Odenkirchen grammar school

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Odenkirchen grammar school
GymnasiumOdenkirchen.jpg
Main building of the Odenkirchen grammar school seen from Mülgaustraße
type of school high school
School number 165311
founding 1861
address

Mülgaustraße 43

place Mönchengladbach - Odenkirchen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '20 "  N , 6 ° 27' 23"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '20 "  N , 6 ° 27' 23"  E
carrier City of Mönchengladbach
student just under 670
management Ariane Nübel-Can
Website www.gymnasium-odenkirchen.de

The Odenkirchen grammar school is a fully developed state grammar school in the Odenkirchen district of the city of Mönchengladbach . It is located in the south of the city and is attended by around 670 students (as of November 2019). The school building dates from the Wilhelmine era .

Exterior window of the Odenkirchen grammar school

Focus

Students can choose one of the following modules in class 5:

  1. Latin plus (Latin and English)
  2. English with bilingual modules
  3. MINT (scientific focus)

In the further school career, French and Spanish can also be selected. There are special options in the Abitur: The subjects art and sport can be chosen as Abitur subjects. The subject of history has a special meaning for schools. Every high school student must take history as a subject. In the differentiation from grade 8, computer science, geography / history and biology / chemistry are also offered.

history

The year 1861 was the founding year of the grammar school in Odenkirchen. In this year the philologist Friedrich Martin Schöpwinkel began his service in Odenkirchen and built the new school. Efforts were made earlier to found a secondary school in Odenkirchen, but it was not until 1861 that the appropriate structures were created.

The school was initially supported by the Protestant parish of Odenkirchen. In 1888 the school was converted into a joint institution and was open to children of all denominations. Three years later, the city of Odenkirchen took over the school and continued it as a rectorate school. From 1902 onwards, teaching was given as a single educational program . The girls 'school was spun off in 1906 so that the original school was continued as a boys' school. At the beginning of the 20th century, today's Odenkirchen grammar school was a feeder school for the Rheydter grammar school.

In 1909, the city administration decided to expand the school into the municipal secondary school in Odenkirchen. Then the number of students increased, so that a new school building was needed. In 1912, construction began on today's school building, which was officially inaugurated on March 28, 1914 and is still the center of the school today. The building is located on a hill and is delimited by the Odenkirchen zoo and the Odenkirchen city forest.

From 1917 there were successful efforts in Odenkirchen to develop the school into a secondary school . In 1925 the first six high school graduates left the Odenkirchen grammar school.

During the Second World War, the school building was badly damaged by bombs at the end of August 1943. The rebuilding of the school began in 1945. The school also benefited from the economic upswing in West Germany. The number of students rose rapidly and in 1959 a new building (B-building) was built. The school's continued success can also be measured in the extension buildings. As early as the school year 1965/1966, a second extension (C-Building) was built, which was again supplemented by a modern science wing in 1983. The biggest change in modern times was the dissolution of the boys' school in 1974 and the reintroduction of coeducation after more than 70 years.

Monument description

The school building is located in an exposed urban area on Pixbusch in the middle of a park and garden area. It is a three-aisled plastered building above a high basement on an approximately L-shaped floor plan. With the single-storey annex building of the gymnasium and smaller porches on the front and back, the property was expanded into a diverse structure.

The building is worth protecting as a monument for urban planning and architectural reasons, as well as for local and socio-historical reasons. It was entered under no. M 050 on August 29, 1994 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach.

Student exchange / international contacts

The Gymnasium Odenkirchen offers the opportunity to get to know different countries and cultures and to carry out a student exchange with partner schools in France and England .

Since 1965 there has been a student exchange with the Collège Saint Joseph in Wattrelos (France). In the first few years, the students met in France in spring and in Germany in autumn. The exchange is now organized annually alternately in Wattrelos and Odenkirchen. The exchange with an English school takes place annually with the Grays Convent School in Grays. In 2009, an exchange with a school from Warsaw took place for the first time .

Between 2011 and 2013 an exchange took place as part of a Comenius project , funded by the EU. Schoolchildren in grades 8 and 9 could take part. The partner schools in this project are located in Trojan ( Bulgaria ), Reggio Calabria ( Italy ), Saragossa ( Spain ) and the Azores ( Portugal ). During the project, a game about the future of Europe's energy supply was created.

Since 2014 there has been an annual project trip for year Q2 to Oswiecim (Poland). The Auschwitz Memorial is visited there. The topic complex of the Holocaust is worked out through various student lectures and presentations on site.

Prominent students

Sources and literature

  • Municipal secondary school i. E. zu Odenkirchen (Ed.): Annual report of the Städtische Realschule iE zu Odenkirchen . Odenkirchen 1910–1911 ( digitized version )
  • Städtische Realschule zu Odenkirchen (Ed.): Annual report of the Städtische Realschule zu Odenkirchen . Odenkirchen 1912–1913 ( digitized version )
  • Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realschule zu Odenkirchen (Ed.): Annual report of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realschule zu Odenkirchen . Odenkirchen 1914–1915 ( digitized version )

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