Goethe Gymnasium Hildesheim

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Goethe Gymnasium Hildesheim
Goethe high school in Hildesheim
type of school high school
founding 1858
address

Goslarsche Str. 65-66

place Hildesheim
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 8 '58 "  N , 9 ° 57' 24"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '58 "  N , 9 ° 57' 24"  E
student 946 (as of 2019)
Teachers over 100 including trainee lawyers
Website www.goethegymnasium-hildesheim.de

The Goethegymnasium Hildesheim is a state high school run by the city of Hildesheim .

history

Stumbling blocks in front of the Goethe Gymnasium in Hildesheim

The Goethe Gymnasium was founded in 1858 as a public, higher school for girls under the name Städtische Höhere Töchterschule by the Hildesheim citizens. It was not until 1922, after the merger with the private Elisabethschule, a girls' boarding school of the Wilhelmine upper class, that the school was named the Staatliche Goetheschule ; it had passed into the sponsorship of Prussia. In its first years the school was still supervised by the Protestant Church, but was in fact always open to all three denominations, i.e. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish students.

In Hildesheimer Neustadt , opposite the Andreanum high school built in 1866 by Conrad Wilhelm Hase in Goslarschen Strasse, the Municipal Higher Töchterschule was built in 1876-78 according to plans by Hase's student Wilhelm Knoch (1844-1876), a new building in the historicizing style of the Hanoverian architects with an elaborate design Gables and towers in neo-brick Gothic.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Catholic Marienschule was attached to it. As a result, the number of female students rose to over 1,500 in 1944. The brick building was almost completely destroyed towards the end of the war, only the right wing was partially preserved. The reconstruction, including the gymnasium and central building, was not completed until 1955. The school has had its current name since 1957. In 1964 it was the largest secondary school in Hildesheim with 850 students again. In the same year, the kindergarten seminar that had previously belonged to the school was outsourced, from which a technical college for social pedagogy developed over several intermediate stages .

The coeducation was introduced on 1 August 1971 the same year the launch was of Russian as a compulsory elective. In 1975, instead of the longed-for auditorium , for which parents had already collected 50,000  DM , a language laboratory was built for 120,000 DM in line with the fashion of the time .

In 1992, the city ​​center orientation level moved into the school building, which later made an extension necessary. The orientation stage was closed in 2004 so that its rooms could be used again.

For the school year 1993, the Goethe Gymnasium introduced all-day care , which had previously been tested in a pilot project . The inauguration of the new multi-purpose hall and the new canteen in 2005 and the renovation of the school yard in 2006 brought further changes.

Focus

Traditionally, special emphasis is placed on music education at the Goethe Gymnasium . Today celebrations, musical events and theater performances take place in the modern multi-purpose hall. But there are also focal points in all other areas.

Well-known students

literature

  • Christina Prauss: A school for women. The rise, fall and new beginning of the Goethe School in Hildesheim. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89971-551-4 .
  • Wilhelm Tesdorpf: Festschrift for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the municipal higher school for girls in Hildesheim. 1858-1908. Published on behalf of the teaching staff by the director Dr. Wilhelm Tesdorpf. Gerstenberg Brothers, Hildesheim 1908.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hildesheim.de/kultur-und-bildung/schulen/gymnasien/goethegymnasium.html
  2. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​in Hildesheim. Retrieved October 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ School history. Website of the Goethe-Gymnasium.

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