Gymnasium Leopoldinum (Detmold)

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Gymnasium Leopoldinum
Detmold - 308 - Hornsche Strasse 48, Leopoldinum.jpg
Old building of the Leopoldinum on Hornschen Strasse
type of school high school
School number 168683
founding 1602
address

Hornsche Strasse 48
32760 Detmold, Germany

place Detmold
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 55 '50 "  N , 8 ° 52' 59"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '50 "  N , 8 ° 52' 59"  E
carrier City of Detmold
student 823 (as of March 5, 2020)
Teachers 73 teachers, 12 trainee lawyers
(as of February 26, 2020)
management Stefan Engel (acting)
Website www.gymnasium-leopoldinum-detmold.de

The Gymnasium Leopoldinum is a public high school in Detmold in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Lippe . It is the oldest school in Detmold and was originally reserved for boys.

location

The Gymnasium Leopoldinum has been located in the eastern part of downtown Detmold, at Hornschen Strasse 48, since 1907. In the 400 years since the Leopoldinum was founded, the location has been changed four times.

History of the high school

Former grammar school in Leopoldstrasse

The grammar school was founded in 1602 as a provincial school by Count Simon VI. to the lip . The first location was a former monastery on Schülerstrasse. A former director of the grammar school, Heinrich Schierenberg , became the first Lippe member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 .

In the 18th and 19th centuries the grammar school was in competition with the Lemgo grammar school. This went so far that the Leopoldinum was merged with the Lemgoer Gymnasium almost in 1805 by Princess Pauline zur Lippe (reg. 1802-1820), because Pauline was of the opinion that two high schools in a relatively small country like Lippe would be irresponsible.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Prince Leopold II donated a plot of land for a new building on Leopoldstrasse, which was completed in 1833 using the stones from the old grammar school. The architect was the Prince's master builder, Ferdinand Wilhelm Brune . It was named after its founder and has been called "Gymnasium Leopoldinum" ever since.

On March 5, 1907, the first Abitur examination of a woman in Lippe, Agnes von Sobbe, was held at the Leopoldinum. In the years that followed, they prepared many girls and young women for the exam outside of school and took it at the Leopoldinum. Later they took part in regular classes. It was not until 1931 that it was possible to take the Abitur examination at the Oberlyzeum . Coeducation at the Leopoldinum ended at Easter 1930 and was only resumed after World War II.

Already in the first years of the new building in Leopoldstrasse, the school shared the rooms with the initial exhibitions of the Lippisches Landesmuseum , which was later viewed as unfavorable. It was therefore decided to erect a new building on Hornschen Strasse, which can still be found there as today's “old building”. The plans began in the summer of 1904. The construction dragged on from autumn of the same year to October 1907.

With the emergence of the Weimar Republic , the grammar school was converted from a princely to a state school and an upper secondary school was attached. In 1921 the grammar school was extended by the "tower" that still exists today, in which the classrooms for the test level can be found today. In the original old building there are numerous classrooms and specialist rooms for computer science and music, a photo laboratory, the “old auditorium”, in which mainly concerts but also other presentations take place, the administration, as well as the teachers' room and the offices of the caretaker and the student council.

Due to the large number of people returning after the war, the Leopoldinum was the largest grammar school in Germany in 1949 with 1,300 students. Thereupon Leopoldinum I and II were separated. Henceforth there were two Leopoldinum grammar schools, of which Leopoldinum II remained in the original buildings as a grammar school with a mathematical and scientific focus, and Leopoldinum I continued the tradition of humanistic and ancient language orientation.

The conversion from state to municipal sponsorship took place in the 1973/74 school year. 29 years after the separation, in 1978, the Leopoldinum I was relocated to the newly established Detmold school center on Sprottauer Straße. The Leopoldinum II, on the other hand, kept the old location on Hornschen Strasse. In addition, a "new building" and the triple gymnasium were built.

