St. Mauritz High School
| St. Mauritz High School - Episcopal private high school for girls and boys | |
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| type of school | State-recognized Catholic grammar school under episcopal sponsorship |
| School number | 168233 |
| founding | 1897 |
| address |
Wersebeckmannweg 81 |
| place | Muenster |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 58 '59 " N , 7 ° 41' 15" E |
| carrier | Diocese of Münster |
| student | 762 (school year 2014/15) |
| Teachers | 62 (school year 2012/2013) |
| management | Anke Wilkens |
| Website | www.gymnasium-st-mauritz.de |
The St. Mauritz grammar school, founded in 1897, is a state-recognized Catholic grammar school under episcopal sponsorship in the Handorf district of the Westphalian city of Münster .
history
The first years
The St. Mauritz grammar school was originally founded as a preparation by the Sisters of Divine Providence . Accordingly, it had the task of preparing young women for the profession of teacher.
The school was built on the plot of land bought by the Münster factory owner Heinrich Wersebeckmann under Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad in 1892 - located south of the Boniburg Forest. The access road is still called Wersebeckmannweg today . After the concerns of Count Bonifatius von Hatzfeld-Trachenberg, who resided at the Boniburg , about the school, construction began in 1896.
While the construction work was still going on, the first sisters moved into the building in August 1897 under the direction of Sister Antonia Limbrock, who ran the school until 1929, so that on October 1, 1897 the boarding school was able to start operations as a secondary school for three classes. At that time, the school building consisted only of the central building with the kitchen and two refectories as well as the chapel that still exists today, which was the heart of the cross-shaped building even then. In 1903, the first structural changes began with the construction of the east wing.
On October 15, 1909, the school was recognized as a higher education institution according to the requirements of the Prussian girls' school reform of August 8, 1908. The sisters directed the scientific training of the students. The seminar year, on the other hand, had to be led by a secular teacher. It was not until the school year 1912/1913 that the school was allowed to form its own examination committee for the school leaving examination.
With 14 classes now, the school accepted external students from Münster for the first time in the school year 1914/1915. The school was largely unaffected by the events of the First World War. In order to save the later increasing number of schoolgirls from Münster the long way to school from the city center to the Boniburgerwald (at least 5 km), the Providence Sisters rented additional rooms in 1922 in the Pferdegasse, next to the State Museum . This resulted in today's girls' high school "Marienschule Münster" - which is now also sponsored by the Münster diocese - after it was separated from the mother school in 1926.
After the school reform of 1925, the school was given the right to issue full university entrance qualifications .
During the National Socialism
The Nazis put a temporary end to the school. In 1936 the preschool was closed and the upper school was dismantled, so that in 1939 the final school leaving examination was taken and the school closed on July 1, 1943, as the Sisters of Divine Providence were forbidden from teaching.
After the school closed, the buildings were used by the National Socialists. Among other things, Luftzeuggruppe 6 occupied over 80 office rooms in the building, and on the roof of the school combat equipment and an observation point were housed under a glass dome, which is why the school became a target of the Allies. On December 18, 1944, the country house, the joinery and other outbuildings were almost completely destroyed when two air mines fell on these buildings during a pre-alarm. Despite the many bombs detonated around it, the school building did not suffer any major damage.
After the end of the war, a small hill with a cross was piled up at the entrance to the school to commemorate the events of the war. As early as January 9, 1946, the school resumed teaching as the first secondary school in Münster, as the other secondary (inner-city) schools were partly badly damaged and had to be renovated first. Classes were resumed with six lower and middle school classes and 15 teachers. The first Abitur exams at the school after World War II were taken in 1949. In the course of the reform of 1949 the school became a new language girls high school .
1946 to the present
The name "Hildegardisschule", which the school had carried since 1938, was given up in 1950 in order to avoid confusion with the Hildegardisschule in Münster, which was also episcopal sponsored. The school was given the name of the nearby St. Mauritz district, which has been retained to this day , from which a large part of the student body comes.
In 1971, the sponsorship of the school, now called the St. Mauritz Girls' High School, passed from the Sisters of Divine Providence to the Diocese of Münster, and the school was no longer a monastery school . With the change of sponsorship, the intention was to build an urgently needed new building, as the order wanted to use the previous school and monastery building as a generalate and could not raise the financial means required for the new building.
The goals for this new building were set very high. In the future, the area should extend to the Werse by purchasing additional areas in order to expand school sports to include rowing and canoeing . Together with the city of Münster, a four-class system with 36 classes was planned and co-education was promised.
The general conference of teachers in 1974 elected a building committee, which was involved in advice to the architects and the diocese administration. This committee agreed on the design by the architects Brechler and Kiküm from Warendorf , which envisaged the completion of the new building in three construction phases. The diocese estimated the cost at 15.2 million DM (about 7.8 million euros). Initially, the triple gym was built by September 1975. Also in 1975 the planning for the second construction phase, the natural science wing, was completed, but the execution was delayed because of the regional reform and its effects on the municipal administration.
Since the number of pupils continued to rise during this time, rooms in the basement and even the auditorium were converted into classrooms, whereupon the school was approved for further construction on July 30, 1975 after a visit by the district president . On October 6, 1975, the planning committee of the city of Münster approved the extension for a four-class, coeducational high school.
On October 29, 1977, the then auxiliary bishop and later Bishop of Münster Reinhard Lettmann inaugurated the gym and the scientific wing.
When the Sisters of Providence sold the old building and the associated land to the diocese, because they had moved to a new generalate and no longer needed the old building, the planning for the third construction phase was abandoned in 1983 and it was decided to renovate the old building and continue with the school to use. The auditorium was restored in its original function and equipped with a theater stage. In the same year coeducation was introduced and the name of the school was changed to "Gymnasium St. Mauritz". With the completion of the outdoor sports facilities, which include a soccer field made of natural and artificial turf as well as facilities for various types of athletics, the renovation measures were completed in 1988.
The last major construction work has been taking place since 2010 as the roof needs renovation and is being completely renewed. In the course of the conversion to an all-day school , the diocese archive housed in the northern part of the building will be made usable again for schools. This work should be completed by November 2014.
Over the years, the number of students at the St. Mauritz grammar school has fluctuated significantly. It reached its peak in the 1979/1980 school year with 1120 students. In the 1987/1988 school year, however, it was only 698. In the meantime, the number of students has leveled off at just under 900.
architecture
The master builder Franz Wucherpfennig from Münster was selected for the construction of today's old building . Its design and implementation of the building is characterized by an eclectic style typical of the late 19th century . There are mainly Gothic elements such as the pointed arched windows with tracery , the stepped gable with pointed arch frieze , as well as the buttress and the pointed roof turret of the chapel, but also elements from other epochs such as the segmental arches of the windows.
In addition to these mainly design elements, practical considerations have also flowed into the building, such as the flat roof, which makes it possible to use this space for school purposes - such as currently as music and art rooms.
The new school building was built in the style of brutalism that was also typical of the period.
School profile
Believe
Since the St. Mauritz high school has always been sponsored by a Catholic corporation, it sets special accents in the religious area. These include regular church services in the school chapel, common prayer before classes begin, the days of religious orientation at the Gemen youth castle , the "walk to Telgte" on Ash Wednesday, an annual sponsored run for a street children project in Brazil and a 14-day social internship "Compassion "For grade 10.
Competitions
In addition to internal school competitions and competitions with partner schools, e.g. B. in the subject of physics, students from the St. Mauritz grammar school regularly take part in competitions at the federal level. In particular, the federal mathematics competition should be mentioned here, in which the school has already produced several national winners and the youngest national winner since the competition began. Also in competitions such as B. Jugend forscht (including school prize) and Jugend musiziert , pupils of the school regularly take part with success. The school has already received the school development award several times.
Ruder-AG, which was national champion in the young four-four gig in 2009, is also successful.
new media
Since the 2002/2003 school year, a so-called “laptop class” has been set up at the school, which begins in the fourth (seventh school year) and continues through to the end of secondary level I. The focus here is on encouraging independent learning and acting by the students. The laptop, which is purchased centrally for the whole class, is used across all subjects, often serving as a source of information and thus enriching lessons. The costs of the project are borne by the parents of the students. From the school year 13/14, the “laptop class” was replaced by the “tablet class”. It's the same principle, but the students work with iPads instead of laptops.
Afternoon offer
The school's afternoon program consists of various working groups. The focus here is particularly on the musical offerings, which are represented in large numbers by two big bands, an orchestra and saxophone, trumpet and trombone lessons. In addition, there are annual theater groups and a rowing group in cooperation with the "RVM Münster". Since the school year 2012/2013, the school has been switched to full-day operation.
International contacts
The St. Mauritz grammar school offers its students various opportunities for student exchange with its foreign partner schools. These include the Warwick School ( Warwick , United Kingdom ), the Pope John Paul II High School ( Hendersonville (Tennessee) , United States ), the Lycee Privé Passy Saint Honoré ( Paris , France ), the Liceo Giotto Ulivi ( Borgo San Lorenzo , Italy ), the Istituto Seghetti ( Verona , Italy ), the Wunshan Senior High School ( Kaohsiung , Taiwan ) and the College Arnold Reymond ( Pully , Switzerland ). It is also possible, on a private initiative, to spend parts of a school year or a whole school year at another school abroad.
In addition, the school offers interested students a one-week study trip to Brighton ( United Kingdom ) and a one- week study trip to other European countries.
literature
- Dietrich Glauner: St. Mauritz High School 1897–1997: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary
Web links
- Official website of the school
- Friends of the school
- Former association "Old Mauritzians"
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Park at the Provincial Monastery / Gymnasium St. Mauritz in LWL-GeodatenKultur
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ School homepage: Teachers' College Accessed on January 29, 2013
- ↑ BBV: Miss 100 percent. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2013
- ↑ Prize-winning schools in the 2011/2012 school year. Retrieved January 29, 2013
- ^ Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: State Championship Rowing. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2013
