High School Am Kothen

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High School Am Kothen
Gymnasium Am Kothen Wuppertal 04.jpg
type of school high school
School number 165451
founding 1823
address

Schluchtstrasse 34

place Wuppertal
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 15 '29 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '29 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51"  E
carrier City of Wuppertal
student about 1000
Teachers 106
management Claus Wyneken
Website www.gymnasium-kothen.de

The Gymnasium Am Kothen is a bilingual high school in Wuppertal . A special focus is on the artistic and musical field.

history

The school was founded in 1823 as a higher city school , in which girls and boys were initially taught together . The girls moved to Karlsplatz , where the school developed into a girls' grammar school: first in 1926 it became the Oberlyzeum Mittelbarmen , which was merged with the Unterbarmen Lyceum in 1935 . When the school building was destroyed in World War II , the school moved to Erfurt. In October 1945, classes at the municipal high school for girls were resumed in the rooms of the former Oberbarmer Lyceum with women's school on Sternstraße, which was created in 1886 from branch classes of the girls' school on Karlsplatz.

In 1961, the city of Wuppertal decided to build the current Barmen girls' high school on the edge of the Kothener Forest , which was completed in 1965. The co-education was reintroduced 1970th Since 1971 the school has had the current name Gymnasium Am Kothen . A bilingual German - English branch from the fifth grade was introduced in 1995.

Web links

Commons : Schulzentrum am Kothen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The history of our high school
  2. ↑ The history of our high school. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Chronicle ( Memento of May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The source of the history section, unless otherwise stated, is the school website