St. Wolfhelm High School (Schwalmtal)

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St. Wolfhelm High School
Coat of arms Schwalmtal Niederrhein
type of school high school
School number 165839
address

Turmstrasse 2

place Schwalmtal
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 13 '1 "  N , 6 ° 16' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '1 "  N , 6 ° 16' 49"  E
carrier Schwalmtal community
student 773 (Oct 15, 2015)
Teachers 59 (Oct 15, 2015)
management Thomas Martens
Website www.gym-st-wolfhelm.de

The St. Wolfhelm High School is located in Waldniel, a district of Schwalmtal on the Lower Rhine . It was named after the blessed Wolfhelm (* around 1010), abbot of the Brauweiler Abbey .

history

The St. Wolfhelm High School goes back to the Rector's School, which was located in Waldniel as early as the 19th century. From this a Progymnasium developed , which enabled the acquisition of the secondary school leaving certificate. Since the number of pupils rose sharply after the Second World War and the pupils still had to switch to grammar schools in neighboring towns (e.g. Mönchengladbach) after the 10th grade, today's grammar school was founded in the 1960s. From the beginning it was run as a four-course grammar school and from 1969 onwards it was operated with grades 5 to 13. The foundation and planning was largely carried out by the Catholic clergyman Dr. Achim Besgen, who also became the first headmaster. Besgen was the only Catholic clergyman in Germany to be the headmaster of a publicly owned grammar school. Successor from Besgen was the Protestant theologian Hans-Peter Knauf; From 2001 to 2018 Barbara Cloeters was the school principal.

The school auditorium was extensively renovated in 2008/09 and technically brought up to a stand that also enables lavish theatrical performances there. Since then, it has served as a multi-purpose hall for the Schwalmtal community and has been called Achim-Besgen-Halle since September 2, 2009 . Since 2010 there is a cafeteria for the grammar school and the neighboring secondary school.

The school consists of two buildings with around 80 classrooms and a triple gymnasium. The nearby solar bath is also used.

theatre

The theater AG of the St. Wolfhelm High School, known far beyond the borders of Schwalm valley through performances in the Ganges in the south of France and in Montpellier , where Charlotte Roche also gained her first stage experience, reached 1999 with the performance of the Broadway musical The Man of La Mancha first place in the Lower Rhine amateur theater competition in Xanten .

Known students

Footnotes

  1. ↑ www.gym-st-wolfhelm.de
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kohl:  Wolfhelm (from Cologne). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 1530-1532.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ^ History
  4. ↑ www.schwalmtalwerke.de
  5. ↑ LONG LIFE or "the love of the theater"
  6. ↑ biography