Goethe School (Offenbach am Main)
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| type of school | primary school |
| founding | 1921 |
| address |
Bernardstrasse 68–72 |
| place | Offenbach am Main |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 6 '25 " N , 8 ° 45' 2" E |
| carrier | City of Offenbach am Main |
| student | 650 (2015/2016 school year) |
| Teachers | 45 |
| management | Vassiliki Alexouda (headmistress)
Nese Sahin (Deputy) |
| Website | goe.schulen-offenbach.de |
The Goetheschule is a primary school with around 650 students in the Hessian city of Offenbach am Main . It is named after the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
The school building, completed in 1921, is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
history
The development of Offenbach's population around 1900 was characterized by rapid industrialization and the resulting increase in the number of inhabitants. In the period from 1901 to 1921, eleven general education schools were set up to cope with the rapidly increasing number of pupils. In 1912 it was decided to build the Goethe School as a primary school . Construction began in 1915. Due to the First World War, however, the work had to be interrupted from 1916 to 1919 and could not be completed until 1921.
The school was damaged in World War II . The repair work dragged on until 1955.
The school today
With 650 children from 45 nations, the Goetheschule is Offenbach's largest primary school (as of 2016). The multicultural composition of the student body and the resulting difficulties in terms of language skills as well as the weak social structures of many families require a high level of socio-educational competence and time-consuming and personal commitment. The Parents + School project has been accompanying the project since 2009 : understand, participate, accompany this task. Among other things, language guides are available in 28 languages. Breakfast for school children and help with homework is also offered.
The school teaches English from grade 3. It also offers all-day care.
Architecture and buildings
The school was built on the corner of Bernardstrasse and Ludwigstrasse on the site of the old gas works . As the architect of the elementary school, construction officer Otto Sander was responsible. In 1956 renovations and new buildings took place, a new gymnasium was built in 1959. The old gymnasium was built at a right angle in the middle in front of the main building on Bernardstrasse. To the east of this, in the main building, were the girls' classrooms, to the west those of the boys.
The monumental four-storey building is characterized on its front by the two risalite staircases with crowning tower domes in the large slate-covered hipped roof . In addition to the stair towers, the facade is symmetrically divided into axes. The fourth floor is lower and set off by a toothed cornice . The top floor was expanded from the start and is illuminated by small dormer windows. At the rear, the facade is rhythmically designed with window axes. The school clock is in the middle of the facade. In the roof area there is a wide dwelling with hipped roofs. Laterally there are connecting passages to the single-storey toilet blocks. The eastern toilet house is still originally preserved with a gable roof and small windows. The modern gym can still be found in the courtyard.
Inside, some structuring elements, such as fluted pilasters and fittings, for example doors, have been preserved.
The school building is a listed building .
Known students
- Safiye Can (* 1977), author, poet and lyric translator
Web links
- Internet presence of the Goethe School
- The Goethe School in the official appearance of the city of Offenbach am Main
- Parents + School project: understand, participate, accompany
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Goethe School. In: offenbach.de , accessed on June 21, 2016.
- ↑ a b Anna Oczenaschek: A new year, a new team! In: schulen-offenbach.de. Goetheschule Offenbach, August 14, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Uwe Stransky: Chronicle “100 Years of Schiller School”. Offenbach around 1900. From : schillerschule-offenbach.de, accessed on July 3, 2016, (PDF file; 769 kB).
- ↑ Offenbach's new school buildings. In: Offenbacher Zeitung . May 4, 1912, page 2 ( online on Wikimedia Commons ).
- ↑ a b c d e f State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Bernardstrasse 70 - Goetheschule In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ↑ Parents + school: understand, participate, accompany. In: vonichzuich , accessed July 3, 2016.
- ^ Ernst Buchholz: Poetry debut by Offenbach poet Safiye Can. In: op-online.de. March 10, 2014, accessed July 3, 2018 .