High school at the Wolfskuhle

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High school at the Wolfskuhle
Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle, August 2014.jpg
High school at the Wolfskuhle, August 2014
type of school high school
School number 164902
founding 1968
address

Pinxtenweg 6

place Food - Steele
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 27 '5 "  N , 7 ° 5' 27"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '5 "  N , 7 ° 5' 27"  E
carrier City of Essen
student 896 (as of summer 2018)
Teachers 70+ (as of summer 2018)
management Christine Breimhorst
Website www.gymnasium-wolfskuhle.de
High school at the Wolfskuhle in October 1983

The high school at Wolfskuhle in the eastern Essen district of Steele was founded in 1968 as the first coeducational school in Essen. It is currently attended by around 900 students, for whom over 70 teachers are available. The focus is on bilingual training in the English language, natural and social sciences as well as in literature, music and theater.

history

The name Wolfskuhle goes back to the old field name Wolfskuhle, which was first mentioned in 1685 as Wulfeskuhle.

Before the grammar school at Wolfskuhle was built, there was a so-called higher school in Essen-Steele with the Carl-Humann grammar school , which is still in existence today and which was founded in 1854, but initially only for boys.

Since the number of pupils in the greater Steele area increased significantly at the end of the 1960s, also due to newly emerging housing estates such as Bergmannsfeld and Isinger Feld, another grammar school in the city district became necessary. The number of high school students rose from 9,000 in 1962 to 15,500 in 1968. At the beginning of the 1968 school year, three entrance classes were registered for the Wolfskuhle grammar school at the Viktoria girls 'high school in Huttrop and at the Carl Humann boys' high school in Steele. Coeducation , the joint school attendance of boys and girls, was planned for the Wolfskuhle .

The history of the Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle began on October 31, 1968, when the chairpersons of the previous municipal modern-language gymnasium for boys and girls met and decided to found a joint school. Despite the establishment in 1968, construction work did not begin until the spring of 1969, so that the first construction phase of the school building, worth 1.3 million Deutschmarks , was inaugurated on December 12, 1969. Until then, lessons for girls were held in the old Steeler Rector's School on Westfalenstrasse, today's Grend cultural center, in the premises of the educational institution for women's professions. The boys went to school on Lönsberg in Huttrop. The number of pupils rose to 493 in 13 classes, which had to be taught in the morning and afternoon shifts due to a lack of space, until the first rooms at the school on Wolfskuhle, which was still under construction, could be moved into at the end of 1969. At the beginning of the 1970s, there were already 900 students in 25 classes being taught by 23 teachers.

In February 1974, the entire building complex of the grammar school on Wolfskuhle, which was now completed , was opened by Mayor Horst Katzor . The house, which also has an auditorium with space for around 500 people, cost around 17 million Deutschmarks in total. This includes an ash sports field and a triple gym with grandstand. In November 1987, this gym served about 170 patients from the nearby Luther Hospital (today Alfried Krupp Hospital Steele ) as emergency accommodation when it burned.

Erich Kästner Comprehensive School

Further buildings for a secondary school and a secondary school were then built on the northern site, for which a further 15 million D-Marks were invested. Another gym was built north of the existing triple gym, but had to be closed and demolished in the early 1980s due to damage in the mountains . A new building followed between the secondary school and the sports field. The secondary and secondary schools were merged in 1988 to form the Erich Kästner comprehensive school .

Remedial measures

In 2011, asbestos-containing facade elements and the black asbestos-containing shingles were removed from the buildings of the grammar school and the adjacent Erich Kästner comprehensive school. In 2012, the Essen architect Christofer Allerkamp presented the facade renovation of the school center on the 2012 Architecture Day .

The sports field was closed by the city in 2012 because the field was no longer maintained by the groundskeeper, who had previously retired.

In the summer vacation of 2014, renovation measures for integrative schooling were carried out, creating small rooms for the needs of remedial teaching.

At the beginning of 2018, the city of Essen provided funds for the renovation of the triple sports hall, the floor of which, which was partly damaged by penetrating moisture, has to be replaced.

High school at the Wolfskuhle

The high school at the Wolfskuhle offers the Abitur after the twelfth grade , G8 for short. The grammar school received awards in 2014 and 2017 for its offer in the MINT subjects . The school won the European School Music Prize for its offer in the field of music and theater in the 2014/2015 school year.

