BG / BRG and HLW Köflach

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The Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Köflach ( BG / BRG Köflach ) and the Höhere Bundeslehranstalt für Wirtschaftsbufe Köflach ( HLW Köflach ) are two schools in Köflach . The two schools share a school building.

The BG / BRG Köflach is the only grammar school with eight years of AHS training in western Styria .

history

Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Köflach
type of school General education higher school : Gymnasium and Realgymnasium
founding Founded in 1869 as the second state high school in Graz, branch in 1964, school in 1970
address

Piberstrasse 15

place Köflach
state Styria
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 4 '17 "  N , 15 ° 5' 9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '17 "  N , 15 ° 5' 9"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
student 1009
Teachers about 80
management Gudrun Finder
Website www.ahskoeflach.at
BG / BRG / BORG Köflach

On November 22, 1959, the West Styrian Parents' Association was founded in the festival hall of the community of Rosental an der Kainach to establish a grammar school in West Styria . Proponents included the mining inspector Egon Bram, the writer Alfred Seebacher-Mesaritsch and the university professor Erich Hönninger . In 1961, an entire class with 30 students was able to travel to Graz every day and was integrated into the Lichtenfels Federal High School and Federal Real High School . In 1964, the grammar school was started as a branch with seven classes with 280 students in the boys' elementary school in Köflach. The Viennese architect Rudolf Keimel won first prize in the 1968 architecture competition for the new school building . From 1970 the school was run independently. On September 17, 1970, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new school took place on a building site in front of the Dechantwald provided by the municipality of Köflach. The school was inaugurated on October 17, 1974 by Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger with the Federal Minister for Buildings and Technology Josef Moser .

CPR Köflach

The college for economic professions was formed in 1997 from the technical college for economic professions founded in 1974.

Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Köflach
type of school Vocational secondary school : Higher college for economic professions
founding 1974 as a technical school for economic professions , higher institution 1997
address

Piberstrasse 15

place Köflach
state Styria
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 4 '17 "  N , 15 ° 5' 9"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
management Karlheinz Sanz
Website www.hlw-koeflach.at

The school complex

The school is a modern school campus, the initial building was planned as a reinforced concrete skeleton structure in an innovative style for the 1970s by the Viennese architect Rudolf Keimel. It lies like a “city crown” over Köflach. Today there is a thermal bath and Hotel Nova next door .

It has a special science wing with modern laboratory rooms and three IT rooms .

There is also an extensive library, three gymnasiums renovated in 2006, a fitness room and outdoor facilities with a beach volleyball court.

Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium

The school offers two types of school, both of which lead to the Matura in eight years :

On the one hand, the focus is on languages . In particular , it promotes student exchanges , for example there has been a recognized US Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the school as part of the Fulbright program for several years . The arts education is also given special consideration. The second focus is science.

The school is an excellent eco school . In 2006 she received the highest school award in the state of Styria, the Pedagogical Panther for “lived school partnership , European maturity through language support, for example. B. in the form of student exchanges, school development in a team, excellent 'eco school' ”, among other things.

In addition, afternoon care has recently been offered.

BORG MIO

The BORG MIO is the upper level branch of the BG / BRG / BORG Köflach. It is a federal upper level secondary school with a focus on sports. "MIO" stands for motivating , individualizing and orienting and preparing for the living environment . It is housed in the Voitsberg school center.

Federal College of Business Administration

The HLW Köflach is a human vocational school in a school branch, and leads in five years to the maturity and diploma examination . In addition to general education and commercial competence according to the type of school for a higher education institution for economic professions , it focuses on the following areas:

The diploma includes the - an apprenticeship, - vocational qualifications in the professions office clerk / woman, Großhandelskaufmann / woman, industrial manager / wife, as well as hotel and hospitality management assistants in, chef / cook, waiter in, as well as travel agency assistant in and booksellers in.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Factsheet (school website). Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  2. 50 years of the Köflach high school - anniversary video - 1964 to 2014
  3. a b Municipality of Köflach (ed.): Köflach city tour . Entry 30 Federal High School and Federal Real High School and Higher Federal College for Business Professions Köflach, p. 15 ( Online [PDF; 89 kB ]).
  4. Quoting Köflach city tour. Even Federal President Kirchschläger honored the excellent location of the school in 1974 with the words: "The elevated location of your educational institution may direct your gaze into the future that will one day be entrusted to you."
  5. a b c Education (school website). Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  6. ^ BG: Gymnasium - focus on foreign languages. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  7. ^ Austrian and US Participants 2011-2012 → US Foreign Language Teaching Assistants at Austrian Secondary Schools - a program coordinated by the Fulbright Commission for the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture ( Memento of April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), fulbright .at (Eng.)
  8. Focus on natural sciences and IT technology. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  9. The source of the quote is no longer available. The Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Köflach originally served as a reference for this quote - a guarantee for a well-founded, diverse general education. (PDF; 874 kB) Folder. BG / BRG Köflach, accessed on May 9, 2012 .
  10. ^ The winners of the Pedagogical Panther 2006 (on www.elternbrief.de). Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  11. School award for general secondary schools (at www.elternbrief.de). Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Day care (website of the school). Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  13. BORG MIO: Upper secondary school. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  14. School profile. HLW Köflach, archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; accessed on September 29, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  15. Career prospects , hlw-koeflach.at