High school at Treckfahrtstief Emden
| High school at Treckfahrtstief | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1872 |
| closure | 2015 |
| address |
Hermann-Löns-Strasse 23 |
| place | Emden |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 22 '24 " N , 7 ° 12' 57" E |
| carrier | City of Emden |
| Website | gat-emden.de ( Memento from October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) |
The high school at Treckfahrtstief , GaT for short, (today: Max-Windmüller-Gymnasium ) was one of two general high schools in the seaport city of Emden in East Frisia . It was named after a canal, the 23 km long trek , which flowed directly past the school. In 2015 the school moved to a new building on Steinweg. The old name was therefore no longer appropriate, so that the school has had its new name since then. The Integrated Comprehensive School Emden is now located in the former GaT building.
History of the high school at Treckfahrtstief Emden until 2015
Until the early 1970s it was an all-girls high school, then the school was also opened to boys as part of co-education . It was an all-day school . The range of subjects, especially in the afternoons, was partly an optional program.
The school was mainly attended by students from the eastern part of the city, while the children and young people from the western part of the city mostly attend the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium . This tradition has resulted from the longstanding, but now abolished, specification of catchment areas. In addition to students from Emden, a small number of students from the neighboring communities of Hinte and Ihlow also attended the grammar school.
At the first Central Abitur in Lower Saxony in 2006, the high school graduates achieved the best average grade in the East Frisia area of 2.53. After the GaT did poorly at the first school inspection, the follow-up inspection in the following year found that there had been very clear improvements in all points, so that the school was now one of the best in Lower Saxony, as the head of the school department stated at the time.
The GaT had been a European school for a long time and had official contacts with other schools in other European countries, as well as in Israel and the USA. These contacts were constantly deepened through frequent student exchanges. One of the partner schools was Irondequoit High School in Rochester, NY.
Among other things, there was a sailing group at the school. As a youth group of Amnesty International , the school's group of students from Emden took part in campaigns to release political prisoners in 1727 .
At the end of each school year, the school published a yearbook in which, among other things, each class had to make its own contribution.
According to the resolutions of the Emden City Council, the Gymnasium am Treckfahrtstief had to give up its previous location in the Barenburg district on August 1, 2015 and move into a new building at the school center on Steinweg in Früchteburg under the name Max-Windmüller-Gymnasium Emden.
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- ↑ Relocation to a new location and renaming