High school Dresden-Cotta

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High school Dresden-Cotta
High school Dresden-Cotta
type of school General education high school
founding 1869
address

Cossebauder Strasse 35

place Dresden
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '28 "  N , 13 ° 41' 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '28 "  N , 13 ° 41' 11"  E
carrier City of Dresden
student 884 (2018/19)
Teachers 80 (2018/19)
management Jürgen Karras
Website cms.sn.schule.de/gdc/
Erlwein prevails against Förster: "If you shorten the roof of the house, its rhythm is completely broken."
Rübezahl

The Dresden-Cotta grammar school , abbreviated to GDC, is a grammar school in the Saxon state capital Dresden .

With almost 900 students, it is one of the largest high schools in the city. It is located in the west of Dresden in the Cotta district .

history

On October 8, 1869, the first Cotta school with 138 students, a teacher and a classroom was inaugurated. Due to the steadily increasing number of students, the community expanded the school several times and added another school building.

After Cotta was incorporated into Dresden on January 1, 1903, increasing population numbers forced the city council to build a new school. Construction began that same year, and the lead architect was Hans Erlwein . In the last year of construction there was a dispute between Erlwein and the Förster town councilor as to whether the roof to be built should be high or flat. This dispute is recorded in a relief on the south wing: "If you shorten the roof of the house, its rhythm is completely broken." Erlwein prevailed, the school was given a high central section. In October 1911, the 34th district school was handed over with an inauguration ceremony and at that time it was the largest and most modern elementary school in Saxony with 64 classrooms, designed for 3000 students. The strict gender segregation was also a feature of this school: girls and boys had separate entrances, classrooms, and playgrounds. The school had, among other things, a shower bath, a laundry room, a library and a teaching kitchen.

In the First World War 65% of the teachers were drafted, five of whom were killed in action. In addition, in 1918 everything that was made of copper, including copper gutters and window protection sheets, was dismantled and used to arm the war machinery. In the turnip winter of 1916/17, many of the children also starved to death. In 1926, 40 teachers were teaching only 2,190 students.

In the years 1933 to 1945 this school was also placed in the service of National Socialism . There were propaganda events, such as B. the community radio reception of all students in the gym on Potsdam day or the planting of an oak in the school yard. In addition, teachers who taught too progressively or who were critical of National Socialism were reprimanded or dismissed.

The school was hit twice in bombing raids on Dresden during World War II . The attack on January 16, 1945 meant that classes had to be suspended. During the last attack on Dresden on April 17, 1945, a heavy bomb destroyed the north wing and the central nave of the building and also destroyed the school chronicle. Bullet holes from the Second World War were still visible on the outer wall of the south wing until it was renovated in 2005.

After the repair of the south wing, the school (34th elementary school) was resumed in October 1949. The reconstruction of the middle section, the north wing and the gymnasium followed until 1953. The middle wing was increased, but the roof structure was changed. So the dormers as well as the roof extensions and the large chimneys were omitted. The gate houses were not rebuilt either. From 1953 to 1956, the school building housed the 34th elementary school, the Oberschule West and from 1956 the children's and youth sports school (KJS). An auxiliary school was set up in the north wing, which was later rebuilt. In 1959 the school was renamed the 34th General Polytechnic High School. Here pupils from the 1st to the 10th grade were taught. 25 years later it was named " Ernst Moritz Arndt ".

In 1992 the Dresden-Cotta grammar school was established in the building.

From 2005 to 2007 the south wing was renovated.

In October 2014 a new four-field gym was inaugurated for the school.

In January 2020, the new canteen and auditorium in the former two-field gym was inaugurated.

future

The renovation of the school building is in planning, which is to be implemented from February 2021 to 2023 for 22.2 million euros. The head of the Dresden School Administration Office, Reinhard Koettnitz, is expecting the start in August 2021. During the construction period, school operations are to be outsourced to the Terrassenufer outsourcing building.

architecture

The architect of the current school building was Hans Erlwein . The school building is characterized by "functionality, clarity, simplicity, structure of the structure and the integration into the environment".

Designation Rübezahlschule

The east side of the school building was originally adorned with a fresco by the Rübezahl by the Dresden artist Georg Lührig . So the school got its nickname in the vernacular : Rübezahl school. The connection between the school and Rübezahl is also taken up again in a relief that depicts the legend of Rübezahl in pictures and is placed inside the school. After the original fresco was destroyed in the war, it became in 1949 the reconstruction of the school of Alfred Teichmann in sgraffito redesigned technique.

School profile

The school offers the artistic, scientific and social science profile.

A special feature of the school since 2007, in cooperation with the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory, are the wind classes, in which you can learn to play an instrument in grades 5 and 6. After this time, each student can decide whether he or she would like to continue playing the instrument he has learned in the school orchestras (GDC orchestra and junior orchestra under the direction of Thomas Köckritz).

languages

English is taught as the first foreign language. For a better understanding of the English language there is a "language trip" to Swansea in Wales in the eighth grade . For the second foreign language from the sixth grade, French , Latin or Italian are available.

School life

School newspaper

There were several school newspapers at this school, all of which were published by a student editorial team, mostly from higher grades. First the magazine "noname" which appeared for the first time in 1992 in the 34th high school. It was followed from 1996 to 1999 by “high pressure”. At the same time, younger generations published the "School Times" during the same period. The newspaper “Kaktus” was published until 2008, but was closed due to a lack of editors and sales figures. The newly founded school newspaper “Jahresschrift” has been published annually since the 2010/11 school year and emerged from the annual publications that were overseen by teachers in the 1990s.

School concerts

Every year there is a Christmas concert in the Heilandskirche and a summer concert in the school, organized by the students of the two choirs, the two orchestras and the wind classes.

Support association

The grammar school is supported by a development association . This financially secures various projects and events that would otherwise not be possible. Members of the development association are mainly former students, parents and teachers.

Partner schools

literature

  • Volker Helas: Hans Erlwein. City planning officer in Dresden 1905–1914 . 2nd Edition. Michel Sandstein Grafischer Betrieb und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Dresden 1997, ISBN 978-3-930382-16-3 .

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Dresden-Cotta  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://cms.sn.schule.de/gdc/schulorganisation/verbindungen-fakten/ , accessed on September 16, 2017
  2. ↑ The consecration of the 34th district school , in "Elbtal-Abendpost, General. Newspaper for Dresden and the surrounding area ”from April 25, 1911