Heidelberg College
| Heidelberg College | |
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| Rowing regatta for the 2017 school anniversary | |
| type of school | Private high school with boarding school |
| founding | 1887 |
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Neuenheimer Landstrasse 16 |
| place | Heidelberg |
| carrier | Holzberg family |
| student | about 500 |
| Teachers | 50 |
| management | Edgar-Julian Holzberg |
| Website | https://www.heidelbergcollege.de/ |
The Heidelberg College is a nationally recognized private school with attached boarding school for boys and girls in Heidelberg , member of the Federal Association of German Private Schools is. In 1887 the Heidelberg College was founded as an English school, in 1906 the students and tradition of the older Neuenheim College were taken over, so that the Heidelberg College looks back on over 175 years of school history and is therefore the oldest non-church boarding school in Baden-Württemberg. The private high school is a co-educational boarding and day school that offers four profiles (foreign languages, natural sciences, art and sport) and all-day care.
Neuenheim College
History of Neuenheim College
Most sources cite the year 1843 as the founding year of Neuenheim College, but probably already before 1814 there was a small boarding school for private students in the house of the grammar school teacher and director Karl Philipp Kayser , so that the beginnings about 30 years before the " official "date of establishment. From this small boarding school of Mr. Kayser, who was also a professor of classical philology and secretary of the Heidelberg University Library , a small school arose that was run as a family business and received international recognition, so that mainly French, but also an increasing number of English students Attended institute. After the death of Karl Philipp Kayser, the widow Gertrud Kayser took over the practical management and representation of the school. When she died in 1843, there were organizational changes that probably led to 1843 becoming the official founding year. Thomas Gaspey had been working at the school since 1844 and was the author of numerous textbooks. In 1856 he founded an "English Boys' Institute" in Schiffgasse, with which the "Kaysersche Institute" merged.
In 1858 the institute moved to Schiffgasse 4, in 1861 the schoolhouse was relocated to Bergheimer Straße 45, where the school remained until 1886. After Thomas Gaspey became a private lecturer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1857 , his deputy Dr. Lambeck took over the organization of the school, which by 1864 saw an increase in the number of pupils to almost 70. While Gaspey was still alive, who died unexpectedly in London in 1871, Heinrich Klose , English language teacher and honored citizen for the development of the Neuenheim district, took over the management of the school in 1870 . When the number of pupils fell to under 30 due to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871, it increased again to over 70 by 1876. In that year the move to Neuenheim on Mönchhofstrasse (between Quinckestrasse and Keplerstrasse) took place. During this time, sport became increasingly important for the school's profile.
At the end of 1882, Klose retired and the school was taken over by the native Australian Reverend Frederick Armitage, a wealthy man who had previously worked as a language teacher and deacon in Wales and India. Under his leadership, the name "Neuenheim College" became common. In addition to teaching, school life was characterized by sporting activities and competitions as well as community events such as the “christmas dinner” or the “annual fancy dress ball”.
Profile of Neuenheim College
In the school's own advertising, Neuenheim College was described as "the largest English boarding school on the continent". In the mid-1880s, over 90 boys attended Neuenheim College. The students were prepared for the entrance exams of the English universities as well as for vocational and military schools. In Neuenheim College - unique on the continent - preliminary exams from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge were held.
Oriented towards the English public schools , the subjects of German, French, English, Latin, mathematics and, if requested, Greek were taught in general education. In the business course, the students received “expert instruction in German and French business correspondence” and were taught bookkeeping, shorthand and arithmetic. In exam preparation courses, the students gained the qualification for their training in the army, navy, various business schools and the authorization to study in the subjects of theology, law and medicine. The school year was divided into trimesters ; During the holidays the students could be accommodated in German or French families. The Sunday service was attended in the English church. A well-stocked library with a large selection of French and German volumes and magazines was available.
Around 1900 Neuenheim College had a junior house, which was located at Mönchhofstrasse 30 and which housed the younger students. The over 16-year-old students lived in the senior citizens' house (then Mönchhofstrasse 27). Classes took place in the school house. There was also a dining room, a laboratory for chemistry and physics classes, a gym, three large handball fields and a 120 × 120 m football and cricket pitch.
Sports at Neuenheim College and Heidelberg College
Neuenheim College, and later Heidelberg College, played a major role in the introduction and promotion of English sports such as rugby, rowing, hockey, tennis, football and athletics in Heidelberg and beyond. In these sports you measured yourself in competitions both inside and outside of school. The rowing regattas in particular represented a sporting, but also a social event. The following events are mentioned as examples of the importance of sport in Heidelberg and beyond:
Neuenheim College was a leader in athletics, so the student WA Landvoigt was German champion in the 100-meter run in 1899 . The rugby team at Neuenheim College was the first rugby team in Germany to cause a sensation around 1850 with a game that was referred to by the city's youngsters as "Durchtragerles". The teacher Edward Hill Ulrich founded the Heidelberg Rowing Club (HRK) with students from Neuenheim College on March 9, 1872 .
