Grammar school in the Alfred Grosser school center
| Grammar school in the Alfred Grosser school center | |
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| The high school in the Alfred Grosser school center with the artwork "D617" or "The leg of Nike" by Martin Schöneich . | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1961 |
| address |
Lessingstrasse 24 |
| place | Bad Bergzabern |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 5 '49 " N , 7 ° 59' 44" E |
| carrier | Southern Wine Route district |
| student | 670 |
| Teachers | 70 |
| management | Pete Allmann |
| Website | www.schulebza.de |
The grammar school in the Alfred Grosser school center is a grammar school in Bad Bergzabern , Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The foundation of the Latin school in Bergzabern
Today's grammar school in the Alfred Grosser school center in Bad Bergzabern in the south of the Palatinate goes back to the foundation of a Latin school in 1525. Mayors and councilors of the city had taken up Martin Luther's ideas about school reform and appointed teachers who were supposed to preach the gospel "without any additions" . The Latin school prepared the pupils for attending the state school (grammar school) in Hornbach, but also provided further education to those who did not intend to attend grammar school.
From the 16th to the 18th century
The first teachers in Bergzabern were Peter Flimsbach, a relative of Philipp Melanchthon , the theologian Nikolaus Thomae and, from 1543 to 1547 and again from 1555 to 1558, the English reformer Miles Coverdale , who had translated the Bible into English in Strasbourg in 1535 and was now Bishop of Exeter has been. From 1635 to 1640 the school was closed due to the events of the Thirty Years' War: the city had lost eighty percent of its inhabitants in these years, the teacher had starved to death, the pastor had put an end to his life himself. The existence of the Bergzabern Latin School was also endangered in the following decades; Low student numbers and changing, unsuitable or missing teachers were responsible for this. The situation only improved at the beginning of the 18th century, because now mainly artistically and scientifically trained Latin school teachers (“preceptors”) taught here.
French Revolution
From 1793 the Bergzabern school system was determined by the events of the French Revolution, because the South Palatinate Republic, founded in 1792, became part of the French Republic in 1793. School was now the responsibility of the state and teachers changed frequently. In 1807, during the Napoleonic era, the Bergzabern Latin School was closed.
reopening
The reopening of the Latin school, which was repeatedly warned by the Bergzabern citizens and which took place in 1829, failed after just two years because the teaching content was no longer up to date; The bourgeoisie, engaged in trade and commerce, lacked “realities” such as history, geography, mathematics, and natural science. In the mid-thirties, the government in Munich - the Palatinate had belonged to Bavaria since 1816 - therefore aimed at a school reform, which the Bergzabern town councilors joined at the express request of the citizens. In May 1836, the young historian Georg Weber began work on the reopened Latin school. Weber was born in Bergzabern in 1808 and wrote a world history that received much attention during his time in Heidelberg.
The revolution of 1848/49
In the revolution of 1848/49, many teachers from Bergzabern acknowledged their goals and were therefore reprimanded by the school authorities. After the headmaster's impeachment, the school was officially closed until the summer of 1849. After that she had to struggle again with dwindling student numbers because after the failed revolution, many Palatinate families left their homeland and emigrated to America.
In the empire
The Bavarian school regulations of 1874 now provided for five instead of four classes for Latin schools. In addition to classical education and Christian upbringing, the third focus was on teaching in the mother tongue. In addition, the "realities" history and geography were taught at times, as well as gymnastics as a compulsory subject. Electives that were mostly taught by the town's primary school teachers were singing, calligraphy, and drawing. In 1894 a sixth grade was established, raising the Latin school to a Progymnasium, a step that did not have the hoped-for effect and was therefore revised at the request of the city council in 1908 by the downgrading to a five-class Latin school.
First World War and Weimar Republic
During the First World War , school operations were restricted for obvious reasons: military training exercises for the pupils, teachers seconded to other schools or called up for military service, improper use of the premises, e.g. B. the school gym as a magazine and the like determined everyday school life. After 1918, the French occupying power intervened in school life. French became the first compulsory foreign language, writings with nationalistic or militaristic content were removed from the school library, and exercises of a military nature were forbidden. Teachers were expelled from the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine or even imprisoned for misconduct. The Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture allowed girls access to higher schools since 1920; In 1924 a girl was admitted to the Bergzabern Latin School for the first time, and the secondary school for girls was closed in 1930.
National Socialist Period
Citizens and teachers were predominantly national and rejected the republic. After the National Socialists came to power, teachers who thought differently adapted to the new ideology and its changed educational goals, and an “unreliable” teacher was dismissed. In 1937 the unified school was introduced in the higher education system of the German Reich: the high school for boys and the high school for girls. School time was shortened by one year to eight years. Where there was only one local secondary school, as in Bergzabern, coeducation was permitted. The proportion of girls in secondary school in Bergzabern was around a third. Physically handicapped, “genetically ill” and “alien” children and young people were excluded from attending secondary schools. The last Jewish student had to leave high school in 1938.
