HTL Mödling

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Higher technical federal teaching and research institute Mödling
Emblem of the HTL Mödling
type of school Higher technical federal teaching and research institutes
School number 317437
founding 1919
address

Technikerstr. 1-5
A-2340 Mödling

place Mödling
state Lower Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 4 '24 "  N , 16 ° 17' 21"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '24 "  N , 16 ° 17' 21"  E
carrier Republic of Austria
student about 3500
Teachers about 400
management Hannes Sauerzopf
Website www.htl.moedling.at
Aerial view of the HTL Mödling

The HTL Mödling is a vocational college (Höhere Technische Lehranstalt) with an attached research institute ( HTBLuVA ) in Mödling , which emerged from the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy Mödling and is one of the largest schools in Europe with around 3500 students .

History of the HTL Mödling

Main building of the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy around 1904
Emperor Franz Joseph leaving the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy on November 4, 1904

Today's HTL Mödling is housed in the buildings of the former Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy , which was originally located in the collegiate barracks in Vienna from 1869 to 1904 . Since the buildings of the collegiate barracks no longer met the requirements of a technical military academy, people began to look for a new location. The choice fell on building a new military academy on an 18-hectare pasture on the southern slope of the Eichkogel , which the City of Mödling acquired in 1896 for four million crowns from the Reich Ministry of War . This sum was to be paid off in installments over the next 54.5 years, but the last installment payment was made in 1918 due to the collapse of Austria-Hungary . Despite the lack of installment payments, the city of Mödling benefited from the building of the academy as the Awareness increased enormously, and the economy also flourished.

In 1901 the construction of the main building and the other 25 individual buildings began according to the plans of the military chief engineer Paul Acham, which was finished in 1904 and opened on November 4, 1904 by Emperor Franz Joseph . Up to 370 students could live and be taught in the academy at this time. In addition, there was an almost self-sufficient infrastructure, for example, in addition to the facilities required for military operations such as stables and parade grounds, there was also an own gardening shop, a butcher's shop, a sick and isolation pavilion, several libraries, a swimming pool, a hairdresser's room, etc.

After only 14 years of school operation at the Mödling site, the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy ceased operations on November 12, 1918 with the proclamation of the Republic of German Austria . The military school was followed by a German-Austrian state secondary school , in which, however, the conditions were catastrophic, for example many times more students were accepted, which resulted in poor supplies and even a lack of water. For a short time it was considered to use the building elsewhere, for example as a retirement home or casino , but then it was decided to continue with a technical education.

On November 17, 1919, regular teaching was started for the first time at the HTL Mödling under the name "German-Austrian Technical-Industrial State School in Mödling" with 154 students in four departments (civil engineering, structural engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering) and initially ten teachers . Ten years later, over 1000 students were taught in six departments.

Heinrich Maier , a member of the Maier-Messner-Caldonazzi resistance group, was a religion teacher at the school between 1936 and 1938.

The annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 12, 1938 left its mark, so from the school year 1938/1939 the subjects "Human Heredity and Race Care" and "Introduction to Air Protection" were taught, parts of the building were painted in camouflage colors, as well as the pre-existing pre-military training (within the scope of physical exercises) focused. In addition, the company fire brigade of the vocational school was expanded, and the students were called to so-called emergency operations more and more frequently in the course of the war, until classes were completely stopped on March 30, 1945. As the Soviet troops were getting closer, the order was given on April 4th to blow up the facility so as not to leave it to the occupiers. However, since the blasting officer went into hiding, this never happened.

Kursalon Mödling. Part of the electronics department's teaching was held here until 1974

On April 8, 1945, a war hospital was set up in the main building for up to 2,000 wounded, but these soon fell to around 100, after which school operations could be resumed on June 7, 1945 with 200 students. However, as the military quartermaster's office of the occupying forces confiscated the main building a short time later , teaching again proved difficult. Due to the occupied main building, theory lessons were held again in the 1945/1946 school year with over 1,000 students in the Jakob-Thoma-Hauptschule. Due to the ever increasing number of students, the lessons in the school year 1946/1947 were moved from the Jakob-Thoma-Hauptschule to the building of the Realgymnasium Franz-Keim-Gasse , where the kitchen and the dining room for the boarding students were also set up. In addition, the gymnasium of the high school served as a dormitory. After the Soviet occupiers took over the entire school area with the exception of the workshops in 1951, the HTL Mödling was divided into a total of nine locations throughout Mödling. For example, the boarding school students and parts of the electronics department in the St. Gabriel Mission House , or the chemistry laboratory in the Mödlinger Kursalon. However, this situation changed with the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1955.

