High School "In the Desert"
| High School "In the Desert" | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1848 |
| address |
Kromschröderstrasse 33, 49080 Osnabrück |
| place | Osnabrück |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 15 '55 " N , 8 ° 1' 23" E |
| student | about 1,200 |
| Teachers | about 100 |
| management | Nils Fischer |
| Website | www.gymnasium-wueste.de |
The grammar school “In der Desert” , or “GIdW” for short, is a grammar school in Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ). It was founded in the revolutionary year of 1848 as an educational institution for girls and a counterweight to the Catholic Carolinum and the Protestant Ratsgymnasium .
history
The state high school "In der desert", inaugurated in 1848, is the third oldest school in the city of Osnabrück. After the Carolinum grammar school (804) and the Ratsgymnasium (1595), which only took boys in, the school was founded as the “municipal high school for girls ”, which was financed by school fees. Until then, there had only been private educational institutions in Osnabrück, in which both Catholic and Protestant girls were taught.
When Cécile Vezin gave up her girls 'school in 1848, it was taken over by Auxiliary Bishop Carl Anton Lüpke and continued as a Catholic girls' school. A gap arose for teaching Protestant girls in Osnabrück, which the Protestant magistrate tried to fill with a city school. It was open to girls of both denominations, in fact it was mainly visited by Protestant girls.
In addition to religion and literature, the most important subject was handicrafts. Two languages were taught; French was the first foreign language, English the second. “Noble women's education” was the goal, as the commemorative publication on the 50th anniversary of the school in 1898 revealed. A woman studying was not provided at the time; For example, seminars for female teachers prepared for a profession . A seminar class served as preparation for this.
In 1905 the school had 500 pupils who were taught in ten grades. In 1908, the Prussian reform of the girls' school opened the way to the upper lyceum and admission to studies. In Osnabrück, the Catholic Ursulaschule introduced a training course as the “Realgymnasiale Studienanstalt” in 1912 that led to the Abitur. The municipal girls' school only offered this option after 1923, when modern-language grammar schools with high school diplomas were introduced.
In 1935, a housekeeping upper level was set up, which existed alongside the modern language branch. From 1937 onwards it was called “Oberschule für Mädchen” (high school for girls). In 1936 the modern language branch moved into the Ursulaschule am Dom, which was closed in 1941. The school building was destroyed by bombing in 1945.
After the end of the Second World War , the school was located on Heger-Tor-Wall. After 1956 it was named "Gymnasium for Girls, New Language Gymnasium and Women's High School". The household branch, which did not lead to a general university entrance qualification, continued until 1961. From 1959 he had been at Schölerberg and was incorporated into the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium founded in 1961 , a municipal modern-language high school for girls with a women 's high school on Ameldstrasse.
Coeducation was introduced at the municipal grammar schools in Osnabrück in the 1970/71 school year. At the beginning of the 1970s, the "Gymnasium for Girls, New Language High School and Women's High School" moved from its location "am Wall" to a new building and has since been located "in the desert ", a district of Osnabrück. The Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in the south of the city area recorded falling student numbers in the 1980s and was closed in 1990; the grammar school "In the desert" took over pupils and school files.
Federal President Horst Köhler visited the school on March 18, 2009 . The assumption of responsibility was discussed as a special aspect of school peace education. The grammar school "In der desert " is particularly committed in the field of peace education in schools with very different projects, partly in cooperation with the peace city Osnabrück .
In June 2010, a bronze bust of the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled at the school by the Ambassador of India . The bust is a gift from the Indian embassy in Berlin to the city of Osnabrück. Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence, his passion for the truth, his great esteem and respect for other religions should serve as a model and be implemented in everyday school life.
Also in June 2010, a peace stele by the Osnabrück artist Volker-Johannes Trieb was set up in front of the main entrance to the school . Quotes on the subject of war and peace are lasered. The stele was created as part of a joint project between the artist and the city of Osnabrück, supported by the Erich Maria Remarque Society and 25 companies from the region. The school sees the three meter high stele with an apple tree planted on top as a reminder for more tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
School profile
The school bears the title of an EXPO school , a school with a media profile and a European school . Their offer of bilingual French lessons is unique in Lower Saxony. Several students represented their hometown as city ambassadors in Osnabrück's twin cities during a one-year stay.
The "In der desert" high school is accredited as a CertiLingua school (initially until 2016). It is authorized to award the CertiLingua label of excellence for multilingual, European and international skills.
A concept of differentiated support for the gifted was developed. As part of a school project, inner courtyards were designed as gardens of world religions .
A special feature is the cross-city advanced music course, which has been held exclusively at the "In der desert" high school since 1987.
The school is also a partner school for competitive sports and promotes talent in fencing , basketball and athletics in particular .
Since the beginning of the 2009/10 school year, the "In der desert" high school has been run as an open all-day school . Furthermore, the grammar school received the award as a humanitarian school in the school years 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12.
principal
- 1848 - ???? FW Wübbel, Emil Bischoff,
- ????
- 1869 - ???? Swart
- ????
- 1912–1934 Dr. Ludwig Gerlach
- 1934–1945 Walter Gerlach
- 1945–1947 Dr. Hans Kiehn
- 1947–1971 Maria Brunkhorst
- 1971–1982 Dr. Lieselotte Gramse
- 1982–1989 Erhard Fricke
- 1989–1999 Hans-Günther Kruppa
- 2000–2005 Benno Haunhorst
- 2005–2012 Christoph Schüring
- 2012–2016 Jürgen Westphal
- 2016–2018 Monika Wipperfürth (acting)
- since 2018 Nils Fischer
Known teachers
- Dieter Lippelt (* 1938), table tennis player
Well-known students
- Marieluise Beck (* 1952), politician
- Claudia Schwarze (* 1958), cellist and music teacher
- Klaus Schreiber (actor) (* 1959), actor
- Jana Klinge (* 1980), actress
Sources and individual references
- ↑ Anette Kanngießer: History of girls' school education In: 150 years of “Gymnasium in the desert” 1848–1998 (PDF, 312 kB) ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christoph Schüring: 4th letter to parents in the school year 2009/10 (PDF) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , edition of June 19, 2010, p. 21
