St. Xaver High School

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St. Xaver High School
Bad Driburg - 2017-05-06 - Kaiser-Karl-Tower, view (11) .jpg
View from the Kaiser-Karls-Turm to the St. Xaver High School (2017)
type of school high school
School number 168853
founding 1916
address

Dringenberger Str. 32

place Bad Driburg
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 43 '54 "  N , 9 ° 1' 3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '54 "  N , 9 ° 1' 3"  E
carrier Archdiocese of Paderborn
student about 900
Teachers about 70
management Antonio Burgos
Website www.st-xaver.de

The St. Xaver high school in Bad Driburg is a state-recognized, Catholic private school which, according to the current model of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, to which it is subject, also accepts non-denominational students and has been named after them since 1975. The high school emerged from a missionary school St. Xavier founded in 1916 by the Steyler missionaries . The Archdiocese of Paderborn has been the school sponsor since 2000 . The school has around 900 students and around 70 teachers. Since the school year 2009/10 it has been a bound all-day school .

The school has a sports field and two gyms. Homework assistance has existed since 1971. A canteen has existed since 2011, which is operated by a Bad Driburg restaurateur.

Since 1983 the school had already won several first places and several special prizes from the Federal Minister in student competitions, Jugend forscht . Antonio Burgos has been the headmaster since 2018.

history

In 1914, the city of Bad Driburg provided the Society of the Divine Word with 55 Prussian acres of land on the Ziegenberg . The first wing was inaugurated on December 7, 1915. In 1924 there was an extension by two more wings with an auditorium and church. The church in the style between Art Nouveau and Art Deco was inaugurated on August 23, 1925 and painted from 1929 to 1930 by the painter Philipp Schumacher from Munich in the Nazarene style . In 1929 a sports field followed directly behind the school and in 1965 the large sports field behind the swimming pool.

The mission school was a state-recognized Progymnasium from 1915 to 1940 . Between 1940 and 1945 the school premises served as a military hospital for the Wehrmacht . After school operations could be resumed in November 1945, the school was officially recognized as an old-language grammar school in 1947. In 1949 the school had 195 students. The first gymnasium was built in 1954 and a swimming pool in 1960. In 1958 the until then purely boarding school was opened to students who did not live in it permanently by accepting external boys, and since 1969 also girls. A development association has existed since 1965. In 1971 the nationally known “Spanish model” was introduced at the St. Xaver high school, in which the children of Spanish citizens were specifically prepared for the bilingual Abitur.

Due to the increasing number of students, additional buildings were added. In the 1970s, a building wing located higher on the slope was added. Until after the turn of the millennium, this building was used for administration, the upper level and subject-specific course rooms. The " Zenker " building (three classrooms as a supplement to the boarding school building) was only used until the end of the 1980s. The boarding school was closed in the early eighties. However, the building was still used as a dormitory for guests or, as part of the reunification, as accommodation for emigrants.

With the transfer of the school to the Hochstift and the subsequent renovation work, all administrative and specialist rooms were concentrated on the historic old building.

The old buildings (nursery and new building) and areas (apple plantation, grotto, cemetery) that were still used by the Steyler missionaries were separated.

The new cafeteria between the two gyms was inaugurated on July 18, 2011 by Vicar General Alfons Hardt .

literature

  • Society of the Divine Word (ed.). 75 years in the service of the Divine Word. Commemorative sheets for the 75th anniversary of the Steyler Missionswerk 1875-1950 . Steyler Missionsdruckerei 1950. pp. 24f., 34
  • Johannes Schütte. 1915-1965. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the St. Xaver Mission House in Bad Driburg . Bonifacius-Druckerei Paderborn, 1965
  • 1915-1990. 75 years of the St. Xaver Missionary House of the Steyler Missionaries SVD Bad Driburg. A commemorative publication . Steyl printing house, NL
  • 1915-2000. 85 years of the St. Xavier Mission House. 125 years of Steyler missionaries. A commemorative publication . Steyl printing house, NL
  • 2001-2011. St. Xaver High School. 10 years in the sponsorship of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. A commemorative publication. Printer Bonifatius, Paderborn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.st-xaver.de/wordpress/?page_id=14 Download page, model of the Archdiocese of Paderborn for their high schools
  2. ↑ http://www.st-xaver.de/wordpress/?page_id=3701