High school Josephinum Hildesheim

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Episcopal Gymnasium Josephinum
Hildesheim Josephinum.Grammar.School.portal1.jpg
type of school State-approved, privately owned grammar school
founding 815
address

Cathedral courtyard 7

place Hildesheim
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 8 '54 "  N , 9 ° 56' 52"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '54 "  N , 9 ° 56' 52"  E
carrier Diocese of Hildesheim
student approx. 900 (as of July 2012)
Teachers 89 (as of April 2017)
management Stephan Speer
Website www.josephinum-hildesheim.de

The Episcopal Gymnasium Josephinum in Hildesheim is a school of the Hildesheim diocese in Lower Saxony and is one of the oldest schools in Germany. The Roman Catholic school is located right in the center of the city on the cathedral hill in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral and the episcopal vicariate .

history

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The founding year 815 of the Hildesheim Cathedral School goes back to the foundation of the Diocese of Hildesheim by the Frankish Emperor Ludwig the Pious . He was the son and successor  of Charlemagne . Education was always particularly important to Charles, also for his children, and in the “ Admonitio generalis ” from 789, Charles's efforts to promote education for servants of God became clear. The intention was to strengthen and spread the Christian faith and the associated consolidation of its power. Schools should be set up in episcopal churches and monasteries to train the next generation. Thus, when a diocese was established, a school was usually associated with the cathedral church. The Liudolfingers as Saxon dukes, German kings and emperors had a special relationship with Hildesheim and sent many of their sons to the cathedral school . Around the year 1000, Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim achieved a cultural boom, which further increased the reputation of the school. This is why many prominent students emerged in the Middle Ages: the later Emperor Heinrich II , the holy bishops Benno von Meißen and Meinwerk von Paderborn, the imperial chancellor Rainald von Dassel .

The city reformation in 1542 marked a turning point, when Johannes Bugenhagen renewed the city's school system with the church order , while the episcopal cathedral school continued to exist in the biconfessional city.

The decline ended with the takeover of the school by the Jesuit order in 1595, which initiated the development of the Jesuit high school, which from 1661/1662 had a university-like superstructure for the training of priests with a philosophical-theological two-year course. During the Thirty Years War , the grammar school with the Jesuit college had to be closed for a few years because of the expulsion of the Jesuits. After that, as a Catholic outpost in the Protestant north, it again became a central point of the mission and also of secret political chess moves. The correspondence 1706–1709 on metaphysical questions between the Hanoverian Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the Hildesheim Jesuit Bartholomäus des Bosses , who also translated Leibniz's “Essais de théodicée” into Latin, is very significant in the history of philosophy .

In the city there were two respected higher schools, the grammar school "Mariano-Josephinum" and the Protestant grammar school Andreanum , which were in fierce denominational competition.

After the Jesuit order was banned in 1773, the grammar school continued to be episcopal. Hildesheim became Prussian in 1803 and came to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815 , then again to Prussia in 1866. Gradually, the new humanist educational reforms were carried over into the 19th century and upheld into the Nazi era. A well-known teacher of this time was the natural scientist Johannes Leunis , a famous student was the later Cardinal Adolf Bertram . During the Nazi era, the grammar school had to adapt to the state requirements.

After the Second World War, the school was initially run as a modern-language grammar school with English from grade 5 and Latin from grade 7, and later again as an ancient-language grammar school with the core subjects Latin and ancient Greek. In the course of time, however, the general changes in the higher schools were adapted accordingly. This is how co-education was introduced. After the abolition of ancient Greek as a regular school subject, this subject can only be taken as a study group, so that the Josephinum no longer meets the definition of a humanistic grammar school. The status of the school was regulated in the Lower Saxony Concordat in 1965 and changed again through the privatization of the school in 1989, when the responsibility for personnel was completely transferred to the bishop.

building

The Josephinum is housed in several buildings. Next to the main building, in which the administration, specialist rooms as well as the lower and middle school are housed, is the book house, which stores part of the school's library. In addition to computer workstations, this building also has opportunities for quiet work and independent learning. The cafeteria, which is housed in a renovated vaulted hall, is available to students for lunch breaks.

