Convent School (Hamburg)

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Monastery school
Logo of the monastery school
type of school high school
founding 1872
address

Westphalensweg 7

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 33 '20 "  N , 10 ° 1' 29"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '20 "  N , 10 ° 1' 29"  E
carrier Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
student 979 (school year 2017/18)
Teachers 81 (2019)
management Annette Brandt-Dammann
Website klosterschule-hamburg.de

The Klosterschule (KS or KLS) is a grammar school in the Hamburg district of St. Georg . The school was founded in 1872 as Hamburg's first secondary school for girls under the name of the St. Johannis Abbey Schools , and was nationalized in 1923. In 1934 the school moved to the school building on Westphalensweg designed by Fritz Schumacher , which is now a listed building. Boys have been admitted to the convent school since 1968 . In 2015 the monastery school was awarded the German School Prize.

history

In 1866 the Senate- controlled foundation of the St. Johannis Monastery sold parts of the monastery property to a consortium. The sold Vorwerk Harvestehude comprised the area between Rothenbaumchaussee , Isebek and Hallerstraße , and should be parceled out for streets and building sites . The purchase price was four million marks Banco , according to 2019 prices that are almost 17 million euros. In the course of the expansion of the Hamburg school system, Mayor Kirchenpauer already had the plan to set up a higher school for girls. As patron of the St. Johannis Foundation in 1871, he was able to use the money from the sale of the property.

In 1872 the educational establishment of the St. Johannis Monastery started operations as a girls' college with a seminar for teachers, initially in private rooms. In 1874 the monastery school moved into the newly built building on Holzdamm. In 1910 the school was expanded into a full institution with a secondary school branch. In 1923 the school was nationalized during the Great Depression and inflation.

After the " seizure of power " in 1933 the college was rebuilt. There were five teachers at the monastery school who were NSDAP members before 1933 . This meant that the “oldest National Socialist cell in Hamburg's high schools” existed at the monastery school. At the instigation of this group, the social democratic teacher Walter Bacher was dismissed from school service. In 1934 it was merged with the Deutsche Oberschule auf dem Lübeckertorfeld (DOL), and the unified school under the name of "Klosterschule" moved into the additional building on Westphalensweg. Until 1937, the school had the branches Realschule , Realgymnasium and German Oberschule für Mädchen (OfM). In the heavy bombing raids on Hamburg in 1943, the originally sloping roof was damaged and restored as a flat roof after the war .

In 1957 the school became a grammar school, and in 1968 co-education was introduced. In 1981 the monastery school was not supposed to accept any new 5th grade due to the low number of registrations and was later to be closed. School Senator Joist Grolle's plans to close affected 105 schools throughout Hamburg in addition to the monastery school. After protests and partial school occupation, the decision to close the monastery school was lifted.

From 1993 the monastery school was an all-day high school in the form of an offer ("open all-day school"). In 1997 the new building for all-day activities (House C) was inaugurated. In 2005 the grammar school became an all-day school and thus became a model for other Hamburg schools. In 1996 the nine-level grammar school was reintroduced in Hamburg, and in 2010 the levels were reduced to eight with the introduction of the G12 Abitur . In 2007 an extension (house B) was completed, which connects the old Schumacher building (house A) with the extension building (house C) built in 1995/97. In 2015 the monastery school was awarded the German School Prize. In 2016, a newly built upper level building was opened (House D). As of 2016, in the course of the influx of refugees and migrants at the monastery school, there were refugee classes that were housed in school containers (House K).

architecture

Former location on Holzdamm
Facade of the school building on the wooden dam with the inscription "KLOSTER SCHULEN St. JOHANNIS"
Entrance of the then Lyceum am Lübeckertorfeld to the schoolyard, with figures by Richard Kuöhl (1926)
Main building of the monastery school, facade facing Westphalensweg
Extension from 1995 (brick facade) with overbuilding from 2007 (copper facade)

The first school building that was occupied after it was founded still exists today; it is located at Holzdamm 5, right next to the Hotel Atlantic . The building, designed by Hermann Hastedt , was built in 1873/74 with a raw brick facade , which was later painted. An extension was added at Rautenbergstrasse 9 in 1884. The State Commercial School Holzdamm later moved in at Holzdamm 5.

The current main building of the school is located in Hamburg-St. Georg on a plot of around 15,000 m². The massive main building (House A) is clinkered in dark red and designed in the typical design language of public Hamburg buildings under the auspices of the City Planning Director Fritz Schumacher . The building, completed in 1923, has a strictly symmetrical design, the facade structured with pillars. Classrooms and specialist rooms lead from central corridors on both sides, which are only lit at the front end of the building and in the stairwell. Even larger rooms such as the gymnasium and auditorium are integrated into the closed cubature of the building and cannot be read directly from the outside.

The main building was originally built for the Lyzeum am Lübeckertorfeld ( list of works 213) and planned as part of an ensemble with two other Schumacher buildings: the state technical college (list of works 116) belongs to HAW Hamburg and the commercial school (list of works 214) became a vocational school At the Lämmermarkt (both as of 2019). These three buildings relate to each other in terms of axes and dimensions; these connections are no longer recognizable due to new buildings that were inserted in the post-war period.

The extension (houses B and C) was built between 2006 and 2007. In addition to classrooms, the three-story building also includes a large kitchen, a dining room and rooms for leisure activities. The facade is clad with stainless steel , which takes up the colors of the old building. This added 1,400 m² of usable space to the school at a construction cost of 4.7 million euros. The extension is connected to the old Fritz Schumacher building with a skywalk on the first floor. The two-story new building from 1995 with brick facade and lattice windows was built over, but is still visible from the side.

