High school on Hamburger Strasse
| High school on Hamburger Strasse | |
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| type of school | high school |
| address |
Hamburger Strasse 10-24 |
| place | Bremen |
| country | Bremen |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 '13 " N , 8 ° 50' 6" E |
| carrier | Bremen |
| student | approx. 850 (as of 2015) |
| Teachers | approx. 70 |
| management | Claudia Dreyer |
| Website | habu.schule.bremen.de |
The grammar school on Hamburger Straße (also known colloquially as HaBu or Hamburger ) is a public grammar school in Bremen . The city is responsible for the educational institution. Its catchment radius measures around 17 kilometers.
location
The high school is located in the Ostliche Vorstadt district in the Peterswerder district on Hamburger Strasse near the border with the Steintor district . The property extends between the streets Am Schwarzen Meer and Hamburger Straße, which converge about 100 meters to the west .
history
Teachers seminar
In 1897, at the instigation of the director of the Bremen teachers 'seminar, Georg Credner, a teachers' seminar was founded on Hamburger Straße, for which two buildings were built, the current old and the main building (see section Buildings ). After the end of the First World War , the institute was in a state of upheaval. In 1919, after the crackdown on the Bremen Soviet Republic, a guard was set up by the city defense in the main building. Discussions also arose about a uniform school, which also required uniform training for teachers, as prescribed in Article 123 of the Weimar Constitution . As a result, the gradual dismantling of all courses began in 1921. In 1926 the teachers' seminar was given up at this location.
Advanced school
In the spring of 1922, an advanced school for boys was set up in the buildings. Plans for this already existed in October 1919, but were not implemented due to lack of space. The advanced school was intended for talented late developers and should lead to the Abitur after seven years of primary school education. Two foreign languages were taught, English and Latin. For four years two teaching institutes were located in parallel in the same buildings, one for students and one for prospective teachers. The advanced school had 72 students in 1925. In 1926, after the teachers' seminar was closed, the vacant premises could be used by the advanced school. The expansion resulted in a rapid increase in the number of students to 210 in 1927. The first Abitur exams took place in 1928 with only three candidates. However, this number increased continuously. Occasionally girls were also tested. In 1935, Rudolf Budde became head of the advanced school as senior director of studies.
During the Second World War , classes had to be suspended due to a lack of teachers. For this reason, other study groups or classes whose own buildings had been destroyed moved into the empty classrooms. National Socialist organizations also occupied some offices during the war years. Towards the end of the war, the advanced school was also badly damaged by Allied air raids.
High school to school center
Classes resumed on December 3, 1945. Reconstruction took a long time. The last advanced class (8th grade) was started at Easter 1951 . In the 7th grade, which was accepted at the same time (in Bremen the six-year elementary school was valid at the time) with 47 pupils - there was co-education at the school - there were also children of GDR refugees. Instead of English, the first foreign language taught in the Federal Republic of Germany, they had learned Russian in the 5th and 6th grades and were now successfully taught three school years in English by Miss Probst, a high school teacher who emerged from the teachers' seminar , so within a year that from Easter 1952 they could take part in regular English lessons. In 1952 the school was renamed Oberschule on Hamburger Straße (branch D) . In the same year, the students from the neighboring high school for girls Janson- Schomburgschule were taken over. This led to a severe shortage of space and this school year forced shift lessons, which were quite stressful for teachers and students. The high school had a language and a mathematical branch. In 1954 Budde resigned as headmaster and Philipp Rudolf was his successor until 1966. An extension with 12 classrooms, a gymnastics room and library rooms was added in 1963.
In the following decades the school was alternately a grammar school , an upper school center and a school center of the lower secondary level with an orientation level , secondary school , secondary school and grammar school. The orientation level moved to Brokstrasse school in 1976 .
high school
Since the school year 2002/2003 it has been a grammar school again from the fifth year to the Abitur.
building
The grammar school on Hamburger Straße has four buildings.
Old building
The three-storey old building made of clinker brick was built as a primary school teacher seminar from 1883 to 1885 and the main building, which consists of the same building material, was built in 1896/97 according to plans by the architect Heinrich Flügel from the Bremen Building Inspection . The view of Hamburger Strasse was once dominated by the gable of the auditorium and gym building, which was replaced by a new building for the German Advanced School in the 1920s, and the clock tower above the portal - risalit , which has also not been preserved. In 1927 conversions were carried out, also based on designs by Flügel.
While the classrooms for the upper level are located in the former, the main building houses the administration of the school ( teachers' room , secretariat , headmaster's room etc.) and several biology and physics rooms.
The two buildings have been linked by the specialist wing since 1976. The chemistry and art rooms, a photo laboratory with darkroom and the school's new auditorium are located here.
