Hammonense high school

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Hammonense high school
logo
Logo of the Hammonense high school
type of school high school
School number 169572
founding 1657
address

Adenauerallee 2

place 59065 Hamm
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 41 '4 "  N , 7 ° 49' 7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '4 "  N , 7 ° 49' 7"  E
carrier City of Hamm
student 580 (2017)
Teachers 54 (2017)
management Jörg Asshoff
Website [1]

The Hammonense grammar school is the oldest grammar school in Hamm and has its roots in the academic grammar school in Hamm.

history

Hammonense Grammar School (postcard, ca.1908)

The Academic Gymnasium began teaching on May 28, 1657 after Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg had allowed the establishment of another Reformed university in its western territories in 1655.

There was one professorship each in the three faculties of theology , law and philosophy . There was no medical school.

Due to the common Reformed creed, close relationships with the universities in the Netherlands can be established in the 17th century, but the Academic Gymnasium in Hamm also had a lively exchange with the University in Duisburg (founded in 1655) and the High School in Burgsteinfurt. While in the 17th and early 18th centuries numerous students, especially from the towns of the County of Mark (e.g. Altena , Hagen , Hattingen , Kamen , Lüdenscheid , Lünen , Neuenrade , Plettenberg , Soest , Unna ) can be proven, narrowed the catchment area became clear in the course of the 18th century. A low point in the development is emerging around the middle of the century. In 1755 there were six and no more students in 1766.

In 1781 the Academic Gymnasium was merged with the Hammer Latin School. The result was a humanistic grammar school, shaped by the reform ideas of the Prussian minister Karl Abraham von Zedlitz († 1793). In 1782, therefore, the new school regulations for the Hammonense grammar school were introduced at all Protestant schools in Kleve-Mark. The academic printing company, however, remained in existence. One focus was the printing of official announcements for the Märkische War and Domain Chamber in Hamm .

The growth of the city of Hamm in the course of industrialization led to a doubling of the number of students in just 40 years (1835: 95 students; 1875: 178 students). A new building, which had become necessary due to the significantly increased number of students, was inaugurated on Brüderstraße in 1880. However, this building was destroyed in World War II. The Hammonense grammar school has been located on Adenauerallee since 1956.

In the 1960s, the number of pupils at Hammonense grammar school rose sharply, as at all Hammer grammar schools. Sun visited in 1964 a total of 1,832 boys and girls at that time four high schools of the city, on 15 January 1967 were already in 2227, on 1 September 1968 then 2697. The city government therefore asked in 1964 the Minister of Education to build another State High School, approved the 1968 has been. In the absence of sufficient finances for another independent grammar school, on March 29, 1968, the then head of the Hammonense Kusian grammar school announced the establishment of a branch of his grammar school at the beginning of the school year 1968/69. The Staatliche Gymnasium II started operations in the summer of 1968 at Sorauer Straße 20 (today Dr.-Voßhage-Straße 1) in the north of Hammer. The lessons took place in provisionally built pavilions and z. T. in foreign rooms. Initially, teachers commuted between the locations and "hiking classes" between rooms and sports halls, until January 1, 1973, the Galilei Gymnasium became independent. The founding rector was Hans-Dieter Voßhage, who previously taught at the Hammonense grammar school.

In three construction phases, the east-west wing was raised to two storeys in 1967, the two-storey double-hipped natural science wing was added to the east wing in 1971–1973, and the north-south wing was expanded and raised by a second hip between 1972 and 1974. The new capacity of classes and specialist rooms exceeded the initial equipment by three times: 30 classrooms were now available, as well as a language laboratory with a studio, two AV media rooms and large group room, student library, music room, drawing room, work room, textile room and new administration rooms as well as a waiting area for foreign students.

Well-known professors

Theologians

  • 1656–1661: Anton Perizonius († 1672: 1661 Prof. theol. In Deventer )
  • 1674–1676: Wilhelm Momma (* 1642 in Hamburg; † 1677 in Delft: 1676 Prof. theol. In Middelburg )
  • Theodor Berndt (1838–1916), professor at the grammar school from 1895

Lawyers

Philosophers

Directors and teachers

Former students

Source:

literature

  • Christian Friedrich Wachter : Historical news about the Hammsche Gymnasium. Hamm 1818.
  • Theodor Berndt : Older history of the royal high school in Hamm. 1781–1836 , Hamm 1909.
  • Festschrift to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal High School in Hamm iW , Hamm 1907.
  • Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the state high school in Hamm. 1657–1957 , Hamm 1957.
  • Manfred Komorowski: The writings of the Academic Gymnasium Hamm / Westphalia (1657–1781): A preliminary balance sheet , in: Gutenberg Yearbook 1992, pp. 275–297.
  • Association of Friends of Gymnasium Hammonense e. V. (Ed.): Festschrift for the 325th anniversary of the Hammonense grammar school. 1657-1982 , Hamm 1982.
  • Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the Hammonense grammar school. 1657-2007 , ed. from Hammonense Gymnasium, Hamm 2007 ISBN 978-3-00-021512-4
  • Volker Pirsich (ed.): Professors, students, books. Hamm in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hamm: Griebsch & Rochol 2009. ISBN 978-3-9813092-0-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All information about the students mentioned is taken from the festschrifts of the Hammonense Gymnasium below and the “Notices of the Friends of the Hammonense Gymnasium in Hamm” (last issue 63, December 2008). Further information can be obtained from the school management of the Hammonense Grammar School.