Lerchenfeld high school

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Lerchenfeld high school
Hh-lerchenfeldgym.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1910
address

Lerchenfeld 10
22081 Hamburg

place Hamburg-Uhlenhorst
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '8 "  N , 10 ° 1' 48"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '8 "  N , 10 ° 1' 48"  E
carrier Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
student around 935
Teachers about 70
management Christian Klug
Website www.gyle.de

The Gymnasium Lerchenfeld (short: GyLe ) is a state high school in the Hamburg district of Uhlenhorst . It was founded in 1910 as one of the first state high schools for girls in Hamburg . The introduction of co-education has made it accessible to boys since 1970. After several renaming, it has had its current name since 1972. The offers include German-Spanish bilingual lessons from grade 5. The Lerchenfeld grammar school is a partially integrated all - day school with supervision until 4 p.m. for students in grades 5 to 8. It has its own canteen.

building

Albert Erbes watercolor study of the building, 1906

The first building of today's Lerchenfeld high school was built between 1908 and 1910, the architect was Albert Erbe . The school was built according to his design as a brick building with ornaments, baroque gables, roof turrets and a late Gothic staircase made of sandstone.

The high school in 2016
The chestnut in the schoolyard

It was largely destroyed in World War II in 1942 and during Operation Gomorrah in 1943. Only the extension from 1921 and the gymnasium remained.

In 1955, the rebuilt side wing of the main building was inaugurated. The main wing with the auditorium on the Birkenau was not rebuilt. In 1961, the school grounds were expanded to include parts of the Birkenau street and an adjacent property on the street. Further houses with the designations A to C as well as a multi-purpose and sports hall were newly built in the following years. Erbes corner building with a gable landscape became a building block that shields the school from the increasing traffic. The school yard is adorned with a large old chestnut, which may be the geographical center of Hamburg. Another calculation for the geographical center of Hamburg relates to the area around the nearby St. Gertrud Church on the Kuhmühlenteich. In this church there are often Christmas concerts of the Lerchenfeld students.

location

To the left of the main building in the direction of the Hamburger Meile shopping center and Mundsburg underground station is the Hammonia-Bad Medical Center with the English-language theater The English Theater , on the right the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK).

canteen

Due to the extended school hours due to the Abitur after the twelfth grade (G8), the school management introduced a longer lunch break. A separate canteen provides teachers and students with freshly prepared warm meals.

history

prehistory

There have been higher girls’s schools in Hamburg since 1872 . In 1872 the teaching institutions of the St. Johannis Monastery and in 1897 the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium were founded. Both schools were made possible by private foundations. As a result of the success, on June 22, 1904, a civic request was sent to the Hamburg Senate , the subject of which was the establishment of state higher schools for girls. As a result, the Senate decided on January 15, 1908 to establish two state high schools for girls. The State Higher Girls' School on Lerchenfeld was established in 1910 , called State Lyceum am Lerchenfeld from 1913 (today Gymnasium Lerchenfeld) east of the Alster , and today's Helene-Lange-Gymnasium west of the Alster.

The school leaving certificate initially only led to secondary school leaving certificate . After long disputes about the admission of women to university studies , the first girls were able to take their Abitur examination in 1925 .

time of the nationalsocialism

Stumbling block for Dorothea Bernstein

The time of National Socialism did not spare the staff of this school either. The Jewish teacher Dorothea Bernstein taught French and German in all grades from 1927 to 1933. After her release into compulsory retirement, she worked in a Jewish school from 1939 to 1941. In 1942 she was abducted to Litzmannstadt and later, presumably via Theresienstadt, to the concentration camp in Chelmo (Ukraine) and murdered there. The place of death is unclear. For them, was a stumbling block of Gunter Demnig installed at the main entrance of the school. Two other teachers, Emma Simonssohn and Olga Schiffmann, escaped arrest in time by escaping. By 1935, 27 of 50 teachers had left the service.

As described above, the building was largely destroyed in the war in 1942/43 and the school operations were relocated to three children's deportation camps in Franconian Switzerland until it could be resumed on October 3, 1945.

