Grimmelshausen High School Offenburg

Grimmelshausen High School Offenburg
founding	1660
address	Gymnasiumsstrasse; 9
place	Offenburg
country	Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 28 '3 " N , 7 ° 56' 42" E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '3 " N , 7 ° 56' 42" E
carrier	City of Offenburg
student	about 600
Teachers	approx. 50
management	Susanne Self-Prédumehau
Website	www.grimmelshausen-gymnasium.de

Grimmelshausen High School

The Grimmelshausen-Gymnasium Offenburg is a high school in Offenburg ( Ortenaukreis ). It has 660 students and around 50 teachers. With an age of more than 350 years it is the oldest of the four grammar schools in Offenburg. It is characterized by special foreign language support and the offer of a Franco-German Abitur ( AbiBac ).

history

The school was founded in 1660 by the Franciscan and Minorite Order, who had been running a monastery in Offenburg since 1280. After the fire in 1689, the monastery was rebuilt. Today it is entered in the Baden-Württemberg monument book. In 1803 the monastery school was nationalized in the course of secularization . From 1808 to 1990 the school looked after the remains of the library of the monastery, which had also been closed, and was housed in the Capuchin monastery from 1822 . The Capuchin monastery is the oldest building in the city and the only one that survived the fire of 1689.

In 1937 the school was named after Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen . Born in Gelnhausen, he is considered the most important German writer of the Baroque and lived in the Ortenau in the second half of the 17th century .

The grammar school also partly uses the rooms of the former Capuchin monastery.

principal

1997–2009 Dietrich Mehrgardt
2009–2011 Gunther Siegwart
2011–2018 Dieter Kopriwa
since 2018 Susanne Self-Prédumehau

Profile decisions

In grade 5, students have to choose between the language combinations English-French and English-Latin. In the 7th grade, students with the language combination English-French have to choose billingual French . In the 8th grade, a decision is made between the natural sciences profile and a third foreign language (for the English-French language combination: Ancient Greek or Italian or Latin, for the English-Latin language combination: Ancient Greek or French or Italian).

Offered languages

Language sequence

French or Latin as the first foreign language from grade 5
English as a second foreign language from grade 5
French, Latin, Ancient Greek or Italian as a third foreign language
French as a fourth foreign language

Exchange programs

The grammar school maintains international contacts and related student exchange programs with schools in Strasbourg ( France ), Cosmo (Italy) and Olsztyn ( Poland ).

particularities

The school offers the possibility of a bilingual grammar school (French) with AbiBac qualification ; In addition, the European Gymnasium with four foreign languages is offered, which leads to an additional certificate for the Abitur. Another focus of the grammar school is musical education and training in the field of theater and music. The Grimmelshausen Gymnasium celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2010. As part of the anniversary events , the specially written and composed music theater Courasche based on Grimmelshausen's novel will be performed. The school offers various working groups, including a traditional archeology working group and several theater working groups and theater courses. There are also other working groups in the field of music (orchestra, choir, big band).

literature

Gymnasium Offenburg (ed.): Annual report on the school year . Offenburg 1882–1929 (born 1884–1911; 1915 digitized )
Theodor Weiland: Basic lines for the history of the Offenburg high school . Reiff, Offenburg 1901 ( digitized version )