Helene Lange School (Frankfurt am Main)

Helene Lange School
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type of school	high school
founding	1874
address	Breuerwiesenstrasse 4
place	Frankfurt am Main
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 6 '26 "  N , 8 ° 33' 17"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '26 "  N , 8 ° 33' 17"  E
carrier	town Frankfurt am Main
student	570 (as of 2016)
Teachers	52 (as of 2016)
management	Marc Peschke
Website	[1]

The Helene-Lange-Schule is a modern language grammar school in the Höchst district of Frankfurt .

History and school structure

The school was founded on May 1, 1874 on the initiative of Karl Königs, a director of Farbwerke Meister, Lucius & Brüning , as a private Higher Daughter School Höchst in the town of Höchst am Main. In 1896 it became the city school. It has been called the Helene Lange School since 1946 .

Initially, lessons took place in the eastern pavilion of the Bolongaro Palace until, after several moves, the school moved into the current building in 1965 on the edge of the Höchst City Park .

Since the end of the Second World War , the school has borne the name of the women's rights activist Helene Lange . It remained an all-girls school until 1975.

As part of the pilot project for upper level reform , the Helene Lange School became a pilot school beyond Frankfurt's borders in 1970. In 1972 it was decided to merge the upper level with that of the Leibniz School and this was implemented by 1975. Since then, the Helene-Lange-Schule has formed a school network together with the Leibnizschule and the newly founded upper level, the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium . This is characterized by close personal and pedagogical cooperation. Teachers from the Helene-Lange School also teach at the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium and vice versa. Almost all students switch to the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium after the 10th grade in order to take their Abitur there.

In addition to English, French is also offered as a first foreign language.

The school has its own observatory with a telescope on the roof of the main building.

Partner school

• Lycée Maurice-Ravel in Paris

Well-known former teachers

• Amalie Froehlich (* 1876, † 1938), member of the first Prussian state parliament ( DVP )
• Hans-Ludwig Neumann (* 1938, † 1991), physicist , President of the Physical Society (1976 to 1990)

Web links

• Website of the Helene Lange School
• Helene-Lange-Schule at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Partial update of the school development plan for planning district 6 ( online ; PDF; 1.2 MB)