Wenzgasse high school

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BG, BRG and WRG 13 Wenzgasse
Bundesgymnasium Wenzgasse.jpg
type of school Bundesgymnasium , Bundesrealgymnasium , Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium
School number 913026
founding 1904 (Lyceum), 1916 (Gymnasium)
address

Wenzgasse 7

place Vienna-Hietzing
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 11 '3 "  N , 16 ° 17' 31"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '3 "  N , 16 ° 17' 31"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
Teachers 101
management Robert Donner
Website www.wenzgasse.at

The Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium and Wirtschaftskundliche secondary school 13 Wenzgasse is a school in the 13th Vienna district , Hietzing .

School profile

The Gymnasium Wenzgasse is one of five general higher schools in Hietzing , among other things next to the Gymnasium and Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium in the Dominican convent (Vienna) .

In the Bundesgymnasium school type , the focus is on languages. From the third grade onwards, either Latin or French is offered as a compulsory subject. In the Bundesrealgymnasium , which specializes in natural sciences , in the Gymnasium Wenzgasse, descriptive geometry or biology and physics are taught from grade 7 . The Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium focuses, among other things, on the subjects of industrial training , chemistry and household economics .

The school is located in a residential area in the westernmost part of Alt-Hietzing and east of the Hietzing district of Unter-Sankt-Veit . It is followed by blocks of houses in the Hietzingen cottage district .

History and architecture

Larochegasse component

Advertisement, Neue Freie Presse , September 15, 1906

The school was founded by the Hietzinger Lyzeumsgesellschaft in 1904 as a six-year school for girls . Under the direction of Rudolf Ortmann, it began operating on a makeshift basis in Wattmanngasse, until the school building erected by the association was completed in 1906 at its current location at Larochegasse 2, on the grounds of the abandoned entertainment establishment Neue Welt .

In 1911 a two-year commercial school was also offered for girls, and in the school year 1914/15 a five-class elementary school for boys and girls was run here. In the autumn of 1916 the school began to offer upper secondary school classes (to be attended after four years in the lyceum) and high school diplomas for girls.

In 1920 the first high school graduation exams took place here according to the curriculum of the secondary school. In 1921 the last final examination of a high school class took place. In the same year, women began offering the school type leading to the Matura.

The school has been listed in Lehmann's Vienna address book at 13th, Wenzgasse 7, since 1907 , although the main entrance was at Larochegasse 2 for the first few decades (and is now again). The property purchased by the association offered space for an extensive school garden in Wenzgasse, and at the end of the 1920s there was also space for an extension.

The oldest wing on Larochegasse is the work of the architect and master builder Heinrich Kaiser. The facade is partly designed in the Secession style. Large Corinthian half-columns are attached above the portal . In 1909, 1912 and 1913, the building was expanded and expanded, each commissioned by the school-keeping association.

A branch of the F. Ad company was once located on part of today's school grounds (see advertisement from 1908) . Richter & Cie. from Rudolstadt , Thuringia , supplier to the royal court and chamber, who manufactured anchor stone building sets.

Wenzgasse component

In 1930/31 a large, architecturally modern extension was built on part of the school garden property in Wenzgasse, designed according to plans by the architects Hans Jaksch and Siegfried Theiss with the collaboration of Bernard Rudofsky and W (ilhelm) Fabian . The architecture of the building is considered typical of the International Style in Vienna, comparable to the Herrengasse high-rise in the old town , which was built at the same time and also according to plans by Jaksch and Theiss . Now the main entrance was here for a few decades.

The Jaksch-Theiss wing has large windows with thin iron frames at a short distance from one another and has a portal porch made of metal and glass as well as an entrance hall that leads into a staircase with an unobstructed central area. Achleitner described the wing as one of the most interesting school buildings of the thirties .

History 1937–1945

Memorial plaque for murdered schoolgirls in front of the school gate, status 2014

In the school year 1937/38, according to the annual report, teachers were employed partly by the state and partly by the school-maintaining association Hietzinger Mädchenmittelschule. However, the wish that had previously been expressed repeatedly that the state should completely take over the running of the school was recorded.

After the “ Anschluss ” to the German Reich in 1938, 120 students had to leave the grammar school within six months. Many of them were able to escape in time.

