Hochrad high school

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Hochrad high school
Entrance area
type of school Language Lycée
founding 1902
address

Hochrad 2, 22605 Hamburg

place Hamburg-Othmarschen
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 33 '16 "  N , 9 ° 52' 36"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '16 "  N , 9 ° 52' 36"  E
student 980 (2017/18)
management Ulrich Zipp-Veh
Website gymnasium-hochrad.de

The Hochrad high school is a high school in the Hamburg district of Othmarschen . The school was founded in 1902 and recognized as a lyceum in 1909 . Until 1969 the high school was a girls' school . Since 1973 there has been an upper school cooperation with the neighboring high school Othmarschen . The Hochrad high school has been offering bilingual classes in English since 1992, and has been mandatory since 1995. Another focus of the school is sports, especially hockey , tennis and golf .

history

Old school building with a walkway in Waitzstrasse

The forerunner of the school was a private school in the Ulmenstraße (later Klaus-Groth-Straße, now Waitzstraße) in Othmarschen, which was operated from 1898 to 1900. In 1901, the community council of Groß Flottbek gave its approval for the establishment of a board of trustees school in Ulmenstrasse, and a preschool for boys and girls was set up. In 1902 the development of a girls' college began , with Bertha Uhl taking over the management. The school's founding year is mostly mentioned in 1902, sometimes also in 1901.

In 1909 the school was recognized as a lyceum to which boys' classes were attached. In 1915 - during the First World War - the conversion from a board of trustees school into a school supported by the community of Groß Flottbek took place. In 1914/15 a second school building was added to the school building in Ulmenstrasse and connected to the existing building with a foyer. The new building was designed by Lorenzen and Stehn . The building at Waitzstrasse 31–35 is a listed building and has been used by the Hamburg Adult Education Center since 1966 . In 1916 the school was named Bertha-Lyzeum in honor of the first director Bertha Uhl and was run as the Städtisches Bertha-Lyzeum Altona-Großflottbek until 1937. The classes led in six stages to the upper secondary level.

In 1938 it was converted into a full institution , the name was now Oberschule für Mädchen (OfM) in Groß Flottbek. The school was run in the domestic form. From 1957 the school was called the Gymnasium for Girls in Groß Flottbek and was run as a modern language grammar school . From 1959 to 1966 the school gradually moved to the current school building on Hochrad. In 1969 the co-education was introduced, in 1971 the name was changed to "Gymnasium Hochrad". In 1992 a bilingual branch was established.

building

Today's school grounds are located north of the eponymous road Hochrad, to which an area with single-family houses and villas connects on the opposite (southern) side. On the west side of the school grounds, the street runs towards Jenischpark . To the north of the school grounds there is a golf course run by the Großflottbeker THGC . The buildings of the grammar school are built in the one to two-story pavilion style, as was typical for Hamburg school buildings of the 1950s. In 2018/19, a two-storey specialist wing for natural sciences and art was built in the northeastern part of the school premises on Golfstrasse.

School profile

The GH is an open all-day school . The pupils can be looked after on shorter school days until 4 p.m. or take advantage of offers or working groups, but this is not mandatory. The school has almost 1000 students (as of 2017/18). The catchment area includes Othmarschen , Groß Flottbek , Osdorf and Nienstedten . When the social index for Hamburg schools was collected in 2011, a social index of 6 was calculated for the GH on a scale from 1 (disadvantageous requirements of the student body, highest need for support) to 6 (best conditions, no need for support). In the school year 2016/17, 39% of the GH students had a migration background , slightly above the average of all Hamburg high schools.

The Hochrad high school is a bilingual high school. In grades 5 and 6 there is reinforced English instruction for everyone, and in grades 7 to 10 at least two subjects are always taught in English.

The Hochrad high school has its own sports class. In 2018 the school applied for the title of “partner school for young athletes” in a funding program run by the city of Hamburg, the local Olympic base and the Hamburger Sportbund . The high school's hockey teams have won the national finals of youth trained for the Olympics several times .

At the GH, seven profiles are currently offered in the upper level , including a. (The profile-giving subjects are named in each case):

  • Social Sciences (bilingual) and Biology
  • Economics (bilingual) and geography
  • Geography and biology
  • biology and chemistry
  • History and visual arts
  • Sport and Biology

In addition to the profiles of the Hochrad grammar school, profiles from the Othmarschen grammar school can also be selected.

Well-known alumni

literature

  • Gymnasium Hochrad (Ed.): 75 years from the Kuratoriumsschule to Gymnasium Hochrad . Hamburg 1977.

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Hochrad  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Education Atlas , 2017/18 school year: Hochrad high school.
  2. ↑ a b c Chronology of the school's history on the Hochrad high school website.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Uwe Schmidt: Hamburg schools in the “Third Reich” , Volume 2 (Appendix “Directory of schools from 1933 to 1945”). Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937816-74-6 , pp. 849-850. (Available online: urn : nbn: de: gbv: 18-3-1013 )
  4. ↑ Open Monument Day in Hamburg, 9-11 September 2011. Subject Hamburg in the 19th century , event brochure , p. 55.
  5. ↑ Hamburg Education Atlas , school year 2017/18: catchment areas of the Hochrad high school. Of the 980 students, around half came from the four districts - Othmarschen (150), Groß Flottbek (147), Osdorf (114) and Nienstedten (82).
  6. ↑ Small written question from MP Robert Heinemann (CDU) of February 28, 2013 and answer from the Senate. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - 20th electoral period, printed matter 20/7094 , Annex 4b: Old and new social indices of the state secondary schools, p. 27.
  7. ↑ 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%)
  8. ↑ Small written question from MPs Peter Lorkowski , Harald Feineis and Alexander Wolf from June 18, 2018 and answer from the Senate regarding partner schools for young athletes. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 21st electoral period from June 26, 2018, printed matter 21/13485.
  9. ↑ Upper level of the Hochrad high school
  10. ↑ Entry on Bertha Uhl in the Hamburg women's biographies database