Leer-Gymnasium Loerrach

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Leer-Gymnasium Loerrach
Lever-Gymnasium Loerrach.jpg
Old building and main entrance
type of school high school
address

Baumgartnerstrasse 28

place Loerrach
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 36 '28 "  N , 7 ° 39' 53"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '28 "  N , 7 ° 39' 53"  E
student about 600
Teachers approx. 60
management Stefanie Mueller
Website www. Hebel-gymnasium-loerrach.de

The Hebel-Gymnasium in Lörrach ( Baden-Württemberg ) is the only public humanistic high school between Constance and Freiburg im Breisgau . The Hebel-Gymnasium, which can look back on 450 years of history, is traditionally committed to the humanistic ideal of education. The school is named after the Baden poet Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), who himself worked there as a teacher (“vicar of the precepts”) from 1783 to 1791. Today around 590 students attend the grammar school.

history

Margrave Friedrich V of Baden-Durlach re-founded the school in 1650
The "ship", former tobacco factory, front view
Johann Peter Hebel, pastel by Philipp Jakob Becker (1795)

Latin Roetelische Country School and Chapter School 1556–1714

The Hebel-Gymnasium goes back to the Latin Roetelische Landschule founded with the introduction of the Reformation in 1556 . For the year 1613 the subjects Latin, Greek, Hebrew, logic, rhetoric, poetry and music have been handed down. Due to the plague epidemics during the Thirty Years War , the school temporarily went under.

In 1650 the school was re-established by Margrave Friedrich V von Baden-Durlach as a chapter school near Rötteln Castle . At that time it was the only higher school in the Baden Oberland. The school was housed in a small house next to the Röttler church .

In 1691, after a short stopover in Basel (due to the destruction of the castle), the company moved to Herrenstrasse 10 in Lörrach, at that time still a small village which, after the destruction of Rötteln Castle, became the seat of the margravial authorities and other institutions. At that time, two teachers (praeceptores) taught in two classes at the school.

The pedagogy in the 18th century

In 1715 a third teacher was hired on the grounds that the 16–20 students had previously learned in multis et omnibus aliquid, sed in toto nihil ( something from a lot and everyone, but nothing as a whole ). The school has now also been elevated to a princely pedagogy. In 1719, a comprehensive curriculum was drawn up with the school statutes. The school was supposed to offer the boys in the area basic training for a career as a clergyman or in administration, which could then be continued at the Durlacher Gymnasium.

In 1761 the school moved to the building of a former tobacco factory on Basler Strasse, probably for reasons of space. In this centrally located stately building right next to the Lörrach town church, the pedagogy remained for almost 200 years until 1960. Until the 1970s, the school in Lörrach and the surrounding area was generally known as the “ship”. In the meantime, this respectfully mocking designation, which most probably associated with the building of the former tobacco factory (today the three-country museum ), has been lost in the vocabulary of the city's population.

Handwritten school regulations from 1772 emphasize the importance of language acquisition for pedagogy: In languages, grammatics must be practiced with great care, and the young people must be taught in stages in a thorough manner in all classes ... Grammatical exercises must be carried out daily, especially but is the declining and conjugating ... to practice diligently and later the pupils are to be urged from the lowest class onwards that they learn to read in a good and skilful way. For the sake of this, it is urgent that they utter all letters, syllables and words audibly, and avoiding the rough and erroneous that is common in local expressions ... (draft / whose / basic rules / above / The teachers of the Lörracher Paedagogii / as well as / the / Bey dem Vierfachen Schematismo / recorded / Grund Säze / 1772., quoted from Hebel-Gymnasium Lörrach, 1981, o. P.).

1783–1791: Johann Peter Hebel as a teacher at the pedagogy

While most of the old school files were destroyed in 1945 , more precise sources are available for the period from 1783 to 1791 with the records of the "lectiones" by Johann Peter Hebel , after whom the school was later named. At that time, Hebel was working as vicar of the pedagogical department and, for example, taught the secondary school in Latin, which at that time made up 14 of the 26 hours per week. While Latin should be actively mastered by the students in order to be able to participate in the scientific discourse of the time, Greek was only taught to a lesser extent, primarily with the aim of being able to read the New Testament .

In addition to Hebel, three other teachers also taught the approximately 60 students. As vicar of the presidency, he had to teach all subjects and also to administer the Lord's Supper in the town church, later he was also hired as a preacher. Lever was paid 112 guilders as well as real skills in the form of grain, wine and firewood. He was also entitled to a quarter of the chapter garden's income. That he was a thoroughly humorous teacher is shown by his marginalia on student assessments, e. B. loquax, mendax, edax (chatty, lying, gnawing) or ridendo vitam consumit (he spends his life laughing). In 1798 the painter and engraver Christian Meichelt was hired as a drawing teacher.

Education reforms of the 19th century: humanistic grammar school

In the 19th century , the educational ideals formulated by Wilhelm von Humboldt and the new enthusiasm for ancient Greece also had an impact in the Grand Duchy of Baden . The Baden lesson table therefore stipulated only 7-10 hours of Latin in 1837, but from the 4th grade onwards, 4-5 hours of Greek. A curriculum reform in 1869 increased the number of hours per week in the lower-secondary to upper-prima classes for Greek to six. These timetables may also have applied to the Lörrach pedagogy. In 1871 the school was nationalized, and for the first time the head of the school was not a clergyman but a classical philologist . In 1881 the pedagogy was expanded into a seven-class Progymnasium and in 1883 into a nine-class grammar school. The pedagogy had thus become the full establishment of a humanistic grammar school .

