Gymnasium am Ostring

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Gymnasium am Ostring
Bochum Gymnasium am Ostring.jpg
The old building of the grammar school on Ostring, February 2006
type of school high school
founding 1860
closure 2010
address

Ostring 23

place Bochum
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 28 '54 "  N , 7 ° 13' 32"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '54 "  N , 7 ° 13' 32"  E

The grammar school at Ostring was the oldest grammar school in Bochum . The school was centrally located in Bochum's city ​​center near the main train station and had a catchment area that spanned all parts of the city. The Gymnasium am Ostring was a recognized European school .

On August 1, 2010, the grammar school am Ostring merged with the Albert Einstein school to form the new grammar school in Bochum .

history

Gymnasium am Ostring, around 1906
Gymnasium am Ostring, 1912

The school was at the instigation of the Bochum mayor Max Greve as parity higher public school on October 4, 1860 the Diekampstraße opened. A few decades later, it was time for a bigger building.

The new high school was located in the east of the city center. The old building on the Ostring dates from the construction period between 1890 and 1892 and shaped the face of the school; the architect was the city architect Hermann Bluth . On April 1, 1910, the previously municipal high school became the sponsorship of the Kingdom of Prussia and was henceforth called the Royal High School , and since the revolution in November 1918, the State High School .

The building survived the Second World War relatively unscathed despite some destruction. A teachers' seminar was located on the opposite part of the school premises . The school was surrounded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the central Ruhr area of ​​Bochum , the northern freight yard and the Fiege brewery, which was particularly successful in Bochum . Opposite was the new building of Stadtwerke Bochum . The neighbors used to include the old vocational school in Bochum and the DoBoMil milk factory .

post war period

The work of art “Phönix” by the artist Heinrich Wilthelm (1913–1969) from 1959 was located at the old main entrance on the Ostring .

The extension at the beginning of the 1970s added a break hall and specialist rooms for art , biology and chemistry . At the same time, due to the baby boom generation, one also had to fall back on a pavilion and a former elementary school. At the end of the 1970s, the triple gymnasium , further classrooms and the tartan-coated sports field followed . Until then, school sports took place on the ash sports field at the Bochum JVA ("Krümmede"), in the gyms of a neighboring school and in the Südbad eight kilometers away, but also in the former Stadtbad Bochum ; the pupils were transported by bus from a private bus company. The extensions were rounded off in 1979 by additional walls and concrete pipes - the Gräsel-Z by the artist Friedrich Gräsel .

On January 1, 1974, the sponsorship changed to the city, so that the school was renamed Gymnasium am Ostring . The proximity to the location of the plastic terminal set up by Richard Serra in 1979 earned the school the nickname Gymnasium am Rostring . An initiative from 1982 to rename the school after Bertolt Brecht in the sense of the theater group of the same name did not correspond to the conservative self-image of the school at the time.

In the early 1980s the school had well over a thousand students. Due to the high birth rate classes, the school had a peak of 1,310 students in the 1980/81 school year. In the 2005/2006 school year, 786 students were taught by 55 teachers and trainee teachers.

In the humanistic tradition, the ancient languages Latin , Ancient Greek and Hebrew were offered at the grammar school . However, it was also possible to choose English and French from the subjects, and later also Modern Greek , Spanish and Italian . From 1971, English was also possible as an initial language.

End of school

Public referendum poster

Initially it was intended that the grammar school should accept the students from the polluted Albert Einstein School . The following plans by the city of Bochum envisaged a new school building at the current location of the Albert Einstein School. The profiles of both grammar schools should be retained and complement each other. But then the plan arose to rebuild the Bochum district court at this point .

The initiative for the preservation of the school collected over 20,000 signatures to preserve the high school at its current location. The referendum took place in Bochum until June 22, 2008. Although 70.6% voted for and only 29.4% against maintaining the Gymnasium am Ostring in its previous form, more than 20% of all citizens entitled to vote should have had a yes vote. This figure was missed, as only 13.21% of all voters even voted.

