Gymnasium Zitadelle Jülich
| Gymnasium Citadel of the city of Jülich | |
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 The east wing of the ducal residence palace |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 167587 |
| founding | 1572 |
| address |
P.O. Box 1206, 52411 Jülich |
| place | Jülich |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '32 " N , 6 ° 21' 36" E |
| carrier | City of Jülich |
| student | around 1100 |
| management | Edith Koerver |
| Website | www.gymnasium-zitadelle.de |
The Citadel Gymnasium in the city of Jülich is the largest high school in the city of Jülich . It is also the oldest still existing school in the city and goes back to the founding of Duke Wilhelm V the rich of Jülich-Kleve-Berg .
The school currently has around 1,100 students and is spread over two buildings: the main building in the citadel and the west building (formerly a Catholic primary school) with an attached extension that was only completed a few years ago.
Character of the school
The Citadel Gymnasium differs from the two other gymnasiums in the city, Haus Overbach and the Girls' Gymnasium Jülich , which, with their church sponsors, follow a more Catholic-religious line, through its liberal and secular orientation, through the public sponsorship and the high proportion of Academic children among the students is conditional.
In 2009 the Citadel Gymnasium was awarded the Brigitte Gilles Prize for its project “ Tutors program by girls (grade 10) for girls (grade 6) in the natural sciences ” .
history
The oldest Jülich grammar school was founded by Duke Wilhelm V in 1572 as a particular school, the owners of the schools were the canons of the provost church, next to which the first school building was located on Stiftsherrenstrasse. From 1664 the Jesuits took over the sponsorship and moved to a building on the corner of Marktplatz and Kleine Rurstraße.
The school was closed under French rule in 1774, but was re-established in 1815 after Prussia took control of the Rhineland . After the abolition of the Jesuit order, it was initially downgraded to a simple city school, but was then gradually rebuilt to a higher city school and finally to a municipal and then royal high school (around 1900). The sponsor was now the Kingdom of Prussia, and the school moved into a new building on Neusser Strasse. In 1905 it became a full grammar school and changed name several times during the troubled years of the first half of the 20th century - it was first a royal grammar school, from 1919 a state grammar school, from 1938 a state high school for boys.
During the Second World War , the school buildings on Neusser Strasse were completely destroyed in 1944/45. After the reconstruction, the school remained in state hands (i.e. in the hands of the new federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia until 1974, then municipal). In the 1960s, the school building, which was restored after the war, became too narrow despite several extensions, and alternatives were sought. The Jülich Citadel, which is surrounded by a moat and surrounded by high ramparts, had been a field of ruins in the middle of the city since the end of the war and was chosen as the new location for the school. Construction and renovation work began there in 1968. The original function of the complex as a ducal residence was hardly taken into account. It was converted into a military fortress in the 19th century and housed a NCO school under Prussian rule and until 1944, and had undergone radical structural changes as a result. So the existence from the time of creation could only be guessed at. In particular, the massive ramparts that survived all the upheavals were preserved, and the central castle chapel can be seen in its modern guise. The floor plan with a tree-lined inner courtyard also reflects earlier conditions. In 1972 the grammar school moved into the new building within the ramparts, which also received its own sports hall and a scientific institute; In addition, there was the pedagogical center, designed in the democratic spirit of the 1960s, which replaced the old school auditorium and is used every day as a passage room and on special occasions as an assembly hall (without a raised podium).
Due to the baby boom in the 1960s, the capacity of the new building, which was designed for 850 students, was no longer sufficient at the end of the 1970s. The number of pupils rose to around 1600 and made it necessary in the 1980s to build barracks within the walls and near the community elementary school north on Wallgraben as emergency classrooms; GGS Nord temporarily ceded classrooms to the grammar school, in which the lower grades were housed. It was not until the early 1990s that the barracks were no longer needed and could be demolished. The lower grades (grades 5 and 6) subsequently found shelter in the former building of the Catholic elementary school on Düsseldorfer Strasse, which itself moved to the school center. In addition to these two buildings, the high school uses the GGS Nord sports hall and the hall next to the west building. The grammar school also uses the hall on Berliner Straße. In 2004 the extension of the west building was inaugurated, which now houses the EF grade. The Citadel Gymnasium has been an Agenda21 school since 2008.
Extracurricular activities
The high school regularly takes part in national competitions, be it in the Mathematics Olympiad or in various research projects. The grammar school also plays a major role at citadel festivals. There is a cooperation with the Research Center Jülich.
Traditions
- Annual Christmas Bazaar & Open House
- annual math, athletics & gymnastics Olympics
- Graduation gag & carnival session
- Attending church service on the last day of school before the holidays
- annual dance evening
- School exchange with schools in Collingswood (USA), Metz (France) and Krakow (Poland)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1593 pupils are taught by 98 teachers at the Citadel Gymnasium , article in the Jülicher Nachrichten (1st local page) from August 16, 1979
- ↑ , formerly with Haubourdin (twin town Jülich in France) exchange trips | Gymnasium Zitadelle Jülich. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German).
