Large Rostock City School

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The Large City School Rostock was a humanistic grammar school that existed in Rostock from 1580 to 2005 for the time being, with an interruption during the GDR era. It went up today in the Rostock inner-city high school on Goetheplatz after merging with the Goethe high school .

the city school after the renovation in 2012
Coat of arms on the building gable
View from 1917
former building of the large city school Rostock

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The term “ large city school ” sets it apart from the “small” city schools, in which elementary knowledge and a little Latin were taught in the 16th century. These existed at the four parish churches in Rostock and as private angle schools . The large city school should prepare specifically for studying at Rostock University and impart the necessary knowledge in the ancient languages. The name has only officially existed since 1828, before the following names were common: schola inferior (in contrast to the schola superior at the university), schola Senatus or schola publica. The large city school in Wismar bears the same name .

history

With the Reformation came a new interest in the "holy languages" Latin , Greek and Hebrew in order to be able to read the Bible in the original. Martin Luther demanded this from Christian schools, the "praeceptor Germaniae" Philipp Melanchthon provided the concept for the Protestant humanist school of scholars . In 1534, on the initiative of the Rostock City Syndicate, Dr. Johann Oldendorp , the council united the four community schools and built a Latin school in the building of the Dominican Order , the St. The first rector was Johannes Bronkhorst . After his departure in 1546, the first foundation quickly fell into disrepair, and the old community schools were back in operation.

To improve the quality of the Rostock University, which had decayed due to the Reformation, the council made new attempts at founding a school, which in 1579 led to the goal. The old monastery building was used again, as the first rector the professor of poetics Nathan Chyträus was won for 100 thalers a year as well as an official apartment. On February 1, 1580 the school began in four classes (Quarta to Prima) with another five teachers. Before starting at the age of six or seven, there was still a class for elementary instruction, the advancement to the next class took place according to progress. A Latin (published until 1694) and a Greek school grammar, an introductory reading with Latin dialogues and a Latin- Low German dictionary (“Nomenclator latino-saxonicus” with 19 editions until 1659) were created. Greek lessons began with the New Testament. The sacred music, which enriched the divine service in the four parish churches, was also cultivated. Religious instruction on Saturdays and holidays was based on the “catechesis” of brother David Chyträus . Because of his approach to Calvinism , Nathan Chyträus moved from Rostock to the Bremen School of Academics in 1593 . His study regulations remained authoritative for 250 years.

In the French period after 1807, the school operations almost completely dissolved. After that, a recovery slowly set in, which was visible in the new school regulations of 1828. The new humanist reforms were introduced in Rostock with a few concessions to a citizens' school founded at the same time (a secondary school , also because of the educational wishes of the commercially active parents). In 1867 the school moved into the building on Rosengarten on Wallstrasse, which is still preserved today . In 1876, a secondary school (later Sieben-Linden-Schule) was separated from the grammar school. In 1911 1,026 students were studying with 58 teachers. An upper secondary school (Blücherschule) and a girls' train (1909, from 1930 as its own lyceum on Goetheplatz) were added.

After 1945, two parallel grammar schools were housed in the building on Wallstrasse due to a lack of space. Director Neumann had to resign in 1948 for political reasons. Until the school reform in the GDR in 1959, it was still possible to take the Abitur at the Great City School, then the name for the new POS " Clara Zetkin " in the building was dropped . After the peaceful revolution , the Great City School was rebuilt as a modern high school in 1991 and operated until the merger in 2005. The ancient language tradition was also resumed.

Well-known teachers

Known students

literature

  • Henrik Bispinck: educated citizens in democracy and dictatorship. Teachers at secondary schools in Mecklenburg 1918 to 1961 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 79). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-59804-9 (also: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 2008).
  • Hans Heinrich Kolz: On the history of the large city school and its subsidiary foundations Realgymnasium Oberrealschule, college. Large city school, Rostock 1992.
  • Walther Neumann (Ed.): The large city school in Rostock in 3 1/2 centuries. Large city school, Rostock 1930.
  • Olaf Wildt (Ed.): 425 years of the Large City School Rostock. Festschrift for the school anniversary 2005. (1580-2005). Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-937179-90-9 .

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '12 "  N , 12 ° 8' 11.2"  E