On August 1, 2010, the grammar school am Ostring merged with the Albert Einstein school to form the new grammar school in Bochum . In the summer of 2012 the school moved to a new building on Querenburger Strasse.

The old building of the high school was demolished in 2013 for the construction of the Bochum justice center ; only the three façades visible on the street side remained and will be integrated into a new building complex. The wing with the sports halls will be retained.

principal

from 1967 Sachsenweger

  • 1974 - 2000: Hans-Werner Schmidt
  • 2000 - 2010: Werner Schulz

International

The Europe Day took place once a year on the May 5th place. As part of a school festival, a randomly selected European country was presented by students.

In addition, there was the Europe course , which every pupil from the 11th grade can take. Classes are based on history and social science classes, with an emphasis on the theme of "Europe". Two highlights of this course are three to four-week student exchanges (one each in grades 11 and 12) with the numerous partner schools of the grammar school across Europe.

As part of Learning for Europe , exchange partners from eleven European countries met for a European congress in September 2006 .

The partner schools were (as of 2005):

  1. National High School for Ancient Languages ​​and Cultures, Sofia , Bulgaria
  2. Greve Gymnasium, Greve , Denmark
  3. High Storrs School, Sheffield , UK
  4. Jyväskylän Lyseon Lukio, Jyväskylä , Finland
  5. Lycée Auguste Angellier, Dunkerque , France
  6. Lycée Chateaubriand, Rennes , France
  7. German School of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki , Greece
  8. Istituto Magistrale Statale, Lodi , Italy
  9. Talsu 2. Vidusskola, Talsi , Latvia
  10. Liceum Ogólnoksztalcące, Warsaw , Poland
  11. Agnebergsgymnasium, Uddevalla , Sweden
  12. Gymnázium Bilíkova, Bratislava , Slovakia
  13. Prva Gimnazija Maribor, Maribor , Slovenia
  14. Vicente Medina, Archena , Spain
  15. Gymnázium Český Brod, Český Brod , Czech Republic
  16. Shkola No. 96, Donetsk , Ukraine
  17. Perczel Mór Gimnazium, Siófok , Hungary

Internals

The association of former pupils was founded as early as 1928 , today the association of former pupils of the Gymnasium am Ostring, Bochum .

The Association of Friends and Supporters of the Gymnasium am Ostring , founded in November 1958, took care of the needs of the school and the students.

The Lichtblick , founded in 1976 by the students Claudia Lammert, Andreas Puers, Hans-Jörg Bange and Veit Stratmann on the occasion of the school festival for the inauguration of the new building, achieved the status of the oldest school newspaper in Germany. It appeared four times a year. From 1980 onwards, a chronicle was published every year in December, which reported in words and pictures about people and events of the previous school year.

The theater company founded in the early 1980s under the direction of Hans-Joachim Salmen has already participated in many international projects and has won the Ruhrpott Oscar several times at the school theater meeting at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Furthermore, every two years they drove to Jyväskylä in Finland for a week to present a piece to students from the partner school “Jyväskylän Lyseon Lukio”.

Personalities

literature

  • The festival book for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Royal High School in Bochum , October 1910
  • Festschrift of the state grammar school and secondary school in Bochum on the occasion of its 75th anniversary , October 1935
  • Festschrift for the centenary of the state high school in Bochum 1860-1960 , Bochum, 1960
  • Chronicle of the grammar school at Ostring Bochum, December 1985 with the history of the years 1960–1985
  • 'We don't talk about what came next ...' The Staatliche Gymnasium Bochum under National Socialism - attempt to come to terms with it , Bochum, 1987
  • Festschriften of the Bochum high school (1910, 1935, 1960, 1985) , CD Bochum 2007
  • Georg Braumann and others, strict obedience and free thinking. The old-language class of the state high school Bochum 1941 - 1951 with the high school parallel class 1943 - 1946. Bochum: Gymnasium am Ostring, 1998. 286 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ostring referendum: Sunday question on June 22nd. In: WAZ, March 28, 2008 ( online )