After hockey was introduced at Neuenheim and Heidelberg College, it was officially taken over by other schools in 1906, and the former students of the Oberrealschule in Kettengasse then founded the HC Heidelberg hockey club on April 15, 1905 .
In the course of the soccer World Cup 2010, a special exhibition on the history of soccer in Baden-Württemberg was organized in Stuttgart. The catalog shows that the oldest known association football game to date was played on November 17, 1888 in southwest Germany between the English Football Club Freiburg and the Heidelberg College Football Club and ended 2-2.
Eminent former students
- Frank Nelson (1883–1966), politician
- John Hassall (1868-1948), illustrator
- Frank Peyton Skipwith (1861–1951), architect
- Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967), second son of Oscar Wilde, author and translator
Heidelberg College
The end of Neuenheim College and the rise of Heidelberg College
The reason why three teachers from Neuenheim College, Albert Holzberg , AB Catty and Walter Lawrence , founded their own school in Neuneheimer Landstrasse in 1887 can no longer be conclusively clarified. Lessons began with three teachers and four students, but the number of students increased to 22 in the first year. The majority of the students came from England and great emphasis was placed on training in German and French. The school prepared for the entrance exams to English universities and military academies. Due to the increasing number of pupils, school building No. 16 in Neuenheimer Landstrasse was expanded to include a dining room in 1988, and house No. 24 was acquired in 1890. The older boarding school students lived in this “senior house” and the natural sciences physics and chemistry were accommodated on the ground floor. In 1898 an extension was built on the west side of property no. 16 to provide classrooms, a gym and a boat cellar. In 1900 the "Villa Bergfried" at Neuenheimer Landstrasse 22 was acquired. The Holzberg family lived there with selected students, such as the then Infante of Spain, Louis-Ferdinand d'Orléans and Alphonse d'Orléans, and the Thai king's son Rangsit Prayurasakdi .
In 1906, Heidelberg College took over the other students at Neuenheim College and its tradition for 1,000 gold marks. Until the First World War it was an English school with an international reputation. In 1906, Heidelberg College was inspected by an inspector from the University of London. The latter presented such a benevolent report to the Army Council that Heidelberg College was the only school outside of Great Britain that was allowed to issue school-leaving certificates for the British Army . On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Albert Holzberg received the "First Class Knight's Cross of the Zähringer Lion Order" from the Grand Duke of Baden.
First World War, National Socialism and Second World War
With the outbreak of war in 1914, the work of the past 27 years was almost completely destroyed. The English teachers and students had to leave the country. Those who did not make it in time were interned in Ruhleben near Berlin. The shares of AB Cattys were confiscated, Albert Holzberg had to buy them publicly at auction, which could only be financed by the sale of the Villa Bergfried. During the war, the school served as a military hospital , and a makeshift operating room was located in the washroom of the gym. After the war, classes began in 1917 with seven students, but no longer as an English school, but as a secondary school with boarding students from Germany. From 1919 onwards, Heidelberg College became a full institution due to the addition of the upper secondary school level , but until 1940 the Abitur exams were taken externally at state schools.
In 1933 the school in “Dr. Albert Holzberg's higher education and training institute ”was renamed, in 1940 the school principal Dr. Fahlbusch and Heidelberg College received state recognition. The Abitur certificates now bore the title "Albert Holzberg Schule Private Oberschule für Junge Heidelberg". In 1944 the state home school Mosbach moved into the building. In May 1945 this school also came to a standstill.
Post-war period and beginning again in 1957
In 1945, all buildings were occupied by American troops except for house number 24 on Neuenheimer Landstrasse. The scientific Springer Verlag rented this house in 1946 . Edgar Holzberg , who returned from captivity in 1947, worked there until 1957 as a general agent in the field of advertising. Through this activity and the rental income, the economic survival of the family could be ensured. When the confiscation of the buildings ended after Germany's admission to NATO in 1955, Springer-Verlag also left house 24 due to a lack of space. With the help of remuneration from the expropriation of the so-called "baker's field" (2.5 hectare sports field opposite today's Bunsengymnasium), which belonged to Heidelberg College, the school was reopened on May 2, 1957 with 210 students and 20 teachers, at that time still as a pure boys' school. Since the state recognition was lost after the war, the Abitur exams were again taken externally at state schools and the school operations had to be financed without state subsidies. Nevertheless, the number of students rose to 250 by 1959, and around a third of the students attended boarding school. Since Edgar Holzberg had not passed the second state examination due to the turmoil of the war, he was never the headmaster himself, but the defining person of the school, whose commitment was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit in 1977 .
