Gymnasium at Romäusring Villingen-Schwenningen

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Gymnasium on Romäusring
Old building of the grammar school on Romäusring
type of school high school
founding 1909
place VS-Villingen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 3 '25 "  N , 8 ° 27' 29"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '25 "  N , 8 ° 27' 29"  E
carrier City of Villingen-Schwenningen
student around 830
Teachers about 65
management Jochen von der Hardt
Website http://www.gar.vs.bw.schule.de

The Gymnasium am Romäusring (GaR) is a municipal school in Villingen-Schwenningen . In the Villingen district it is one of the three general high schools alongside the high school at Hoptbühl and the St. Ursula high school .

history

Founding time

Inscription from the construction period: Realgymnasium with Oberrealschule

In Villingen there had been two higher schools since the Middle Ages , which were run by two of the local monasteries, the Franciscans and the Benedictines . Both grammar schools had to close at the beginning of the 19th century when the new sovereign, the Grand Duchy of Baden, planned a different school distribution. In the following century Villingen, snubbed in his pride, tried steadily to get a grammar school approved again. An application was submitted to the Grand Ducal High School Board to expand the existing secondary school, the rudiment of the former Benedictine grammar school, into a secondary school . This petition was granted in 1907. An architectural competition was held for the construction of a new school building , and the foundation stone was laid on September 17, 1907 . After two years of construction, the current old building of the grammar school on Romäusring was officially opened in 1909 with a ceremony. Teaching finally started with 22 teachers and 322 students. Students from Villingen and St. Georgen, but also some from abroad ( Odessa or Paris ) could now, after a three-class substructure, visit the high school and secondary school students together, after four more years, i.e. after the eleventh grade, take or post the secondary school leaving certificate six years of high school . In the next school year, the Realgymnasium was expanded to include an upper secondary school , which also led to the secondary school leaving certificate.

National Socialism

In the beginning the high school was still generously dimensioned for the number of pupils and so in 1935 a student hostel for the external pupils was set up in the attic and the school was called "Realgymnasium mit Aufbauprogymnasium". Soon, however, the effects of National Socialism became apparent, which, among other things, led to a renaming of the Immelmann School. Max Immelmann was a fighter pilot in the First World War and thus an "aviator hero" suitable for indoctrination of students, whose "spirit [should] live on in our Villingen secondary school". Towards the end of the Second World War, school lessons came to a standstill until the school was closed at the beginning of 1945 and converted into a hospital. After the end of the war, the French military government handed the building, which was still used as a hospital until 1947, to the city of Villingen, which initially had to restore it. In the meantime, teaching was carried out under poor equipment and space conditions in the rooms of today's monastery ring school, in which other schools were housed.

Today two memorials commemorate the victims of the two world wars who were students or teachers at the school.

The seventies

New construction of the grammar school on Romäusring

Overcoming the post-war period, new problems arose for the school, now known as the Gymnasium Villingen: from over 400 pupils in 1954 to 1961 pupils in 1971, a dramatic increase in pupil numbers resulted in a serious shortage of space, which the school management initially faced with the help of outsourcing lessons to the former lime kiln school, today's youth center, met. Another step was the erection of provisional prefabricated pavilions in 1967, which provided space for six covered classrooms. As a further long-term measure, at the urging of the school management, the city administration approved the construction of a second grammar school in Villingen. The now emerging high school at Hoptbühl was to take over the legal successor to the high school in Villingen, while the newly established high school at Romäusring was located in the old building. Further construction measures such as the outsourcing of the gymnasium from the old school building into a structurally separate sports hall on the other side of the street from Romäusring as well as a two-storey extension, the so-called new building, in stilt design, which replaced the prefabricated pavilions, ensured more sustainable space.

present

Inscription above the renovated school portal

The grammar school at Romäusring had around 830 students and 65 teachers in the 2011/2012 school year. As part of the centenary of the school building in 2009, the former main entrance, which was closed in the meantime, was renovated and opened as an escape door. The bee carrying metaphorical meaning and the Seneca motto “Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.” (Latin: We learn not for school, but for life) above the portal encourage the students to be diligent in their own right.

