Helmholtz High School Heidelberg
| Helmholtz High School Heidelberg | |
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| The Helmholtz High School in Heidelberg (2017) | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1835 |
| address |
Rohrbacher Strasse 102 |
| place | Heidelberg |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '41 " N , 8 ° 41' 23" E |
| carrier | City of Heidelberg |
| student | about 1,060 |
| Teachers | about 90 |
| management | Verena Mechelk |
| Website | www.helmholtz-heidelberg.de |
The Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg (short: HGH ), named after the natural scientist Hermann von Helmholtz , is part of the network system of the Elite School of Sports and the partner school for the Olympics of the Rhine-Neckar Olympic base . The school offers bilingual teaching English-German for geography , history and biology as a partner school in Europe . There is also a rating in the natural sciences : the Helmholtz is a base school for molecular biology .
history
On November 23, 1835, the Helmholtz was founded as a higher citizen school. It was housed in the building of the former Jesuit college in the Kettengasse in Heidelberg's old town. On December 31, 1884, what was then Helmholtz was granted the status of Realschule . In 1896 it was converted to an upper secondary school , which led to the right to study mathematics and natural sciences. After the incorporation of a secondary school department (1922), the school was called "Oberrealschule mit Gymnasium" from 1927 onwards. In 1937 the school was given a name for the first time: the Philipp-Lenard-Schule , after the physicist Philipp Lenard . During the Third Reich , the school was converted into a high school for boys as part of the Reich school reform in 1938 . On September 11, 1945 it was finally renamed the Helmholtz-Gymnasium , as Philipp Lenard, who was deeply involved in National Socialist ideas, was no longer acceptable as a role model. In the school year 1968/1969 the school finally moved to its current schoolhouse.
particularities
Astronomical teaching center
The Helmholtz-Gymnasium has an astronomical teaching center. Students from other Heidelberg schools are also taught astronomy here . The Helmholtz also has a mini- planetarium and a world clock . There is a dome on the school roof that houses a telescope . In the Helmholtz there is also a large Foucault pendulum , which until its renewal in 2011 had the largest oscillating weight in the world.
languages
If a student has chosen English bilingually, he / she will receive one more hour of the five lessons from grade 5 and two more hours of the four lessons in English in grade 6 . There is a preparatory preparatory course in preparation for geography lessons in grades 6 and 7. In grade 8, history is also taught, and in grades 9 and 10, biology is taught in English. In the upper level , a five-hour biology course in English can be chosen. At the end there is a bilingual certificate or the international Abitur Baden-Württemberg. The school also has AP (Advanced Placement) exams. The exchange program takes the students to England and France.
Sports
From grade 8, the Helmholtz-Gymnasium offers the NwT profile, the language school profile ( Spanish ) and the sports profile . If the sports profile is chosen in class 8, this means five hours of physical education per week, some of which are given as project lessons, and one hour of sports theory (training theory, kinetics, physiology, etc.). Sport is then a core subject for three years . In addition to the "normal" lessons in the team sports basketball , football , handball and volleyball as well as the individual sports of apparatus gymnastics , athletics and swimming , a ski country home stay in Mayrhofen is offered as a shifted lesson in grade 8 (alpine skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing) Possibility to complete a student mentor training. In course levels 1 and 2, sport can be chosen as a four-hour subject.
Country home
The Helmholtz-Gymnasium has its own school country home in Unterhöllgrund in the Odenwald . Grades 5 and 6 visit it regularly once a year.
student
- Boris Becker , tennis player
- Theodor Hänsch , Nobel Prize Winner
- Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect, Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition
- Louis Ferdinand Helbig (1935–2019), Germanist
- Walther Darré (1895–1953), German politician (NSDAP), MdR
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ school management. In: www.helmholtz-heidelberg.de. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ^ Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg, elite school
- ↑ Theodor Hänsch's autobiography