Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen

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Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen
Inner courtyard of the Hainberggymnasium.jpg
The inner courtyard in the old part
type of school High school , UNESCO project school
founding 1806/1866 as a girls' school
address

Friedländer Weg 19

place Goettingen
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 31 '56 "  N , 9 ° 56' 44"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '56 "  N , 9 ° 56' 44"  E
carrier City of Göttingen
student 1200
Teachers 130
management Georg Bartelt
Website www.hainberg-gymnasium.de

The Hainberg-Gymnasium is a high school in Göttingen with approx. 1200 students and has been one of the approx. 200 UNESCO project schools in Germany since 1993 . The school got its name from its location at the foot of the Hainberg . In 2016 the grammar school celebrated its 150th anniversary under the motto “We are more than a school”.

history

After the revolution of 1848 , the pressure for secondary education for girls increased. It was true that there was already a girls 'school in Göttingen with the private “university daughters ' school” founded by city superintendent Johann Philipp Trefurt in 1806, which was closed in 1837 due to financial difficulties. It was not until 1851 that the demand for a secondary school for daughters reappeared, which was to follow the coeducational elementary school that had been established in 1843 and existed until 1901.

In 1865, a new municipal commission proposal finally led to the founding of the school in 1866. The management of the school was transferred to Ludwig Morgenstern , while the school supervision was carried out by a school commission made up of members of the council and the consistory. On October 18, 1866, the school opened, to which girls from 6 to 14 years of age could go in five classes. The timetable was based on the ideas of the industrial age of that time and was intended to prepare women for a more independent social position, as the commission report on the founding of the school called for. Subjects included religion, German, French, English, arithmetic, history, handwriting , singing, needlework and gymnastics. Headmaster Ludwig Morgenstern placed particular emphasis on a Christian upbringing, which often got him into trouble with the authorities. So he allowed religious approaches to flow into his textbook on physics and evaded patriotic school celebrations in the church. From 1878 onwards, the Welfisch -minded Morgenstern had to present a program to the city before any celebrations.

In 1880 the now firmly established school was given a new school building on Wall, which was inaugurated on April 6th under Morgenstern's direction.

Street front of the Hainberggymnasium

The building of today's Hainberg-Gymnasium on Friedländer Weg moved into the higher girls' school , which was counted as a lyceum from 1909 , one year before the outbreak of the First World War , on May 19, 1913. The new building was not without controversy. Many advocated an extension, others advocated a new building. Finally, on March 27, 1911, the decision was made for the option of a new building according to plans by the then city building councilor Otto Frey, which cost 540,000 marks . In addition, the entire school inventory could be made from this amount.

Before the First World War, and afterwards until 1924, the Lyceum only led to secondary school leaving certificates . From 1904 the association "Women Education - Women Studies" tried to turn the Lyceum into a so-called full institution. At the founding event of the private university in 1911, Helene Stöcker gave a lecture on the inadequacy of today's girls' education . The first four students passed their Abitur at Easter 1914, and by 1924 a total of 68 students had passed their Abitur in the college.

With the introduction of compulsory elementary schooling in 1921, the preliminary stage of the lyceum was omitted, three years later the school became the upper lyceum and in 1927 enabled the first 16 pupils to take their Abitur here as well .

In 1933, National Socialism found its way into the school. The school chronicle and the minutes of the conferences show how quickly the adjustment ordered from above took place. According to the Nazi doctrine, the schoolgirls were abused for mass events. In September 1933, for example, they had to stand in line for two hours on Weender Strasse in favor of an SA brigade roll call. The Hitler salute was introduced on August 15, 1933, and officials had to perform it outside of their working hours. Singing the Horst Wessel song was also required of the students.

Wherever one still struggled with republican content during the Weimar period , National Socialist ideas found dissemination more quickly in schools. The textbooks were not changed until 1936, so that until then other lessons were still possible and also given, but a process of rethinking was already taking place in the minds of the teachers. They joined the ministerially prescribed curricula and were asked to do their best to help build a National Socialist state. It is uncertain to what extent the teachers met these expectations. Oral reports show that there must have been a variety of internal and external resistance.