By the beginning of 1959, all of the former locations, with the exception of the home in the Hinterbrühl (until 1962) and the Kursalon (until 1974), were gradually returned, and school operations were again concentrated on the original area of ​​the HTL Mödling. Several renovation and reconstruction works followed, including:

Memorial stone for the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy in front of the HTL Mödling
  • Renovation of the main building (1955-1960, facade renovation 1988)
  • Construction of the district heating plant (operation from 1957)
  • Construction of the mechanical engineering workshop (operation from 1958)
  • Redesign of the school chapel (1962 and 2000)
  • New construction of the student dormitory (operation from 1962, or 1968 and 1977)
  • Conversion of the former riding arena into gyms (operation from 1965)
  • Increase in the east wing (operation from 1966)
  • Construction of the laboratory building for the wood technology department (construction 1971–1973)
  • Construction of a handball court (operation from 1975)
  • Construction of the laboratory building for electrical engineering / mechanical engineering (construction 1971–1976, roof structure 1998)
  • Construction of the C-building (operation from 1978)
  • Renovation of the sports field (1987)
  • Construction of the workshop building (construction 1988–1994)
  • Renovation and extension of the D building (1989–1991)
  • Construction of the carpentry workshop and a new double gymnasium (operation from 2005)
  • New construction of the restaurant in the east wing (2012-2013)
  • Renovation of the facade of the wood technology building (2013)
  • Reconstruction of the old buffet and restaurant area in the main building (2013-2014)
  • Facade renovation of gymnasiums 1 to 3 (2014)

With the expansion of the school, the number of pupils also increased, so in 1960 around 1,600 pupils were taught and in the school year 1979/1980 already over 3,000.

Directors of the military academy and HTL Mödling

Since the founding of the Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy, later HTL Mödling, there have been 19 academy or school principals, exclusively male.

Academy or school director Beginning The End
FML Artur Horeczky 1904 1907
FML Georg Ritter von Dormus 1907 1911
FML Georg Hefelle 1911 1914
FML Carl Ritter von Wessely 1914 1915
FML Oskar von Heimerich 1915 1918
Alois Scholz 1918 1919
Karl Eduard Allitsch 1919 1935
Josef Pekarek 1935 1938
Ferdinand Rieger 1938 1945
Serious junk 1945 1947
Franz Schrangl 1947 1952
Josef Aschenbrenner 1952 1956
Robert Nebosis 1956 1965
Hans Kraichich 1965 1971
Josef Pongratz 1971 1972
Friedrich Niklas 1972 1979
Alfred Gratzl 1979 2000
Hartmut Kranlich 2000 2007
Peter Cernov 2007 2010
Harald Hrdlicka 2010 2019
Hannes Sauerzopf 2019 ---

HTL Mödling today

Today the HTL Mödling is the largest school in Austria with around 3,500. They are taught by 411 teachers (as of the 2018/19 school year).

Departments of the HTL Mödling

The students can choose from a total of 10 higher departments (5 years) with 11 different training focuses, 7 technical schools (4 years) and 7 colleges (2 years), which are divided into 10 administrative units:

Electronics and technical informatics

The training focus of the higher department for electronics was first dealt with within the framework of the training for the higher department for electrical engineering. Due to the increasing demand for electronics engineers in the 1960s, the "High Frequency and Communication Technology" department was founded in 1967, which was later renamed "Electrical Communication Technology and Electronics".
The training branches "telecommunications" and "technical informatics" will no longer be continued in this way. The 3rd class of the school year 2019/20 is therefore the first class that is taught without any splitting in the specification "Technical Informatics".
  • Technical college for electronics
The college for electronics has existed since 1976.
The college for information technology was the second college at HTL Mödling and was founded in the school year 2000/2001.

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering vehicle technology

  • Higher department for vehicle technology, founded in 1934 under the name "Higher department for automotive engineering".
  • Technical school for automotive engineering

Wood technology

  • Higher department for wood technology
  • College for wood technology. The college for wood technology has existed since the 1999/2000 school year.
  • 3-year internship for wood technology
This type of training is a one-time special class at HTL Mödling. It is aimed at anyone who has completed a master craftsman's or journeyman's examination in a woodworking profession (carpentry, carpentry, sawing technology and forest technology) or a corresponding technical college.

