Marienberg High School (Neuss)

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Archbishop's Gymnasium Marienberg
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type of school high school
School number 165153
founding 1857
address

Rheinstrasse 3

place Neuss
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '3 "  N , 6 ° 41' 34"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '3 "  N , 6 ° 41' 34"  E
carrier Archdiocese of Cologne
student around 1530
Teachers about 100
management Tilman Latzel
Website www.GymnasiumMarienberg.de

The high school Marienberg is depending on the year five- to six brisk Mädchengymnasium in Neuss in ownership of the archbishopric Cologne . It was founded in 1857 on the initiative of Neuss citizens in cooperation with the sisters of the poor child Jesus as a private secondary school for girls. To this day, the monastery and the associated chapel are an integral part of school life, not least because school services are celebrated there. The large number of female students in the upper level guarantees a wide range of basic and advanced courses with good opportunities for individual focus.

history

From around 1857 the city of Neuss had asked various women's orders whether they were willing to take over a Neuss girls' school. In 1855 an orphanage at Neusser Münsterplatz was taken over by the sisters of the poor child Jesus , an order that was founded by Clara Fey in Aachen in 1844 . The aim of the order was to care for the partially neglected children, especially those of the increasing industrial proletariat. It was about their training and for this the order increasingly needed teachers. The sisters from the poor child of Jesus agreed to take over the secondary school for girls in Neuss and at the same time hoped to train teachers for their orphanages and elementary schools here. The orphanage is now moving together with the secondary school for daughters to the Glockhammer / corner of Rheinstrasse location, where the school is still located today. The school was expanded into a school for girls over six grades by 1870, followed by a preparatory course for teachers. In 1870 there were around 200 female students, 30 of whom lived in the adjoining boarding school. During the Kulturkampf , the school had to be abandoned by the order, as a Catholic institution, by 1888. The school was continued by the two sisters Borell, the number of female students fell to 78. From 1888 to 1909 the number of female students rose again to 260. The number of grade levels rose to nine. At Easter 1909 Marienberg received state recognition as a " Higher Girls' School ". In 1910 a commercial school course was introduced. In 1912, Marienberg was given the name “Lyzeum Marienberg” with ten classes, and at the same time a “college for the realgymnasial school” was added, where the girls could now also do their Abitur . When the first Abitur was taken in 1918, the number of female students was 534, in 1920 the school had as many as 800 female students. After 1933, not all young women who had passed their Abitur were granted university entrance qualifications. The women’s degree was no longer wanted. In 1940, under pressure from the NSDAP, the school with 420 pupils had to be handed over to the city administration, even if the teaching staff was retained. Between 1918 and 1940, a total of 400 young women passed their Abitur at school, 70% of whom went on to study. Immediately after the end of the war, in September 1945, the school was resumed by the Order of the Sisters of the Poor Child of Jesus . The women's high school, which had been attached under municipal management, was not put back into operation until 1947, as its buildings had been destroyed in the war. The business school was reintroduced in 1952. In 1967 the Friends of Marienberg Association was founded. In 1977 the Abitur was taken for the first time after the reformed upper school. The school continued to grow and had 1,312 students with the inauguration of the new building in 1978. As the number of sisters continued to decline, the order was no longer able to support the school and transferred it to the Archdiocese of Cologne . In 1990, Elfriede Schmitz-Keil, the first secular director, took over the management of the school. The newly built sports center was inaugurated in the same year.

Location and description

The school is in close proximity to Neuss city center and the Neuss harbor . The school auditorium including the cafeteria is located directly at the first port basin and is connected to the rest of the school building via a bridge. The town hall and the Quirinus cathedral are in the immediate vicinity.

building

A, B and C tract

In order to accommodate the growth of the school, today's core area of ​​the school building was built in 1978. With the exception of a small extension of the A wing, it is in its current form and houses a large part of the specialist and classrooms as well as all administrative offices.

D tract

This part of the building is the oldest part of the school and has been extensively renovated. However, the grammar school mainly uses the old auditorium and otherwise only a few rooms in this building, as the Marienberg vocational college is also located there. There is a self-study center for the students in the attic.

Marienberg sports center

In 1989 the construction of the sports center began. It houses two small gyms in the basement and a large multifunctional hall that can be divided into two smaller halls. The sports center is also used by sports clubs such as TG Neuss .

Forum Marienberg

The Marienberg Forum was opened in 2011. The Marienberg Forum houses a large event hall, which is used as a school auditorium, and the cafeteria, which became necessary with the introduction of afternoon classes in lower secondary level . The forum is located directly at the harbor basin I and is directly connected to the school yard via a covered pedestrian bridge .

chapel

The chapel is used for all weekly school services at secondary level I. Due to the small size, the services of the upper level have to be celebrated in the Quirinus Minster and school masses in St. Marien .

→ see: Marienberg Monastery

Cooperation partner

School as a place of learning and living, which also means opening schools to the region. Cooperation in education and support with independent youth welfare organizations, music schools, sports clubs, church parishes and the economy bring innovation and expansion of the range of offers.

However, this cooperation must be integrated into fixed structures so that it can be established as a permanent offer of the school. The possibilities for collaboration between educators and extracurricular partners are very diverse.

Some of these cooperation partners include the Academy for Junior Managers (AJM) and the Rhein-Kreis Neuss . As an exchange school, there are connections with Ashley Hall , a school in South Carolina in the United States . Marienberg School offers its students a wide range of language certificates, including the Cambridge language certificate (diploma for English-speaking countries).

List of school principals

  • 1888–1909: Sister Johanna Matha
  • 1909–1933: Sister Thoma Angelica Walter
  • 1933–1948: Sister Mariana Gölden
  • 1949–1966: Sister Maria Alexia Schnaas
  • 1966–1972: Sister Clara Ignatia Nießen
  • 1972–1990: Sister Maria Lioba Otten
  • 1990–2006: Elfriede Schmitz-Keil
  • 2006–2019: Josef Burdich
  • 2019: Tilman Latzel

Well-known students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sr. Maria Caritas: Amazing discovery: Marienberg began as a teacher training institution . In: 125 Years of the Marienberg School . Neuss 1982.
  2. ↑ Katharina Braeckeler: The history of the Marienberg School speaks to us . In: 100 Years of the Marienberg School in Neuss / Rhein 1857 - 1957 . Neuss 1957, p. 7-23 .
  3. ↑ Joseph Burdich: history of the school Marienberg . In: 150 Years of Marienberg: Anniversary Edition 2007 . Neuss 2007, p. 6-22 .
  4. ^ Marienberg-Forum put into operation , newspaper article of the Westdeutsche Zeitung of January 11, 2011
  5. Jump from Alpen to Neuss: Tilman Latzel becomes head of the Marienberg high school . In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung of July 6, 2019 (accessed on July 9, 2019).