In 1937 the first matriculation examinations were taken at the women's high school established in 1934 and set for three years . Curricular focus was on domestic and linguistic areas. In 1936 the school received the right to fly the HJ flag . Around 90 percent of all schoolgirls belonged to the BDM at that time , but compared to other high schools they only ever reached the bottom of the list of results in the waste material collections.

In the last two years of the war, regular classes took place less and less. This was due to the fact that from 1944 onwards more and more refugees were admitted to school. On September 15, 1944 alone, 700 refugees from the Aachen area were admitted. The assembly hall and gymnasium were later confiscated in order to set up a permanent reception center for refugees.

After the Second World War , which reached Göttingen on April 8, 1945, the school only gradually found its way back to normal classes. First, an auxiliary hospital was set up in the secondary school for girls before the British military authorities confiscated the entire building for their own purposes on July 20. From July onwards, lessons were possible again, but there were no rooms for the almost 700 students, so the lessons had to take place outdoors. At that time, people sometimes switched to the Gron primary school. It was not until the end of November that the military government released parts of the school for teaching again. 950 pupils, spread over 23 classes in 13 rooms, had to be taught by 10 teachers. According to the establishment plan, 28 posts were originally planned, but 6 teachers were removed from office. However, 4 of these 6 teachers were teaching at the school again in 1946.

In the first post-war years, the lack of space, insufficient staffing and major material problems due to the demands of the Allies were the greatest problems the school had to deal with. In addition, there was the fact that the number of refugees and evacuees exceeded the usual number of registrations by far. By the end of the 1940s, there were over 300 new registrations a year; in 1946, under the direction of Hans Erbe , the number of female pupils rose to over 1000, so that mostly only 50 percent of female pupils could be accepted after an examination procedure. Eleven years later, in 1957, there were even 1,267 students.

Due to the increasing number of female students, an expansion of the school became more and more urgent. First, in 1949, a branch was acquired with the Luisenschule on Baurat-Gerber-Straße. That this solution was only meant to be a temporary one became apparent in 1953 when five new classrooms were added by expanding the south wing. Another relief was the New Gymnasium in 1957 (today Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium ), which at that time took over four classes.

The inner development of the school testified that it had in the meantime trained to become a conventional high school. Among other things, this was due to the fact that from 1948 she received an ancient language and from 1951 a mathematical and scientific subject. In contrast, the domestic branch ended in 1951. However, the establishment of new branches also knew limits, which was particularly noticeable in the name of the facility. From 1961, the so-called “ women's high school ” was re-established. Arguments were based on the traditions of the 19th century and an attempt was made to differentiate oneself from other upper levels. The pupils were instructed in raising children, housekeeping and welfare work . At the time, critics spoke of a “pudding high school diploma”. The school showed itself to be more progressive in the inclusion of internships , so a four-week kindergarten and household internship was compulsory and always very profitable. Even if there were critical voices against this model, which said that the girls should be prepared for their future tasks as women and mothers, it was argued that it was closer to life than was possible in other high schools.

In 1978 the last students passed their Abitur at the women's high school. The tradition of the girls' high school came to an end and from then on pupils were taught together in coeducation . A few years earlier, under the direction of Wilhelm Weppner since 1971 , the first boys attended the school. With the introduction of coeducation in 1978, the educational institution also got its current name and developed into one of the largest high schools in Lower Saxony . In 1980 there were 1670 students, shift classes were held and the school building was expanded, most recently in the spring of 2010 with a canteen.

On April 22, 1999, a memorial was inaugurated for the former Jewish pupils of the Hainberg High School persecuted by the Hitler regime.