18 girls and women who used to be students here (born 1890 to 1925) and the three teachers Irene Jerusalem (1882–1941 / '42), Paula Fuchs (1889–1942) and Martha Weissweiler (1888–1942) were trained by the NS- Regime murdered. In 2014 they were named on a memorial plaque at Larochegasse 2. From November 1943 to autumn 1945, what was then the secondary school for girls took part in the so-called Kinderlandverschickung (KLV). The aim was to get school children out of the danger zones of the bombing war . The Wenzgasse students were accommodated and taught in KLV camps in Hollenstein an der Ybbs and Hohenlehen Castle , both in Niederdonau , and in Perau near Gmünd in Carinthia . Transporting the children back after the end of the war was organizationally difficult because there was no means of transport and the rules of the occupation authorities had to be observed.

Components 1970–1992

From a further structural expansion of the school, which was carried out in 1970/71, only the gymnasium remained, which was attached to the Wenzgasse component inside the facility. In 1976 boys were admitted to school for the first time. Between 1990 and 1992, an extension was built between the oldest wing and a second gymnasium on Larochegasse, which has since housed the new main entrance, Larochegasse. The general renovation of the grammar school, which began at the same time, was completed in 1995. The youngest wing was built according to plans by the architects Theophil J. Melicher , Horst Gressenbauer and Georg Schwalm-Theiss .

Well-known former students

Surname Graduation year to person
Senta Berger (1957 at the Reinhardt Seminar ) actress
Konstanze Breitebner 1978? actress
Dagmar Fischer 1987 Author and performance artist
Ruth Karplus, later Rogers-Altmann (around 1934, not graduated here) Fashion designer in the USA
Stella Kreidl (not graduated here, marriage 1933) Writer
Berta Karlik 1923 physicist
Anna Kim 1995 Author
Nico Langmann 2015 Wheelchair tennis player
Ingrid Leodolter , then Zechner † 1937 Minister of Health
Pia Maria Plechl 1951 Journalist, author
Georg Schneider 1998 Economist
Hilde Sochor 1942 actress
Anneliese Strenger 1932 Zoologist and anatomist
Elisabeth Waldheim , then Ritschel † (Graduated from 7th grade in 1940 due to the war) Wife of the Federal President 1986–1992
Renate Welsh 1955 Author

literature

  • Eleventh annual report of the public high school for girls ... the Hietzinger Lyzeums-Gesellschaft . Hietzinger Girls' Lyceum, Vienna 1915
  • Thirty-fourth annual report of the public Oberlyzeum, Mädchenrealgymnasium and the women's high school of the Hietzinger Girls' Middle School Association, Vienna XIII. Wenzgasse 7 . Vienna 1938
  • 50 years Hietzingen Girls' Middle School . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1954.
  • Festschrift of the Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium and Wirtschaftskundlichen Realgymnasium Vienna 13. 100 years GRg 13 (1904–2004) . Parents Association of GRg 13, Vienna 2004
  • Lore Brandl-Berger among others: Women in Hietzing . 4th edition, Vienna 2017, documentation on the website of the Vienna city administration, info cards No. 38, 39 and 12c; further to schoolgirls No. 3, 5, 12b, 14, 15, 25, 32 and 37

Individual evidence

  1. DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 242.
  2. ^ School building in Hietzing by Siegfried Theiss, Hans Jaksch. In:  Bau- und Werkkunst. Monthly for all areas of architecture and applied arts , year 1932, (8th year), pp. 1–7. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / buw.
  3. Hans Jaksch. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  4. ^ Friedrich Achleitner : Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in four volumes . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7017-0704-9 , Volume III / 2, Vienna: 13.-18. District, p. 17 f.
  5. Lore Brandl-Berger, Andrea Diawara et al .: Women in Hietzing. Tours and documentation . (PDF) Published by Hietzingen district councilors and freelancers. 4th edition. Vienna 2017, info card no. 38 [= p. 125] and 39 [= p. 127] as well as info cards no. 3, 5, 12b, 12c, 14, 15, 25 and 32; see status: 11/01/2017
  6. Helmut Engelbrecht : Vienna and the so-called Kinderlandverschickung . In: Association for the History of the City of Vienna (ed.) Yearbook for the History of the City of Vienna , vol. 57/58, Vienna 2001/2002, pp. 25 ff.
  7. ^ Bundesrealgymnasium and economic Bundesrealgymnasium Wenzgasse . Hietzing.at; Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  8. ^ Dehio Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 256