Goethe-Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main)

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Goethe high school
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type of school high school
founding 1897
address

Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage  22

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 6 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 31"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 31"  E
carrier town Frankfurt am Main
student about 1000
management Claus Wirth
Website www.gg-ffm.de
The listed building of the school

The Goethe-Gymnasium is a grammar school in the Westend of Frankfurt am Main , named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). It was created in 1897 as a modern language branch when the municipal grammar school was split up in 1520. It is one of the two oldest schools in Frankfurt, together with the traditional Lessing grammar school .

history

Second World War: Group photo of a 7th grade at the Goethe-Gymnasium, born in 1926, completely drafted in February 1943 and in service with a 10.5 cm anti-aircraft battery near Frankfurt-Schwanheim

At the end of the 19th century, the population of the city of Frankfurt grew rapidly and consequently the number of pupils at the municipal grammar school, which was established as a Latin school in 1520 . The founding of the state-run Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium (today: Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium ) in 1888 only brought relief for a short time.

In 1897, the city high school was divided into two successor schools:

  • The Lessing grammar school continued the tradition of the humanistic grammar school at the old location in Junghofstrasse.
  • The Goethe-Gymnasium was newly founded as a reform high school and worked according to the Frankfurt reform curriculum ( " Frankfurt curriculum " , also known as the Frankfurt model ). It moved into a new building on Bahnstrasse (today Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage ).

The curriculum of the Goethe-Gymnasium with French as the first foreign language , Latin as the second and Greek or English as the third became the model for the reform of the high school system in Prussia . To implement the reform model, teachers at the Goethe Gymnasium developed their own textbooks, for example

The first director of the Goethe Gymnasium was Karl Reinhardt (1849–1923), who had previously directed the municipal gymnasium since 1886. Reinhardt later became a ministerial director in the Prussian Ministry of Culture and from 1920 to 1923 first director of the Salem Palace boarding school . His successor at the Goethe-Gymnasium was Ewald Bruhn, who made a name for himself especially through publications on Greek literature.

The school building was badly damaged in 1944 during World War II . On December 18, 1959, the new building designed by architects Zitter and Kempf was inaugurated.

In 1969 the school was the first in Hesse and one of the first in Germany to introduce bilingual teaching as a pilot project .

Educational offer

languages

It offers a wide range of courses in English, French, Latin, Russian and Japanese . Japanese and Russian can be learned as a third foreign language and taken in the basic course up to the Abitur .

The offers in the bilingual train relate to history, geography, philosophy, and biology (science) and social studies. As part of the International Baccalaureate (IB), there is the option of certificate exams in foreign languages, philosophy and natural sciences. A wide range of Advanced Placement (AP) exams have been offered and conducted for years, including exams in Economics and Psychology. From the 2007/2008 school year, the Goethe-Gymnasium will be one of nine pilot schools in Hessen for the new European label of excellence for bilingual schools: CertiLingua . It is also possible at the Goethe-Gymnasium that Latin or French can be taken parallel to English from the 5th grade. This is unique among the public high schools in Frankfurt.

music

The Goethe-Gymnasium is also a school with a focus on music . In addition to the choir, chamber choir, recorder orchestra, symphonic pre-orchestra and symphony orchestra, one of the parallel classes is run as a music class in grades five and six . All students in these special classes learn the recorder and an orchestral instrument and make music several times a week in class. At the same time, students are expected to participate in one or more of the ensembles mentioned above from the school.

School camp

The school's own country home has a long tradition. Among the Frankfurt grammar schools, only the Goethe grammar school currently has a school camp. It is located near Oberreifenberg in the Taunus and is visited by grades five to ten twice a year for about a week. It is also used for other school activities such as rehearsals for the school orchestra or intensive preparation of students for the Abitur exams.

In 1921 the association of former Goethe high school students acquired the Zur Rodelbahn tavern , today's school camp, as part of a foreclosure auction. The purchase price was raised through donations from parents and alumni. During the Second World War, the Goethe-Gymnasium was relocated to Oberreifenberg in March 1944 (after the heavy air raids by Allied bombers on Frankfurt on March 18 and 22, 1944) as part of the children's area. The school camp served as a dining and teaching building. The students were accommodated in the hotels and guesthouses on site (namely the Posterholungsheim and the Frankfurter Hof). In the late summer of 1944, more Frankfurt schoolchildren who had been relocated to Krynica and now had to flee before the advance of the Red Army, were quartered in Oberreifenberg and integrated into the organization of the Goethe School. On March 30, 1945, American troops took Oberreifenberg without a fight. Most of the students were sent back to Frankfurt by mid-April. Due to the chaos of the war, some of them stayed in Oberreifenberg until their relatives were found. In July 1945, the last Goethe student was handed over to his parents.

Student exchange

Known students

Known teachers

literature

  • Heinz-Joachim Heydorn, Karl Ringshausen (Ed.): Beyond Resignation and Illusion. Festschrift for the 450th anniversary of Lessing-Gymnasium, the old Frankfurt Latin School from 1520. Moritz Diesterweg publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1971.

Web links

Commons : Goethe-Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Alsheimer: Refuge Oberreifenberg; in: Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 2005, ISBN 3-7973-0914-7 , pages 213-220.