Interior architecture, room and object design

  • Higher department for interior design, room and object design
  • Technical school for carpentry technology
  • College of Interior Design

Mechanical engineering plant engineering

  • Higher department for machine and plant engineering
  • Technical school for machine and system technology
  • College for energy planning, building and refrigeration technology

Mechatronics

  • Higher department for mechatronics precision technology (until the end of the 2016/17 school year, then higher department for mechatronics)
  • Technical school for mechatronics
The technical school for precision engineering was introduced in 1972.

industrial engineering

Gravestones in front of the HTL Mödling commemorate graduates of the structural engineering department
  • Higher department of industrial engineering
The higher department for industrial engineering was introduced in 1971 as the "department for industrial engineering". It was given its current name in 1992.

Structural engineering building construction - civil engineering

  • Higher civil engineering department
  • Higher department of building construction
    The higher department for building construction and the higher department for civil engineering are among the oldest departments at HTL Mödling. They have existed since the German-Austrian technical and commercial state school was founded in 1919.

The structural engineering department is the largest department at HTL Mödling.

  • Technical college for structural engineering with internship
  • College for Building Construction

Construction technology - environmental technology

  • Higher department for structural engineering and environmental engineering
  • College: Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering

Research institutes

  • Research institute for construction technology, building materials and road construction
  • Research institute for the wood industry

Student home

There has been a student dormitory since the establishment of the German-Austrian technical and industrial state college in 1919. Originally housed on the 3rd floor of the main building, it had to be divided into several locations throughout Mödling during the Soviet occupation between 1951 and 1955. Today it is again on the area of ​​the HTL Mödling and is divided into 4 different buildings:

  • A house: 2nd to 5th year boys only
  • B-house: fellow students
  • C-House: 1st and 2nd year (boys and girls)
  • Girls' home: girls from 3rd to 5th year

School newspaper

On behalf of HTL Mödling, the NÖN -HTL Mödling, a special production of the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten, is published annually . With a circulation of 70,000 it serves as an annual report and provides an overview of HTL Mödling, its departments and their projects.

In addition , the school newspaper Breitseiten, which is also published annually, has existed since 2006 (circulation number 1350), which has already been awarded 2nd place in the Lower Austrian school newspaper competition.

School events

Right from the start, the HTL Mödling site was repeatedly used for major events, such as the 5th Lower Austrian State Exhibition in 1929 , the State Conference of the Fatherland Front on April 28, 1935 (25,000–30,000 participants) or the flag and aircraft consecration on April 7th. June 1937.

Since VfB Mödling used the sports field of HTL Mödling as a venue for championship games until 1923, SK Rapid Wien was received as an opponent on August 17, 1919 , but the home team lost 0: 1.

From 1985 to 2012 there was an annual school ball at HTL Mödling. Before that, due to a lack of space, other ballrooms, such as the Brauhof in Mödling, were used. Since the 2012/2013 school year, there is only one Mödling school ball organized with other Mödling schools in the Event Pyramid Vösendorf.

At the end of the school year, the HTL summer night festival takes place on the sports field.

In the 2nd and 3rd year there is a one-week school ski course for each class, which takes place in one of the numerous ski areas in Austria or in the Polish city ​​of Zakopane (for the first time in the 1991/1992 school year).

In addition, the HTL Mödling was the broadcast location for the program Wer A says .

Well-known projects

Bridge in Wiener Neudorf. Planned and built by students from the civil engineering department

people

Known teachers

Well-known graduates

Web links

Commons : HTL Mödling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b HTL Mödling celebrates its 100th anniversary. In: orf.at . May 25, 2019, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  2. a b c HTL Mödling: The history of HTL Mödling. In: htl.moedling.at. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  3. Catherine Kniefacz, Herbert Posch: Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938. Henry Maier. In: University of Vienna . January 11, 2017, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  4. Locations: vocational schools. In: berufsbildendeschulen.at. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  5. HTL Mödling: Research institutes. In: htl.moedling.at. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Center for Generations in Wetschehaus. In: orf.at. December 13, 2010, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  7. HTL Mödling: Brücke Rötz 2011. In: htl.moedling.at. October 23, 2011, accessed February 29, 2020 .