St. Ursula Dorsten High School
| Grammar school St.Ursula Dorsten | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 168294 |
| founding | 1699 |
| address |
Ursulastraße 8-10 |
| place | Dorsten |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 39 '42 " N , 6 ° 57' 57" E |
| carrier | Ursuline monastery Dorsten |
| student | around 1100 |
| Teachers | about 64 |
| management | Elisabeth Schulte Huxel |
| Website | www.st-ursula-dorsten.de |
The St. Ursula Dorsten grammar school is a state-approved private grammar school in the city of Dorsten with around 1100 students and 70 teachers. The school is run by the St. Ursula Dorsten Foundation, which also runs the St. Ursula secondary school in Dorsten. Both schools work closely together. Elisabeth Schulte Huxel has been the headmaster since 2015.
history
With the establishment of the Ursuline monastery in Dorsten in 1699, a teaching institution for higher daughters was also opened. This was converted into a lyceum in the 19th century . After girls were given access to the Abitur, the school was called Oberlyzeum.
During the National Socialist regime, the school was targeted by the dictatorship because of repeated “insubordination” and “insubordination”. Among other things, the headmistress intervened when the Association of German Girls (BDM) wanted to advertise in the school to join the BDM. Laurenz Schmedding , teacher at the Oberlyzeum St. Ursula and Rector of the Ursuline Church from 1925 to 1939, refused to hoist the swastika flag there. Eventually the Ursulines were deprived of the responsibility for the school; at the same time renamed it one more time, this time to high school for girls.
In 1945 the Ursulines got back the sponsorship and opened the school in the five-sixth destroyed building on January 21, 1946 as a grammar school. In the 1970s, the first boys were allowed to attend school.
School project
Since 1997 there has been a school project at the St. Ursula High School, which mainly helps children from Cambodia . This is done in cooperation with the NGO "Partners in Compassion", a small project that is supported by an American doctor, private individuals, the Swiss Schmitz-Hille Foundation and the St. Ursula High School. A special project is the Cambodia store , a small stationery store in the high school, the proceeds of which flow into the projects. The grammar school received the Medal of Merit of the State of Cambodia for building a kindergarten. In almost ten years they have been able to finance the construction of several training centers for girls and women to become seamstresses and hairdressers, set up literacy classes and built two homes for former “trafficked children”, children who were sold by their parents, where they can find a home to be healed of the traumas of their past. A so-called 24-hour campaign was carried out in October 2007 for the tenth anniversary of Kambodscha AG. The high school students were sponsored by relatives and friends for sporting activities and collected more than € 30,000.
In January 2009, the school's Cambodia Working Group was awarded the Diocesan Committee's Dialogue Prize. In recognition of this, the school was presented with prize money of € 500, a certificate of honor and a statue of dialogue.
Others
In the learning state survey 2007, the eighth grades, the St. Ursula High School is the only school was North Rhine-Westphalia in all three studied mathematics, German and English awarded by the Ministry of Education. In each of the subjects, this grade was thus among the best 2% of the examined grammar school grades in the federal state.
Known students
- Maria Lenzen (1814–1882), writer
- Henriette von Noël (1833–1903), teacher and founder of today's Hildegardis School in Bochum
- Jürgen Overdiek (1954–2007), architect and urban planner
- Michael Schlagheck (* 1955), Director of the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Essen
- Anette Bunse (* 1958), politician
- Cornelia Funke (* 1958), writer
- Christoph Cluse (* 1964), historian
- Franz-Josef Deiters (* 1964), German-Australian literary scholar
- Andreas Hüttemann (* 1964), philosopher
- Petra Bendel (* 1965), political scientist
- Mike Litt (* 1967), German-American radio presenter, DJ and journalist
- Vera Gaspar (* 1986), basketball player
Well-known teachers
- Laurenz Schmedding (1894–1972), priest and teacher, imprisoned in the priestly block of the Dachau concentration camp
- Tisa von der Schulenburg , sister Paula (1903-2001), sculptor and draftsman
- Johanna Eichmann , nee Ruth Eichmann, sister Johanna (1926–2019), teacher and headmistress of the grammar school and superior of the Ursulines in Dorsten, founder of the Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Frieling: Priest from the diocese of Münster in the concentration camp. 38 biographies. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Münster 1993, ISBN 3-402-05427-2 , p. 166.
- ↑ Press release from the NRW School Ministry on the 2007 learning status survey ( 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. (PDF file)