New buildings
A separate three-story new building was built as early as 1963. Mainly there are permanent classrooms for secondary level I , but also a forum and a cafeteria .
Monument protection
The old building, Hamburger Straße 10, from the Wilhelminian era was placed under Bremen monument protection in 1984 .
Lack of space
Due to its location in a densely built-up residential area and the limited space, the high school suffers from a lack of space. This problem could not be solved by the new building either. Some classes at lower secondary level therefore had to switch to schools in the neighborhood for several hours a week until the start of the 2012 school year. The high school on Hamburger Straße has only one small multi-purpose gymnastics hall in the specialist wing, in which mainly the sports courses for younger students take place. The older students have to commute to three halls in the area.
In the summer of 2006, a student demonstration took place at a nearby large intersection with the aim of obtaining permission for the school to use a nearby vacant building. However, this was unsuccessful.
To school
foreign languages
The grammar school on Hamburger Straße is very language-oriented. A total of five foreign languages are taught.
English is taught as the first foreign language . From the sixth grade onwards, students can choose between French , Spanish and Latin as a second foreign language. In the eighth and ninth grades, a weekly four-hour compulsory elective area is taught - optionally Chinese or an interdisciplinary project subject ( project lessons Natural Sciences and Society (PUNG), Ars (Art) and Technology (Ar.Te), Geography and Politics (Geopolis)).
In the upper level, the foreign languages can be continued as basic courses (continued foreign language) or newly taken up. English is offered as an advanced course.
School festival
Almost every year there is a school festival, sports festival or project week around two weeks before the summer holidays.
Regular trips
- Every year in February there is a one-week winter sports trip to Austria.
- Every year the eighth grades go on a week-long trip to England, combined with a language course and family stays.
- There is also an annual exchange with Spain.
- Some 11th grade students have the opportunity to do a ten-day internship in England every year.
- Likewise, upper school students who take Chinese travel to China for six weeks during the summer vacation and take part in a four-week intensive Chinese course at Peking University .
- Each senior level profile is also free to take a course trip. However, this must take place in the first four semesters of the upper level. It often takes place towards the end of the fourth half of the upper level (second half of qualification phase 1).
Political spectrum
The politically interested students at the teaching institute tend to be more left-wing. This is primarily due to the close proximity of the school to the Ostertor and Steintor districts , which are considered very alternative in Bremen, and the origin of many students from this district. The student body has organized several anti-fascist days of action. Many of the learners take part in demonstrations that deal critically with war and globalization .
particularities
At the beginning of 2007 the “Audio / Video Self-Learning Center” was inaugurated at the grammar school on Hamburger Straße. It is designed to help students produce lesson-related videos or audio clips and is based on the upper school subject of media studies. Two computer rooms are available for the self-study center.
In cooperation with other schools, the grammar school is also involved in the new Bremen-wide e-learning project, which aims to achieve better learning success through networking and cross-institutional communication.
Student Council
The school has a student council (SV) in which every student, regardless of whether he or she is elected, can participate. The SV organizes school parties and days of action and advocates the interests of the student body among the teaching staff. From time to time there are student council meetings where the class and course spokespersons meet and discuss issues related to the school. The results are presented to the pupils and discussed about twice a year at a plenary meeting.
Known school members
Known teachers
- Arno Theodor Kunath (1864–1936), from 1926 to 1931 senior gymnastics teacher at the advanced school
- Herbert Bellmer (1895–1950), teacher at the advanced school from 1926 to 1940
- Rudolf Budde (1888–1975), 1920 teacher, 1929 director of studies , from 1935 to 1954 senior director of the advanced school and from 1945 of the secondary school
- Alfred Cammann (1909–2008), writer, ethnologist
- Philipp Rudolf (1901–1983), teacher since 1946, director of the secondary school from 1954 to 1966
Well-known students
- Paul Goosmann (1906–1992), teacher, trade unionist and politician; attended the teachers' college from 1920 to 1926
- Ernst Waltemathe (1935–1997), politician ( SPD )
- Jörg Straube (* 1953), conductor, choir director, university teacher
- Bärbel Schäfer (* 1963), television presenter and producer; graduated from the school in 1984
- Ingo Steinwart (* 1970), mathematician and university professor; graduated from the school in 1990
- Dmitrij Kollars (* 1999), chess player and journalist at Rochade Europa
Individual evidence
literature
- Wilfried Stille: Chronicle of the grammar school, the upper school level, the school center on Hamburger Straße 1978 - 2003
- Philipp Rudolf: School history of the advanced school and the grammar school on Hamburger Straße 1922–1972 with teacher seminar, Jansonschule-Schomburgschule Bremen , Bremen 1972
