Fichtnergasse high school

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Fichtnergasse high school
Gymnasium Fichtnergasse 01.jpg
founding 1897
place Vienna
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 11 '11 "  N , 16 ° 17' 18"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '11 "  N , 16 ° 17' 18"  E
Website www.fichtnergasse.at/

The Fichtnergasse grammar school is the oldest grammar school in Vienna's 13th district, Hietzing .

Relief for Isidor Kukutsch, the first director of the grammar school

history

1897 to 1918

The grammar school founded by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Cultus and Teaching was provisionally rented in 1897 at Diesterweggasse 3 in Penzing , which was part of the 13th district until 1938 , because the school building had to be built . The high school building was built in the short construction period from May 2, 1899 to August 30, 1900 according to the plans of the architect Emil von Förster by the Frauenfeld Berghof construction company under the builder Eduard Frauenfeld jun. and under the construction management of the engineer Emil Artmann (1871-1939) in the Fichtnergasse, a side street of the Hietzinger Hauptstrasse, near the Hügelpark . The large New World entertainment establishment was located on this area in the 1860s and 1870s .

The school building comprised twelve classrooms on three floors, a gymnasium, an exhortation hall (exhortation, outdated: admonition speech), halls for natural history and natural science and collections, a physics and drawing room, director's office and library, conference room and consulting room as well as a director's apartment and a school servant's apartment. The garden was used to create a summer natural site and a botanical garden. The construction costs were given as 438,000 crowns . The building was equipped with central heating, which was modern at the time, namely low-pressure steam air heating in conjunction with calorifer heating. The lighting was carried out by gas outside light with reflex umbrellas and a reflective case ceiling.

The solemn keystone laying and opening of the school took place on October 16, 1900. The Imperial and Royal Minister of Education, Wilhelm von Hartel , the governor of Lower Austria , Erich von Kielmansegg , the vice-president of the Lower Austrian school board , Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling , and the mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger , were present at the ceremony . The keystone was laid in the vestibule of the school by the bronze bust of Emperor Franz Joseph I , a work by the sculptor Anton Brenek . The memorial document, which is sunk in a capsule under the keystone , was consecrated by the Cathedral Chapter Ferdinand Wimmer, assisted by Professor Wolfgang Pauker.

The school building was initially visible from afar, as not all the parcels along Fichtnergasse had been built. (At that time the district had only been part of Vienna for eight years.) However, the recently opened Vienna light rail system brought changes: Hietzing was easier to reach. The Hietzinger Stellwagen , which is reminiscent of Nestroy, was followed in 1887 by the steam tramway , which ran on Hietzinger Hauptstrasse at half-hourly intervals until 1908 and opened up the school at the Fichtnergasse stop. On October 13, 1908, the line was switched to electric tram operation (line 58, until 2017, since then line 10); originally, you could drive here directly from the Neuer Markt in the city center. Every Sunday the Catholic students were led in rows of two to the service in the parish church of Maria Hietzing .

1918 to 1945

After the First World War, the bust of Franz Joseph I in the vestibule was removed in the First Republic. With Glöckel's school reform , which was dominated by social democrats, class representatives were elected for the first time and the so-called school community was established. Girls were accepted for the first time in 1919.

From 1928 the first concrete steps to expand the school building were taken. In the school year 1933/1934, the Hietzinger Gymnasium with 17 classes and 644 students was the largest gymnasium in Vienna in terms of student numbers. In the dictatorial corporate state that began in 1934 , the Franz Joseph I bust and the altarpiece in the Exhortensaal were re-erected (removed by the National Socialists in 1938). On November 14, 1935, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer consecrated a school flag donated by the parents' association in the ballroom of the school.

When Austria was "annexed" to Hitler's Germany, director Josef Stadlmann, a pronounced Christian Socialist , was escorted out of the school with the bayonet in place with the help of some pupils belonging to the Hitler Youth, arrested and forced into retirement with reduced salaries. In the following days, the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler took quarters in the school building.