The Hebel-Gymnasium in the 20th century

Lower schoolyard, extension from 1981
Extension of the Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium above the break hall of the Hebel-Gymnasium

In 1882, 162 students attended grammar school; the number of students was still in this range in the 1930s. After that the number of students grew strongly. As early as 1900, in view of the expected increase in pupils, there were first plans to build a new grammar school, which was given its current name in 1926 on the 100th anniversary of Johann Peter Hebel's death. During the Second World War, the classes at the grammar school even had to be distributed across different buildings in the city. After the war, the city, as the school authority, decided to expand and convert the building at Baumgartnerstraße 28, which had been used by the commercial school up until then, for the Hebel Gymnasium, which had now grown to 350 pupils, and in 1960 the new rooms were inaugurated. Just 15 years later, the building was no longer able to cope with the increasing number of schoolchildren and the expanded requirements for specialist rooms, so that in 1978 the city decided to expand again. In 1981 the extension could be occupied by the now 630 students. For the first time there were extensive specialist rooms for all natural sciences, preparation rooms for experiments and space for the associated collections. Computer science was taught for the first time in the 1980/81 school year.

present

Since 1998, an eight-year high school train (shortened course - G8 ) has been offered at the Hebel high school as part of a model project . The eight-year grammar school has been introduced across the board in Baden-Württemberg since the 2004/2005 school year . About 590 students are currently attending the Hebel Gymnasium. The Hebel-Gymnasium works closely with the neighboring Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium (especially at the upper level). The school also advertises with its manageability and familiar atmosphere. Since English is also offered in addition to Latin from the fifth grade onwards, it has also become easier to switch between different types of school, so that an important inhibition threshold for parents who choose a secondary school for their child has been reduced.

In a model developed in 2004, the school sees itself in the center between the three-country reference points, China, Switzerland, France, England, Greece and Italy. In its mission statement, the school sets out five guidelines to counter these points of reference:

  • Open perspectives from near to far
  • Social competence: respect and help others
  • Provide sound science education
  • Discover aesthetic-artistic approaches to the world
  • Understand the connections between cultural and intellectual history

Languages ​​and Profiles

Originally only Latin and Greek were taught , and at times also Hebrew . French was later added as a second foreign language in the language sequence, which was replaced by English in the 1960s. It was not until 1972 that French was offered again as an alternative to the third foreign language, Greek. Today the Hebel-Gymnasium follows the language sequence of the Latin plus model , which was developed by the Wieland-Gymnasium Biberach . In grades 5–7, Latin and English are taught right from the start. For grades 8-10, students can choose between a linguistic and a scientific profile. Those who follow the linguistic profile learn either French or Greek as a third foreign language and optionally Chinese as a fourth foreign language from grade 9 onwards. The natural sciences profile instead offers the subject natural sciences and technology (NwT) as an additional core subject - in addition, a French working group is offered for these students.

With the school year 2006/2007, the Hebel-Gymnasium is also introducing the so-called “European Gymnasium train”, in which the students learn Latin, English, Greek and French and an old and a modern foreign language are continued up to the Abitur.

Working groups and all-day school

A variety of working groups are offered at the Hebelgymnasium, including, for example, Chinese, law or self-defense. The school has an orchestra, a choir, a jazz group and a rock band. A close cooperation with the music school, the adult education center and the Dieter Kaltenbach Foundation is being set up , from which a future all-day offer is to grow.

Student exchange

A school exchange has been taking place with Lörrach's twin town Senigallia (Italy) since the 1990s. In addition, connections were established with the Mountbatten School in Romsey ( Hampshire , Great Britain) and the Lycée du Grésivaudan in Meylan (France), with whom a regular exchange took place.

School newspapers

  • Hypobrychion : School newspaper of the Hebel-Gymnasium: 1962–1964
  • Das Schiff : School newspaper of the Hebel-Gymnasium: before 1967–1968
  • BRAVda! : Student newspaper of the Hebelgymnasium: 1979–2000
  • Bravda_hn3 : the @ school newspaper of the Hebel-Gymnasium Lörrach: 2000–2008
  • Easily digestible : The school newspaper: 2008
  • leverage : since 2009

Headmaster since 1883

  • Karl Lang, 1883–1898
  • Julius Keller, 1898–1906
  • Wilhelm Stern, 1906–1919
  • Richard Hennesthal, 1919–1928
  • Hermann Krakert, 1928–1932
  • Wilhelm Armbruster, 1932–1945
  • Josef Klek, 1946–1954
  • Hans Fischer, 1954–1958
  • Eugen Glassen, 1958–1965
  • Josef Vogt, 1965–1974
  • Werner Haubensak (came 1974–1976)
  • Hans Freimann, 1976-2002
  • Peter Kunze, 2002–2013
  • Albrecht Schmidt, 2013–2018
  • Stefanie Müller, since 2018

Graduates

literature

  • Annual report on the school year ... Lörrach 1884–1916 ( digitized version ).
  • City of Lörrach and Hebel-Gymnasium Lörrach (ed.): Hebel-Gymnasium Lörrach . Loerrach, 1981.
  • Festschrift. 1556-2006: 450 years of Latin school in Lörrach. Lörrach: Hebel-Gymnasium 2007.
  • Karl Herbster : The Röttler country school and the Lörracher pedagogy. In: Das Markgräflerland , volume 3/4 1938, pp. 97–142 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
  • August Baumhauer: The margravial pedagogy in Lörrach at the beginning of the 18th century. In: Das Markgräflerland , issue 1/1954, pp. 25–35 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
  • August Baumhauer: The school laws of the Lörracher pedagogy from the year 1719. In: Das Markgräflerland , issue 1/1963, p. 6-16 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badische Zeitung: Outstanding Abitur at the Hebel-Gymnasium - Lörrach - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .