Borbeck high school

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Borbeck high school
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type of school high school
School number 164859
founding 1901
address

Prinzenstrasse 46
45355 Essen

place Essen-Bergeborbeck
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 28 '41 "  N , 6 ° 57' 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '41 "  N , 6 ° 57' 11"  E
student 724 (school year 2017/2018)
Teachers 57 (school year 2018/2019)
Website www.gymbo.de

The Borbeck grammar school in the Bergeborbeck district of Essen is an “urban grammar school for boys and girls with a bilingual German-English course” - this is the official name it is today. It is the oldest secondary school in the Borbeck district , to which the Bergeborbeck district belongs. The school was founded in 1901 as the successor to the “Catholic Boys' Middle School” (1873) as a “Progymnasium in development with non-compulsory lessons in Greek and its replacement by English” and four years later elevated to the status of a full grammar school. To better distinguish it from the other high schools in Borbeck, it is also called the Prinzengymnasium after its location on Prinzenstrasse, before the GymBo logo becomes established.

history

In the history of schools, reform efforts have also asserted themselves at this grammar school under changing social framework conditions. In 1920, individual classes that had already been set up as a secondary school in development were linked organically and organizationally with the grammar school. During the Nazi era , educational work - as in all schools - was exposed to the influence of National Socialist ideology. Nonetheless, the Borbeck school differs from most grammar schools in Essen in that its head at the time was extremely critical of the National Socialist regime. After the war, the school resumes operations - initially as a guest of the Alfred Krupp School - as a modern-language grammar school, followed by a mathematical and scientific branch. The upper school branch of economics and social sciences , founded in 1963, is also open to girls who have come from other schools as lateral entrants. General co-education was introduced in 1972 . Despite these reforms, the number of registrations fell significantly in the 1980s. The municipal school development plan provides for the conversion of the Borbeck grammar school into a comprehensive school during this time .

Nevertheless, the reform of the school as a grammar school has been supplemented and continued as part of an increased programmatic school opening since the late 1980s. The Borbeck high school attaches great importance to its cultural tasks in the district, the cooperation with other schools (also to implement necessary general overhauls of the Essen school buildings), the cooperation with extracurricular partners, an in-school information system for students, teachers and parents, the external image of the School in the media, contacts with former students and teachers and student exchanges with other countries. In addition, the second grammar school in Essen, Borbeck grammar school, offers bilingual German-English training as well as individual support opportunities. Internally, the idea of ​​school independence is promoted by the fact that teachers increasingly take on educational, upbringing and administrative work on their own within agreed or legally prescribed framework conditions. For this reason, the Borbeck grammar school was proposed in 2001 as the only grammar school in the central Ruhr area for inclusion in the NRW model project independent school. Success of these focused on quality assurance and enhancement opening reflected in the significant increase in registration figures in victories at the Federal President for students for individual departments oriented national competitions and 2003 - as opposed to the countrywide results - in above-average test results in the international PISA studies contradict .

The opening of the school - also for its own history, including the Nazi era - is attracting increasing academic and journalistic attention. In 2002, for example, the Borbeck grammar school at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz was the subject of a study designed as a habilitation thesis on the "reconstruction of educational programs for Prussian grammar school students and the associated teacher reports from school-leaving examinations 1926-1946". For the period from 1987 to 2006, German libraries also run an eleven-volume magazine on "Das Gymnasium Borbeck im Spiegel der Presse" (also under the title: "Pressespiegel"), in which all newspaper articles published about the Gymnasium Borbeck are listed in chronological order .

The publication of the school art calendar, published since 1987, which presented student work, was awarded prizes and had become a link between school, district and alumni of the Borbeck high school, will be discontinued for the 2011/2012 school year. In the year of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010, the art conference takes part in the much-noticed official Borbeck Halblang project.

Established in 1901

Competitive sporting priorities are particularly encouraged up to the beginning of the 2000s, which is clearly manifested in successes in regional and national competitions, especially in the fields of table tennis and football for boys (German champions 1980) and girls (German vice championships 1997). Triathlon will also be taught until the end of the 2012/2013 school year.

In 2017, the Borbeck high school received the seal as a school without racism, thus continuing the long tradition in this area.

Starting in 2008, the number of registrations for classes 5 will drop disproportionately from what used to be a maximum of five parallel entrance classes to temporarily only two entrance classes. In contrast to the other municipal schools, which have an upper secondary level in Borbeck and the neighboring districts, the total number of students at the Borbeck grammar school will decrease by more than a third by 2015. The City Council of Essen takes this into account and generally limits the school's capacity to a maximum of three entrance classes. In exceptional cases, however, four entrance classes are approved.

The main building on Prinzenstrasse was opened on November 14, 1901. Because of the additional educational offers, the premises soon no longer suffice. That is why in the period that followed - especially after the destruction in World War II - there were structural expansions and dependencies were used. In 2002 and 2003 the right wing of the main building will be gutted and equipped with modern physics, chemistry, IT, biology and administration rooms. In 2009 the ailing pavilions on the school grounds on Prinzenstrasse will be demolished without replacement. The Borbeck grammar school has had a branch at Wüstenhöferstrasse 85 for grades 5 and 6 since 1997. It has its own specialist rooms for art, music, physics and biology classes, a cafeteria and a gym.

