Goetheschool Bremerhaven
The Goetheschule Bremerhaven in Bremerhaven - Mitte , Deichstrasse 39, is a primary school . The building was built in 1956 according to plans by Coldewey, directly on the Geeste .
It has been a listed building in Bremen since 1994 .
history
school
Bremerhaven, which was founded in 1827 and is now the Mitte district, grew rapidly. The private elementary school for boys and girls in Osterstraße, founded in 1831, is considered the predecessor of the Goethe School. The founder was the teacher Johann Christian Blanck. In 1843 he had to give up this location in favor of the elementary school of the Evangelical Church.
In 1844 the elementary school moved to a new building in the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse / corner of Kirchenstrasse. Growing numbers of schoolchildren required several modifications and extensions. In 1857 it was converted into a boys' elementary school. In 1862 the city of Bremerhaven took over the school.
In 1866 the boys' elementary school moved to a new building on the site of today's Schiller School. At Grenzstraße 4, a school building with 24 classrooms, an auditorium, drawing and music room, as well as physics and chemistry classrooms was built in 1872/73. English was already a compulsory subject in 1873. In 1908 the school became the boys 'school I (from 1910 Goetheschule) and the boys' school II (from 1910 Pestalozzi school ), which moved to a new building on Wiener Straße in 1910. In 1944 the building on the Grenzstrasse was destroyed by bombs; the students were now visiting students at the Pestalozzi School.
In 1949 the school became a six-year elementary school. Despite the new building from 1956, space problems arose due to the increasing number of pupils, which reached its peak in 1973 with 700 pupils in 21 class groups and the school kindergarten. After that, the number of students quickly decreased and the school taught in three classes from 1975 and only in two classes from 1983. Since 1977 the primary school has consisted of four years. The commercial schools have therefore occupied six classrooms in the south wing since 1978. Since 2015 the number of pupils has increased again and from 2016/17 the school became three-class again with 244 pupils in 11 classes. In 2017/18 there were 28 teachers and 8 supervisors or social pedagogues at the school.
The namesake Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the most important creator of German-language poetry.
building
For the Goetheschule Bremerhaven, a new building system was built from 1954 to 1956 by the Bremerhaven Building Department according to plans by Coldewey, consisting of two three-storey class wings and the connecting structure of the entrance with administration rooms and the auditorium. The light-flooded connecting building is extensively glazed and designed in the typical architecture of that time. In 1964 a gymnasium was inaugurated.
literature
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991 . Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
- Werner Kirschstein: Seaside City of Bremerhaven. Historic buildings of a port city . Bremerhaven 2001.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 39.3 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 59.5" E