Gregor Mendel High School (Amberg)

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Gregor Mendel High School
logo
type of school high school
School number 0005
founding 1833
address

Moritzstrasse 1, 92224 Amberg, Germany

place On the mountain
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '39 "  N , 11 ° 52' 36"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '39 "  N , 11 ° 52' 36"  E
carrier City of Amberg
student 666 (as of: 2018/19)
Teachers 52 (as of: 2018/19)
management Peter Welnhofer
Website gmg.amberg.de
Old building seen from Moritzstrasse
Part of the new building with the roof terrace of the upper level and rooms of the upper level behind. Left part of the old gym.

The Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium (GMG) in Amberg is a state, public high school of the Free State of Bavaria with the training courses natural science, technology; Modern language as well as economic, social. The city of Amberg is responsible for material expenses . The school is named after the natural scientist and father of genetics, Johann Gregor Mendel . In 2018/19, 52 full-time teachers taught the 666 students (approx. 35% from the city of Amberg, 65% from the district of Amberg-Sulzbach ).

The logo symbolizes the three pillars of people that support the school: the students, the teachers and staff, the parents and all partners and friends.

history

The school was founded in 1833 as the Royal Agricultural and Trade School . A trade department was added in 1864 under the name of the Gewerbeschule . When it was converted into a six-class institution , it became the secondary school in 1877 .

In 1925 the school had grown into one of the largest institutions in Bavaria. Therefore, parents, citizens and the city were able to push through the development of a high school (the second in the Upper Palatinate) as a forerunner of the natural science-technological high school at the State Ministry. Due to the increasing number of pupils, today's old building was built on Moritzstrasse in 1930.

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the number of students in the upper classes steadily decreased due to conscription to the Wehrmacht . The school served as a girls' school. The ranks of teachers also thinned. In 1944 the school was evicted from its house and the building was first used as a military hospital , then, from early summer 1945, as a lung sanatorium .

On February 1, 1946, teaching was resumed. The first post-war class left school in 1947: 102 high school graduates of various ages had pushed the school desks.

In 1965, at the instigation of the Ministry of Culture, all higher schools in Bavaria were designated as grammar schools , and the upper secondary school became the Gregor Mendel grammar school. In the 1974/75 school year the number of pupils reached a maximum of 1297. In the same year the completion of the extension building and the triple gymnasium could be celebrated. In addition, the college level was introduced early as part of a school trial .

In the following years, a study seminar was affiliated in which trainee students were trained in natural science subjects and modern foreign languages. But in the nineties the young trainee teachers were drawn more and more to larger cities such as Regensburg and Nuremberg and the study seminar was gradually closed.

Today about 100 students pass the Abitur every year . The years of the eight-year grammar school (G8, since 2004/2005), which has been shortened by one school year , now include 100% of all students.

At the end of 2007, the first digital student library in Germany was set up at GMG as part of a Siemens project day. The GMG was also expanded to include a café in the auditorium, a new stage in the school canteen , a so-called e-advertising system and eleven other projects. As part of the preparations for the 175th anniversary, the school set up its own wiki with the MediaWiki engine. An open all-day school has been set up since the 2009/10 school year . Childcare (Monday to Friday, 1pm to 4pm) is free.

structure

The school comprises the following three areas of training:

  • Science and technology high school - NTG
  • Linguistic high school - SG
  • Economics and Social Science High School - WSG-W

The following foreign languages ​​(FS) are taught: English (1st FS), Latin (2nd FS), French (2nd or 3rd FS), Spanish (3rd or late-beginning FS). Chinese is offered as an elective course.

International partnerships

There are partnerships with group or individual student exchanges with schools in Eschau , Lapalisse , Le Donjon and Jaligny (all France ), Trikala ( Greece ), Budapest ( Hungary ), Montevideo ( Uruguay ), Santa Cruz , Camden (Maine) ( USA ), Barbate ( Spain ) and Wuxi ( China ).

In addition, the school has been working with schools from Nancy ( France ), La Mothe-Saint-Héray (France), La Roche-sur-Yon (France), Cosenza ( Italy ) as part of the COMENIUS program funded by the European Community since 2002 , Palermo (Italy), Viterbo (Italy), Malta , Pyhäjärvi ( Finland ), Brăila ( Romania ), Dragalina (Romania), Bratislava ( Slovakia ), Lisbon ( Portugal ), As Pontes-A Coruña ( Spain ), Huesca (Spain ) and a school from Birkenwerder ( Brandenburg , Germany ).

Honourings and prices

  • 2006–2010: two stars each, since 2009 three stars as an environmental school in Europe  - international Agenda 21 school with authorization to carry the corresponding seal
  • 2004–2008: Annual Bavarian state winner in the Meike campaign, the collecting dragon
  • 2007: Awarded as one of the 25 best Bavarian grammar schools in the grade tests (German, English, mathematics) between 2004 and 2007

Associated bodies and organizations

Current

  • The school traditionally combines the music-making students in a large ensemble.

Well-known former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium Amberg on the pages of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (km.bayern.de, accessed on July 25, 2019)