From the 10th grade, the students are mainly taught in the so-called college building, which is used by the Josephinum together with the Hildesheim Marienschule . Another part of the school library is located in this building, which is available to the students with computer workstations and work facilities.

International contacts

The Josephinum maintains worldwide contacts. In addition to a partner school in France and the USA, there are also relationships with Spain . But the Josephinum also tries to establish partnerships in other parts of the world. An exchange program with German schools in Bolivia and Venezuela has existed for several years .

The engagement in India deserves special mention . There has been a partner school there for several years, which is funded by the Josephinum. Regular visits take place. These contacts have already been used by former students to complete a voluntary social year in India.

The Josephinum grammar school has international exchange students as guests.

School life

The Josephinum has a wide range of study groups that give the opportunity to deepen interests beyond the classroom. The Josephinum scores well again and again in competitions and can boast considerable successes in Jugend forscht , Jugend is trained for the Olympics and in the German federal foreign language competition . In the latter case, the Josephinum in the subject Latin deserves special mention, as there is always a large number of students taking part. Many pupils take part in other competitions in which they are supported by the school (e.g. German Founders Prize , "Business Game Stock Exchange" etc.)

In the political field, the school is committed to give the student body as comprehensive a picture as possible. There are regular lectures on this. At such events, the Josephinum works with groups such as the Catholic Student Youth or the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In the area of ​​languages, schoolchildren have the opportunity to take internationally recognized language certificates and are specially encouraged by the school.

In addition, the Josephinum has the following student associations:

  • Saxonia (gymnastics club)
  • Teutonia (Reading Association)
  • Hercynia (music association)

The gymnastics club celebrated its 175th birthday in 2008, making it the oldest school gymnastics club in Germany.

Culture

There are three well-known working groups at the Josephinum:

  • The Musical-AG performs well-known musicals every two years in the Audimax of the University of Hildesheim . Sometimes this also motivates the students to carry out their own productions. Musicals were among others: Oliver! , Annie Get Your Gun , Cinderella and Oklahoma! .
  • There is a theater group for each of the secondary levels I and II. Performances have included: The Wave , Heroes , The Vanity Comedy , A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Temporary , Brave New World, and Dracula .

Known students

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Great teachers

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Association of former Josephiner eV

The Association of Former Josephiners is the union of the Josephinum alumni . It was founded in 1908 and celebrated its 100th birthday in 2008 with well over 1000 members.

The association supports school and students materially and ideally in various projects. For example, an observatory was donated to the Josephinum for the 100th anniversary. In addition, the association donates the so-called "Josephiner Prize for special services to the Josephinum" every year. It is awarded annually to particularly committed schoolchildren (sometimes groups) for the Josephiner Festival.

literature

  • Christoph Bruns: Between the cross and the swastika. The Josephinum grammar school in Hildesheim at the time of National Socialism , in: The Diocese of Hildesheim in the past and present. Yearbook of the Association for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim 72 (2004), S, 145–196
  • B. Gerlach, H. Seeland: History of the Episcopal Gymnasium Josephinum in Hildesheim , 2 vols., Hildesheim 1950–1952
  • Julius Seiters: In the shadow of the cathedral: The high school Josephinum in the 19th and 20th centuries , Verlag Bernward bei Don Bosco, Hildesheim, 1999
  • Jürgen Stillig: Jesuits, heretics and converts, studies on religion and education in the Hildesheim monastery in the early modern period , Hildesheim 1993
  • Bernhard Gallistl: The establishment of the first Hildesheim Jesuits as reflected in their "Historia Collegii" , In: Church books and libraries; Volume 06. 2005/2006. Pp. 023-040
  • Ulrich Bongertmann : The philosophical-theological course at the Hildesheim Jesuit High School 1661–1773 , in: Hildesheimer Jahrbuch für Stadt und Stift Hildesheim, vol. 65, 1994, pp. 97–122
  • Joseph Godehard Müller, Johannes Balkenholl: Contributions to the history of the institution. 2 vols, Hildesheim 1868–1898 ( digitized version )
  • Program for the Easter school year ... Hildesheim 1868–1911 ( digitized version )
  • Reinhard Müller: Contributions to the history of school theater at the Josephinum grammar school in Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1901 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.josephinum-hildesheim.de/
  2. ↑ school management. In: www.josephinum-hildesheim.de. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .