Farmsen High School

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Farmsen High School
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type of school high school
School number 363/5885
founding 1956
address

Sweben height 50

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 36 '44 "  N , 10 ° 6' 32"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '44 "  N , 10 ° 6' 32"  E
carrier Hamburg
student 677
Teachers approx. 60
management Steffi Weisener
Website gymnasium-farmsen.de

The Farmsen grammar school (actually: Farmsen grammar school - school in the green ; in short: GyFa ) is a state, half bilingual grammar school in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne .

history

The high school was founded in 1956. Back then, the Farmsen grammar school was a small school. By 1973 the number of students rose to almost 900, the highest number ever. After that, the number of students fell sharply, in 1996 there were only 488 students at the grammar school. From the end of the 1990s the number of students rose again, at the beginning of 2006 it was 782.

From 1987 there was a school partnership with the Liceu Ludgero Lima on Cape Verde . Half of the grammar school has been bilingual since 1999, with history, geography, sports, mathematics, art, biology and chemistry being taught entirely or partially in English, depending on the branch.

In 2004 the book “Verliebt, na und wie!” Was filmed on the premises of the grammar school by Andreas Schlüter , himself a former grammar school graduate. The film was shown in the Abaton cinema and in many Hamburg schools. In 2006 the NDR made another film on the subject of bullying at the school .

Farmsen High School has had five headmasters since it was founded. The first headmaster was Walter Löding † (1956–1969), followed by Uwe Schmidt † (1969–1994), Konny G. Neumann (1994–2011) and Peter Geest (2011–2019). Steffi Weisener has been the headmaster since 2019.

Today's profile

The main catchment area of ​​the grammar school is the Hamburg districts of Farmsen-Berne and Bramfeld , less so the western Rahlstedt and the northern parts of Tonndorf and Wandsbek . In 2011, a social index of 4 was calculated for the grammar school . In the school year 2016/17, 47% of the students at the Farmsen grammar school had a migration background .

The Farmsen high school offers four branches:

  • Intensive bilingual branch
  • Bilingual branch normal
  • GMINT branch
  • Universal branch

In the upper level profile, the school offers a selection of subjects in cooperation with the Johannes Brahms Gymnasium , the Osterbek Gymnasium and the Bramfeld District School.

The GyFa has a selection of AGs that are also organized by the SV. The school is also taking part in the Prefect pilot project . Prefects are prefects who take responsibility for younger students and help with problems. In the field of sport, the Farmsen high school in Wandsbek is known for the GyFa football tournament in fourth and fifth grades, in which schools from all over Hamburg take part. Two newspapers are published at the GyFa, on the one hand the school newspaper "Forum Farmsen" , which is mainly produced by teachers and appears about once a year. On the other hand, there is the school newspaper “breakout” , which is produced by the schoolchildren alone and appears every three months . This also has its own website.

There are exchanges with Australia, Spain, Norway, France and the USA. The Farmsen high school also has a partner school in the Republic of Cape Verde . The European-Cape Verdean Circle of Friends was also established at the GyFa . V. founded. The GyFa took part in the Comenius program several times , most recently between 2013 and 2015.

architecture

Original development on Westhof, demolished in 2015
New construction of the grammar school (built 2015-17)

The original buildings of the grammar school from the 1950s were typical series buildings by the Hamburg building administration of the Paul Seitz era , who had a decisive influence on the reconstruction of Hamburg schools in the post-war period. These buildings were two-story pavilion structures , loosely positioned and connected by arcades. The classrooms were illuminated on both sides, all buildings had flat roofs and red brick facades.

An auditorium for the Farmsen grammar school was only inaugurated in 2013; the construction was partly financed by the school authorities and partly by donations. The auditorium is shared with the neighboring Surenland school. Towards the end of 2013, a four-class wing with a climbing frame and basketball court was completed. The older gym was modernized in 2015.

The construction of a new main building began in 2015 according to plans by Haslob, Kruse + Partner from Bremen. This architectural office was also responsible for the new building of the Sophie Barat School . The existing buildings of the Farmsen grammar school were demolished in three construction phases, only the four-class wing, the administration wing, the two gyms and the foreign language house remained. The new high school building was completed by 2017, the investment total was a good € 15 million. In total, existing buildings with a net floor area of 4,780 m² had been demolished, the new building brought an extension of 5,140 m². In the north, the school property borders on the former Neusuhrenland landfill , which was used until 1966. The area was partly prepared as a BMX track and is to be renovated. The new school building was therefore arranged outside of a possible gas migration zone.

