Kundmanngasse high school

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Kundmanngasse high school
Landstrasser Gymnasium DSC 6181w.jpg
type of school Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium
School number 903056
founding 1869
address

Kundmanngasse 20-22

place Vienna-Landstrasse
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 12 '13 "  N , 16 ° 23' 37"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '13 "  N , 16 ° 23' 37"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
student around 700 (year 2014/15)
Teachers 70 (year 2014/15)
management Marion Waldmann
Website www.kundmanngasse.at

The high school Kundmanngasse (also Landstraßer gymnasium , GRG3 Kundmanngasse or the Kundmanngasse ) is a high school and secondary school in the Kundmanngasse 20-22 in the third Wiener district road . The building is a listed building ( list entry ).

Building

The school building is a free-standing, strictly historical building block with two inner courtyards and was originally planned as a teacher training institution. It was built in 1876 by the architects František (Franz) Schmoranz and Jan Machytka as a counterpart to the Rasumofsky Palace . The last remnants of the park of the former Rasumofsky Palace are located between the back of the two buildings. To the south is the gym wing with a nuclear bunker built in the 1960s .

The facades have shallow risalits at the entrances with large Ionic half-columns and pilasters. The building has two staircases with three-flight staircases and arcades between Tuscan columns and pillars.

Since the general renovation of the school building, which was completed in 1998, the school has had 29 classrooms of various sizes, a school library, a multi-purpose hall for various school events ("Beethovensaal") , two gymnasiums in the extension and a small outdoor sports field. There are also two large break rooms (covered courtyards).

history

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Part of the original school building that still exists today

The founding decree of the school reads:

"With the highest resolution of January 13, 1869, his k. k. The Apostolic Majesty is most gracious in ordering that two Real-Untergymnasien should be built in Vienna at the expense of the public fund. The opening of the Real-Untergymnasium in the third district should possibly take place at the beginning of the school year 1869/70. "

The following resolution states that the new grammar school will be housed in the Rasumofsky Palace. The upper secondary school there was relocated so that on October 1, 1869, the secondary lower secondary school with four classes could be opened.

At the time the school opened, it was only the fifth grammar school in Vienna. Only the Academic Gymnasium (founded in 1553), the Piaristengymnasium (1697), the Theresianum (1746) and the Schottengymnasium (1807) are older.

The gradual expansion to a Real-Obergymnasium was approved during the first school year. At the end of the first year of school, 95 students attended the school.

On May 9, 1870, Emperor Franz Joseph I. awarded the then director August Gernerth the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .

After just a few years it became clear that the premises in the Rasumovsky Palace were too small. One struggled with lack of space and overcrowded classes - sometimes up to 80 students had to share the classroom. For this reason, the desire for their own school building grew.

In 1873 the emperor approved the construction of a new school building in the extension of what was then "Blumengasse". In the school year 1877/78 the building was completed according to plans by Jan Machytka as a stylistic counterpart to the Rasumovsky Palace. In October 1877 the Realunter- und Obergymnasium was converted into an Imperial and Royal State High School.

List of directors

Surname Term of office Remarks
August Gernerth 1869-1876
Anton Schlenkrich 1876-1886
Leopold Konvalina 1886-1891
Leopold Lampel 1891-1897
Joseph Zychna 1897-1908
Franz Spengler 1908-1916
Anton Kunz 1916-1918 interim headmaster
Adolf Fischer 1918-1923
Rudolf Kroenig 1923-1934
Josef Swoboda 1934-1938
Ferdinand Walter 1938-1945 acting headmaster
Josef Swoboda 1945-1950
Leopold Malcher 1950-1968
Franz Brenner 1968-1969 interim headmaster
Friedrich Preissl 1969-1986
Wolf Peschl 1986 - 2007
Herbert Gross 2007 - 2008 interim headmaster
Marion Waldmann since 2008

Educational offer

In the Bundesgymnasium school type , the focus is on languages. From the fifth grade onwards, all students have English as a compulsory subject . From the seventh grade onwards, either Latin or French is offered as a compulsory subject. Those who chose Latin in the seventh grade can choose between ancient Greek and Spanish as a compulsory subject in the ninth grade . All those who chose French in the fifth grade will get Latin from the ninth grade.

In the school-autonomous Bundesrealgymnasium in Kundmanngasse from the seventh grade, GMC (Geometry-Mathematics-Computer) and computer science are taught as a school subject. In the eighth grade there is a "natural science laboratory" - a combination of the subjects biology , physics and chemistry . Descriptive geometry is taught in the eleventh and twelfth grades . Students of the Realgymnasium have either Latin or Spanish from the ninth to the twelfth grade. The languages Spanish , Italian and French (for the students of the Realgymnasium) are also offered as elective subjects . When Saturday classes were abolished in 2007 for the lower grades and in 2010 for the upper grades, the GRG3 was one of the last schools in Vienna.