In 1967 the Heidelberg College received state recognition, so the Abitur could be taken internally for the first time after the Second World War. From 1978 girls were also accepted at Heidelberg College. A frequent change of headmaster and the seconding of teachers with a few hours to the Heidelberg College turned out to be structurally difficult. In addition, the newly founded Boxberg-Gymnasium as serious competition worsened the situation, so that in 1980 only 175 students attended Heidelberg College and the continued existence of the school was in danger.
1980 as a turning point
In 1980 Edgar-Julian Holzberg took over the school management. During the summer holidays he was able to attract a few students, so that the 1980/1981 school year started with 221 students. Through the constant build-up of a permanent base of teachers who only teach at Heidelberg College, the establishment of a mathematical and scientific train, visible public relations, the establishment of the circle of friends and other measures, it was possible to secure the existence of the school. With the 100th anniversary of the school, whose celebrations took place in the auditorium of the Old University , the Heidelberg College moved further into public awareness. Third world projects and environmental campaigns (founding of the school's own “Little Panda” award), which were recognized by high-ranking people from politics and society, also had a positive external effect. The then Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer attended college. In the 1980s, the number of students continued to decline, but from 1988 onwards they rose steadily. Due to the growing number of tasks, there has been a deputy headmaster since 1992, until the 2014/2015 school year this office was carried out solely by Felix Bischof, who after a one-year joint transition phase handed over the tasks for the 2015/2016 school year to Matthias Groitzsch.
Structural extensions, technical equipment and the "digital school" logo
As early as the 1990s, various alterations and renovations took place due to the growing number of students. In the 1999/2000 school year, house 16 in Neuenheimer Landstrasse was extended to create more classrooms. Due to the increasing number of pupils, house 16a got a completely new top floor in 2002, whereby three rooms were enlarged. In order to further improve the spatial situation, a "tower" was built in the school yard in the 2010/2011 school year, in which five classrooms are housed. Thanks to the terracing of the playground, which resulted in the creation of several levels, the area of the playground could be expanded by 130 m² despite the new building. A large area of the garden is also accessible, where there is an outdoor classroom that can be used in good weather.
The numerous additions and conversions that Heidelberg College has undergone in its history served to continuously adapt to spatial, technical and experimental requirements over time. The first Smartboard was installed for the 2011/2012 school year, and in the following years by 2017/2018 half of all rooms were equipped with a Smartboard / electronic board or PC / laptop with a projector to enable the use of modern media and teaching materials. The educational day of the 2017/2018 school year also dealt with the use and handling of new media in the classroom.
In the school year 2018/19, additional rooms were digitally equipped, the AG offer was expanded to include programming, robotics, environmental seorics and other things through the "digital workshop" and the number of iPads available in class was increased to 40. At the beginning of the 2019/2020 school year, the PC room was converted so that a maker place, an open space for setting up and experimenting, and a maker corner with tools, workbench and 3D printer are available. Since October 2019, Heidelberg College has had the "Digital School" logo, which is awarded by the national initiative "MINT - Creating the Future". Heidelberg College has been recognized as a MINT-friendly school since 2013.
Structure and profile of Heidelberg College
Boarding school and day school with all-day courses
The family-run boarding school offers around 40 students support from the owner family Holzberg and other employees. In addition to lessons, homework supervision and meals together, sporting and artistic-creative work groups are offered. The boarding school itself has a kitchen, a billiard room, table football and a fitness room for joint activities.
Heidelberg College is attended by over 500 students (as of 2018). Breakfast, lunch and dinner are prepared by the kitchen staff. Due to the possibility for external students to have lunch at school and then attend homework support, supervision is available until 3:30 p.m.
Profiles and additional offers
Sport played a major role throughout the history of Heidelberg College. In addition to art, science and technology as well as Spanish, sport is also offered as a profile. The school takes part in competitions and school championships, including successful rugby . In 2017, the Abitur in rugby could be passed for the first time nationwide at Heidelberg College.
As additional offers in mathematics, there are remedial classes from grade 7 and preparatory courses for high school graduates. In addition, Heidelberg College offers free access to the mathematics online exercise program bettermarks for grades 7–10 and free access to SchuLV learning directories for grades 1 and 2, which contain interactive learning material for seven high school subjects with solutions and additional materials. Furthermore, Heidelberg College has a wide range of work groups of a sporting, creative and cultural nature.
Since the 2012/2013 school year, Heidelberg College has started a school development process with an external specialist, which leads to some innovations and improvements in teaching and the cooperation of all people involved in school life and is being continued. Class and study trips are offered across the grade levels.
Social togetherness
Since 2015, the regionally recognized concept of "class management - work well" from conflict - CULTURE has been implemented by appropriately trained teachers primarily in grades 5 and 6, in which the values of respect, compassion, honesty, courage, reliability and personal responsibility are internalized. so that successful and social learning and life in the “microcosm of school” is achieved. Thanks to a counseling teacher who is also trained in “social training and bullying intervention” from conflict-culture, and an external counselor, qualified people are available for problems and difficulties relating to learning, bullying , mental illness, etc.
