short ) is a state high school in the southeast of Darmstadt . The school was named after the writer Georg Büchner .

history

Aerial photo of the school building by Hans Schwippert in 1960, archive photo. Instead of the parking lot shown in the picture, the "science wing" was built in the 1970s.
Historical development of Darmstadt's educational institutions from 1826

November 1, 1826 is named as the joint founding day with other Darmstadt high schools. When girls were first admitted in 1905, coeducation began . In 1919 a student self-administration was set up for the first time . In 1937 the name was temporarily changed to "Horst Wessel School". The historic school building was destroyed during the air raid on Darmstadt on September 11, 1944. The foundation stone for the new school with today's address Nieder-Ramstädter Straße 120 in the east of Darmstadt was laid on October 17, 1956. The listed school building was planned by the prominent post-war architect Hans Schwippert as a class carpet, a system of connected pavilions and open spaces.

However, the construction work did not begin until May 1958. The move finally took place in April 1960. The school sports facility followed in September 1962. In 1975, the inauguration of the extension building for the natural sciences - called the "natural science wing" - took place, where since then biology , chemistry and physics have been exclusively used be taught in their assigned specialist rooms and laboratories with special equipment such as chemicals , measuring devices , models, etc. From October 29 to November 3, 2001, the 175th anniversary of the schools that emerged from the pedagogue in Darmstadt, which are now called Georg Büchner School, Justus Liebig School and Lichtenberg School , was celebrated as part of a festival week. The Georg Büchner School has been extensively modernized since 2010, with the science wing being particularly affected.

Historical sources

The documents of the Georg Büchner School from the post-war period that are relevant for historical studies are kept in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt (inventory H 54 Darmstadt). In addition to documents on Abitur exams, the inventory also contains information on school projects, general school operations and the parents' council. The inventory is completely recorded and can be researched on the Internet.

Georg Buechner

Georg Buechner

The school was named after the eminent writer Georg Büchner , who was born near Darmstadt in 1813 and spent part of his life in Darmstadt. In addition to other Georg Büchner schools , the German Georg Büchner Prize is also named after him.

On the logo of the Georg Büchner School a black and white sketched portrait of Georg Büchner can be seen next to the name of the school.

student

About 1000 students are currently attending the Georg Büchner School. They come not only from Darmstadt, but also from surrounding communities, e.g. B. Mühltal , Roßdorf , Reinheim , Messel , Groß-Zimmer , Ober-Ramstadt or Griesheim in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . The age of the students ranges from 9 to 21 years.

At the moment, the majority of the students reach the Georg Büchner School by tram, while others use bicycles; Bicycle parking spaces are located in front of the main entrance and behind the playground.

The Georg Büchner School today

At the Georg Büchner School there are nine grades from 5 to 13 (after 2013 only 5 to 12, Hesse-wide because of the G8 ) with four classes each in the lower and middle grades with a maximum of 32 students. Biology, chemistry, German , English , French , history , mathematics , politics and economics as well as sport are currently offered as advanced courses in the upper level . In the subjects of French and physics, there is a cooperation between the Georg Büchner School and the neighboring Viktoriaschule , which enables students to take the advanced course of their choice despite few reports. Ethics , computer science , Italian , art , Latin , music , religion and Spanish are also offered as basic courses . Students from other high schools are always able to attend Spanish classes.

There is also the option of taking the performing arts subject as part of the compulsory elective lessons.

Subjects such as politics and economics, history and geography can be bilingual depending on the grade and with an additional hour . H. both English and German as the language of instruction. After successfully completing these subjects over a certain period of time, you will receive a certificate in addition to the certificate. Bilingual lessons are also a prerequisite for acquiring the CertiLingua certificate recently introduced at GBS , an internationally recognized language certificate .

All pupils from grade 5 onwards have English as their first foreign language, although they can later choose between French and Latin as their second foreign language.

The current school grounds have a total area of ​​around 40,000 m² (400 m × 100 m).

View of the main entrance of the GBS

The Georg Büchner School has a sponsoring association founded in 1951, the Georg Büchner School Association .

The Georg Büchner School maintains a partnership with the CEG1 high school in Savalou in Benin , West Africa , and works with the Savalou / Benin eV association that was founded in 2001 .

School events (selection)

  • Project week
  • Christmas concert
  • Federal Youth Games
  • Ski holidays
  • Theatrical performance
  • Drug prevention
  • Soccer tournament
  • study trip
  • Operating experience

Working groups

The Georg Büchner School offers a variety of working groups that include artistic, linguistic, sporting and social work groups. There is also a school medical service at GBS , which is mainly used at the national youth games. The 80-page edition of the yearbook appears annually shortly before the holidays. In the afternoons, supervised homework for lower grades is offered, led by high school students. For some time there has also been a working group on the subject of school development. Here teachers, students and parents get involved in shaping life at the GBS. For example, there is a working group that deals with the redesign of the schoolyard.

