Gymnasium am Stadtgarten (Saarlouis)

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Gymnasium am Stadtgarten
SGS-Wappen.svg
type of school high school
founding 1691
address

Holtzendorfferstraße 1

place Saarlouis
country Saarland
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 19 '3 "  N , 6 ° 44' 49"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '3 "  N , 6 ° 44' 49"  E
carrier Saarlouis district
student 860 (school year 2017/18)
Teachers 75 (school year 2017/18)
management Sabine Blatt
Website www.sgs-saar.de

The school on the city garden ( SGS = S aarlouiser G ymnasium on S tadtgarten ) is a human High School in Saarlouis. In addition to the Ludwigsgymnasium in Saarbrücken, the SGS is the second oldest grammar school in Saarland .

history

Gymnasium am Stadtgarten (Saarlouis), built 1958–1960 by Heinrich Latz in place of the military hospital from 1680–1685, which was demolished in 1957
Saarlouis, hospital building, demolished in 1957, today the location of the Saarlouiser Gymnasium in the Stadtgarten (photo taken around 1900)

Today's Gymnasium am Stadtgarten was founded in 1691 as a college when the Augustinian monks moved to Saarlouis . The construction on the site of today's Canisianum in Stiftstrasse was welcomed by Louis XIV .

New SGS logo, since 2010

In 1751 the monks of the monastery in Saarlouis were replaced by Augustinian monks from Paris for political reasons. During this time, Michel Ney was also one of the students at the college, which was closed during the French Revolution in 1790. Since religious vows were forbidden throughout France, the monastery school could not continue to exist. The school was reopened no later than 1803 as a municipal college and in 1808 it was assigned to the Académie Metz.

With the end of French rule in Saarlouis, the municipal college was dissolved in November 1815 and transferred to the Prussian state. In 1816 teaching was resumed at the Prussian college in the premises of the former Augustinian and later French college, but the school had to close in 1822 due to financial difficulties. In June 1826 the collegium reopened as a municipal high school. Old traditions such as the teaching of Latin and Greek were continued despite the new political situation, albeit with different intensities, as the exact form of school changed even more often in the following decades:

  • 1826–1830: Municipal high school
  • 1830–1850: Higher citizen school
  • 1850–1862: Progymnasium
  • 1862–1882: Higher civil school
  • 1882–1888: Realprogymnasium
  • 1888–1902: humanistic Progymnasium
  • since 1902: full high school
Former premises 1898–1960

In the period that followed, the school attracted more and more students, so that there was a shortage of space and the city council tried to build a larger school building from 1860 (1869: 199 students, 1872: 192 students). In 1895 the construction of the new building on Prälat-Subtil-Ring began, which was ready for occupancy in October 1898. Today the Robert-Schumann-Gymnasium is located in this building . In 1902, the expansion to a full high school meant that a total of 13 graduates took their first matriculation exams. In 1905 the "Humanist Boys' High School Saarlouis" received an extension.

During the First World War , continuous teaching was unthinkable, and at times the school building was even used as a troop accommodation and material depot. But even in the following occupation no problem-free instruction was possible.

From 1938 the Saarlouis grammar school became the “ Saarlautern boys' high school ”, which could not escape National Socialist ideology, but nevertheless continued its Catholic and humanistic tradition. During the Second World War , teaching was also almost impossible. a. because of evacuations and constant air raids in the last years of the war. In addition, the school building had to serve as a replacement for the Elisabeth Clinic, which was destroyed by an air raid in September 1942. Between 1939–1940 and 1944–1945, the boys' high school remained closed for evacuation of the civilian population. After the end of the war, the Latin branch was cultivated parallel to the first foreign language French, which was established by the French occupation.

Entrance of the SGS

In January 1949, the school became state property in the Saarland, as the city could no longer raise the financial means for the growing number of students (1950: 320 students). In November 1960, the company moved to the newly built, today's school building on the Hornwerk in Stadtgarten, which was built between 1958 and 1960 according to plans by Heinrich Latz . For this purpose, the old military hospital from 1680–1685 had been demolished. Only the substructure walls of the traditional baroque building from the time of Louis XIV remained.