The Freundeskreis has existed since 1985, the aim of which is to promote cooperation between all those who are involved in school life, to better equip the school, to hold joint school events and to maintain relationships with alumni.
Heidelberg College has been supporting a children's home in Freidorf near Timisoara (Romania) since 2003 , in which twelve children between the ages of eleven and twenty live and are looked after and supported by three Benedictine women so that they can shape their future life as independently as possible. In 2007, the association “Children helping children e. V. ”founded, which carries out a collection campaign at Christmas. With the donated money, for example, sanitary facilities were renovated and an extension was completed in 2012.
Internships and collaborations
In the tenth grade, in addition to the compulsory one-week internship as part of “BOGY”, the pupils are able to do a voluntary social internship in a nursing home. Formative experience, a possible specification of the career aspiration and a certificate are acquired.
Following the idea of artistic director Holger Schulze, the Heidelberg College participates in the cooperation between schools and the theater. Every class or course goes to a performance once a year in order to get to know the theater and to develop joy in it. In grade 9 there is dance training at the Nuzinger dance school , in which manners in dance, but also in everyday situations, are to be acquired in a sporty and relaxed way.
The initiative “Lions save lives. In Baden-Württemberg, resuscitation goes to school ”has been carried out at Heidelberg College since the 2015/2016 school year. From grade 7 onwards, the students are instructed in simplified resuscitation once a year. It is also possible that cardiopulmonary resuscitation - ie compared to chest compressions to learn as part of the school medical service, which is offered in the form of a public company - even the patient's respiration.
Eminent former students
- Rangsit Prayurasakdi , Thai prince
- Louis-Ferdinand d'Orléans and Alphonse d'Orléans , Infants of Spain
- Heribert Rech , former Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
literature
- Fricke, MM: 175 years of Dr. Heinrich Klose - Freemason and builder of the old English quarter in Heidelberg-Neuenheim . Heidelberg 2011.
- Michael Lengsfeld: History of Heidelberg College . In: Yearbook Heidelberg College 2003 . Part 5: The Heidelberg College from 1980 to the present day. Heidelberg 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e The Neuenheimer . J. Hoerning, Heidelberg 1885, p. 1 (English, online [accessed November 19, 2019]).
- ↑ Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . Springer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 , p. 132.
- ↑ Thomas Gaspey: The English Self-Teacher: or the art of learning to read, write and speak the English language in the shortest possible time. 1845, Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
- ^ Fricke: On the history and prehistory of Neuenheim College . 2011.
- ↑ The Neuenheimer . J. Hoerning, Heidelberg 1885, p. 2 (English, online [accessed November 19, 2019]).
- ↑ The Neuenheimer . J. Hoerning, Heidelberg 1885, p. 7 (English, online [accessed November 19, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Fricke: On the history and prehistory of Neuenheim College . 2011, p. 29 .
- ^ Fricke: On the history and prehistory of Neuenheim College . 2011, p. 40 .
- ^ Fricke: On the history and prehistory of Neuenheim College . 2011, p. 40 f .
- ^ Fricke: On the history and prehistory of Neuenheim College . 2011, p. 40 f .
- ^ Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 10 .
- ^ A b c Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 9 .
- ^ History of the German Rugby Association. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 16, 2015 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ dcf. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Frank Nelson. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
- ↑ John Hassall. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
- ^ Frank Peyton Skipwith. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
- ^ Vyvyan Holland. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 15 .
- ^ Fricke: On the history and prehistory of Neuenheim College . 2011, p. 52 f .
- ^ A b Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 7 .
- ^ Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 7th f .
- ^ Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 9 ff .
- ^ Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 8th ff .
- ^ Heidelberg College team. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
- ^ Lengsfeld: History of the Heidelberg College . 2000, p. 13 .
- ^ Edgar-Julian Holzberg: Foreword . In: Yearbook Heidelberg College 2012 . Heidelberg 2013, p. 3 .
- ↑ Outdoor classroom. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Grimm-Sitt, Sarah: The technical equipment of the individual classrooms at Heidelberg College - an overview . Heidelberg 2017.
- ^ Smart College. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Dear "Digital Schools". Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Honored schools. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Heidelberg College boarding school. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ external school. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ^ Achievements in rugby. (PDF) Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ^ Rugby high school diploma at Heidelberg College. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Working groups. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
- ↑ School development. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ trip concept. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Conflict CULTURE. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Advice. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Circle of Friends. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Children help children. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ BOGY. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Social internship. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Cooperation with theater. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ cooperation with dance school Nuzinger. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Lions save lives. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
- ↑ School medical service. (PDF) Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Presentation of Heidelberg College. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