A high percentage of the students consisted of Jewish boys who lost their lives or had to flee abroad. During the time of National Socialism, the school was called Oberschule for boys , but this was not noticed because no more girls were accepted under Stadlmann. The student body increased with seminarians from Hollabrunn, who were moved to the episcopal summer residence in Ober Sankt Veit after the local Catholic boys' seminar was closed. Overall, the number of pupils fell from 562 to 369 between 1938 and 1945, because the Jewish pupils were expelled and training other than humanistic education was promoted under National Socialism.

In the school year 1943/1944, the institute had four sixth classes (= 10th grade / grade ) as so-called Luftwaffe helper HJ classes, which were housed in flak positions and were supervised by instructors assigned there. In the last year of the war, the pupils of the grammar schools in the 18th and 19th districts, whose schools now served as military hospitals, were assigned to the Hietzinger grammar school. Director Karl Aulitzky was assigned to the Volkssturm at the end of the war , was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was reported missing. When Vienna was conquered by the Red Army in April 1945, the latter took up residence in the school building. The school caretaker Preinfalk saved the school's collection and books.

After 1945

After the liberation of Vienna, classes were resumed on July 3, 1945 in the neighboring Wenzgasse grammar school . In autumn 1945, what was then the district of Hietzing became part of the English occupation sector in Vienna. The soldiers had left the school; half-day lessons were resumed in the school building in Fichtnergasse because the other half-day was made available to the homeless secondary school in Astgasse (since 1938: 14th district). On November 8, 1945, Stadlmann became director again. From December 1945 to March 1946 classes were canceled due to a lack of heating material.

On May 8, 1948, a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the grammar school took place belatedly. On May 12th and 13th, 1948, the 50th anniversary celebrations were followed by two evenings with the performance of the Nestroy piece “Nur keck!” , And on November 5th and 6th the 8th grade played Nestroy's “ Eulenspiegel ”. At Christmas 1949, the professors were able to give the widows of the deceased teachers and school employees a pleasant surprise: The former Fichtnergassen high school graduate Hans Altmann, son of the textile industrialist Bernhard Altmann, who was expelled in 1938, appeared in 1948 with a large sugar donation; Now in 1949 he sent 3½ m of top quality clothing from the United States as a gift. (Hans Altmann remained connected to Hietzing: in 1964 he married Ruth , who had lived with her parents at St.-Veit-Gasse 10 from 1933–1938 .)

Under director Friedrich Heger, girls were accepted again and a full-girl class with 37 pupils was formed. On October 24, 1951, the school community was re-established and class representatives were re-elected. After the long break of 32 years, annual reports were published again on a regular basis.

In 1964, the renovation and expansion of the school building began. The expanded and modernized school was opened on June 17, 1967 with an internal ceremony. The official ceremony followed on November 6, 1967 in the presence of Federal Minister Vinzenz Kotzina for Buildings and Technology and Theodor Piffl-Percevic for teaching.

management

  • 1897–1919 Isidor Kukutsch, previously professor at the Theresian Academy
  • 1919–1930 Gustav Hemetsberger
  • 1930–1931 Johann Zuchristian, provisional
  • 1931–1938 Josef Stadlmann († August 8, 1964), from 1920 he represented the group of Christian secondary school teachers
  • 1938–1945 Karl Aulitzky (1891–1945), acting, in the uniform of a political leader
  • 1945 Eugen Mitter, provisional
  • 1945–1949 Josef Stadlmann
  • 1949–1950 Eugen Mitter
  • 1950–1958 Friedrich Heger
  • 1958 Hubert Richter, provisional
  • 1958–1968 Hans Kriegl († February 19, 1971)
  • 1968–1969 Friedrich Weigert, provisional
  • 1970–1977 Hans Höltl
  • 1977–1978 Herbert Gillinger, provisional
  • 1978–1985 Harald Majdan († March 27, 1985)
  • 1985 Friedrich Novopacky, provisional
  • 1986–1997 Elfriede Jischa (1932–2002)
  • 1998–2009 Elisabeth Glatt
  • 2009– Ulrike Reh-Altenaichinger

Teacher

  • Gustav Turba , historian, from 1911 professor at the University of Vienna
  • Johann Langer (1861–1950), music teacher, from 1898 to 1929 as a music teacher at the school

student

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Fichtnergasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Altmann in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna