Sacre Coeur High School Vienna
| High school Sacré Cœur Vienna | |
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| type of school | General secondary school |
| School number | 903046 |
| founding | 1868 |
| address |
Rennweg 31 |
| place | Vienna |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 11 '43 " N , 16 ° 23' 7" E |
| carrier | School foundation of the Archdiocese of Vienna |
| student | about 720 |
| Teachers | about 85 |
| management | Birgit Gmeindl-Oser |
| Website | gym.sacre-coeur.at |
The Sacré Cœur grammar school is a private Catholic general education secondary school on Rennweg in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse . The school has existed since 1868 and currently has around 720 students.
history
At the behest of the Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , the Palais Dietrichstein (the former Kaunitzschlössel ) was bought in 1867 and the school started there in 1868 with 12 pupils. In order to keep up with the growth of the school, additional land purchases were made later. In 1869 the remains of the Sacred Heart priest Père de Tournély were transferred. Today it rests in a side chapel of the church that was built later.
In 1872 a new school wing, which has since been demolished again, was built and the church , which belongs to the school and is now listed, was built from 1872 to 1875 . In 1892, today's monastery wing with the former Marienkapelle was built as a "guest house". At the same time a “poor school” and later a sewing school was attached to the school. This should enable poor girls to have lessons. The school was subsequently visited several times by members of the Austrian imperial family. Among others, Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary visited the institution.
In 1869 the public school, now attached to the boarding school and semi-boarding school, was granted public rights in place of the sewing school . During the First World War (1914-1918) a hospital was housed in the school building. The boarding house was reopened in 1918 for the 50th anniversary. In 1926 the Reform Realgymnasium was introduced. In 1936 the school was granted public rights and the first nuns in the house began to study. However, after Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, the nuns were prohibited from teaching. Parts of the school building therefore had to be rented out. During the Second World War (1939–1945) the building was again used as a hospital. It was damaged by bombing.
After the Second World War, large parts of the school buildings were used by the British until 1948 during the time of Vienna as a four-sector city . Nevertheless, school operations could be resumed with 50 children. This created a kindergarten, elementary school and high school. In 1955 the old boarding house building was increased and in the 1960s a gym and a student hostel were opened. In 1979 the sponsorship of the school was transferred to the Archdiocese of Vienna , now a school foundation of the Archdiocese of Vienna, as part of an existing contract . The dormitory was sold to the archdiocese in 1989 and the building was then used by the elementary school and kindergarten.
In 1995 a new wing was built to house the grammar school and special classrooms were created. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacré Cœur) there was an exhibition on the history of the school and the order. A short film about the school was also made on the occasion. In 2002 the attic was expanded to accommodate additional classes and a lounge for the upper school students.
General
Based on the five Sacré Cœur educational goals, the school offers a comprehensive general education with a focus on foreign languages (English, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Russian). Each year there is also at least one European class that is taught bilingually in English and German. The second focus is on the natural sciences (biology, physics, chemistry, computer science), which are taught in an interdisciplinary and application-oriented manner in additional voluntary courses from the first grade onwards. In addition, the pupils take part in the social project “Compassion - Learning Social Responsibility” and in other projects during the 7th grade.
The school is part of the international network of Sacré-Cœur schools, so students have the opportunity to take part in exchange programs with other Sacré-Cœur schools, for example in the United States, Spain, France or Taiwan, and in return visit Schoolchildren from these countries attend the Sacré Cœur grammar school in Vienna. Comenius projects supported by the EU complement the international character of this school.
