Fürstenried high school

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Fürstenried high school
School center Fuerstenried-West - 2.JPG
type of school high school
School number 0374
founding 1971
address

Engadiner Str. 1
81475 Munich

place Munich
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 5 '24 "  N , 11 ° 28' 52"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '24 "  N , 11 ° 28' 52"  E
carrier state
student 945 (school year 2017/18)
Teachers 64
management Holger Küst
Website www.gymnasium-fuerstenried.de

The Gymnasium Fürstenried (formerly "Gymnasium Fürstenried-West") is a scientific, technological and linguistic high school in the Fürstenried district of Munich .

location

The high school is located directly at the Engadiner / Graubündener Strasse intersection, near the underground station and the Fürstenried West bus station . The high school shares the school building with the state Joseph von Fraunhofer Realschule . To the north of the school, next to a primary school, there are gyms and the district sports facility, which is also used by TSV Forstenried .

History and Development

The Fürstenried district played a central role in the plans of the state capital Munich, with which one wanted to do justice to the enormous population growth of the 1960s: Munich's millionth citizen was born on September 15, 1957, and the city's population has grown by 25,000 annually since then. In 1971 the Fürstenried-West grammar school started operating in the rooms of the elementary school on Berner Straße. Around 300 students were taught in 10 classes by 13 teachers. Due to the acute lack of space, the lessons took place in shifts. At the same time, the city of Munich built a school center on Engadiner Strasse with a total cost of more than 43 million DM. A cooperative comprehensive school was planned that would take in over 2000 students in a secondary school and a grammar school. In 1974 the high school moved from Berner to Engadiner Straße. In 1976 the secondary school started operating. The school center was officially opened in this year. At this point, the idea of ​​a comprehensive school was largely off the table. Parents protests, practical problems with the room layout and, last but not least, pedagogical conflicts of interest led to a clear separation in the school area, both in terms of space, administration and teaching. The number of pupils in the grammar school has been around 600 for many years. The numbers have risen sharply since the 2007/2008 school year, which is due to the demographic development on the outskirts of Munich, but above all to a significant change in the range of offers at the school. In the 2012/2013 school year, over 900 students attended the grammar school, who were taught by 75 teachers. The “West” has meanwhile disappeared from the school name, the official school name is “Gymnasium München-Fürstenried”.

principal

  • Richard Mock (1971–1991)
  • Konrad Raab (1991-2000)
  • Willi Eisele (2000-2011)
  • Werner Fiebig (2011-2015)
  • Rupert Grübl (2015-2019)
  • Holger Küst

Training orientation

The grammar school offers the following branches of education as part of an eight-year grammar school:

  1. Linguistic high school (SG). In the 2013/14 school year, a new branch with three modern foreign languages ​​(English, French, Italian) was introduced.
  2. Science and technology grammar school (NTG)

building

Fürstenried high school

Peter Lanz, the architect of the school building, was faced with the difficult task of meeting a very large space requirement in a limited inner-city area. At the same time, there were clear guidelines regarding the costs and the limited construction time. The result was the “bunker”, as the new school was quickly called, a mighty complex of buildings, completely dedicated to the modernism of the time and shaped by the architectural pioneering spirit that had reached its unique climax in the architecture of the 1972 Olympic buildings in Munich. However, on closer inspection, the building quickly turned out to be a compromise, which fulfilled the requirements, but fell far short of expectations and possibilities in terms of form and function. The shell made of lecabeton proved to be less resistant and quickly became unsightly due to the weather conditions. Progressive planning elements (terraces in front of the classrooms, a playground on the green roof) fell victim to the small minds of bureaucratic objectors, the color scheme in the outdoor area was quickly changed again due to local residents' protests. The half-heartedness continued in the interior design. In the atrium planned by Peter Lanz as an event space, savings potential was seen. The result was an unsightly concrete bowl, the steps of which were unsuitable for practical use. The bold color scheme conceived by the Munich painter Rupprecht Geiger was only half-heartedly and incompletely implemented and constantly changed over the years. Although people still speak of the “Rupprecht-Geiger-Schule” today, little of its original concept remains, the remaining accents seem out of place and anything but suitable for students. Nevertheless, the bunker represents an architectural element that is characteristic of the Fürstenried district and that has a high degree of identity for the school family of the grammar school. The students stand by their bunker, the teachers have come to terms with the special features of the building and appreciate the surprise elements and the unorthodox possibilities that the eccentric architecture enables. Recent changes are evidence of a concept that is about clear lines and open structures in the educational space and enables teachers and students to work in a contemporary environment. Later, due to a lack of classrooms, containers were set up in the schoolyard in which classes are held.

School life

The Fürstenried high school offers scientific, technological and linguistic training courses, with English or Latin as the first foreign language. In a variety of different elective courses, the students have the opportunity to deepen their personal inclinations. Musical and creative offers (theater, school newspaper “Bunker Blatt'l”, film and video, choir, orchestra, band, instrumental lessons, IT / web design, creative handicrafts and crafts) are supplemented by sports courses (basketball, darts, football, rugby, chess , Swimming, volleyball), working groups within the framework of student co-responsibility and internationally oriented working groups (Model United Nations, Burkina Faso Group). Top sport is promoted, among other things, within the framework of the ski racing team. A separate hall is available for swimming lessons. There are special additional courses for students with a migration background and lack of language skills. The lower level theater group "Multi-Kulti" is part of this project. Since the school year 2012/2013, the open all-day school has offered a rhythmic afternoon program with homework supervision as well as various sports, creative and learning options. A special team of tutors supports the students with problems in individual subjects.

Student organizations

The student co-responsibility (SMV) is supported at the Gymnasium Fürstenried by elected level spokespersons as well as by student teams whose members have qualified for their tasks through special school-internal training paths (tutors, mediators, arbitrators, coaching team).

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Fürstenried  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .