Dresden-Klotzsche High School

Klotzsche high school
type of school	high school
founding	1992
address	Gehestraße 11 01127 Dresden (outsourcing location)
place	Dresden
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 6 '56 "  N , 13 ° 46' 23"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '56 "  N , 13 ° 46' 23"  E
carrier	City of Dresden
student	approx. 894 (as of the school year 2018/19)
Teachers	77 (as of the school year 2018/19)
management	Frank Haubitz
Website	www.gymnasium- klotzsche.de

The Klotzsche grammar school is a general education grammar school in the Dresden district of Klotzsche and was founded in August 1992. It emerged from the 105th Polytechnic High School "AN Tupolev", which had existed for 17 years before. In 1983, this school was named after the Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Nikolajewitsch Tupolew , who among other things developed the world's first civilian supersonic aircraft, the TU-144 . The school is currently relocated to the Pieschen district of Dresden so that a new school building can be built on the site.

history

Initially, lessons took place both in the main building at Karl-Marx-Straße 44 and in the branch at Zur Wetterwarte 34 (about two kilometers north of the main office), which only housed fifth and sixth grade students. The latter was closed at the end of the 2011/12 school year due to its structural condition. A newly constructed container building opposite the main office, which went into operation from the following school year, was replaced. Since then, the students in grades ten to twelve have been taught there, the remaining students in the main building.

The old main building was demolished from July to October 2019. It will be replaced by a new building that will provide space for around 1120 students.

school-building

Future building

A new school building has been under construction on the site of the former main building since summer 2019 for around 21 million euros. Until the planned completion in 2022, the high school students will be relocated to the Pieschen school campus. School transport with additional buses and trams was organized especially for this purpose.

gym

Until the beginning of 2013 there was a single-field gym on the site of the main office. Due to structural and safety-related deficiencies, this was replaced by a new, larger three-field sports hall, which was opened in autumn 2014. It remains unaffected by the new construction of the actual school building.

Former main building

The main building of the grammar school was built in 1975 at Karl-Marx-Straße 44 as a new building for the 105th POS. The Dresden Atrium prefabricated building has a total of three floors and a basement. This is followed by a school yard with a sports field and gym. In addition, a small school garden was created on the initiative of parents. After 1990 the previous POS was closed and the school building was chosen as the domicile of the newly founded grammar school.

The building had 29 classrooms, including a media room, a physics, chemistry, biology and music room as well as two rooms each in the basement, which were used for technology and computers and computer science classes. The latter were each equipped with around 20 PCs. In addition, the students had a number of PCs that they could use independently outside of class.

Container building

As a replacement for the closed branch , a container building was built on an open green area opposite the grammar school. This served primarily as a classroom building for students in grades 10 to 12. It comprised a total of 20 classrooms, including six subject rooms, one of which each was primarily used for the subjects of computer science, chemistry, biology and music and two for physics classes.

The building has been used by the 19th primary school since summer 2019.

South view of the former main building shortly before the start of demolition work in summer 2019

North view of the former main building shortly before the start of the demolition work

East view of the former container building

Former Klotzsche branch

The branch, built in the 1930s as part of the Klotzsche Air War School , served as a military hospital during wartime. Ten years after the high school was founded, this building was set up as a branch. Lately, the structural condition of the building has deteriorated more and more, so that the branch office was closed for the 2012/2013 school year. Since the beginning of 2019, the building has served as a facility for the homeless.

classes

The lessons take place according to the curriculum of the Free State of Saxony .

foreign languages

The foreign language offerings include English from grade 5 and, from grade 6, either French, Russian or Latin. Exchange programs with Russian and French students take place regularly. Students from Hungary are also regular exchange students at the school. Exchange programs with a Chinese school are also planned.

Profile lesson

In grades 8 to 10, scientific, artistic and social science profile lessons are offered.

Upper school

The following advanced courses are offered in the upper level:

1. Advanced course: Mathematics and German
2. Advanced course: physics, biology, English and history (as well as French and Russian depending on demand)

Astronomy and health are offered as additional basic courses, in which, however, no Abitur examination can be taken.

Working groups and leisure activities

The numerous offers of the grammar school include support courses as well as sporting offers and the successful photo group. Here is a selection of offers:

• badminton
• chess
• robotics
• theatre
• photography
• Jazz choir
• swim
• volleyball
• tennis
• yoga

Particularly noteworthy is the Foto-AG, which is one of the best youth photo clubs in Germany. The students there regularly take part in competitions and events and can often receive prizes.

FÜGSE

At high school Klotzsche there every year in the second last two weeks of school a so-called FÜGSE-week (. F ächer above about g ripening school se frequency, official: interdisciplinary instruction). Each school year, at each grade level, a specific topic is examined from the perspective of different subjects. The topics are chosen according to the curriculum of the respective year and that of the next year. The following topics are covered:

• Class 5: Home
• Class 6: Antiquity
• Class 7: Asia
• Class 8: People and traffic
• Class 9: Globe
• Grade 10: utopias or home (see special features)
• Grade 11: Heimat (only some students)

particularities

In the Heimat project , students explore their immediate surroundings (Klotzsche, Dresdner Heide) and learn a lot from the past and present. During the two weeks, the 5th grade students are supervised and taught by the 10th grade high school students, who are not involved in the Utopias project (but in the student for students project ). Furthermore, the students are offered the traditional overnight stay in a tent city in the school yard.

Honourings and prices

In 2005 and 2006 the grammar school received the "School with Idea" award from the Saxon Ministry of Culture for the project pupils for pupils as part of the FÜGSE weeks.

Support association

In October 1992 the "Friends of the Dresden-Klotzsche Gymnasium eV" was founded. He supports the school with events and tries with financial means to improve the learning conditions at the school.

Well-known teachers and students

• Frank Haubitz (* 1958) - headmaster, politician, former Saxon minister of education
• Alexander Dierks (* 1987) - politician, general secretary of the CDU regional association of Saxony

gallery

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  Physics room on the second floor of the former container building

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  Music room on the ground floor of the former container building

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  Room C013 on the ground floor of the former container building

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  second floor of the former container building

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  Status of the demolition work of the main building as of October 26, 2019

Web links

• School website
• The Dresden-Klotzsche grammar school in the Saxon school database

Supplements and evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Treatise on the history of Klotzsche . Retrieved March 26, 2013.
2. ↑ Gymnasium Klotzsche is being expanded ( memento of the original from July 5, 2011 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. Report on dnn-online.de, July 1, 2011. Accessed September 17, 2011.  
3. ↑ Klotzsche High School - Schubert Horst Architects. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Construction site school - relocation - new school Klotzsche. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ School transport to Klotzsche secondary school. June 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Planning aids for repair and modernization - Dresden school type (PDF; 2.9 MB). Retrieved September 17, 2011.
7. ↑ Availability in the period from 5.8. until 8/16/2019 | 19. Dresden primary school "Am Jägerpark". Retrieved on August 13, 2019 (German). 
8. ^ Dresden: New facility for the homeless in Dresden-Klotzsche. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
9. ↑ "Our Chinese partner school introduces itself" Article on the school website. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
10. ↑ PDF file on the all-day offer at the grammar school  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , School year 2012/2013 . Retrieved April 10, 2013.  
11. ↑ Article about the Foto-AG on the website of the German Association for Photography eV ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 3, 2010 . Retrieved September 17, 2011.  
12. ↑ Report on the 31st FIAP Youth Biennial in Slovenia ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 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. . Retrieved September 19, 2011.  
13. ↑ Brochure from the Friends' Association , PDF document. Retrieved September 17, 2011.