The floor plan of the three-storey new building has the shape of a right-angled Z. The year areas are housed in the short legs of the Z, the middle bar accommodates all-day and communal areas, as well as the specialist rooms. The auditorium and cafeteria are on the ground floor and are supplied with daylight from the flat roof through glazed shafts. The building is accessible to disabled people by an elevator. The facade is brightly clinkered and complies with energy standards. A ventilation concept with automated night cooling and sun protection further reduces energy consumption.

Awards and competitions

The grammar school won awards such as the titles School in the Green , Solar School 2000 and Media School . In 2013, the Farmsen grammar school won the Hamburg Education Prize sponsored by the Hamburger Sparkasse and the Abendblatt.

The school takes part in competitions such as the Mathematics Olympiad , Jugend forscht , the Natex competition and the Daniel jet engine competition. In the federal foreign language competition, high school pupils received numerous other prizes, both at state and federal level.

Well-known alumni

The former students of the Farmsen grammar school include:

literature

  • High school in Farmsen 1956-1966 . Hamburg 1966. (typescript, 115 pages)
  • Wolfgang Ziemssen (Red.): Gymsen Farmsen: 1956 - 1981 . Hamburg 1981. (Festival newspaper for the 25th anniversary of the Farmsen grammar school, 139 pages)
  • Farmsen High School 1956-1986: 30 years of Farmsen High School . Hamburg 1986. (Festival newspaper for the 30th anniversary of the Farmsen grammar school, 144 pages)
  • J. Batty (Red.): Farmsen High School: our school in the country, 1956 - 1996 . Hamburg 1996. (Special edition for the 40th school anniversary in the Forum Farmsen series , 271 pages)
  • H. Brandes (Red.): Gymsen Farmsen: "Our School in the Green", 1956 - 2006 . Hamburg 2006. (Special edition for the 50th school anniversary in the Forum Farmsen series , 388 pages)

Web links

Commons : Farmsen High School  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Education Atlas , 2017/18 school year: Number of students at the Farmsen grammar school.
  2. ↑ School management on the school website. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ See the commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary, Wolfgang Ziemssen, page 138
  4. ↑ Arne Lund (ed.): Festschrift for the 20th anniversary of the school partnership between the Farmsen high school and the Liceu Ludgero Lima . European-Cape Verdean Circle of Friends, Hamburg 2007.
  5. ↑ Anniversary book: 50 Years of Gymsen Farmsen, 1956–2006, Christine Moll
  6. ^ Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from March 27, 2008 on the death of Dr. Uwe Schmidt
  7. ↑ Hamburg Education Atlas , school year 2017/18: catchment areas of the Farmsen high school.
  8. ↑ Hamburg Education Atlas , school year 2017/18: Social index of the Farmsen high school.
  9. ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: That's how high the proportion of migrants in Hamburg schools is . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 19, 2018 (at the Hamburg grammar schools, the average was 37.3%)
  10. ^ Upper level association: Osterbek grammar school, Farmsen grammar school, Johannes Brahms Gynasium, STS Bramfeld | Upper level association Wandsbek. Retrieved on August 24, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ breakout school newspaper , 01/2007, September 24, 2007
  12. ↑ Our exchanges / foreign language trips. (No longer available online.) Farmsen High School, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 .;
  13. ↑ Spain exchange - Comenius project with Spain and Norway 2013 - 2015. Gymsen Farmsen, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Press review. (No longer available online.) Farmsen High School, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 . ;
  15. ↑ a b Award of tender for a replacement building for the Farmsen grammar school at the Swebenhöhe 50 location, Hamburg , Hamburg 01/2014.
  16. ↑ a b Topping-out ceremony for the new building at the Farmsen Gymnasium , SBH Hamburg
  17. ↑ Axel Ritscher: Ex-garbage dump is to be renovated . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 25, 2018
  18. ↑ contaminated surface Neusurenland , district office Wandsbek
  19. ↑ Intelligent ventilation concept at the Farmsen grammar school . In: Bauen aktuell, April 5, 2018.
  20. ↑ a b Our honors. (No longer available online.) Farmsen High School, archived from the original on August 6, 2014 . ;
  21. ↑ What a great language festival! Federal Foreign Language Competition, accessed on July 3, 2018.
  22. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, April 3, 2010