Goethe-Gymnasium Germersheim
| Goethe-Gymnasium Germersheim | |
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| type of school | Language Lycée |
| founding | 1825 |
| address |
August-Keiler-Strasse 34 |
| place | Germersheim |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 12 '47 " N , 8 ° 22' 24" E |
| carrier | District of Germersheim |
| student | over 1,000 |
| management | Ariane Ball |
| Website | www.goethe-gym-ger.de |
The Goethe-Gymnasium Germersheim (short: GGG ) is the only gymnasium in the city of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It stands in the tradition of the "Latin (preparatory) school", which was founded as a private school in 1825 and nationalized in 1827, which, at times downgraded to a secondary school , was later incorporated into the local secondary school for girls. Today it is characterized by the fact that it supports many projects that are awarded by the state government to individual schools (such as the all-day school or the BEGYS project). It is named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832).
history
A "Latin schoolmaster" is mentioned for the first time in 1594 in Germersheim , although a monk's teacher is documented as early as 1490. By the 18th century at the latest, the Palatinate government was looking specifically for Latin teachers; a first was hired in 1699. At the time when the city was under French rule, and shortly thereafter (1793-1816), this was replaced by a French teacher.
The decision to actually found a higher school was made through a vote in the city council on April 11, 1825. However, since the Bavarian government made several requirements that the city could not yet meet at that time, an establishment was delayed by several years; For the first time, the "private preparatory school " or "private school" saw the light of day on November 10, 1825, which was approved as a "Latin preparatory school" by the Royal Government of the Rhine District on September 11, 1827 .
At the beginning the school only had a senior and a sub-department and a teacher; the lessons consisted of the subjects religion, German, Latin, French, arithmetic, geography and natural history, later Greek, history, singing, handwriting and drawing were added. Lessons were given in a free-standing room in what was then the primary school building (today's city library). For the school year 1829/30, a second class was set up, each with an upper and a sub-department, and another teacher was added; in the same year, however, on September 22, 1830, the establishment of a complete school with three teachers and four classes under the name "District School" was approved. For reasons of space, the institution was moved to the top floor of the “new town hall” (today the town hall), in order to transfer it back to the primary school building in 1834. Four years later she was moved to a pub rented by the city. Between 1836/37 and 1841 there was still a special class for students repeating a grade, the " Selecta ".
In 1839 the city council decided to build its own school building. It was opened in the school year 1840/41 (on July 11, 1840) and the school itself was renamed "Latin School" , later shortened to "Latin School" , although the building itself was not completed until 1841. In 1855/56 a fourth teacher was added, and nine years later a fifth and a fifth class.
However, the existence of a former lyceum with the name “Höhere Töchterschule” should not be concealed: It was first founded as a private school by Dirmsteiner Susanne Wüst on August 30, 1864. On May 1, 1870, it became a municipal institute after almost twelve years of existence to be dissolved on April 15, 1882. Later (on May 1, 1892) it was re-established; initially two teachers taught four and from May 1, 1894 three teachers taught five classes.
In 1894 it was decided to expand the school into a Progymnasium with six teachers and classes. For this purpose, a new building for 9350 50 was erected opposite the Latin school building , which, completed in autumn 1895, was moved into in the summer semester of 1896.
The next event that was significant for the Progymnasium was the outbreak of World War I : the city's military authorities confiscated five of the classrooms and converted them into hospitals ; classes were moved to other buildings. In the school year 1916/17 two of the teachers were called up for military service. The disarmament of the German Reich determined by the Treaty of Versailles as well as the razing of the fortress and the associated emigration of the officer families favored a rapid decline in students after the war. Since the attempt by the Catholic pastoral office and the prison management to turn the school into a Catholic boys' boarding school, nor the application by the directorate to add secondary school classes to the grammar school, did not work, it was converted into a secondary school with effect from May 1, 1924. This changed language teaching from Latin and Greek to French and English; there were six teachers working at the school. By 1929/30 the number of students increased again to around one hundred and the number of teachers to eight (plus secondary teachers for religion, gymnastics and music).
On March 15, the girls' higher school was dissolved as a municipal educational institution. Although it was continued for three years under the direction of the Speyer "poor school sisters" , this was from then on only a denominational school. As a result, girls were admitted to the Germersheim secondary school as early as 1929.