The old military hospital was subordinate to the Prussian military treasury until 1920, then passed into the administration of the government commission of the Saar area and was rented by the latter to the Caritas Association Saarbrücken. The association made the building available to the "Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph" (Trier). The building now served as a monastery under the name "Gertrudenstift" (named after the order's founder, Mother Gertrud, Josephine Countess Schaffgotsch, 1850–1922). The order ran an educational facility in the building for young vulnerable girls who were taught housekeeping and tailoring here. Sister Mirjam (Else Michaelis, 1889–1942), who worked in the Gertrudenstift and was of Jewish origin, was brought from Saarlouis to the Netherlands by the order's leadership after the Saar was incorporated into the National Socialist German Empire in order to evade persecution by the regime. However, she was picked up on August 2, 1942 and murdered in Auschwitz on August 9, 1942. The Gertrudenstift was closed in 1936 because the Wehrmacht demanded the building back as a former military building. While the girls were housed in the Good Shepherd monastery in Trier, the sisters moved to Gersweiler , where the parish offered them the opportunity to visit the local “St. Josefshaus ”to take over.

Immediately after the Second World War , the upholstered furniture factory Bottle operated a manufacturing facility in the building. After the new building erected by Heinrich Latz on the site of the demolished Gertrudenstift, the building on the Prälat-Subtil-Ring now offered new space for the girls' grammar school, which was renamed the Robert Schumann grammar school in 1978. A sudden increase in the number of pupils in the 1960s required an extension to the S taatlichen G ymnasium Saarlouis am S tadtgarten ( SGS ) as early as 1965 , which was completed in 1970, but still did not offer enough space (1970: 1440 pupils), so that some classes were opened other schools had to be outsourced. The SGS has been open to girls since 1973 (first joint Abitur examination: 1981).

Today the grammar school at the Saarlouis Stadtgarten is a district school. After a temporary stabilization of the number of pupils in the eighties (1980: 1028 pupils) and nineties (1990: 703 pupils), another extension was completed in July 2004 for 840,000 euros due to a renewed increase in pupil numbers.

In 2006 the school yard was redesigned for 40,000 euros and the teachers' room was renovated during the 2007 summer vacation. In February 2011, the former director's residence and the last used caretaker's apartment was converted into an all-day care center called Villa Giardino as part of the all-day offer (since 2009). In summer 2012 the auditorium was renovated and equipped with windows.

Directors

  • 1820–1822: Thomas Simon (1794–1869)
  • 1830–1834: Vicar Draeger
  • 1834–1847: Johann Baptist Kühl (1810–1848)
  • 1847–1849: Johann Peter Schmidt
  • 1849–1857: Anton Joseph Knitterscheid (1821–1907)
  • 1857–1862: Peter Joseph Meyer (1820–1892)
  • 1862–1864: Hermann Josef Huyn (1832–1864)
  • 1864–1871: Joseph Hilgers (1828–1871)
  • 1872–1875: Carl Sirker (Latin, ancient Greek, mathematics, history)
  • 1876–1895: Hugo Thele (Latin, ancient Greek, English, French)
  • 1895–1907: Emil Kramm ( general education , German)
  • 1907–1914: Paul Fischer (Latin, ancient Greek, history, geography)
  • 1914–1929: Herrmann Disselbeck (1876–1959)
  • 1929–1944: Peter Miesges (Latin, ancient Greek, German, propaedeutic)
  • 1945–1952: Mathias Groebel (Latin, ancient Greek, geography)
  • 1952–1955: Peter Schwarz (Latin, German, history)
  • 1955–1956: Albert Schwarz (biology, chemistry)
  • 1956–1965: Joseph Holzer (Latin, ancient Greek, Hebrew)
  • 1966–1979: Ernst Turner (Latin, French, history)
  • 1980–2002: Hans-Jochen Ruland (Latin, ancient Greek, Hebrew, French)
  • 2002–2008: Ulrich Heger (mathematics, physics, computer science)
  • since 2008: Sabine Blatt (German, French)

Deputy Headmaster

  • 1956–1964 Ferdinand Henke (mathematics, physics, sport)
  • 1964–1965 Hans Arweiler (French, German, sports)
  • 1965–1967 Aloys Kiefer (Latin, French, history)
  • 1967–1992: Werner Ditzler (German, history)
  • 1992–1998: Gerold Fischer (mathematics, physics, computer science)
  • 1998–2009: Gerhard Weis (geography, sport, politics)
  • 2010–2015: Christian Lanyi (mathematics, physics)
  • since 2016: Jörg Theobald (religion, history, politics)

Language sequence

From 1962 to 2012 the old-language branch "Latin (1st FS) French (2nd FS) English / Greek (3rd / 4th FS)" was offered. This was replaced in 2012 by the new Latin plus English branch, which in comparison primarily promotes English teaching. Other offers: Greek as a voluntary 4th language as well as a bilingual offer in English in specialist subjects.

Modern language branch (since 1997) Latin plus English branch (since 2012)
French (compulsory from grade 5 to grade 9) Latin and English (compulsory from grade 5 to grade 9)
English (compulsory from grade 6 to grade 9) French (compulsory from grade 8 to grade 10)
Spanish (compulsory from grade 8 to grade 10) Greek (optional 4th foreign language from grade 8)

In grade 10, the first or second foreign language can be omitted. In the course system Kl. 11/12 one or two foreign languages ​​can be taken.

construction

In addition to the classrooms, the grammar school has two biology (D22, D24), physics (D32, E31) and chemistry (E36, E38) rooms, each of which is a lecture hall. There are also functional preparation rooms. The two music halls (A24, A25) are each equipped with a grand piano as well as 13 keyboards and a number of musical instruments., There are also three art rooms / studios (E32, E33, E35), an auditorium (A22), two computer rooms (A34, B24), two social science computer rooms, two gyms (T1, T2), rooms for all-day care and a library (E11, E12).

Known students

Known teachers

cooperation

The three Saarlouis high schools MPG, RSG and SGS have been successfully cooperating with each other for over four decades in order to offer a wide range of upper-level courses.

bistro

As part of the construction of G8 all-day schools, a school canteen with 80 seats called SG-Ess-Treff was opened in October 2005 after six months of renovation of the former chemistry wing for 225,000 euros . In April 2013 the bistro was expanded to include an outside terrace (“Malzbiergarten”) and in December 2014 a winter garden for 310,000 euros.

Student exchange

The first student exchange of the SGS was initiated in 1987 by the then teacher Anton Tressel. The exchange also represented the first east-west school partnership in Germany:

Sports

Diverse and numerous successes of SGS teams in competitions (including "Youth trains for the Olympics") at home and abroad.

Since 1992, every year in January there has been a one-week ski instruction trip to Austria ( Piesendorf , Alpbachtal ) for all students in grade 7 and, since 2015, to Morzine in France (exchange with Saargemünd).

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium am Stadtgarten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Festschrift 325 Years SGS, 2017, pp. 216–217
  2. ↑ cf. 300 Years of the Saarlouis Gymnasium am Stadtgarten , 1991, pp. 16–61
  3. ↑ cf. Saarlouiser fortress impressions ... the fortress is alive , 2011, pages 54, 55, 100
  4. ↑ Oranna Dimmig: Saarlouis City and Star / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile , ed. by Roland Henz u. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2011, pp. 54–55.
  5. ↑ http://www.josefsschwestern-trier.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=12 , accessed on September 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Severin Delges: History of the Catholic Parish St. Ludwig in Saarlouis, Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension by a second part by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension by a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985, part 1, p. 148– 149.
  7. ↑ http://www.josefsschwestern-trier.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=18 , accessed on September 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.adolfbender.de/index.php?id=324 , accessed on September 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ Order archive of the Joseph Sisters to the Gertrudenstift
  10. ↑ http://www.c-asche.de/unternehmen/geschichte.html , accessed on September 28, 2015.
  11. ↑ a b Newspaper report on setting up the bistro with reference to costs ( MS Word ; 860 kB)
  12. ↑ Article (PDF; 726 kB) of the SZ on sgs-saar.de
  13. ↑ Language sequence at the SGS (PDF; 27 kB)
  14. ↑ "Throw the frying pans into the Saar". In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . January 6, 2017, accessed December 6, 2019 .