Because the grammar school on Romäusring is now a full-day school , the pupils have the opportunity to go to the nearby parish hall of St. Fideliskirche during the lunch break, where a lunch table has been set up. Of the planned € 600,000 for the expansion into an all-day school, which was planned in the municipal budget in 2009, only part of the installation of fire doors and the thermal renovation of the new building facade has so far been implemented.

In some advanced courses in the upper level, the three general high schools in Villingen cooperate in order to ensure that the courses are offered in a sufficient class size. During the renovation- related outsourcing due to high PCB pollution of the grammar school at Hoptbühl 2003–2005, the grammar school at Romäusring accommodated a few classes.

building

The classrooms of the grammar school on Romäusring are divided into the four -story old building completed in 1909, which is characterized by the historicist style , and the two-story new prefabricated building completed in 1975, in which ten classrooms are available. The specialist rooms for physics, chemistry, biology, geography, computer science, art and music as well as their respective collections are located together with the rector's office in the old building, while the functional new building almost exclusively contains classrooms. For sports and swimming lessons, the students move to the sports hall on Romäusring and the swimming pool on Hubenloch . In the evening, some courses at the Villingen-Schwenningen adult education center are held in the building of the grammar school on Romäusring.

The grammar school on Romäusring is close to the center of the historic city wall of Villingen on the area known as the "iron". The building is the original school building of the oldest high school in Villingen in modern times, today's high school at Hoptbühl. The term “am Romäusring” refers to its location within the district of the city, called Romäusring. Romäus was a legendary hero from Villingen who is said to have rebelled against the authorities. This is where the symbol of a modern Romaus, which existed until 2010, on the facade of the new building, which asked passers-by to “free their minds”, comes from.

In 2014, the all-day area was opened in the newly constructed lower pillar building.

Educational offer

School program

In addition to the normal school subjects, each grade is dedicated to different key competencies. The focus in the lower level is on the musical and creative area with the first foreign languages ​​English and French, in the middle level the social commitment and personality of the students is to be sharpened through offers such as addiction prophylaxis or an anti-bullying course. Here you can also choose either a scientific-technical or a foreign-language profile with a third foreign language. After all, in grades nine and ten, the focus is on preparation for the upper level and career orientation.

Working groups

The students at the Gymnasium am Romäusring can get involved in various areas outside of the classroom. The range of working groups is divided into sporting, artistic, linguistic, scientific-technical and social activities. In addition to a young and an older theater troupe, which has existed with interruptions since 1950, there has been a school orchestra and a school choir since the school was founded, and a jazz combo since 1998, which recorded a CD in 2005. Basketball, table tennis, judo and soccer are trained, the special theory of relativity is thought about and science and technology are made comprehensible. The cooperation project with the Carl Orff School for mentally handicapped children, the Schulsanitäts-AG and the homework and lunchtime supervision designed by students deserve special attention. The Gymnasium am Romäusring takes part in the youth companion program Baden-Württemberg with several working groups .

The pupils can also get involved in pupil co-responsibility (SMV), which organizes projects and internal and extracurricular events in the fields of sport, entertainment and social work under the supervision of the two trusted teachers. The tradition of a school newspaper goes back to the Romäuspost from 1958 and continues with a few pauses and name changes to today's GAR Times .

International cooperation

The word “friendship” in the partner schools' languages.

The Gymnasium am Romäusring is networked with various schools in Europe and offers exchange programs, which are organized class by class or as a working group with preparation. There are contacts with the twin cities of Villingen-Schwenningen Pontarlier , La Valette du Var (both France) and Tula (Russia). In addition, there are further partnerships with the St. Michael's CE High School in Chorley (Great Britain), the German School of Borromean Sisters in Cairo and the Kolej Vakfi in Gaziantep (Turkey).

Others

Since 1999 there has been the possibility at the Gymnasium am Romäusring to take the Abitur in the then still unusual eight years, until the state government made this binding for everyone in 2004. The school was one of the first educational institutions in the state of Baden-Württemberg, where such a "turbo train" was offered as a model to gain experience with the G8 and to additionally challenge talented students.

The Freundeskreis Gymnasium am Romäusring eV has been providing financial support for working groups, individual students on excursions and other places, as well as maintaining ideal relationships between the city, the school and the students since 1974.

principal

  • Karl Friedrich Weis (1909–1918)
  • Josef Metzger (1919–1929)
  • Dr. Oskar Ballweg (1929–1945)
  • Dr. Karl Schilling (1945–1949)
  • Heinrich Schwall (1949–1971)
  • Ulrich Stratmann (1972)
  • Dr. Werner Herz (1972–1990)
  • Raimund Fleischer (1990-2010)
  • Rainer Krautheimer (2010-2013)
  • Friedeman Schmidt (2013-2014)
  • Matthias Reuter (2014-2018)
  • Jochen von der Hardt (2018–)

Well-known former teachers and students

Teacher:

Student:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Schletter: Imperial Era and Weimar Republic. In: 75 years of high school at Romäusring in Villingen 1909-1984. A school chronicle. Villingen-Schwenningen 1984, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Hubert Schletter: Imperial Era and Weimar Republic. In: 75 years of high school at Romäusring in Villingen 1909-1984. A school chronicle. Villingen-Schwenningen 1984, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Bernd Schenkel: Villingen is building a high school. In: Villingen through the ages. History and local history association, contributions from the year 2008. Villingen-Schwenningen 2008, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Duffner: The school in the Third Reich In: "75 years of high school at Romäusring in Villingen. 1909-1984. A school chronicle" 1984, p. 40
  5. ↑ Bernd Schenkel: Villingen is building a grammar school In: 100 Years of Higher School on Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, p. 61
  6. ↑ Hubert Schletter / Werner Herz: Die Ära Schwall In: "75 years of high school at Romäusring in Villingen. 1909-1984. A school chronicle" 1984, p. 52
  7. ↑ Current student numbers . Homepage of the grammar school at Romäusring. Retrieved May 9, 2012
  8. ↑ Dr. Karin Haß: The portal of our school In: 100 Years of Higher School on Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, p. 19ff.
  9. ↑ Pupils get more space - newspaper articles . Report in the Südkurier. Retrieved May 9, 2012
  10. ↑ Dr. Wilhelm Seiler: Greetings from the grammar school at Hoptbühl In: 100 year high school at Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, S14.
  11. ^ Event locations of the adult education center . Homepage of the city administration of Villingen-Schwenningen. Retrieved May 10, 2012
  12. ↑ school program . Homepage of the grammar school at Romäusring. Retrieved May 10, 2012
  13. ↑ Rico Knothe: Worlds test - Die Theater-AG am GaR In: 100 years higher school on Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, p. 199.
  14. ↑ Working groups . School brochure of the grammar school at Romäusring. Retrieved May 10, 2012
  15. ↑ SMV-Team: Community, Responsibility and Joy - the SMV of the Gymnasium am Romäusring In: 100 years high school on Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, p. 215ff.
  16. ↑ Jiye Lee: Klartext-Schülerzeitung am GaR In: 100 years higher school on Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, p. 213f.
  17. ↑ Student exchange with Turkey . Newspaper report by the Black Forest Messenger. Retrieved May 10, 2012
  18. ^ Raimund Fleischer: The eight year high school In: 100 years higher school on Romäusring (1909-2009) 2009, p. 108ff.
  19. ↑ Friends of the Gymnasium at Romäusring . Homepage of the grammar school at Romäusring. Retrieved May 11, 2012
  20. ↑ Werner Herz (editor): School names and headteachers from 1909 to 1984 In: "75 years of high school on Romäusring in Villingen. 1909-1984. A school chronicle" 1984, p. 94

literature

  • Rico Knothe (editor): 100 years of secondary school on Romäusring 1909-2009 , Villingen-Schwenningen 2009
  • Geschichts- und Heimatverein Villingen eV (Ed.): Annual booklet XXXII articles of the year 2008 on culture, history and the present , Villingen-Schwenningen 2008, pp. 42–66
  • Dr. Werner Herz, City of Villingen-Schwenningen (Ed.): 75 years of secondary school on Romäusring in Villingen. 1909-1984. A school chronicle. , Villingen-Schwenningen 1984

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