The school today

General

The Lerchenfeld grammar school teaches around 935 students from the fifth grade to the Abitur , which is currently completed after eight years with the twelfth grade. As an all-day school, supervision is offered up to 4 p.m. in addition to the subject lessons. There is a choice of inclination courses, as well as remedial classes and homework supervision.

English is the first foreign language for all students from grade five. From year six onwards, either Latin or Spanish is taught as a second foreign language. French is offered from year eight, Chinese from year nine (study group).

In addition to the standard subjects, additional subjects are offered in the compulsory elective area in grades 8 to 10: Audiovisual media, French as a third foreign language, fine arts, music, musical practice, theater, philosophy, religion, scientific internship and computer science.

In the working groups, for example, theater, environment, hip-hop, football, volleyball, basketball, self-assertion, rowing, chess, web design, programming, painting & drawing, works, string class, choir, school orchestra, band training, Chinese, English +, math + , Chemistry / experimentation as well as participation in the school newspaper Durchblick . A cooperation partner in the theater area is the nearby Ernst-Deutsch-Theater an der Mundsburg.

Bilingual teaching

The grammar school has had a German-Spanish bilingual branch since 2007 . It was realigned from August 2016. From the 2016/2017 school year onwards, pupils who have little or no knowledge of the Spanish language can choose the offer. From grade 5 onwards, they receive intensive introductory lessons so that, from grade 7 onwards, they can take part in bilingual subject-specific lessons with native speakers, which in particular include biology, geography and history.

Media class

Media lessons take place in the areas of books, computers and film. There are permanently installed and mobile computers, a well-equipped school library, digital cameras and cutting facilities in our own studio. There is cooperation with the Hamburg Media School 200 meters away and its training channel Tide .

Career orientation

Individual career advice includes: Girls 'Day and Boys' Day (Grade 6), trial internship (Grade 7), application training (Grade 8), company and social internship (Grade 9), career orientation week (Grade 11), university days (Grade 11 / 12).

Upper level profile

At the beginning of the upper level, the students choose a profile. In addition to the profiles, they are taught the core subjects of German, mathematics and a foreign language up to the Abitur. All other subjects can be taken in the elective area, a total of 34 hours per week per semester. Some of the lessons take place in a fixed study group led by a tutor.

In contrast to systems with a limited selection, all subjects in the Lerchenfeld Gymnasium can be of a profile with the exception of theater and sport; For details, see receipt on page 28.

Partner schools

Partner schools for an annual exchange are schools in Shanghai , China and Murcia , Spain. The student exchange takes place in the 10th or 11th year.

Awards

Due to the environmentally friendly orientation of the grammar school, it has received several awards as the “ Environment School in Europe / International Agenda 21 School ”.

Well-known alumni

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literature

  • In the middle of Hamburg. 100 years of the Lerchenfeld high school 1910–2010. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary, Gymnasium Lerchenfeld, Hamburg 2010
  • Hermann Hipp : Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster , DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Insa Gall: When Education Became Female , welt.de, April 19, 2010, accessed on November 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Aerial photo: in the middle left the main building with a red tiled roof, the big chestnut in the schoolyard
  3. ↑ See Festschrift, pp. 6, 34, 181–185
  4. ↑ Hamburg's geographic center celebrates its anniversary , abendblatt.de, March 17, 2010, accessed on November 27, 2016
  5. ^ Hermann Hipp: DuMont art travel guide for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, history, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster , p. 387
  6. ^ Ernst Christian Schütt: The Chronicle of Hamburg. P. 370.
  7. ↑ See the web link brochure of the Lerchenfeld Gymnasium
  8. ↑ See Festschrift pp. 110–113, 182
  9. ↑ strings class at gyle.de, accessed on December 6, 2016
  10. ↑ Tusch on gyle.de, accessed on December 6, 2016
  11. ↑ See the school's website
  12. ↑ Library on gyle.de, accessed on December 6, 2016
  13. ↑ Upper level profile on the website of the grammar school
  14. ↑ Lerchenfeld reappointed environmental school , gyle.de, accessed on November 26, 2016