Laurentianum High School in Warendorf
| Laurentianum high school | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 168490 |
| founding | 1329 or earlier |
| address |
Von-Ketteler-Str. 24 |
| place | Warendorf |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 56 '52 " N , 7 ° 58' 44" E |
| carrier | City of Warendorf |
| student | 1035 (as of 2019/2020) |
| Teachers | 92 (as of 2019) |
| management | Marlis Ermer |
| Website | laurentianum-warendorf.de |
The Laurentianum grammar school in Warendorf (commonly called "Lau", more rarely also "GLW") is one of the oldest schools in the German-speaking area .
school
Named after the parish patron of the oldest church in Warendorf, St. Laurentius , the school was originally founded as a Latin school . The exact date of foundation is unknown. The oldest documented mention of the school comes from 1329, which is why it is now given as the year of foundation.
The school has been called "Laurentianum" since 1675, when the Franciscans took over the city's Latin school and expanded it into a full high school. Today the school authority is the city of Warendorf.
The headmistress has been Marlis Ermer since April 1998. The first female headmistress in the history of the Laurentianum took over from Klaus Gruhn, who had directed the school from 1976 to 1997.
Since 2009 the new classes have started all day. The move away from half-day classes and the introduction of all-day classes was a reaction to the shortening of schooling in North Rhine-Westphalia from “G9” to “G8” in 2007 and was intended to preserve the possibility of individual support during this concentrated schooling period. In addition to regular specialist lessons, there are also offers for schoolchildren with individual support needs (e.g. learning times, "learning islands", advanced courses) as well as offers to promote particularly high-performing students (e.g. participation in competitions, projects, working groups) fixed components of everyday school life.
The Laurentianum's membership in the network of the Association of Mathematical and Scientific Excellence Centers in Schools (MINT-EC) gives the school the opportunity to offer a variety of extracurricular projects in the MINT area together with cooperation partners, in addition to promoting mathematical and scientific teaching .
In the social science area, the Laurentianum pursues the concept of deepening the subject teaching through joint projects with institutions of political and social education (e.g. the "KidS" project ("Local politics in school"), in which interested students take longer participate in council, parliamentary group and committee meetings in Warendorf). In addition, excursions to extracurricular learning locations (e.g. the annual one-week Berlin project for grade EF or the annual excursion for grade 9 to Erfurt , Buchenwald and Weimar ) as well as exchanges (e.g. the annual student exchange with the Polish Partner school in Oleśnica ) an integral part of school life in the field of social sciences.
In the field of foreign languages, the subject of Dutch is a regional specialty of the Laurentianum, corresponding to its proximity to the neighboring country. B. to Amsterdam is filled with life.
history
The beginnings of Laurentianum reach back to the Middle Ages , is first mentioned in a principal of the school in a letter from the Warendorfer Gografen Engelbert Valeduvel to the Council of the city of Osnabrück in 1329: "Symonis de Dudinck, rector scolarum in Warendorpe". The year 1329 is therefore considered to be the founding year of the Laurentianum, even if it can be assumed that the school is older.
The teaching of the Latin language dominated the curriculum in the Middle Ages and the early modern period , as mastering it was a prerequisite for attending university, the priestly profession and functions within the urban leadership class. In the 14th and 15th centuries the rectors were clergy.
After the conversion of the cathedral school in Münster into a humanistic school of scholars (later the Paulinum ), this became the model for the Warendorf school in terms of interior design. The Latin and Greek reading canons attest to a remarkable level of humanistic education. At the same time, the city and the school got caught up in the turmoil of the Reformation period , and personalities with a Reformation spirit became rectors. In the course of the Counter Reformation , the Franciscans who were now missionary in Warendorf took over the Latin school. However, the elevation to the high school in 1675 came to an abrupt end in 1683. In the period that followed, the school was run by teachers who were employed by the city, with the approval of the Archediakon, the pastor of the Laurentius parish. As early as the 18th century, the status of a full grammar school with a considerable number of pupils was regained, references to dramatic games and bonus books for the best pupils have been preserved and are evidence of a brisk school life. From 1754 a Franciscan ran the Laurentianum grammar school again, a time when the baroque school theater flourished .
The radical reforms in the Prince Diocese of Münster , combined with the name of the Minister of State Franz von Fürstenberg and his school regulations from 1776, changed the curriculum and methods. Greek was pushed back, German stylistics, arithmetic, geometry, history and geography were now compulsory subjects. The close connection to the Franciscan monastery remained until the secularization in 1803. With Warendorf's affiliation to the Prussian province of Westphalia , the school was re-established in 1820 as a "higher education institution" in the neo-humanist spirit, later referred to as the Progymnasium. Teachers were now secular priests and a new building was built in 1830, the neoclassical building on Kurzen Kesselstrasse in Warendorf. In accordance with the needs of the commercial bourgeoisie, secondary school students were now offered lessons in commercial arithmetic and the new languages English and French instead of the old languages. In 1832, the Progymnasium was transformed into a “higher middle school and secondary school”, in order to re-emerge as a fully developed grammar school from 1856, and from 1875 to “Königliches Gymnasium”, an ancient language educational institution with strict loyalty to the Prussian-Protestant state and the Hohenzollern dynasty, at the same time Catholic characteristics.
