Gymnasium Donauwörth

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Gymnasium Donauwörth
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type of school high school
founding 1889
address

Pyrkstockstrasse 1
86609 Donauwörth

place Donauwörth
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 43 '38 "  N , 10 ° 46' 39"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '38 "  N , 10 ° 46' 39"  E
carrier Free State of Bavaria
student approx. 1150 (school year 2018/19)
Teachers 98
management Karl Auinger
Website www.gym-don.de

The Gymnasium Donauwörth is a secondary school in the large district town of Donauwörth . The grammar school offers four branches: the modern language , the humanistic , the scientific-technological as well as the economic and social science . The grammar school is a fair trade school, seminar school, open all-day school and a reference grammar school of the Technical University of Munich .

history

There were Latin schools in Donauwörth, from 1301 to 1607 and briefly again during the War of the Spanish Succession Free Imperial City , as early as the Middle Ages and the early modern period. As almost everywhere in the predominantly Catholic rural areas of Germany, the secularization of 1802/03 also made a breach in the history of education for Donauwörth, which in 1714 finally became a (Kur-) Bavarian country town under imperial and international law . The educational, propaedeutic and scientific work of the orders previously resident in the city, in addition to the Capuchins and German orders, in particular the Benedictines of the Holy Cross, which had also linked Donauwörth to the Catholic educational network of the Reich Church, was now completely eliminated.

There had never been high schools or lyceums in Donauwörth, even if Maximilian I of Bavaria intended to settle the Jesuit order in his new northern Istrian bridgehead in Swabia. Nevertheless, it is precisely for this reason that the other religious orders in particular were of immense importance for the promotion of the city's spiritual offspring, as several examples of the successful sons of Donauwörth show, who received their first education from Heilig-Kreuzer Benedictines and then continued into the 17th century. In the 17th century, ecclesiastically dominated universities were sent - the most prominent example of this is certainly Joseph von Weber (1753–1831), 1764–1770 pupil of the Heilig-Kreuzer Benedictines and later professor of physics and chemistry at the universities of Dillingen as a doctor of philosopher and theologian the Danube, Landshut and Ingolstadt. Even if the establishment of a (Jesuit) grammar school in Donauwörth ultimately failed to materialize - at least Maximilian's son, Elector Ferdinand Maria, opened a new Capuchin monastery in the city (also this one in the Berger suburbs - the convent building of which is now the Käthe-Kruse- Puppenmuseum as well as Werner Egk meeting place) - is the upper German high school, academic and university education landscape, in which the city was embedded since the end of the Middle Ages, of a highly remarkable profile, because on the one hand several of the best and most respected high schools and lyceums in the German-speaking area were in the immediate vicinity. On the other hand, there were more universities (or in the case of the Schola Lauingana, reformed high schools, which was written by Johannes Sturm in the case of educational history) in the vicinity than today.

The breach that emerged after secularization was ultimately only to be filled again after the end of the Second World War : it was only at this relatively late point in time that the Bavarian state established a fully functional grammar school in the city that was still independent until 1945. Until this was finally put into operation in 1957 - combined with extensive new buildings on today's school grounds in the Berger Vorstadt - it was a rocky road, the beginnings of which the (own) representations of the later 20th century project back into 1889, when an initially private Latin school was founded in the Donauwörther Tanzhaus . This, meanwhile nationalized to the Royal Bavarian Five Class Latin School, moved in 1894 to a classical building between the Danube bridge and the Schellenberg. This was built in 1848 as the city's first station building in the course of the construction of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn , but has since lost its function because the narrow railway corridor - today the Donauwörther Promenade - was no longer sufficient for the rapidly growing demand for track systems the station was therefore moved to its current location. This institution was named the Royal Bavarian Progymnasium in 1897 and, after it was made accessible to girls after the establishment of the Republic and Free State in 1919 , received the status of a German secondary school in 1938 . Since the school building at the southeast end of the promenade was destroyed in April 1945 by the Allied air raids, which mainly targeted the immediately adjacent Danube bridge and the nearby Messerschmitt works, the grammar school relocated temporarily. In 1957, now expanded by a humanistic branch and thus a fully valid grammar school in the Bavarian sense (no longer just a secondary school), it finally moved to the current school grounds, which at that time was still directly adjacent to the municipality of Berg . During the Third Reich, the construction of a Gauforum was not only planned on the building site on the Reichsstrasse from Munich or Augsburg to Nuremberg, In some cases it has even been put into practice (the building of the Donauwörther Youth Hostel next to the grammar school).

From 1998 the school took part in the Comenius program , which in 2007 became part of the “ Lifelong Learning ” program of the European Union. From 2002 she was also involved in MODUS21 and the BLK-Sinus project . She has been participating in MODUS F since 2006 . In 2006 the grammar school was awarded the Inner School Development Innovation Prize.

Since 2008 the Gymnasium Donauwörth has been a Bavarian seminar school with the subjects German, English, French, history, Latin, psychology with a focus on school psychology and social studies. An open all-day school has been offered since the 2010/11 school year .

In 2016 the grammar school was awarded the title Fairtrade School .

Well-known students

Cooperations

The high school maintains cooperations u. a. with the University of Augsburg , the Kolping-Bildungswerk , the Technical University of Munich , the Grenzebach BSH company , Airbus Helicopters , the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim , the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , the St. Johannes Foundation for the Disabled and the Sparkasse Donauwörth .

literature

  • Alfred Böswald, Jörg Eyrainer and Hans H. Kolz: One hundred years of the Donauwörth high school . Publishing house Ludwig Auer, Donauwörth 1989.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d website of the grammar school. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ See u. a. most recently Wolfgang Mährle, in: Historisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Chronicle , website of the grammar school
  4. ↑ Phases of school development , website of the grammar school
  5. ^ Prize winners 2006 , website of the Bavarian Education Pact Foundation
  6. ↑ Donauwörth is a Fairtrade City , B4B Wirtschaftsleben Schwaben from June 20, 2016; Accessed July 20, 2017
  7. ↑ Donauwörth is a Fairtrade city and has a Fairtrade high school ( memento of the original from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gym-don.de; Accessed July 20, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gym-don.de
  8. ↑ External partners ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2018 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. , Website of the high school @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gym-don.de