Georgsanstalt

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Georgsanstalt - vocational schools II of the district of Uelzen
Georgsanstalt building in Ebstorf
type of school Vocational school
founding 1855
place Uelzen , Ebstorf
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
carrier District of Uelzen
management Andreas Grunert
Website http://www.georgsanstalt.de/

The Georgsanstalt is one of two vocational schools in the Uelzen district and at the same time one of the oldest agricultural schools in northern Germany. It was founded in Ebstorf in 1855 and named after the then King Georg V of Hanover . After the merger with two other agricultural educational institutions, the Georgsanstalt now offers vocational training courses in the fields of agriculture and forestry , horticulture / floristry , housekeeping / nutrition, social education and care at three locations in Uelzen and Ebstorf . In addition, general educational qualifications (secondary school qualification, secondary school qualification, extended secondary qualification , technical college entrance qualification ) can be obtained.

history

College of the Georgsanstalt in 1863, with founding director Fischer (3rd from right)
Colored postcard for the 50th anniversary of the Georgsanstalt in 1905, on the right the founder Eduard Fischer
Students from the anniversary year 1905
Patron saint: King George V of Hanover

Today's Georgsanstalt goes back to three previous institutions, each of which has a history that goes back to the 19th century:

The Provincial Agricultural School (Georgsanstalt) in Ebstorf was founded in 1855 by the then tenant of the Royal Domain Ebstorf, Eduard Fischer, and named after King George V of Hanover in 1861. As a "higher educational institution" it was not only aimed at farmers, but also at "sons of educated classes". The aim was a fundamental modernization of the agricultural conditions in the former Principality of Lüneburg . For this purpose, the school temporarily maintained its own teaching farm and an agricultural research institute. In 1929 the school received state recognition and the right to issue the secondary school leaving certificate . In 1936, however, teaching in Ebstorf had to be stopped due to the falling number of students. The buildings were temporarily used by the Uelzen Agricultural School and the Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute (LUFA) Braunschweig . After the Second World War, the Georgsanstalt was reopened on April 1, 1948.

The Uelzen Agricultural School, which was founded in 1919, emerged from a previous meadow construction school and, after moving several times (including from 1936 to 1947 in Ebstorf), has resided in Veerßer Strasse in Uelzen since 1949. In 1966 it was merged with the Ebstorfer Georgsanstalt and in the following years their educational offer was further expanded, including the establishment of a technical college (since 1971) and at times even an "agricultural high school" (from 1974).

The roots of the later agricultural district vocational school in Uelzen lie in so-called rural advanced training schools , which were established in Prussia since the end of the 19th century . In the 1920s and 1930s, compulsory vocational schooling was gradually introduced for farmers. In 1957 the vocational school, which had been spread over 28 locations in the district, was concentrated at the Esterholzer Strasse site in Uelzen. Due to the ongoing structural change in agriculture and the resulting decline in the number of pupils, it merged with the Georgsanstalt in 1986; the traditional name was adopted.

Locations and training courses

Georgsanstalt currently offers the following training courses at three locations:

Location Esterholzer Straße 71, Uelzen (headquarters, location )
Location Hermann-Löns-Schule, Uelzen ( location )
Location Fischerstraße 1, Ebstorf ( location )
  • Fachoberschule Agriculture
  • Forestry College
  • College of Nutrition and Home Economics
  • Agricultural vocational school
  • One-year Agricultural College

School partnership

Since 1988 there has been a school partnership between the Georgsanstalt and the Vocational School in Chiatung / Taiwan . With the support of its own association, mutual exchange trips and internships take place regularly in the respective host country as part of this partnership.

Alumni Association

The Association of Alumni and Friends of the Georgsanstalt (VEdG) was founded in 1888 and has had its current name since 2012. The association currently has more than 1000 members and wants to maintain the connection between the alumni and with the Georgsanstalt. He organizes lectures, working groups, training trips, visits and advice for the active generation of students, promotes visits to the Georgsanstalt and represents their interests in public. In addition, he publishes an annual school magazine "Die Voices".

Others

Replica of the Ebstorf world map

The traditional location in Ebstorf houses the historical library of the former Agricultural Provincial Association for the Principality of Lüneburg (founded in 1830). Also in Ebstorf, the Georgsanstalt has the oldest surviving copy of the Ebstorf world map , which was made in 1929/30 for the 75th anniversary of the school. After the original from the Middle Ages was destroyed in a bomb attack on Hanover in 1943, the Ebstorf copy served as a template for all other replicas that still exist today in the 1950s.

literature

  • Hans-Ludwig Greve (Ed.): 150 Years of Georgsanstalt 1855–2005. Contributions to the development of agricultural education in the Uelzen region. Ebstorf 2005 ISBN 3-00-016043-4
  • Hans-Ludwig Greve u. a. (Ed.): 125 years of the Georgsanstalt alumni association. An anniversary font. Ebstorf 2013 ISBN 978-3-00-042111-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georgsanstalt: Locations and training courses (accessed on March 6, 2013).
  2. ↑ Georgsanstalt: General education qualifications ( Memento of the original of July 8, 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 on February 3, 2016).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georgsanstalt.de
  3. ↑ a b Tilman Grottian: The history of the Georgsanstalt 1855 to 1986 , In: 150 Jahre Georgsanstalt, pp. 119–153.
  4. ^ History in pictures: The Uelzen Agricultural School , In: 150 Jahre Georgsanstalt, p. 158 f.
  5. ↑ Gundula Luniak: Some remarks on the history of the agricultural district vocational school Uelzen , In: 150 Jahre Georgsanstalt, p. 160 f. See also Georgsanstalt: Geschichte (accessed on March 6, 2013).
  6. ^ Georgsanstalt: School partnerships (accessed on March 6, 2013).
  7. ↑ VEdG: The history of the club (accessed on 17 February 2014).
  8. ↑ Georgsanstalt: Association Former Georgsanstalt (VEdG) (accessed on March 6, 2013).
  9. ^ Marten Pelzer: United reading. The history of the origins of the library of the Provincial Association for the Principality of Lüneburg , In: 150 Jahre Georgsanstalt, pp. 81–92.
  10. ↑ Eckhard Michael: The Ebstorfer world map. In: 150 years of Georgsanstalt, pp. 44–50.