Since there were disputes with foreign students about the train connections from 1937, a boarding school was set up in the former SA home (now a demolished building), and the Wehrmacht provided food . Due to the resistance of the parents, however, it only lasted until September 1, 1939. The school was also taken over by the military during the Second World War ; apart from holidays, classes were canceled for seventy days. Negotiations with the Wehrmacht, however, did more than keep the school alive. Although the upper classes were all called up, air force helpers from other bases in the vicinity received their lessons here, which is why additional teachers from Speyer, Ludwigshafen and Landau also came to the school. In view of the air raids, lessons were increasingly held in the basement of the institution or the Seyssel barracks, where the school administration was ultimately also relocated. As a result of the eviction order at the end of March 1945, school operations were also shut down for about six months.
Since the school building survived the French period after the war unscathed, it was decided in September of that year that Dr. To instruct Dimmler to make it teaching again. In a makeshift way, the equipment damaged in the war was brought back together, the local population, especially the clergy, formed a temporary teaching body. Maria Orth from Speyer took over the management of the school, otherwise the denazification authorities would have prevented it from reopening. Significantly more students reported back to school than there were places available. In 1946, the junior high school again solemnly was Natural Sciences Mathematics Progymnasium collected, it was also called "Mathematics School of Natural Sciences (Germersheim)"
In 1950 the school had eight teachers again. Through lectures, donations in kind and money, and own productions, a moderate amount of material required for teaching natural science subjects was obtained. The school finally became a full institution on March 28, 1958, in the meantime the school desks continued to fill up. For the school year 1959/60 the school was converted into a modern language grammar school ( "Neusprachliches Gymnasium" , later also "Neusprachliches und Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium" ), the language sequence was English, Latin, French.
On September 5, 1962 the foundation stone was laid for today's (2006) school building, which was occupied in the 1964/65 school year; This building now houses the main building of the school with (in addition to regular classrooms) the subject rooms for biology and physics , as well as the auditorium.
Projects
Bilingual teaching
Bilingual lessons have been offered at the Goethe-Gymnasium Germersheim since the school year 1990/91 . It begins in the sixth grade as "English-Bilingual Lessons" ( "EBZ" ) and lasts until the sixth year of school. It takes the form of two additional lessons. After this year, the most capable pupils will be selected again, for whom, with the consent of their parents, bilingual instruction through lower secondary level will be compulsory. In this case one subject (geography during the seventh and eighth grades, during the ninth and tenth history) is held in English and an additional lesson in German is added. During the MSS , in addition to the community studies course, a few hours a week are taught in English.
Promotion of the gifted
At the Goethe-Gymnasium Germersheim the "Begys" ( "Project exists Be gabtenförderung of Gy mnasium s ") particularly gifted to promote student. The recommendation for participation is made at the end of the sixth school year by the teachers' conference, the ultimate decision on this rests with the parents and the students themselves. The actual support consists in school years seven, eight and ten and that the school material of the actually four three years is compressed, so that the ninth grade is canceled. Obviously, the students in this “project class” are only organized in one class per year, which is always given the letter “y”. The measurement number for the creation of a project class is twenty students, so the official minimum number is eighteen ( ), but there was already a Begys class with seventeen students, an 8y (school year 2006/07) consisted of only sixteen. After these three years, the former Begys students will be integrated into the regular MSS courses.
Science lessons
The project to promote teaching in natural science subjects is offered to "interested" students at the Germersheimer Gymnasium, whereby the class conference determines whether or not there is "interest", but the ultimate decision-making power over participation rests with the legal guardians. It consists of up to thirty study groups in school years six to ten. Only one of the two additional subjects is taught per school half year. In the sixth grade, the lesson consists of “Physics / chemistry supplement with ITG preparation for the internship from grade 7 (evaluation of experiments with Excel, presentations with Powerpoint)”.
| Grade level | First additional subject | Second additional subject |
|---|---|---|
| seven | biology | physics |
| eight | physics | chemistry |
| nine | biology | chemistry |
| ten | Interdisciplinary teaching | |
All day school
The grammar school has been an all-day school since the 2005/06 school year . Since then there has been an additional fifth class of all-day school students every year, which is always given the number “5 g”. This is particularly associated with additional lessons in the main subjects and some projects, later working groups.
