Carolinum High School (Ansbach)

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Carolinum Illustrious High School
Carolinum high school from the south
type of school high school
School number 0010
founding 1528
address

Reuterstraße 9
91522 Ansbach

place Ansbach
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 18 ′ 4 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 11"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 4 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 11"  E
carrier City of Ansbach
student 455 (as of 2016/17)
Teachers 43 (as of 2016/17)
management Petrus Müller
Website www.gymnasium-carolinum.de

The Carolinum Illustre grammar school is the smallest of the three grammar schools that exist today in Ansbach, Central Franconia, and the second oldest non-monastic grammar school in Bavaria after the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg .

Founding history of the grammar school

In 1528, Margrave Georg the Pious founded a Latin school in Ansbach, then Onolzbach. It should soon develop into the educational center of the Ansbacher Unterland. In 1736 the school moved into the building that still exists today. This was built in 1727 as a planned penitentiary, but redesigned as a grammar school in 1736. After the Fürstenschule in Heilsbronn was dissolved, the Ansbach Latin School was elevated to the high school Carolinum Illustre (letter of foundation of May 1, 1737). The name was given after its patron, the Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich .

Structural appearance

The current school is located in the baroque building from the early 18th century with a thick tower that houses the libraries and the teachers' room. During a complete renovation in the 1960s, the entire building was gutted and completely modernized. The pink exterior color and the modern structure of the “third floor”, which was put on the old building like a hat in the 1990s (inauguration on March 1, 1996), are particularly striking. A special feature were the two inner courtyards lined with arcades , one of which was converted due to lack of space. Two cube-shaped rooms placed one on top of the other were created in it, in which smaller groups can be taught. A small, modern cafeteria was also set up on the ground floor of the former courtyard.

Upon entering the school, one gazes at a massive bronze plaque on the wall, on which the words of the Greek poet Pindar want to warn the readers that the war may appear to the inexperienced as a sweet challenge, but to those who have experienced it, as a horror remains unforgettable.

Branches and choices

Main entrance in the east wing facing the old town of Ansbach at Reuterstraße 9

In addition to the linguistic / humanistic branch with Latin from the 5th grade, English as a second language and then optionally ancient Greek or French , the training path via the musical branch is also possible.

Events

Concerts were offered especially by the “muses”, as the students of the musical branch are called within the school. The rock opera nox antea (lat., "The night before") was particularly successful in 1994/1995. Other oratorios organized and performed by the school were The Prodigal Son (1982) and Exodus (1987/1988).

In addition, the theater group attracted attention with its performances. Highlights were, for example, the performances of the ancient plays Lysistrate by Aristophanes and Antigone by Sophocles .

Rampage

On September 17, 2009, a rampage occurred at this school, which became known as the rampage of Ansbach .

Personalities

Known teachers

Known students

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Carolinum  - collection of pictures
 Wikinews: rampage at school in Ansbach  - message

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gymnasium Carolinum Ansbach on the pages of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (km.bayern.de, accessed on October 21, 2017)
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (ed.): School directory 2013/14 . July 2014, p. 96–97 ( PDF [accessed August 7, 2014]). PDF ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik.bayern.de
  3. ↑ school management. In: gymnasium-carolinum.de. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Hermann Dallhammer, Werner citizens: Ansbach: history of a city . Hercynia, Ansbach 1993, ISBN 978-3-925063-35-0 .
  5. ^ Spiegel Online: Ansbach rampage (queried on December 10, 2009)
  6. ^ A b Rudolf Fritsch: Karl Georg Christian von Staudt - Mathematical and biographical notes. In: Rudolf Seising, Menso Folkerts, Ulf Hashagen: Form, number, order. Studies in the history of science and technology. Festschrift for Ivo Schneider on his 65th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08525-4 , p. 381.
  7. ^ Thomas Greif: Franconia's brown pilgrimage: the Hesselberg in the Third Reich . Self-published by the Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-87707-698-9 , p. 194 .