Activities and Travel

activities

In addition to compulsory classes, the school offers numerous optional subjects . In addition to football , basketball , volleyball , sport climbing, indoor hockey , hip-hop dance, chess and diving courses are offered. The optional subject “stage play” is offered, in which a play is performed at the end of each school year. There is also a first aid course , a course on scientific work, dyslexia care, and much more. Students of this school take part in the Olympiads in mathematics, Latin, physics and Greek after intensive preparation . Since a 17-year-old schoolboy was brutally beaten in 2005, the parents' association has organized a project on the subject of moral courage with the title “Don't look away” every year . Once a year, at the beginning of February, this topic is brought closer to the students through lectures by specialists, exercises, self-defense courses and excursions.

to travel

The school is known for its numerous trips. Winter sports weeks are offered in the sixth and seventh grades. A summer sports week in the ninth grade. For the eighth and tenth grade students there is the possibility of a language or cultural trip, for example to Italy , France , Poland or also Greece . In September all 11th grade classes attend one of the partner schools, either the Buffalo Grove High School near Chicago ( USA ) or the Riverside Secondary High School near Vancouver ( Canada ). There the students are accommodated with host families and also attend the local partner school. The stay with families of the partner schools lasts about ten days. Then there is a ten-day tour. At the end of the seventh grade, there is again a student exchange with a partner school, School No. 8 in Lemberg ( Ukraine ). There, too, the students from Kundmanngasse are accommodated with students from the partner school. There is also the possibility of taking part in trips as part of cross-class projects. Since 2006, the Roman Catholic religion teachers have organized a pilgrimage every year. Except for 2009 and 2011, the pilgrimage led every year in a three-day hike to the Styrian pilgrimage site of Mariazell . A pilgrimage to Assisi ( Italy ) was organized twice , where hikes to the places of activity of St. Francis of Assisi . In June 2013 the pilgrimage went to Jerusalem .

School partnerships

View of Buffalo Grove High School from above
View of Riverside Secondary High School
Lord Byng Secondary School
School No. 8 in Lviv

Buffalo Grove High School (USA)

Since 1990 there has been a school partnership with the " Buffalo Grove High School " in Buffalo Grove , Illinois , which is maintained through the annual visits of the 7th grade of the Kundmanngasse high school and the return visits of the American students every three years as part of their European concert tour becomes. In addition to attending school at Buffalo Grove High School, the Austrian students experience the “American way of life” there, as they are accommodated with the families of the students at the partner school. The celebrations in the “Landstraßer Gymnasium” for the 20th anniversary of the school partnership were also reported in the Vienna edition of the ORF format “Federal State Today” on March 27, 2010.

Riverside Secondary School (Canada)

Between 2005/2006 and 2017/18, in addition to the school partnership with Buffalo Grove High School, there was also an exchange program with the "Riverside Secondary School" in Port Coquitlam , British Columbia . For the Austrian 7th grade students, this takes place at the same time as the USA exchange in September. Here, too, the Austrian students take part in everyday school life at the partner school and also live with host families. The Canadian students also came to Vienna once a year and were accommodated by the students from Kundmanngasse.

Lord Byng Secondary School (Canada)

Since the school year 2018/2019, in addition to the school partnership with Buffalo Grove High School, there has also been an exchange program with the “Lord Byng Secondary School” in Vancouver . For the Austrian 7th grade students, this takes place at the same time as the USA exchange in September. Here, too, the Austrian students take part in everyday school life at the partner school and also live with host families.

School No. 8 (Ukraine)

Since 1997 there has been a close connection to “School No. 8” in Lviv , Ukraine , through the mediation of “Austria Cooperation” . On the way there, 7th grade pupils visit the memorial of the former Auschwitz concentration camp and the city of Krakow in Poland. In Lviv itself, they live with the families of the local students. In this way they get to know the very different Ukrainian way of life, take part in sightseeing, excursions and social events and practice learning a few terms in the Ukrainian language. In return, they support the German lessons there, which traditionally have a particularly high priority at this school. A group of Ukrainian students spends a week in Vienna each September with the students on Kundmanngasse.

The school in literature and media

literature

The actor and director Paul Barnay publishes in the short story collection “As if we belonged. Austrian-Jewish Stories from the Habsburg Monarchy “ a one-sided narration of memories from his school days in the high school in Sophienbrückengasse (today Kundmanngasse).

Even Robert Manasseh mentioned the gymnasium Kundmanngasse in one of his novels.

The German author Johannes Mario Simmel processes his impressions of the 100th anniversary of the school in the short story A school celebrates its birthday , which appeared in the anthology Twenty-two Centimeters of Tenderness .

media

The Kundmanngasse grammar school is relatively frequent in the Austrian media. The daily newspaper “ Die Presse ” in particular often reports on the subject of school from this grammar school.

Among other things, she reported on religious instruction at this school.

The Salzburger Nachrichten reported on the shortage of teachers in Vienna's schools.

Especially during the teachers' strikes in 2003 and 2009, the school came into the public eye.