principal
| Surname | Term of office | rank | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Donsbach | November 10, 1825-22. September 1830 | k. A. | |
| D. Louis | September 22, 1830-29. August 1835 | Sub-rector (study teacher) | Later director of the higher citizen school in Heidelberg |
| Wilhelm Kuby | February 9, 1836–4. November 1848 | Sub-rector | |
| August Resser | November 4, 1848-21. July 1887 | Sub-rector | Appointed an honorary citizen of the city by resolution of the city council on November 16, 1888 |
| Franz Hellfisch | October 8, 1887 – after 1895 | Sub-rector, rector since the school year 1895/96 | |
| Andreas May | k. A. | k. A. (possibly Rector) | |
| Christian Friess | –1935 (start n / a) | Rector | |
| K. Dummler | 1935–1. September 1937 | Director of Studies | First term |
| Fritz Hufnagel | September 1, 1937–1. September 1939 | k. A. (possibly Director of Studies) | From Nuremberg to Germersheim, later transferred from Germersheim to Frankenthal. |
| Suck fill | September 1, 1939 - "after three months" | Director of Studies | Relocated from Frankenthal to Germersheim |
| K. Dummler | "[A] quarter of a year" after September 1, 1939– "In the second year of the war" (probably 1940) | Director of Studies | Second term |
| Konstantin Trammer | “In the second year of the war” (possibly 1940) –k. A. | k. A. (possibly Director of Studies) | Transferred from Danzig to Germersheim |
| K. Dummler | k. A. (probably September 1945–? 1946) | Director of Studies | Third term |
| Maria Orth | k. A. (presumably 1946) - summer 1948 | k. A. | Lives in Speyer |
| K. Dummler | Summer 1948 – Easter 1950 | k. A. (possibly Director of Studies) | Fourth term, ended on retirement |
| basement, cellar | Easter 1950 – September 1950 | Senior teacher | Provisional Headmaster only |
| Christmas | September 1950–1. October 1957 | Director of Studies | then in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
| Paul Zimmermann | March 1, 1958-12. February 1967 | Senior Director of Studies | Appointed as head of department in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture |
| Erich Hehr | January 24, 1968–1985 | Senior Director of Studies | |
| Detlev Wehning | 1985-1998 | Senior Director of Studies | Changed to Speyer |
| Wolfgang Meissner | August 17, 1999-2013 | Senior Director of Studies | |
| Ariane Ball | since 2013 | Senior Director of Studies |
Others
- The school newspaper of the Goethe-Gymnasium has existed since 1962. It was brought into being under the name “TamTam” by the teacher Dieter Rößler and his students. In 1965, 1966 and 1967 she was awarded the first prize for the best school newspaper in Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as the international Fraternais Prize in 1966 and 1967 . In 2007 TamTam received third prize in the Rhineland-Palatinate school newspaper competition. The school newspaper has been called “Goethes Blatt” since 2008 and appears four times a year.
- Both Joseph Probst (born May 30, 1852 in Nesselwang ; † May 16, 1899 in Würzburg ) and Wolfgang Blanke (* 1948 in Münster , Westphalia ) worked as teachers at the school.
- The first foreign language of all pupils in the fifth grade is English , in the sixth grade French and Latin are available, and the other is provided for the optional third language. It is also possible to choose Spanish as a voluntary subject from the ninth grade .
See also
literature
- Joseph Probst: History of the City and Fortress of Germersheim , 2nd edition, Verlag der Buchhandlung Johann Richter, Pirmasens 1974, ISBN 3-920784-16-2 , pp. 254–264 (Note: The page numbers may differ in the new edition of the book. )
- Hans Keller: History of the schools in our city since the turn of the century , In: City of Germersheim (Hrsg.): Germersheim. Contributions to the city's history 1900–1975 , Stadtverwaltung, Germersheim 1976, pp. 238–250
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Message from the school management
- ↑ Quoted from: The mathematical and scientific focus ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); All further details on this type of teaching are also taken from this source.
- ↑ "Rundblick" of the 1999 school year
- ↑ Carolina Wittmann: Only then TamTam Goethe sheet. In: The Rhine Palatinate . March 16, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .