District school Winterhude

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District school Winterhude
Hamburg.Jarrestadt.Schule Meerweinstr.wmt.jpg
The main building (Pavilion B) of the STS Winterhude
type of school District school
founding 1930
address

District School Winterhude
Meerweinstrasse 26–28
22303 Hamburg

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 35 '14 "  N , 10 ° 1' 39"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '14 "  N , 10 ° 1' 39"  E
carrier City of Hamburg
student around 1000 (as of the 2016/2017 school year)
management Maike Schubert
Website www.sts-winterhude.de

The Winterhude district school is a district school with around 1000 students in the Winterhude district of Hamburg . The school, built according to the design by Fritz Schumacher in the Jarrestadt , which was built at the same time, was opened in 1930.

architecture

The school was built in 1928–1930 as the Wiesendamm elementary school based on a design by Fritz Schumacher . The school, a double school of the new Hamburg type, at which boys and girls were taught together for the first time in Hamburg at a regular school, was given its place in the eastern part of the Jarrestadt as part of the development plan designed by Schumacher.

Conceived as a central building and “character-defining center”, it lies at the focal point of a horseshoe-shaped plaza in the symmetry axis of the regularly divided district. The symmetrical, elongated building with five storeys and a slightly cantilevered flat roof shows a regular grid facade in the main front without the usual clinker cladding of the supporting structure: The reinforced concrete skeleton remains visible as a framework with bricked parapet fields. Flanking stair towers with large windows on the front sides rise above the side-built entrance tracts: For Schumacher, they functioned as “lighting fixtures” that give light to the corridors installed on both sides. The sports hall grows out of the rear as a central wing. In this school building she will have a gymnastics room above and a terrace on the flat roof. Fritz Bürger made the gilded bowl carrier for the fountain in the inner courtyard. According to forward-looking pedagogical findings, the school was given rooms for specialist teaching in natural sciences, art and works.

The school building built by Schumacher has been a listed building since 2009 .

In 2012/14 a new three-field sports hall was built. From 2019 a three-story upper level building with an auditorium, after-school care and all-day areas was built. In both new construction projects, one to two-story buildings from the post-war period were demolished. An auditorium on the corner of Meerweidestrasse and Großheidestrasse from the 1960s continues to exist.

history

On July 23, 1930, the then city architect Fritz Schumacher handed the school building over to the public. The school was conceived as the center of a republican modern working class city. Active parents took part in conferences as a “school progress group” and discussed the school's plans with the teachers. Wilhelm Lamszus , who previously taught at the reform school Tieloh-Süd , also worked here from the start . Lamszus also helped Hans Löhr to get a job here at the end of 1930 , when he felt threatened due to his political activities and had to leave Braunschweig. One of Löhr's pupils at the Meerweinschule was Greta Wehner , then still Greta Burmester, who was born in the Harxbüttel rural commune co-founded by Löhr .

Period of National Socialism (1933–1945)

Immediately after March 5, 1933, the National Socialists carried out a massive campaign under the slogan " No more red pedagogy" against the schools which, like the Lichtwark School , the Telemann School and the Meerwein School, felt obliged to the democratic republic. From Easter 1935 the school was divided into a girls 'and boys' school, and it was named after an NSDAP functionary Hans Schemm . The Jewish teachers Hertha Feiner-Aßmus and Julia Cohn were suspended - as were progressive teachers such as Wilhelm Lamszus , author of the book Das Menschenschlachthaus . In the winter of 1943/1944 the school was closed.

After the war (1945–1979)

In August 1945 school operations were resumed and the separation into two schools was maintained. In the two very cold post-war winters, teaching time was limited to 30 minutes because the schools could not be heated. After the relatively quick reconstruction of the Jarrestadt , shift lessons were given in order to cope with the rapidly increasing number of students.

Classes with over 60 children were set up in 1951. At the beginning of the sixties the development of the number of pupils was reversed. Many Hamburgers now moved from the overcrowded city apartments to the outskirts. The ongoing decline in students for both schools led to a concentration of tasks: The school was divided into a primary school and a secondary and secondary school.

Winterhude Comprehensive School (1979-2004)

On August 1, 1979, the Meerweinstrasse 28 school became an integrated comprehensive school . The school is a member of the school association Blick über den Fence .

The fate of the Jewish teachers was forgotten for almost 40 years until the pupils and teachers researched the past of their school in 1982: In old files they discovered a note about the dismissal of the two teachers in 1933 and reconstructed the history of their persecution up to their death. For two years, the entire schoolchildren presented to authorities and companies to put the project into practice. The Hamburger Hochbahn built the track structure free of charge, and the railway provided a 14-ton wagon, which a forwarding company also transported free of charge to Meerweinstrasse. This is how the Denk-Mal freight car came about .

Winterhude comprehensive school with affiliated elementary school (since 2005)

A group of teachers from various types of schools interested in and committed to reform pedagogy, as well as some parent representatives and university members, met for the first time in February 1998. In the meantime, the initiative has resulted in a registered association, the “Reformschule Hamburg eV”. In 2004 the closure of the primary school was up for discussion due to the declining number of pupils. The deputation of the Hamburg school organization decided in 2005 to merge the elementary school, Meerweinstraße 26 and the comprehensive school Winterhude, Meerweinstraße 28 to form the comprehensive school Winterhude with an attached elementary school. After doubling the number of registrations in 2005, the number of registrations at the Winterhude Comprehensive School has leveled off at a high level. Today (as of February 2017) around 1000 children attend this school.

  • Cross-year classes and classes: Since 2004, the students at the Winterhude Comprehensive School have been learning in mixed-age groups. For this purpose, the normal class associations were dissolved and teams and core groups were formed instead. There are a total of 12 core groups, each of which is assigned to one of three teams.
  • KuBa: KuBa ( cultural basis ) is an important part of everyday teaching, it runs through all years. At the beginning of the lesson, the students choose a “Cuba room”. You can choose between German, math, English and social studies. In the rooms, the students work individually on prefabricated, topic-related modules at their own pace.

In 2008 and 2018 the school was nominated for the German School Prize, but did not win any prize.

District school Winterhude with affiliated elementary school (since 2010)

The Hamburg comprehensive schools have been run as district schools since 2010.

Awards

The district school Winterhude was selected by the Robert Bosch Foundation among the best 20 schools in Germany for 2018.

literature

  • Comprehensive School Meerweinstraße (Ed.): In the heart of the Jarrestadt: 50 years of the Meerweinstraße School. Hamburg 1980.
  • Comprehensive School Winterhude (Ed.): 75 years in the heart of the Jarrestadt (PDF; 18.7 MB) . Hamburg 2005. (Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the school)
  • Elementary school on Meerweinstrasse in Hamburg. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Vol. 50 (1930), No. 40, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-60670 , pp. 697-702.

Web links

Commons : Winterhude district school  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elementary school on Meerweinstrasse in Hamburg . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 50th year, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-14443166 , No. 40 (October 8, 1930), pp. 697–702.
  2. Monument Protection Office in the Authority for Culture, Sport and Media (Ed.): List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (Pdf; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 915 kB ) , As of April 13, 2010. Hamburg 2010, p. 117, list of monuments no. 1753.
  3. Plans from R plus Architects, Hamburg.
  4. Plans at farwick + grote, first tender from 2017.
  5. ^ Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , Vitamine-Verlag, Braunschweig, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033763-5 , p. 44
  6. ^ The German School Prize 2018. (No longer available online.) Robert Bosch Stiftung, archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; accessed on December 18, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schulpreis.bosch-stiftung.de