Arnoldinum High School (Steinfurt)

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Arnoldinum high school
The high school building
type of school high school
School number 168350
founding 1588
address

Pagenstecherweg 1

place Steinfurt
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 9 '16 "  N , 7 ° 20' 37"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 9 '16 "  N , 7 ° 20' 37"  E
student around 1210
Teachers 96 (including 13 trainee lawyers)
management Jochen Hornemann
Website www.arnoldinum.de

The Arnoldinum grammar school is one of two grammar schools in Steinfurt (Burgsteinfurt district) in the Münster administrative district and goes back to the high school in Burgsteinfurt .

history

The high school was founded in 1588 by Count Arnold II (IV.) Zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg, initially in Schüttorf , but moved to the residential town of Burgsteinfurt at Easter 1591 due to the incursions of enemy troops. In 1588 the reformed church constitution was introduced there. The Strasbourg Academy (from 1621 university ) served as a model for the organization of the Arnoldinum , where Arnold had studied theology and law and which also influenced most of the other academies founded in Calvinist - Reformed countries ( Hohe Schule Herborn , Casimirianum Neustadt , Bremen, Francisceum Zerbst, Marburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Hanau, Old University of Duisburg , Hammonense and Lingen high school ).

In contrast to the universities, these educational establishments, called Gymnasium Academicum , Gymnasium Illustre or Hohe Schule , did not have the imperial privilege of being able to award academic degrees (the master's and doctoral degrees ). Among the reformed universities in north-west Germany, the Steinfurt High School was the most important until the University of Duisburg was founded (1656).

The school program combined high school and academic studies and was divided into two parts: In the nine-year schola classica , the pupils received a school education, followed by the five-year schola publica , which was characterized by freer academic lectures. The academy was only established after moving from Schüttorf. There was one professorship in each of the four faculties of philosophy , theology , law and medicine . From 1610, when Johann Pagenstecher (1575–1650) went to Bentheim and he was followed by Johannes Goddaeus and Winand Rutgersius, law was represented by two, sometimes three professorships. Six preceptors taught in the schola classica .

In dealing with the Jesuit Counter-Reformation , the Steinfurt Academy initially had a predominantly philosophical - theological orientation, after the Thirty Years' War jurisprudence became predominant . In philosophy, the academy was expressly oriented towards Petrus Ramus , and then from 1644 towards Cartesianism . The theological basis was the Reformed creed of Calvinism . For this reason the connections to the Netherlands were very strong.

From around 1720, the importance of academic teaching decreased sharply: while in 1677 there were still 300 foreign students being mentioned, in the middle of the 18th century there were only two and never more than seven in the following period, until the students stopped completely around 1800 .

In 1811 the high school was dissolved by the Napoleonic administration.

In 1853 the grammar school was re-established as a state school on the Wasserstraße. The new building in the Wasserstraße was inaugurated on October 15, 1860 with a large festival.

In the 1967/68 school year, the grammar school moved into a modern building on Pagenstecherweg at the northern end of Burgsteinfurt.

The school had had its own academic book printing plant since 1596 . The Arnoldinum still has a complete historical library with approx. 2000 volumes. At times a pharmacy belonged to the Arnoldinum.

The building of the high school with the spirit house

School building in the street "An der Hohe Schule"

The Renaissance building with two towers, which housed the high school, was built from 1591 to 1593. In 1807, French troops moved into the school building. In 1811 the school was closed. The historic school building slowly fell into disrepair and had to be closed in 1851 due to disrepair. It was repaired in 1867 and served as a district court from 1869. Later it was a library for a long time. Today it houses the music school and the adult education center.

Well-known teachers and professors

Former students

literature

  • Georg Heuermann: History of the reformed Count Bentheimschen Gymnasium Illustre Arnoldinum in Burgsteinfurt . Burgsteinfurt 1878 ( digitized version ).
  • 400 years of Arnoldinum. 1588–1888, Festschrift . Greven 1988.
  • Ingeborg Höting: The professors of the Steinfurter high school (= Steinfurter Schriften Bd. 21). Stadt Steinfurt, Steinfurt 1991 ( text excerpts with biographies of all 76 teachers from 1588 to 1811 ).

Web links

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