In 1987 the two "Leopoldines" were reunited against strong opposition from both sides due to a sharp drop in student numbers and operated at two locations for a year. At the end of the 1990s, an application to set up new classrooms in the attic of the old building failed due to an objection from the monument protection. In 1999, however, the city of Detmold developed the plan to build a new extension to meet the growing number of students at the grammar school with new classrooms.

One of the most important events in the 2000s was the renovation and reconstruction of the new building in accordance with the more stringent fire regulations in the summer of 2001. In the new building there are still numerous classrooms, especially for the upper level, as well as the specialist rooms for biology, physics and chemistry , Geography and history, as well as the cafeteria and the “New Aula”, a theater hall that can hold up to 500 spectators.

Construction of the new extension began in May 2001, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in September of the same year and the extension was completed in time for the 400th anniversary in 2002. Media and art rooms were also set up here. Also in 2002, an extensive anniversary publication was published on the history and the present of the Leopoldinum. The last change of director took place in August 2004 , since then the school has been run by a woman for the first time. The latest innovation is the inauguration of a self-learning center for students for the 2006/07 school year. At the beginning of the 2010/2011 school year, the cafeteria was converted into a cafeteria by adding an extension at the front of the new building in order to be able to cater to the students in the G8 course in accordance with the new school concept as a bound all-day school .

School program

At the Gymnasium Leopoldinum there is a school program that specifies the binding requirements of the training regulations, guidelines and curricula with regard to the specific conditions of the individual school and determines the further development of school work. In detail these are the following:

  • Transition from elementary school to high school
  • Career and study orientation
  • Gender-specific promotion
  • Homework supervision (extended space, connection to the learning center, technical and methodical training)
  • School opening
  • Environmental education
  • Media education
  • Individual support both a) for high performance and b) for poor performance: a) Possibility to start with Latin and English in grade 5, study from 16, shortening of school time by skipping, accompanied by targeted preparation and follow-up work; b) Remedial courses in German, mathematics and English in grades 5, 6 and 11

Support association

The school is supported in its educational mandate by two associations. On the one hand there is the Friends of the Leopoldinum, whose membership is made up mainly of parents and teachers (but also from alumni), and on the other hand the “Association of Former Leopoldins”. At the Leopoldinum there is also the Barmeyer-Doerth-Foundation founded by Heide Barmeyer (until 2012 Karl-Doerth-Foundation ), which is named after a former teacher and supports particularly high achievers financially, for example in the form of a scholarship .

Partner schools

The Leopoldinum cooperates with the two other municipal high schools in Detmold, the Christian-Dietrich-Grabbe-Gymnasium and the Stadtgymnasium Detmold .

Former students

Former teachers

Trivia

In 1990, numerous scenes from the TV film Die Frosch-Intrige were filmed in the old Leopoldinum building, especially in the headmaster's office .

literature

  • Rohmann, Markus: Protestant religion teacher at the grammar school: the emergence of a profession reconstructed on the basis of the assessments of Protestant religion teachers at the Schiller grammar school in Münster, the Freiherr von Stein school in Münster, the Leopoldinum Detmold and the Lyceum Detmold in the period from 1917–1935. WWU Münster, Row 2, Volume 10: 2019.
  • Hanns-Peter Fink: Leopoldinum. Detmold high school 1602–2002. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Further school information. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Gymnasium Leopoldinum: list of colleges Gymnasium Leopoldinum. In: https://www.gymnasium-leopoldinum-detmold.de/kontakt1 . Gymnasium Leopoldinum Detmold, February 26, 2020, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
  3. ^ Gymnasium Leopoldinum in Detmold. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  4. ^ Fink, Hanns-Peter .: Leopoldinum: Gymnasium zu Detmold, 1602-2002 . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-365-7 , p. 357 .
  5. ^ Fink, Hanns-Peter .: Leopoldinum: Gymnasium zu Detmold, 1602-2002 . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-365-7 , p. 267 .