The upper level building (House D), inaugurated in 2016, is a two-storey building made of solid wood that offers space for eight course rooms . The building stands to the northeast on the edge of the school premises and is not structurally connected to the existing buildings. The stairwell is in the middle of the slightly offset house.

Today's profile

Due to its special profile, the monastery school has a fairly wide catchment area, although many students come from the neighboring districts of St. Georg , Hohenfelde , Rothenburgsort and Hamm . The background of the student body is accordingly mixed. Nevertheless, a high social index (5 on a scale from 1 to 6) was calculated for the grammar school in 2013 . In the school year 2016/17, 45% of the students at the monastery school had a migration background .

At the monastery school, six profiles were offered in the upper level in the 2019/20 school year :

  • Music and culture (music, PGW , theater)
  • Art and culture (visual arts, philosophy, history, German)
  • Democracy and Responsibility (PGW, Biology, Art)
  • Power and Staging (History, Performing Games , PGW)
  • Human and health (biology, sport, chemistry, PGW)
  • Model and reality (physics, philosophy, computer science)

Well-known alumni

Teachers:

  • Valentin Noodt (1825–1892), educator, son of Valentin Noodt (first director of the monastery school from 1872 to 1889)
  • Alfred Kleeberg (1887–1957), educator (from 1933 headmaster of the German Oberschule on Lübeckertorfeld, then from 1934 to 1945 headmaster of the monastery school)
  • Alice Pollitz (1890–1970), teacher (headmistress of the New Lyceum on Westphalensweg from 1923 to 1933)
  • Walter Bacher (1893–1944), resistance fighter (1927–1933 teacher at the monastery school)
  • Käthe Thiemann (1911–2001), pedagogue (teacher at the monastery school from 1949, there from 1960 to 1973 headmaster)

Pupils:

  • Ursula Hoff (1909–2005), racially persecuted, art historian in Melbourne (Abitur 1929 at the monastery school)
  • Margaretha Rothe (1919–1945), resistance fighter (Abitur 1938 at the convent school)
  • Traute Lafrenz (* 1919), resistance fighter (Abitur 1938 at the monastery school)
  • Anneliese Ruppenthal (1923–2016), church historian (Abitur 1943 at the monastery school)
  • Ursula Perkow (1944–2009), librarian (Abitur at the monastery school)

literature

  • 125 years of the monastery school . School association of the high school Klosterschule Hamburg eV, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-9805698-1-0 .
  • Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: The monastery school from 1872 to the First World War: a contribution to the history of higher education for girls in Hamburg . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 58 (1972), pp. 1-44. ( Digitized at SUB Hamburg )

Web links

Commons : Klosterschule (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Institute for Educational Monitoring and Quality Development (IfBQ) at the School and Vocational Training Authority , Hamburg: Regional Educational Atlas , information on the Klosterschule grammar school from the 2017/18 school year
  2. ↑ College list on the website of the grammar school
  3. ↑ a b c Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: The monastery school from 1872 to the First World War . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 58 (1972), pp. 1-44.
  4. ↑ Mark Banco was a silver- based accounting unit in Hamburg, where 59 1/3 Mark Banco corresponded to one inch pound (= 0.5 kg) of fine silver (see Handbook of Banking and Stock Exchange , p. 6). Therefore 4 million marks are Banco = 67,416 inch pounds, that is 33,708 kg of fine silver, with a silver price of around € 500 / kg of fine silver (as of October 2019), i.e. € 16.854 million.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Directory of schools from 1933 to 1945 , excerpt from Uwe Schmidt: Hamburg Schools in the Third Reich , p. 852.
  6. ↑ See entry Erwin Gottsleben . In: Hans-Peter de Lorent : Täterprofile , Volume 2. State Center for Civic Education, Hamburg 2017.
  7. ↑ Klostergymnasium, Westphalenweg 7. In: arch INFORM .
  8. ↑ a b c d e history of the monastery school on the website of the grammar school
  9. ↑ Michael threshold: “Throw the SEPL into the Elbe!” In: Die ZEIT, No. 23/1981, May 29, 1981.
  10. ↑ Hanna Kastendieck and Hanna-Lotte Mikuteit: Monastery school in St. Georg: A school for life . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 13, 2011.
  11. ↑ a b map on the school website
  12. ^ A b Benjamin Svensson: Inauguration of the new upper school building , on the school website, March 4, 2016.
  13. ↑ "I'm the child of migrants myself" . Interview with headmaster Ruben Herzberg, conducted by Oliver Driesen, May 18, 2016.
  14. ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg . Edition Menges, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-930698-58-5 , p. 74. (Entry "B6 Former Klosterschule")
  15. ↑ a b c Ralf Lange: Schumacher's schools: monastery school . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, No. 08 | 2008, October 30, 2008.
  16. ^ Monastery school, projects at Thüs Farnschläder Architects, Hamburg. The new building from 1995 came from the same architects, at that time under the name Giffey + Thüs.
  17. ↑ New building: This is how it should look on the school website, without a date.
  18. ↑ My Geest as I see it , interview with Ruben Herzberg (* 1951), headmaster of the monastery school from 1994 to 2018 and chairman of the Jewish community from 2007 to 2011.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 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%)
  21. ↑ Degree level on the school website
  22. ↑ In memory of the first director of the educational institutions of the St. Johannis Monastery, Dr. Valentin Noodt . Schlotke, Hamburg 1890.