After the First World War , during which some students and teachers died as soldiers, the tradition of the old-language grammar school was continued. The preservation of tradition developed in the “Verein Alter Laurentianer” founded in 1921.
In 1922 the "German School in Construction" was established (forerunner of today's Augustin-Wibbelt-Gymnasium), the college of which was provided by the Laurentianum Gymnasium. In 1927 they moved into the building of the former teachers' college on Freckenhorster Strasse in Warendorf. The personal union lasted until 1960. As a result, the Augustin-Wibbelt-Gymnasium and the Gymnasium Laurentianum were two separate and mutually complementary schools. After the Augustin-Wibbelt-Gymnasium was closed for the 2019/20 school year due to the lower number of pupils in the lower secondary level, staff, students and structures were integrated into the Laurentianum Gymnasium.
In 1944, during the Nazi era , the school was renamed "Brun Warendorp Schule" (after the Lübeck mayor from Warendorf family), and bombing, bombing from low-level aircraft and finally the Allied invasion made an orderly school life largely impossible.
After the Second World War , the traditional name was restored, the old language branch was joined by a mathematical and scientific branch. Since 1958 the school has offered English as the first foreign language, and since 1963 French has been available as a third foreign language. This created a new language branch, which was later expanded to include Russian, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
As part of the reform of the upper level , the class associations in the upper secondary level were dissolved in the 1970s in favor of a course system with options for choosing and opting out. With the move into the modern new building (the “new Laurentianum”) in 1974, the city of Warendorf took over the sponsorship of the former state boys' high school. In 1979 the Laurentianum grammar school opened for girls too.
building
Nothing is known about the first school buildings of the Laurentianum. The Warendorfer City Library is housed in the oldest preserved building on Kleine Kesselstrasse. It housed the school from 1828 to 1928. After that, the school was housed in the "old Laurentianum" on Freckenhorster Strasse, the building of the former Prussian teachers' college.
In 1974 the school moved into its new school building on von-Ketteler-Straße (the "new Lau") based on a design by the architect Harald Deilmann from Münster , which continued the ideas of the Bauhaus style and took up elements of the brutalist style influenced by Le Corbusier ( whereby “brutalism” does not stand for a “brutal” architecture, but simply for visible / bare concrete (French: béton brut ), ie a clear, concentrated and reduced architectural language). Within this building, the “Pedagogical Center” (“PZ”), designed in the open spirit of the 1970s, represents a meeting point for pupils and teachers in everyday school life and forms the architectural and atmospheric center of the school.
In 2002 the building was renovated and a north wing was added to meet the increased space requirements. Originally located on the outskirts, it is now surrounded by residential areas, other schools and sports facilities.
Well-known former students
- Hugo Althoff (1884–1960), civil engineer and Senator of the Free City of Danzig
- Julius Angerhausen (1911–1990), Abi 1930 , auxiliary bishop in Essen
- Anton Aulke (1887–1974), Abi 1908 , writer
- Otto A. Böhmer (* 1949), Abi 1967 , writer
- Bernhard Bodde (1760–1833), chemist, physician, university professor
- Heribert Bruchhagen (* 1948), Abi 1969 , CEO of HSV Fußball AG, previously of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball-AG
- Werner Brüggemann (1923–2011), Abi 1942 , writer, actor and director
- Hermann von dem Busche (1468–1534), humanist
- Helmut Claas (* 1926), Abi 1946 , entrepreneur
- Franz Wilhelm Cramer (1815–1903), theologian, writer, auxiliary bishop of Münster
- Franz Darpe (1842–1911), Abi 1860 , high school professor, philologist and historian
- Franz Dieckmann (1875–1944), Abi 1895 , lawyer, politician (Center Party), Lord Mayor of Münster, member of the Prussian mansion
- Bernhard Josef Ecker (1774–1817), pupil until 1792 , minorite, collegiate vicar, writer
- Theodor Heinermann (1890–1946), Abi 1910 , Romanist and Hispanicist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Helle (1834–1901), poet and journalist
- Hein Herbers (1895–1968), pupil from 1905 to 1912 , high school teacher, journalist and pacifist, fellow journalist of Kurt Tucholsky
- Josef Homeyer (1929–2010), Abi 1950 , Bishop of Hildesheim
- Franz Jostes (1858–1925), Abi 1878 , Germanist and linguist
- Johann Heinrich Kalthoff (1803–1839), Hebrew, pedagogue and university lecturer
- Rudolf Kimmina (* 1944), painter
- Joseph Kolkmann (1839–1880), Abi 1861 , legal scholar
