Graf Engelbert School Bochum

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Graf Engelbert School
Bochum Graf Engelbert School.jpg
type of school high school
School number 169160
founding 1910
address

Königsallee 77-79, 44789 Bochum

place Bochum
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 27 '59 "  N , 7 ° 13' 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '59 "  N , 7 ° 13' 11"  E
carrier City of Bochum
student 831 (school year 2018/2019)
Teachers 70
management z. Temporarily occupied
Website www.graf-engelbert-schule.de

The Graf-Engelbert-Schule is a municipal high school in Bochum . It is located on Königsallee close to the city center and is the only school in Bochum to be recognized as a fully-fledged MINT-EC school (Mathematical-Scientific Excellence Center).

The Schiller School is only a few hundred meters away and the New Gymnasium , with which the Graf Engelbert School works together, is within walking distance .

School profile

The Graf-Engelbert-Schule was recognized as a “ MINT-EC ” school (Mathematical-Scientific Excellence Center), which emphasizes the importance of the natural science subjects at this grammar school. There are cooperation agreements with the major universities ( Bochum University , Ruhr University Bochum and Technical University Georg Agricola ) in Bochum. The school also offers linguistic and artistic subjects. In addition to being recognized as a MINT school, the grammar school also presents itself as an “ Agenda 21 school”.

In 2010 the school was able to look back on its centenary.

School history

From the founding of the school to 1933

The Graf-Engelbert-Schule was founded at the beginning of the school year 1910/11 as a pure boys' school to relieve the existing secondary school . School operations began on April 13, 1910. The school was initially named Städtische Oberrealschule II and was housed in a barrack in the courtyard of Oberrealschule I , today's Goethe School . A year later, they moved into the building of a former private girls' school on Humboldtstrasse, at that time the school already had four classes with a total of 139 students. The first headmaster was Ernst Scheidt, who held this office until 1936. The first one-year final examination (comparable to today's secondary school leaving certificate ) could be held at Easter 1915. Since there was not enough space at the school at that time, the school was not yet allowed to set up an upper level and the graduates had to switch to other schools to continue their schooling.

At Easter 1914, construction began on a new school on Königsallee in the Ehrenfeld district , at the same location as the current school building. The plans for the building came from Karl Elkart , who was the city architect in Bochum at the time. The work was delayed due to the war and the new school could only be moved into in November 1916. Since then, an upper level had also been set up at the school and the Abitur examination could be taken for the first time in the school year 1919/20 .

In the next school year, 1920/21, the school's curriculum was expanded with the introduction of Latin as a compulsory subject from year 8. French remained the first foreign language and English was taught from grade 10. As a result, from Easter 1929 (first Abitur according to this new curriculum), the study restrictions on predominantly technical subjects, which had previously been due to the lack of Latin, ceased. Other innovations from these years were the formation of a parents' council , which had an advisory function on school issues, and the introduction of parenting days . From the school year 1928/29 a student self-administration was introduced, in which older students took over the break supervision and the supervision of the students from the lower classes and also took care of the school library.

There was a considerable burden on school life when it came to the occupation of the Ruhr area in the context of the dispute over the German reparations payments . On January 15, 1923, Bochum was occupied by French troops. On the very first day they confiscated the school building of what was then Oberrealschule II on Königsallee and made it the center of French military and civil administration. The school had to leave the building and until the end of the school year 1923/24 the school hours were held in shifts in the rooms of Oberrealschule I (today Goethe School).

Period from 1933 to 1945

In order to standardize the school forms, a decree of 1936 ordered that from the school year 1937/38 onwards English should be used as the first foreign language in all higher schools. The higher schools - with the exception of the humanistic grammar school - were now uniformly called “ Oberschule ”, while Oberrealschule II was officially named “Bismarck School ” on December 8, 1937. Municipal high school for boys ”. From secondary school onwards, lessons were divided into a mathematical-scientific and a modern language branch. With the school year 1937/38 the training time at the secondary school was shortened to eight years for "important reasons of population policy" by the elimination of the previous 10th grade, so at Easter 1937 the pupils of the then junior and high school students took the school leaving examination at the same time .

After the outbreak of the Second World War, school operations suffered more and more from its effects. In 1942, for example, only one student passed the Abitur, all the other students in class 8 had already been drafted and had received a “leaving certificate with maturity mark” ( Notabitur ). The gymnasium could only be used temporarily since 1939, as it had been confiscated for storing food supplies. From Easter 1942 shift lessons had to be reintroduced, because the local district administration had confiscated the neighboring Schiller School and both schools now had to be taught in one building. After the north wing of the school was badly damaged in two bombing raids on May 14 and June 13, 1943, the pupils in grades 1 to 5 were relocated to Friedeberg ( Pomerania ) (now Strzelce Krajeńskie ) as part of the extended children's area, and returned from there they only returned in early 1945. In an air raid on November 4, 1944, in which large parts of Bochum were destroyed in just 35 minutes, the Bismarck School was hit by five bombs and completely destroyed.

After the Second World War

After the war ended, all schools were closed until the end of 1945. On January 9, 1946, the British military government approved the reopening of the Bismarck School. The lessons were first given in the Theodor-Körner-Schule in Dahlhausen , where the students were brought daily with a special tram car. From October 1946, the building of the nearby Drusenberg School in Ehrenfeld was used in alternating lessons with the students of the Schiller School . After the restoration of the building of the Schiller School on Königsallee, the teaching of the two high schools was relocated there and the alternating teaching was retained.

At the request of the city of Bochum, the school was renamed “Graf Engelbert School” on June 1, 1948. It was named after Count Engelbert II († 1328) , who is considered a sponsor of Bochum and whose possessions included Blankenstein Castle . In the 1950/51 school year, the school was given the status of a mathematical, scientific and modern-language grammar school for boys.

In the fall of 1957, construction work began on a new school building on the site of the old school, the new building was inaugurated on October 13, 1960, the assembly hall and the teaching pool were not completed until the following year. Because of the steadily increasing number of pupils - in 1960/61 the school had 644 pupils, in 1963/64 there were already 763 - the school was already overcrowded in 1964. In 1966, two sixths had to be handed over to the Goethe School due to a lack of space. The city then had two extensions (the so-called "stilt buildings") built on the north side of the building in Arnikastraße (formerly Grünstraße) with a total of four classrooms, which were ready for occupancy in January 1967. In the following school year, a small pavilion with two more rooms was made available in the courtyard. The two short school years (April 1 to November 20, 1966 and December 1, 1966 to summer 1967), which moved the start of the school year from Easter to autumn, also fell during this period.

To improve the sports offer, a triple sports hall was completed in 1981 on the edge of the neighboring Südpark (on the site of a former tennis club) , which has been used since then together with the Schiller School. A few years earlier, at the beginning of the 1974/75 school year, the status of an all-boys school had been revoked and the school became a grammar school for boys and girls. At the same time, the Schiller School, which until then had been an all-girls grammar school, also joined this reform.

Known students

literature

  • Graf-Engelbert-Schule, Bochum (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the seventy-five year existence of the Graf-Engelbert-Schule Bochum - 1910 to 1985 . Gebrüder Hoose GmbH, Bochum, 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official school year statistics for the school year 2018/2019 of the city of Bochum
  2. ↑ Information from the Graf Engelbert School ( memento of the original from September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.graf-engelbert-schule.de