Borbeck grammar school today

The bilingual German-English training course is of particular importance for what the Borbeck grammar school offers. The guiding principle is based on the following consideration: In more and more areas of professional and public life, Europe is growing closer together, and many people use a foreign language - especially English - as a working language and therefore need to have the appropriate linguistic qualifications. In the bilingual course, alongside regular language lessons, the social science subjects geography, politics and history are gradually taught in the foreign language.

From 1993, the long-interrupted Christmas concerts at the Borbeck grammar school, which have been taking place since 1997 in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche of the Evangelical parish Borbeck-Vogelheim with the participation of numerous former students and teachers, will be held again. An attempt to revive old school traditions has developed into a concert event within a few years that is extremely popular in Borbeck and beyond.

Since the 2011/2012 school year, the school has been the first grammar school in Essen to offer the Abitur after nine years.

The inclusive school project, which has been tried and tested since August 1, 2013, expires after a decision made by the school boards in the 2018/2019 school year.

To ensure an extensive range of courses, the Borbeck grammar school cooperates with the neighboring Essen-Borbeck grammar school for girls. Principle of this cooperation: Girls from the girls' high school can also attend courses of their choice at the Borbeck high school; conversely, boys and girls can take the courses they want at the girls' high school. However, the girls and boys legally remain pupils at their respective home schools.

The educational work of the Borbeck Gymnasium is funded by the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Borbeck Gymnasium eV, founded in 1958, and by the Lothar-Böning Foundation, which is funded by the former student and donor Dr. Lothar Böning (Abitur 1964) was launched in 2004.

Personalities

principal

Only those educators who have been legally appointed as headmasters are listed.

  • 1901–1923 Franz Joseph Cüppers (1858–1945)
  • 1923–1949 Wilhelm Vollmann (1883–1955)
  • 1949–1957 Josef Birkenbach (1891–1977)
  • 1957–1962 Heinrich Lorscheid (1906–1979)
  • 1965–1987 Walter Rohlfing (1923–2002)
  • 1987–2006 Wolfgang Sykorra (* 1945; Abitur at Borbeck grammar school in 1964)
  • 2006–2014 Ursula Alsleben (* 1950)
  • 2014–2016 Heike Walbrodt-Derichs (* 1961)
  • since 2018 Lars Schnor (* 1975; Abitur at the Gymnasium Borbeck 1995)

Known students

School newspapers

Two editions of the Prince & Princess

At Borbeck Gymnasium there were always newspapers from student editorial offices under changing titles, more or less continuously .

  • "Schulzeitung des Gymnasium Borbeck", 1949–1955
  • “Schulspiegel”, 1955–1966
  • "Psyche"
  • "Concave mirror"
  • "School whispers"
  • "Perspective"
  • "Prince & Princess" (previously "Prince") , 1989-2001
  • "Wuestenexpress" (test stage newspaper ) , 1998–1999

In addition to these publications, it is also customary for the Abitur class to publish a graduation newspaper for the remaining students. Since 1990 these have been published in cooperation with the neighboring girls' grammar school as a reversible booklet. H. with separate title and content pages for both schools.

literature

  • Christa Emde-Bringenberg et al .: Borbeck grammar school 1905–1995. Chronicle of a school in the 20th century. Association of friends and sponsors of the Borbeck e. V., Essen 1995.
  • Klaus Lindemann, Wolfgang Sykorra: Borbeck High School. In: Andreas Koerner (Ed.): Between Castle and Chimneys. The story of Borbeck. Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 1999, ISBN 3-922750-34-6 , pp. 149-157.
  • Klaus Lindemann: Think, speak, write German. School, German lessons and Abitur 1932–1940 illustrated using the example of the Essen high schools Borbeck and Bredeney . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-50961-8 .
  • Klaus Lindemann: This house, a monument to true civic virtue. Borbeck grammar school since the imperial era. History of a school in the context of social change. 1st edition. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-377-1 .
  • Lothar Böning (Ed.), Wolfgang Sykorra: From the Penne to the world. Borbeck portraits. Edition Rainruhr, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-941676-17-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ essen.de "Ratsinformationssystem" - August 9, 2018
  2. ↑ gymnasium-borbeck.de , October 12, 2018
  3. ↑ Borbecker Nachrichten of December 15, 2011.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Sykorra: Borbecker half long. A school project of the European Capital of Culture "Ruhr.2010" . Edition Rainruhr, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941676-07-7 , p. 48 ff.
  5. ↑ Borbecker Nachrichten of July 4, 2013
  6. ↑ Borbecker Nachrichten of January 27, 2017
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Sykorra: '' Initiatives against violence and racism at Essen high school Borbeck. School program objectives as reflected in the formation of public opinion. '' Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Borbeck Gymnasium e. V., Essen 2001
  8. ↑ Borbecker Nachrichten of August 9, 2012.
  9. ^ City of Essen. The Lord Mayor (Ed.): Submission 0131/5 from January 27, 2011.
  10. ↑ Neue Ruhr Zeitung from January 19, 2019.
  11. ↑ There have been several temporary vacancies in the history of the school after a job holder left the company. The official business was then temporarily taken over by the respective deputy headmaster, namely from 1962-1963 by Dr. Valentin Bechtolf, 1963-1965 by Hans Strate and 2016-2018 by Lars Schnor. See Klaus Lindemann, Dies Haus, a monument to true civic virtue. The Borbeck Gymnasium since the Imperial Era, Essen 2005, 109 ff. And Borbecker Nachrichten from August 31, 2018.
  12. ^ German Volleyball Association - National Team (A women). Retrieved April 16, 2018 .