- Rainer A. Krewerth (1943–2003), Abitur 1963 , journalist and writer
- Aloys Krieg (* 1955), Abi 1974 , mathematician, university professor, Vice-Rector for Teaching at RWTH Aachen University
- Gustav Adolf Krieg (* 1948), theologian and church musician
- Ferdinand Krüger (1843–1915), pupil until 1860 , Privy Medical Council and Westphalian dialect poet
- Johannes Meier (* 1948), Abitur 1966 , theologian and university professor
- Harald Norpoth (* 1942), Abitur 1964 , athlete, silver medalist in the 5000 meter run at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
- Manolo Palma (* 1971), Abi 1991 , actor
- Gisbert Freiherr von Romberg (1839–1897), Abi 1858 , Westphalian nobleman, historical model of the "Tollen Bomberg"
- Paul Schallück (1922–1976), pupil 1940–1942, Abi 1942 , writer, member of Group 47 and the PEN Center of the Federal Republic
- Paul Scheffer-Boichorst (1843–1902), Abi 1862 , historian, employee at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) and member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Johann Heinrich Schmülling (1774–1851), canon and professor at the University of Münster
- Alois Schröer (1907–2002), Abi 1927 , priest, church historian and honorary cathedral chapter in Münster
- Engelbert Schücking (1926–2015), student 1936-1943 , theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
- Ludwig Schupmann (1851–1920), Abi 1869 , architect, university professor, designer
- Paul Spiegel (1937–2006), pupil 1949–1953 , journalist, entrepreneur and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- Louisa von Spies (* 1983), Abitur 2003 , actress
- Gisbert Strotdrees (* 1960), Abi 1979 , journalist, historian, author
- Frank Uekötter (* 1970), Abi 1990 , environmental historian
- Fritz Vahrenholt (* 1949), Abi 1967 , former Hamburg Senator for the Environment
- Friedrich Vogel (1929–2005), Abi 1949 , Minister of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Minister of State of the Federal Government
- Christoph Vogelsang (* 1985), Abitur 2005 , professional poker player
- Klaus Welle (* 1964), Abitur 1984 , politician and Secretary General of the European Parliament
- Jörg Wittwer (* 1975), Abitur 1994 , psychologist, educational researcher and university professor
- Karl Zuhorn (1887–1967), Abi 1905 , politician, Lord Mayor and later City Director of Münster
Known teachers
- Anton Aulke (1887–1974), writer, taught German and Latin at the Laurentianum from 1929 to 1952
- Heinrich Blum (1884–1964), honorary citizen of the city of Warendorf, handed the city over to the Allies in 1945, and from 1909 taught English, French, Latin and sports at the Laurentianum
- Hein Herbers (1895–1968), publicist and pacifist, later mentor of Queen Beatrix , taught German, history and philosophy at the Laurentianum from 1922 to 1924
- Volker Ladenthin (* 1953), educationalist, taught German, history and philosophy at the Laurentianum from 1981 to 1986
- Paul Leidinger (* 1932), historian and history teacher, taught German, history and philosophy at the Laurentianum from 1962 to 1978
- Eduard Müller-Temme (1920–2011), geographer, taught sport and geography at the Laurentianum from 1954 to 1971
- Joseph Plassmann (1859–1940), astronomer and head of the University Observatory in Münster, taught at the Laurentianum from 1883 to 1898
- Laurenz Schmedding (1894–1972), Catholic clergyman and victim of Nazi persecution, taught Catholic religion at the Laurentianum from 1946 to 1960
literature
- From Latin school to grammar school Laurentianum Warendorf - 1329–1979 . Self-published by the Laurentianum Gymnasium, Warendorf 1979.
- Ten years of the new Laurentianum Warendorf, 1974–1984, Embossed form that develops with life , self-published by the Laurentianum Gymnasium, Warendorf 1984.
- Klaus Gruhn, Rolf Hartmann, Dittmar Pfannenstein: From School to War - A documentation from the Laurentianum Warendorf grammar school on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 1939 . Self-published by the Laurentianum grammar school, Warendorf 1989.
- Klaus Gruhn: The "old library" of the Laurentianum grammar school . In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 143–153.
- Klaus Gruhn: KUNST-WERK-STATT School? Self-published by the Laurentianum grammar school, Warendorf 1994.
- Klaus Gruhn: From the municipal Latin school in 1329 to the modern “Lau”. The history of the Laurentianum High School in Warendorf . Self-published by Gymnasium Laurentianum, Warendorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-9807476-4-6 .
Web links
- Official school website
- Association of old Laurentians
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Park at the old teacher training college in LWL geodata culture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin: Swastika and Dove of Peace. "The Case of Hein Herbers" (1895-1968) . dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7638-0444-7 .