Velbert-Langenberg high school
| Velbert-Langenberg high school | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| School number | 165580 |
| founding | 1711 |
| address |
Pannerstrasse 34 |
| place | Velbert |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 20 '44 " N , 7 ° 7' 51" E |
| student | 577 |
| Teachers | 49 |
| management | Markus Ueberholz |
| Website | www.gymnasium-langenberg.de |
The Velbert-Langenberg grammar school (also called Langenberg grammar school ) is one of three grammar schools in the city of Velbert and, apart from the Villa Wewersbusch, the only public secondary school in the Langenberg district . It is one of the oldest high schools in the Rhineland and with between 600 and 700 students one of the country's smaller high schools.
history
In 1711 the Lübeck spice dealer Jürgen Dahlmann bequeathed a capital of 800 Reichstalers to the community of Langenberg, from which he came , from the interest of which a Latin school was to be maintained. At that time the village had barely 1000 inhabitants.
Only in 1871, when Langenberg had long been a town, was a new school inaugurated; In 1878 the "Higher Citizens School" had five grades and five teachers. Thirty years later it was expanded to include an upper level and converted into a reform high school, with French as the first, Latin as the second and English as the third foreign language. In 1911, the first thirteen high school graduates passed their school-leaving exams, exactly 200 years after the school was founded.
In 1912 the school building was expanded to include an auditorium, drawing room and a third floor. During the First World War the building was temporarily used as a hospital , classes were canceled and they were only taken up again after the war.
In January 1967, the council of the then still independent city of Langenberg decided to build a new grammar school. The new building in the Nice Valley was inaugurated on May 8, 1970. In the 1980s, the number of students rose to over 1000, so that an additional extension with six classrooms was necessary. In 1983 the school was run by the city for a hundred years.
Children from the neighboring communities also attend the school, which - after the municipal reorganization that took place in 1975 - is called the Velbert-Langenberg municipal high school .
Furnishing
Among other things, the school has stage equipment for theater and concert performances, which can also be used by other schools and organizations.
The high school also has a school archive with a collection of historical prints. These include a Luther Bible from 1667, an edition of the edifying reflections of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius in a translation from 1727 and an Introductio in Universam Geographiam (Introduction to General Geography) by Philippus Cluverius from 1686. The school archive was developed from 2009 by the school priest Frank Overhoff, who created finding aids .
literature
- Werner Storch: The history of the high school in Langenberg / Rhineland. Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1969.
- Friedhelm Pamp: 1883 to 1983: City High School Velbert-Langenberg. 100 years in municipal sponsorship.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the grammar school: history. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Isabel Nosbers: School pastor brought order to the chaotic school archive . In: the west . September 14, 2016, accessed October 5, 2016 .