Second World War
At the beginning of the Second World War , the " Red Zone ", the border area with France, was completely evacuated. The town and district of Lichtenfels in the Upper Palatinate took in the "repatriated" people from Bergzabern, the teachers at the Latin school were drafted into the Wehrmacht or assigned to other schools in Bavaria. The headmaster carried out his official business from Nuremberg. After the French campaign, the Palatinate returned home. Until the second evacuation at the end of 1944, when the front was approaching from Alsace, the situation of the Bergzabern Oberschule remained difficult: after their return they found devastated classrooms, furniture and teaching materials had disappeared, teachers were missing, the youths had to work and war missions as flak helpers made regular and continuous teaching impossible. In addition, students from the bombed Ludwigshafen were accepted. At the end of March 1945 the Palatinate was finally occupied, on May 28th all schools in the French occupation zone were closed. Classes were suspended until autumn.
After 1945
On October 17, 1945, classes in Bergzabern's schools were resumed, but regular school operations were far from being possible. There was a shortage in every respect: rooms, furniture, books, notebooks, fuel, food - everything was missing, improvisation was the order of the day, apart from the headmaster, only two students gave lessons. Literature lessons were given from the holdings of parents' bookcases, broken window panes were makeshiftly repaired with cardboard, and lessons were canceled in extreme cold.
From Progymnasium to Gymnasium
In 1950 Bergzabern's secondary school became a Progymnasium again with six classes and two branches: the natural science and the modern language. The first considerations were early on to expand the Progymnasium into a grammar school. This plan was not implemented until 1961, albeit with the restriction that due to the expected low number of students there would only be one language branch. In 1962, in Rhineland-Palatinate, the school fees for secondary schools, which had been compulsory until then, were dropped. In 1966, high school graduates were released for the first time in Bad Bergzabern, as the spa town has been called since 1964. With the reform of the upper level passed by the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in 1972, the restriction to the focus on the modern language no longer applies: in 1974/75, the Mainz study level was introduced in Bad Bergzabern;
The school center is created
A second wish came true with the expansion into a grammar school: Bergzabern's secondary school received its own building. Until then, the Latin school was always housed in various more or less suitable rooms in the city, most recently in the castle under one roof with the two denominational elementary schools. In 1964 they moved into the new building on the southern edge of the city, and an extension was completed in 1969. The elementary schools also left the castle and were housed in another new building in the immediate vicinity of the grammar school; a common auditorium, gymnasiums and sports fields were created, the whole thing was tied together by a “beautiful school landscape”. At the end of the seventies, another new building took up the Bergzaberner Realschule, founded in 1970 as a branch by Annweiler, and the secondary school, which was now the central school. The elementary school remained in the building of the former elementary schools. Such a spacious school center was built in around a decade and a half. From 2008 to 2011 the grammar school was renovated, rebuilt and restructured.
The grammar school in the cooperative comprehensive school
Gymnasium and secondary school, later also the independent Bad Bergzabern secondary school, formed from 1974 a cooperative comprehensive school with a common orientation level of the secondary school and the secondary school, with an exchange of teachers between all three types of school as well as with school-type and cross-year working groups including the afternoon program "work and play" in the orientation levels. The cooperative comprehensive school developed into an open all-day school. The three cooperating schools remained independent. One of the headmasters takes the lead in the cooperation on a rotating basis.
The school profile
The current profile of the grammar school was developed in the early 1970s through the introduction of French as the first foreign language and bilingual teaching from the fifth grade (1970) as well as the " AbiBac " (1996, Franco-German Abitur). In the common orientation level as well as in classes 7 and 8 there have been wind classes since 1992, instead of the string group (1999), a string class will be established from 2012. The students learn to play an instrument as part of the regular music lessons by making music together. The skills learned can be deepened from grade 9 within the framework of working groups. The grammar school has been a training school since 2009.
The naming
The name was given by a resolution passed on February 13, 2006 by the District Council of the Southern Wine Route. In a ceremony on May 18 of the same year, the school center was given the new name “Alfred Grosser School Center” in the presence of the namesake. The French political scientist and publicist Alfred Grosser , born in Frankfurt am Main and who fled the Nazis to France with his family in 1933, has been a mediator and reconciler between the Germans and the French since the end of the Second World War. Political scientist Ulrich Sarcinelli from the University of Koblenz-Landau gave the laudation .
Teacher
- Johann Carl Bonnet , from 1760
- Georg Weber , from 1835 to 1838
student
- Georg Wilhelm Petersen
- Heinrich Cramer (forest officer)
- Julius Kranzbühler
- Fritz Rudolf Wüst
- Timo Gross
- Volker Wissing , Abitur 1989
- Alexander Schweitzer