High school Antonianum Vechta

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High school Antonianum Vechta
Gymnasium Antonianum Vechta Logo.png
type of school high school
founding 1719
address

Willohstrasse 19

place 49377 Vechta
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 43 '28 "  N , 8 ° 17' 22"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 43 '28 "  N , 8 ° 17' 22"  E
carrier District of Vechta
student 933
Teachers 90
management Inge Wenzel
Website www.antonianum-vechta.de

The Gymnasium Antonianum Vechta (GAV) is a general education high school in Vechta ( Lower Saxony ).

history

Main building of the high school

The school is the oldest grammar school in the Oldenburger Münsterland and can look back on almost 300 years of history as well as the educational mandate that has been shaped by a Christian attitude since then . The Franciscan motto “IUVENTUTI INSTITUENDAE” (“committed to the upbringing and education of young people”) above the school portal indicates the foundation and mission of this school. The namesake and patron saint of the school, St. Anthony of Padua , who lived and worked in many European cities in the 13th century, can be a model, especially for young people, to use the opportunities in Europe and to help shape it.

Through a contract with the city of Vechta, the monastery school was made a full high school in 1719. In 1937, the Antonianum moved into the new school building with gym and auditorium on the former Kälbermarsch (today Willohstraße), which had been erected since 1928. After the Second World War, classes began in October 1945 in the undamaged school. Just three years later, the school set up a modern language and a mathematical train. Girls have been visiting the Antonianum for the first time since the end of the war since 1965, which marked the beginning of a period of lively construction activity.

In 1972, the Antonianum was the first school in the Oldenburg administrative district to successfully introduce the upper school reform in a school experiment.In 1989, the school celebrated its 275th anniversary due to the now incorrect assumption that it was founded in 1714. The Rasta Vechta basketball club , which emerged from a basketball club at the Antonianum grammar school, was founded on June 26, 1979.

The growing student body again made extensive new buildings and extensions necessary (music pavilion (1994), the conversion of the reading room into classrooms (1998), the extension between the Europahaus and Niedersachsenhaus (2002), the construction of the observatory (2003) and - most recently - the Extension of the scientific wing with the cafeteria). The Antonianum is now ready to implement the planned all-day offer.

Special teaching offers

  • except English, French and Latin and Spanish from grade 6
  • bilingual lessons in various subjects (Ge, Ek, PoWi)
  • Economics (including advanced courses or courses with a higher level)
  • Performing game in high school
  • Wind classes
  • All-day classes in grades 5 and 6

European School Antonianum

  • Exchange with seven partner schools across Europe
  • Participation in the various European projects
  • Language exam preparation and implementation ( CAE , DELE , DELF )

Offers outside of class

  • open all-day school
  • wide range of AG offer, e.g. B. Astronomy (with its own observatory)
  • Working group focus on musical / theater from grades 5–13
  • High school band "Das Blech" (since 1885)
  • Promotion of talent in association with primary schools
  • internal school support concepts
  • School medical service
  • Issuance of an ECDL certificate as part of an AG

The Antonius Prize

Every year on the Thursday before St. Anthony's Day, which is celebrated on June 13 in honor of the school's patron saint, the school's friends' association awards the school's St. Anthony Prize to particularly socially committed students.

Known teachers

  • Hermann Jakob Dingelstad , at the Antonianum 1873–1889; he took the coat of arms of Vechta into his coat of arms as Bishop of Munster.
  • Heinrich Wempe , at the Antonianum from 1934 until after 1946, Catholic clergyman and as a politician MdL.

Well-known graduates

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Floren: A round birthday mutates into a bigger Antonius Festival. Vechtas Antonianum only invites you to the school anniversary in 2019 - the founding date has been revised . Nordwestzeitung , September 6, 2013

Web links

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