Focus on theater and music

There has been a theater at the Wolfksuhle since the 1980s, made up of various working groups for all grades and literature courses for the upper grades. In 2001, the theater group won the Oskar at the Ruhr-Pott Schülertheatertreffen, and the English literature course in 2017 won the special prize at the federal foreign languages ​​competition for their production of Hamlet .

The various theater courses and working groups present their work at the biannual WOKULTUR events (WOKULTUR: Wortspiel aus Wolfskuhle and culture). The Drumline , which was founded in 2011, also plays there. The drumline often takes over the rhythmic accompaniment at the annual big band concerts.

In 2007, under the direction of Johan Malan, the orchestra was established, consisting of 35 to 40 members who play pieces that they have arranged themselves. They are often supported by the Wolfskuhle choir, which has existed since 2010. Originally this consisted of twelve high school students under the direction of Saskia Malan. In the meantime, two other choirs have developed from this, the Woku Voices for grades 5–7 and the Hard Choir for grades 8–12.

Joint productions by all musical groups take part in the musicals, which are performed every two years. Grease premiered a musical in 2002. In 2011, Little Shop of Horrors premiered in 2011. In 2017 there was the production of the Woku adaptation by Blues Brothers .

In addition to school productions, music and actors emerged from the music and theater offers at the Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle. Among others, Leonie Burgmer, who took part in the casting show Our Star for Baku in 2012 , or Roland Riebeling , who plays in Cologne's Tatort in addition to his theater career .

United Brass Big Band

In 1993 the United Brass Big Band was founded as a Human (n) Brass Big Band at the Carl-Humann-Gymnasium in Steele by 15 students and by Robert Maruhn, who was a music teacher there. In 1994 the band presented themselves in public for the first time. This band, in which pupils from the fifth grade to high school graduates play trumpet, saxophone, flute, trombone or in the rhythm section, grew to 48 members until the end (as of summer 2018) and plays its own mixes of jazz, blues, rock and Soul. The band has been releasing CDs since 1997 and can still be seen performing in the district to this day.

School medical service

The woku medics

In the 2015/16 school year, the WOKU-Sanis (Wolfskuhlen paramedics) started with a 31-person team consisting of pupils from levels 9 to Q2.

The school medical service has been an official youth Red Cross group since it was founded and is assigned to the Essen district association ( JRK / DRK ). All student paramedics are automatically active in the JRK and receive their first aid training from a first aid trainer from the DRK Essen during the regular working group. The group management is always taken over by WOKU-Sanis, chosen at the annual meeting.

Arbitrator

High school students help arbitrate / resolve disputes by having arbitration talks. The dispute settlement is organized in such a way that a study group is offered in the ninth grade for training as a dispute arbitrator. The training then runs throughout the school year. In the following year, during the introductory phase, the trained students are deployed to help younger students resolve conflicts.

Former students

literature

  • Festschrift: 50 years of Wolfskuhle grammar school. Essen 2018.

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Woku school program (PDF)
  2. ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  3. ^ Carl-Humann-Gymnasium, school history ; accessed on September 14, 2018
  4. ↑ Ernst Heymann: Kon rad Kibbeck, History of the City of Essen, published by the City of Essen on the basis of a foundation of Mr. Albert v. "Waldhausen . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . Volume 40 , no. 1 , January 1, 1919, ISSN  2304-4861 , doi : 10.7767 / zrgga.1919.40.1.340 .
  5. ↑ Ernst Heymann: Kon rad Kibbeck, History of the City of Essen, published by the City of Essen on the basis of a foundation of Mr. Albert v. "Waldhausen . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . Volume 40 , no. 1 , January 1, 1919, ISSN  2304-4861 , doi : 10.7767 / zrgga.1919.40.1.340 .
  6. ↑ 12/1969 . In: Steeler Kurier . 1969, ISSN  1438-2563 .
  7. ↑ Dominika Sagan: When the Steeler Lutherhaus was on fire 30 years ago ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 23, 2017
  8. ↑ BEMA GmbH news archive , accessed on June 18, 2018
  9. ↑ Jutta Bublies: No money - Essen high school without a sports field . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 13, 2013; accessed on June 18, 2018
  10. ↑ Press release of the City of Essen from July 17, 2014, accessed on June 18, 2018
  11. ↑ Marcus Schymiczek: City of Essen renovates ailing sports halls with millions . IKZ-online, February 7, 2018; accessed on June 18, 2018
  12. ^ Steeler Courier .
  13. ↑ Homepage of the band
  14. ↑ The school medical service at the Wolfskuhle. Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle, accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Arbitrator. Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle, accessed on June 7, 2018 .