Herbartgymnasium Oldenburg

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Herbartgymnasium
Herbartgymnasium, formerly the Hindenburg School
type of school high school
founding 1844
address

Herbartstrasse 4 (2nd building: Hauptstrasse)

place Oldenburg
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 8 '25 "  N , 8 ° 12' 24"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '25 "  N , 8 ° 12' 24"  E
student about 850
management Annika Neesen
Website www.herbartgymnasium.de

The Herbartgymnasium Oldenburg ( HGO ) is a general education high school in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony .

history

The school was founded in 1844 and has had different names over the years: Städtische Höhere Bürgererschule, Staatliche Oberrealschule, Staatliche Oberschule, Hindenburg School ( 1938 - 1988 ) and, since August 1, 1988, Herbartgymnasium after the pedagogue and philosopher Johann Friedrich Herbart who advocated realistic education as an alternative to humanistic.

Since the building's capacity was no longer sufficient after the orientation level was abolished, a branch office was created in the Kreyenbrück district in which two of the four classes in grades five, six and seven are accommodated. Due to the demand from integrated comprehensive schools in Oldenburg and the associated establishment of the IGS Kreyenbrück, the Herbartgymnasium lost this location and got a new branch in the former Comenius School on Hauptstrasse in the Eversten district for the 2013/2014 school year .

The new cafeteria was completed at the beginning of the 2007/08 school year. The construction took exactly a year. Two new art rooms are also available. The cafeteria of the Herbartgymnasium offers a wide selection of lunches, the price of which is adjusted to the financial possibilities of the students. People who do not attend school can also use the cafeteria.

particularities

  • Japanese has been offered since 1987 (the HGO is one of two schools in Lower Saxony with this offer).
  • Since 1988 there has been a measurement laboratory for ionizing radiation with a diffusion mist chamber in the Herbartgymnasium , in which pupils can experiment independently. Such a facility is so far unique in a school.
  • Since the 1993/94 school year, economics has been taught at the school - on the initiative of Harald Seidler, a pioneer in the subject of economics at grammar schools - initially in a group in the 9th and 10th grades, then since 2003 as an elective and examination subject and in the seminar subject informed.
  • Since the school year 1994/95 there has been a bilingual class train, which is taught annually changing subjects in English. This currently includes music (grade 7), geography (grades 7 and 8), biology (from grade 8) and history (from grade 9).
  • Since 1999 it has been possible to obtain the internationally recognized DELF diploma at the HGO .
  • A weather station on the school roof has been in the test phase since the beginning of 2006, and a webcam has been added since the beginning of 2007.
  • Since the 2009/2010 school year there has been a wind class at the HGO .
  • There has been a robot arena since spring 2010.
  • Since the 2010/2011 school year there has been an InTech class (computer science with technical aspects). She was very successful at the InTech-Cup, a local student robot competition that took place in 2011 at Herbartgymnasium.
  • In the spring of 2012, three teams from the school's robotics group managed to qualify for the final of the German Open of the RoboCup. In 2014 there was a participation in the RoboCup World Championship in Brazil.
  • An internal school MUN conference has been organized by students since the 2015/2016 school year . This is intended to prepare students from the 7th grade especially for the OLMUN .

School partnerships

Since 1979 there has been a partnership with the Lycée Malherbe in Caen , France . In 1987 a partnership with the Collège Clemenceau in Cholet was added. Both partnerships were initiated and shaped in particular by the French teachers Heide Baumgartner and Jacques Morin at the time.

Every two years the Japanese students in grades 12 and 13 travel to Japan to the partner school Hibarigaoka-Oberschule in Takarazuka .

Since 2003 there has been a partnership with the 1st Foreign Language High School in Varna, Bulgaria. The exchange takes place every one to two years.

In June 2015 a South African choir from the Wartburg Kirchdorf School near Durban visited the big band of the Herbartgymnasium. A partnership has existed since then.

Since 2016 it has been partnered with Midlothian High School in Virginia, Richmond.

Former

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Lorenz: The struggle of the citizens of a medium non-Prussian state capital for a realistic educational institute and its development in the contradictions and crises of the time. Dissertation. BIS-Verlag Oldenburg 2000. Published in the series “Regionale Schulgeschichte”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working groups & Co. - Herbartgymnasium. Retrieved November 11, 2019 (German).