Overview (selection)
  • Student café
  • mathematics
  • French
  • Arbitrator
  • Guitar AG
  • Computer science
  • Natural sciences
  • volleyball
  • theatre
  • Kurzfilm-AG

Surroundings

In the immediate vicinity is the university stadium with an outdoor pool and a 400 m running track , which are mainly used for physical education. The Hochschulstadion tram stop is only approx. 20 meters from the main entrance of the GBS. A large number of students come to school by tram .

A primary school and a day-care center can be found not far from the GBS . The Lichtwiese campus of the Technical University of Darmstadt with its own canteen with beer garden is about 500 meters as the crow flies from the GBS.

More than half of Darmstadt's other grammar schools are located within a radius of 3 kilometers from the Georg Büchner School. These are: Edith Stein School (0.8 km); Viktoriaschule (0.9 km); Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium (1.4 km); Lichtenberg School (2.0 km); Eleonorenschule (2.8 km) and Justus-Liebig-Schule (2.9 km).

Daily routine at GBS

The first lesson begins shortly before eight in the morning. In the upper school, depending on your personal combination of subjects, you can have lessons up to the 12th hour on some days, which only end after 6 p.m.

There is no official lunch break, but free periods are considered as such, especially in upper school. Since 2013 there has also been a cafeteria on the school premises, which students and teachers can visit. (Status: Oct. 2009)

Physical education

As a partner school for competitive sports, the Georg Büchner School regularly takes part in the Youth Trained for the Olympics competition.

It is also characterized by its focus on sports with a wide range of opportunities. This includes, among other things, that in the school sports as a five-hour credit course is offered, which is somewhat rare because of inadequate equipment or missing teacher.

Up to grade 8, physical education is three hours, then two hours.

In addition to the advanced sports course, there is a three-hour sports course and several two-hour sports courses for the upper level that focus on different topics.

The Georg Büchner School is the “partner school of competitive sports” and the leading school at the school sports center in the city of Darmstadt.

The school takes on a central coordination function in the state program “Talent Search and Promotion”. As part of this program, talent development and talent promotion groups have been set up at the school sports center and at the cooperating secondary centers.

At the GBS in Darmstadt, talented schoolchildren are given special support in sports classes from class 5-10 in the main sports. So-called teacher trainers are used in the sports of soccer, athletics and swimming, and early training is made possible for the sports class children.

For the talented athletes in grades 1–4, there are a total of 15 talent development groups at cooperating primary schools.

building

The current main building was designed by the architect Hans Schwippert in 1956 and completed in 1960. Many classrooms adjoin a mostly green plot of land, which can often be turned into gardens with seating for students, especially in projects.

The main building is a so-called Darmstadt master building , which was shown on the Mathildenhöhe in 1951, referring to the first exhibition of the artists' colony in 1901 . Drafts were presented. The buildings by internationally renowned architects were typical of the reconstruction phase after the Second World War, eleven planning contracts were awarded. Due to a lack of financial resources, the city was only able to realize five, some in a reduced form. The main building of the Georg Büchner School was one of them.

The main building by Hans Schwippert

Biology, chemistry and physics are taught in the science wing, built in 1975 and attached to the south side of the main building. Occasionally, rooms in the science wing are also used for math and computer science lessons.

The Great Sports Hall of the GBS

There are a total of 28 classrooms (for 5th to 11th grade) and 30 specialist rooms on the 6500 m² area.

The Georg Büchner School has two sports halls. In contrast to the larger sports hall ( SH ), the older and smaller gymnasium ( TH ) can be reached via the covered playground. Events such as theater performances , important speeches and high school diploma awards are also held in the gym . In the large sports hall, which was built in 1984, internal school football tournaments take place every year. In 2015 the large sports hall was listed as a historical monument . If the weather is good, the university stadium of the TU Darmstadt is often used during sports lessons.

Extra-curricular use of the building

The building of the Georg Büchner School is also used in the evenings for classes at the adult education center . In addition, events of the Darmstadt holiday courses take place here from time to time.

exchange

The Georg Büchner School takes part in the Comenius program , which promotes cooperation between schools and students in Europe. For example, in 2009 the exchange between GBS and a school in Darmstadt's French twin town Troyes and a Dutch school in Darmstadt's twin town Alkmaar took place.

The GBS also offers various exchange programs with the following countries:

Famous former students

of the former old secondary school on Kapellplatz
of the Georg Büchner School

literature

  • Dietrich Plehn: Georg Büchner School Darmstadt: Known and Unknown . HL Schlapp Verlag, Darmstadt, 2001, ISBN 3-8770-40462

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the holdings “Darmstadt: Georg-Büchner-Schule (Gymnasium); 1946–1978 “  (HStAD inventory H 54 Darmstadt). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), accessed on September 9, 2011.
  2. ^ Georg Büchner School: Schoolchildren are fed up in Frankfurter Rundschau on August 28, 2009
  3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Saturday, June 13, 2015, p. 13