About the Hainberg high school

organization

The Hainberg-Gymnasium is a gymnasium in the traditional sense, which is changing to an all-day school . In connection with this, the rhythm of a school day was restructured in 2009 . This concerned the increase in the duration of the hours from 45 minutes to 90 minutes as well as a change in the duration of the breaks from 20 minutes after 90 minutes of lessons and a 50 minute break. Lunch break before the fourth double period. The architectural structure of the school comprises seven parts: old and new buildings, old and new gymnasiums, new canteen, the HG Junior branch as well as playgrounds and sports field.

Special offers

This grammar school offers a bilingual branch and elective courses in grades 8 and 9 . At the Hainberg-Gymnasium it is possible to study Chinese , which is a specialty. There is a school partnership with the Nanjing Foreign Language School. The Hainberg-Gymnasium is a member of the cooperation association for the promotion of gifted children . As part of the promotion of talented students , voluntary offers are made on various subjects at the HG, for example there is an art group, math clubs of various grades and a “researcher workshop”. The Hainberg-Gymnasium has several student choirs, a teacher choir, a parents choir (CHOROPHÄEN) , the M-choir, the choir sardines and others. The school also has in cooperation with the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium , the big band JAZZTIFIED a beginner band and several Bläserklassen . There are also offers for the instruments bass, guitar, keyboard, drums and xylophone. Drumming has also been offered in a samba group since 2019.

UNESCO project

Sign on the fence of the school grounds

The Hainberg-Gymnasium has been a UNESCO project school since 1993. The prerequisite for the award of the title is the obligation to continuously participate in the UNESCO school network and thus the implementation of the UNESCO goal - education for international understanding and cooperation - in school and extracurricular areas such as the Lorsch Abbey and exchange programs with partner schools . The Hainberg-Gymnasium has intercultural (exchange) contacts to Tanzania, since 1990 to Poland, since 1996 to Belarus, since 1997 to Spain, since 1999 to Bolivia, since 2000 to Lithuania, since 2002 to Chile, as well as exchange programs with France and Italy , China, England, South Korea and the Czech Republic. In grades 8 and 9, so-called “ compulsory elective lessons (WPU) UNESCO” are included in the timetable, which work on selected topics from politics and geography as part of an interdisciplinary lesson , sometimes also in free work and with the inclusion of extracurricular learning locations . In the UNESCO seminar , in the qualification phase , the students are to be prepared for the pluralistic society under the heading “Learning for the world of tomorrow” .

Awards

In January 2012 the Hainberg-Gymnasium was awarded the Student Peace Prize 2011 of the State of Lower Saxony. With the award, five projects of the school were honored, which serve the coexistence with strangers, the improvement of international understanding, the prevention of violence as well as the reduction of prejudices.

Cooperation partner

Cooperation partners of the Hainberg-Gymnasium are the companies Sycor AG and Sartorius AG , the DLR School Lab , the football club Hannover 96 , the Lorsch Abbey , the Wagener architects and the Weltladen Göttingen. There is also a cooperation agreement with the private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen .

Former known students

literature

  • Dierk Art: The development of general education schools in Göttingen from the founding of the university to the end of the 19th century (1734–1877) , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984 (at the same time: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 1990).
  • Johannes Meinhardt: The beginnings of the university daughter school in Göttingen. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1962, p. 121 ff.
  • Johannes Meinhardt: The efforts of the city of Göttingen to found a municipal girls' school. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1965, p. 161 ff.

Web links

Commons : Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ school management. In: www.hainberg-gymnasium.de. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Website of the Hainberg grammar school. In: www.hainberg-gymnasium.de. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Festival weeks at the Hainberg High School. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. March 14, 2016, accessed May 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Ilse Röttgerodt-Riechmann: City of Göttingen . In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.1 . Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 101 .
  5. ↑ Elective courses (WPU). At Hainberg-Gymnasium.de, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Chinese for Beginners. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 24, 2010, accessed May 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Partner school and exchange concept. In: www.hainberg-gymnasium.de. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  8. ^ Promotion of talented students on the HG website. Retrieved September 25, 2015 .
  9. ^ Peace Prize for Hainberg High School. Göttinger Tageblatt of January 5, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Partner schools of the PFH. Retrieved September 25, 2015 .