In the context of the service assembly against the new service law on December 5, 2013, creative protest proposals were discussed, for example that every teacher should teach a different subject than that for which he has been trained. "Die Presse" reported about it.

The "Salzburger Nachrichten" reported not only on the strike, but also on the success of two students at the 2007 Mathematics Olympiad in Hanoi ( Vietnam ).

Since 2006 there has been a “Day of Civil Courage” organized by the school's parents' association every year in February - this was reported in some media. The ORF also reported on it in a Vienna edition of the ORF format “State today”.

In the spring of 2010, the school building was the location for an episode of the third season of the ORF crime television series “ Fast Determined ”, which was broadcast on ORF Eins for the first time on January 18, 2011 .

When in June 2011 the roofing of the inner courtyards leaked as a result of a storm, "Die Presse" reported.

Well-known former students

Surname Graduation year to person
Paul Barnay 1902 Actor and director
Alexander Becherer 1980 Nuclear medicine
Brigitte Bierlein 1967 former President of the Constitutional Court and Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
Franz Theodor Csokor 1904 writer
Anton Dawidowicz 1930 Music pedagogue , conductor , composer
Heimito from Doderer 1914 writer
Hanns Eisler 1916 composer
Bernadette Grohmann-Németh 1998 Austrian writer, book author, journalist and doctor
Ernst Jandl 1943 Poet and writer
Paul Kraker 1986 Editor and ORF radio and television news anchor
Fritz Löhner-Beda 1901 Librettist, writer, author of the "Buchenwaldlied"
Alexander Lutz 1982 Actors and musicians
Max Mell poet
Eva Menasse 1988 Writer, journalist
Robert Menasse 1972 writer
Olivia Niepel 1998 Writer
Gunther Philipp 1936 Sportsman, doctor, actor
Bruno Pittermann 1924 former Austrian Vice Chancellor
Andreas Schieder 1988 Member of the European Parliament, former Austrian State Secretary
Stefan Schödl 1976 entomologist
Karel Schwarzenberg 1957 former Czech Foreign Minister
Ingrid Wendl 1958 Figure skater, television presenter, former member of the National Council
Wolfgang Danzmayr 1965 ORF-Salzburg Head of Music & Culture until 2009, conductor, composer, author
Ernst Woller 1972 former member of the Federal Council and state parliament in Vienna
Manfred Wurm 1968 Politician
Harald Zierfuß 2018 former federal school spokesman

Known teachers

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Kundmanngasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Ludwig Bieler: A Viennese Schoolmaster (= Messenger Publications [Hrsg.]: Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review . Volume 37 , no. 148 ). December 1948, p. 440-446 , JSTOR : 30100450 (English).
  • Festschrift: GRG3 Kundmanngasse: 150 years - Kundmanngasse, Vienna 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , as of February 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ Architekturzentrum Wien. Frantisek (Franz) Schmoranz. In: architektenlexikon.at . December 15, 2012, accessed February 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Dehio Wien Vorstädte 1993 , p. 115
  4. ^ A b c d Kaiserlich-Königliches Real-Obergymnasium (Vienna-Landstrasse): First program of the K. K. Real-Obergymnasium on Landstrasse in Vienna . for the school year 1869/70. Self-published, Vienna December 31, 1870, Schulnachrichten - I. Chronik, p. 19 ( from page 19 in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Festschrift: 150 Years - Kundmanngasse; GRG3 Kundmanngasse (Ed.), Vienna 2019, p. 4.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Marion Waldmann: School profile GRg3. (PDF; 386.8 kB) In: kundmanngasse.at. December 21, 2013, accessed February 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Bernhard Gaul: Schoolchildren in search of the most child-friendly company 2011. In: fuerdichda.at. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Albert Lichtblau (Ed.): As if we had belonged . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 3-205-98722-5 , Paul Barney: Fußball, Theater und Mädeln - Gymnasium, p. 521 ( Paul Barney: Football, Theater and Girls - High School in Google Book Search).
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  11. ↑ From the lecture hall straight to the classroom - SALZBURG.COM ( Memento from February 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  12. ↑ Lessons learned: teachers and students took to the streets ( memento from February 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ^ Strike of the compulsory school teachers ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Schoolchildren are "busy" ( Memento from February 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  15. ↑ Alliance against the "teacher hate" | DiePresse.com. In: DiePresse.com. March 13, 2009, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  16. ↑ "Giving in would be a catastrophe" - SALZBURG.COM ( Memento from February 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
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  21. ↑ Landstraße - day of action “Don't look away” in GRG 3 Kundmanngasse ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  22. ↑ Marion Waldmann: Find out quickly in Kundmanngasse! In: kundmanngasse.at. January 18, 2011, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Heavy rain: millions of dollars in damage from storms | DiePresse.com. In: DiePresse.com. June 9, 2011, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  24. ^ Paul Barnay, actor, writer and theater director ( Memento of September 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
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  30. ↑ Annual report 1982/83 in the 114th year since Landstraßer Gymnasium was founded . Vienna, July 1983, p. 122
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