Gymnasium Georgianum (Vreden)

City Georgianum High School
type of school	high school
School number	168002
founding	1677
address	Zwillbrocker Strasse 3
place	Vreden
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 2 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E
carrier	City of Vreden
student	875 (Sept. 2016)
Teachers	69 (Sept. 4, 2017)
management	Jürgen Klomfaß
Website	www.gymnasium-vreden.de

The municipal high school Georgianum in Vreden is one of three secondary schools in the city of Vreden. At the Georgianum approx. 875 students in grades 5 to 12 taught by 69 teachers.

history

The Gymnasium Georgianum owes its existence to the initiative Vredener Bürger, who wanted to enable their sons and Catholic young people in the border area with the Protestant Netherlands after the Thirty Years War and in the course of the Counter Reformation to revive the Catholic faith, combined with a humanistic education.

In 1677, the then Bishop of Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen , commissioned the Vreden Franciscans , who belonged to the Saxon Order Province ( Saxonia ), to found the grammar school, which was to take the name of the long only parish of Vredens, St. Georg. This should make it clear that the grammar school and the parish should be driven by the same "desire for virtue" and by the same "zeal for faith" and that the grammar school should achieve these goals through the "love of science" and "humanistic studies" (Latin , Theology, philosophy, rhetoric, ...) could serve (quoted from the founding document).

During the period of secularization and the closure of monasteries, Prince Konstantin zu Salm-Salm promised the Franciscans the continued existence of the monastery in Vreden in 1803 . After the high school, its church and the monastery were destroyed by a severe fire in the city in 1811, the Franciscans did not return to Vreden. In 1822 a Progymnasium was built, which - after several crises - became a rectorate school in 1879 and was converted into a higher city school for boys and girls in 1921. After the destruction in World War II , the current school building could be moved into in 1952. The Progymnasium was expanded into a full high school in 1965.

Former students

Martin Plewa , former national coach of eventing riders and Olympic champion
Norbert Wesseler , police chief in Düsseldorf
Ulrike Tillmann , mathematics professor at Oxford
Ingrid Laubrock , jazz musician
Ramin Bijan , bassist for the bands Die Doors and Samba
Jörg Philipp Terhechte , lawyer and university professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Johannes Röring , member of the Bundestag since 2005 and agricultural functionary

Web links

Website of the Georgianum High School

Individual evidence

↑ Further school information from the NRW Ministry of Education
↑ Life in Vreden - schools, further education , on: Vreden.de; accessed on September 4, 2017
↑ Kollegium , on: gymnasium-vreden.de; accessed on September 4, 2017
↑ Dr. Jürgen Klomfaß appointed as the new headmaster , at: gymnasium-vreden.de; accessed on September 4, 2017
↑ Autbert Groeteken: History of the Georgianum grammar school and Franciscan monastery in Vreden. In: Patricius Schlager : Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. Vol. IV / V (1911/12), pp. 101-176, here 129-135.

[1] Further school information from the NRW Ministry of Education

[2] Life in Vreden - schools, further education , on: Vreden.de; accessed on September 4, 2017

[3] Kollegium , on: gymnasium-vreden.de; accessed on September 4, 2017

[4] Dr. Jürgen Klomfaß appointed as the new headmaster , at: gymnasium-vreden.de; accessed on September 4, 2017

[5] Autbert Groeteken: History of the Georgianum grammar school and Franciscan monastery in Vreden. In: Patricius Schlager : Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. Vol. IV / V (1911/12), pp. 101-176, here 129-135.