Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Löbau

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Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Löbau
Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Loebau.jpg
type of school Mathematical and natural science advanced high school
founding 1873
address

Pestalozzistraße 21
02708 Löbau

place Löbau
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 5 '56 "  N , 14 ° 39' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '56 "  N , 14 ° 39' 49"  E
carrier Goerlitz district
student 937
Teachers 83
management Torsten Berndt
Website gymnasium-loebau.de

The Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Löbau is a high school in the district of Görlitz in the large district town of Löbau .

It was founded in 1873 as the Royal Teaching Seminar and has been named after Hans and Sophie Scholl , two German resistance fighters against the dictatorship of National Socialism , since 1949 . In the school year 2017/18 the grammar school had 937 students and 75 teachers.

building

location

The building complex is bordered by Maschinenhausstraße to the north, Pestalozzistraße to the east, August-Bebel-Straße to the south and by the area of ​​the Catholic parish and church of Mariä Namen to the west.

Building complex

Gyms (2014)

The school area comprises a school building consisting of two large and one smaller wing as well as a two-part gymnasium in the courtyard. The oldest wing of the school building is on Pestalozzistraße; it was available in 1875. The second larger wing is on August-Bebel-Straße and was built in 1906 and 1907. A smaller extension was made in 1927 and is also located on August-Bebel-Straße. The building complex is considered to be "historically and locally important" and has a planetarium called an "astro dome" in the oldest wing of the building .

Between 2015 and 2017, the larger of the two gyms was completely demolished and replaced by a new three-field hall. The smaller, listed hall has been extensively renovated.

architectural art

The painting “Jesus preaches at the lake” by the Dresden painter Max Pietschmann is in the auditorium, in the A building of the school . For a long time it was considered to be the “most valuable work of art in the city”. During the GDR era , this painting was covered or painted over.

There is also a memorial plaque in the grammar school for the communist Alfred Schmidt-Sas who was murdered on April 5, 1943 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

history

After the Löbau Latin School was closed in 1819 in favor of the first citizen school, the city of Löbau planned to build a higher school from the middle of the 19th century, received approval for the construction of one and opened the Royal Teaching Seminar in 1873 . The school was initially housed - together with the Realschule - in the building of the Preuskerschule , today's Löbau town archive. Due to the increasing number of pupils, the foundation stone was laid in 1874 for a new school building in the Löbauer seminar district. In the course of a three-year construction period, the A building was initially erected on today's Pestalozzistraße. Old site plans show that the area also included stables, a bowling school and a caretaker's vegetable garden. In the summer of 1878 Albert von Sachsen inaugurated an auditorium picture during a stay in Löbau, about the whereabouts of which no information is known.

Due to the rapidly growing city population at the beginning of the 20th century - the city of Löbau exceeded the 10,000 inhabitant mark at this time - the extension of the B-building on today's August-Bebel-Straße began in 1906. In addition to new classrooms, this extension also included a drawing and music hall and was opened after a two-year construction period.

The school survived the First World War unscathed, but due to the reparations payments and the resulting lack of coal, short lessons had to be introduced in the winter of 1919/20. Furthermore, the holidays were extended this winter after a flu wave that followed from a heating defect. The royal teaching seminar was merged with the municipal secondary school in 1922 to form a joint educational institution. As a result, there was a further increase in the number of students, which made it necessary to expand the building complex to include the C building. This was added to the end of the B building in the direction of the Catholic Church. In the new wing, seven new classrooms, a large teachers' room and three rooms for chemistry and biology were created. The renovation cost 93,000 Reichsmarks and ensured that the school became the second largest educational institution in Saxony after the new building opened in 1927.

Little is known about the development of the school during the Third Reich . After the end of the Second World War, school operations were resumed in 1945 on the orders of the Soviet military administration in Germany . When the GDR was founded , the school was named "Geschwister Scholl" in 1949 and in 1959 it was converted into an extended secondary school (EOS). During the GDR era, the painting “Jesus preaches at the lake” in the auditorium was covered or painted over.

After the German reunification , there was another conversion to a grammar school . The former district of Löbau-Zittau became the sponsor of the school in 1996. A year later a comprehensive renovation of the school building began, which lasted until 2009. The painting "Jesus preaches by the lake" has been reconstructed.

Web links

Commons : Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Löbau  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pupils - Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Löbau (school year 2017/18). In: schuldatenbank.sachsen.de. Saxon school database, March 2, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Personnel resources - Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Löbau (school year 2017/18). In: schuldatenbank.sachsen.de. Saxon school database, March 2, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony , list of monuments database DIVIS , excerpt: Cultural monuments of the Free State of Saxony, district of Görlitz, as of April 15, 2014 (inspection in the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences in Görlitz )
  4. ↑ Astro dome. In: ibedelmann.de. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Marcus Scholz: More than just a hall. In: sz-online.de. Sächsische Zeitung , February 13, 2017, accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  6. ^ Steffen Linke: Free sport at the Löbauer Gymnasium. In: alles-lausitz.de. February 3, 2017, accessed March 2, 2017 .
  7. ^ Liane Margies: Historical. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .