Gymnasium at Wirteltor Düren
| Gymnasium at the Wirteltor | |
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 Logo of the GaW |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 167540 |
| founding | 1828 |
| address |
Hans-Brückmann-Str. 1 |
| place | Düren |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '20 " N , 6 ° 29' 5" E |
| student | around 1100 |
| management | Claudia Fülling |
| Website | www.wirteltor-gymnasium.de |
The Gymnasium am Wirteltor - also called GaW - is the largest grammar school in the region and is located in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The GaW is one of the oldest schools in North Rhine-Westphalia and currently has around 1200 students. The school may call itself a European school .
Naming
The grammar school at the Wirteltor takes its name from one of the former Düren gates of the city fortifications, the Wirteltor. The city gate stood nearby on today's Wirtelstrasse and was the last city gate to be demolished in 1834.
history
On July 10, 1828, a boys' family school was founded in Düren by Protestant industrialists from Düren. A new school building as a secondary school was inaugurated on September 27, 1864 at Schenkelstrasse 1. In 1869 the Obersekunda was established. In this way, the right to transition to the prima of a secondary school of the first order could be acquired. In 1892 the school was expanded into a seven-class Realprogymnasium. There was a further expansion of Latin lessons up to U II. On January 19, 1901, the school became a secondary school with Latin lessons up to senior level. At Easter 1911 the conversion to the Reform Realgymnasium took place (affiliation of real classes U III without Latin; common substructure VI to IV without Latin). During the Nazi era , the school became a high school for boys on January 29, 1938 . The entire school was evacuated to Wipperfürth in 1944 .
The approval of the military government to resume classes is dated November 6, 1945. In the post-war period (1946–1948), special courses were offered to obtain university entrance qualifications . By resolution of the city of Düren on August 15, 1946, the "Stiftische" Realgymnasium was taken over as the municipal high school. It was now called the Municipal Mathematical and Scientific Gymnasium, Düren . On February 26, 1957, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new school building at Theodor-Heuss-Park, Bismarckstrasse took place . Three years later, from April 4 to 6, 1960, the entire grammar school moved from the post-war accommodation at Tivolistrasse / August-Klotz-Strasse to the new school building. A new language branch was established there in 1964. Six years after the new building, the premises were so cramped that in 1966 prefabricated classes had to be built. Further extensions and extensions followed in the years to come. In 1971 the school was commissioned as a pilot school to test the newly designed upper secondary school . In 1975 the high school was opened for girls and was given the name it still bears today.
In 1991 the long-time headmaster Heinz Seeger was retired. Willi Müller, who retired on January 31, 2008, took over management. He was succeeded by Wilhelm Gödde. Gödde was adopted in July 2015. The successor was Claudia Fülling.
Student exchange
Pupils are regularly exchanged with the following schools:
- School 309 in Saint Petersburg
- School partnership with the Lycée Maurice Genevoix in Montrouge , southwest of Paris
- Nauset Regional High School on Cape Cod , USA
- Bernardinus College in Heerlen , Netherlands
- Schools in Poland
- Schools in Hungary
- Mustafa Novalic high school in Gradačac , Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Gymnasium 17 in Mytishchi , near Moscow
successes
Schoolchildren were able to win considerable prizes at the Chemistry Olympiad , the Biology Olympiad , the Physics Olympiad , the federal computer science competition , the political competition of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the state and federal youth research competition.
With the school newspaper Der Klecks (oldest school newspaper in North Rhine-Westphalia, since 1958), the German School Newspaper Prize was won in 2004, which was again achieved in 2008. In addition, first place for the best school newspaper in North Rhine-Westphalia was won in a nationwide competition .
In 2006, a group of eight students from the GaW qualified to participate in the international session of the European Youth Parliament in Kiev. They were chosen as representatives of the FRG.
Personalities
- Boehm, Felix (1881-1958), psychoanalyst
- Bruns, Friedrich-Carl (1947–2014), professional diplomat
- Janßen, Udo (* 1967), German doctor
- Kuckertz, Robert (* 1959), German conductor and musician
- Larue, Paul (* 1956), Mayor of Düren
- Lauterbach, Karl (* 1963), German doctor and politician
- Meisenheimer, Wolfgang (* 1933), German architect, university professor and author
- Preisinger, Michael (* 1962), writer
- Quade, Renold (* 1961), German conductor and trombonist
- Rachel, Thomas (* 1962), Member of the Bundestag
- Rückriem, Ulrich (* 1938), art teacher, artist
- Schiffer, Herb (* 1936), art teacher, artist
- Schnellinger, Karl-Heinz (* 1939), football player
- Stollenwerk, Georg (1930–2014), football player
- Vogt, Lars (* 1970), pianist
Others
The high school's “Young Theater” is well known.