Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim
| Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Musisches Gymnasium , Linguistic Gymnasium , Humanistic Gymnasium and Economics Gymnasium |
| founding | 1899 |
| address |
Luitpoldstrasse 1 |
| place | Forchheim |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 42 '57 " N , 11 ° 3' 32" E |
| student | 581 (as of March 17, 2020) |
| management | Ingrid Käfferlein |
| Website | www.herder-forchheim.de/ |
The Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim is a musical, linguistic, humanistic and economic high school in Forchheim (Upper Franconia). It is currently attended by 581 students (as of March 17, 2020). The school is named after the German poet , translator , theologian and historical and cultural philosophers of Weimar Classics Johann Gottfried von Herder named.
Profile and training directions
At Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim, the following language sequences can be chosen depending on the branch;
In the 5th year, you can choose between Latin and English as the first foreign language - in the economic branch only English .
The second foreign language from the 6th grade results from this and is then English or Latin - in the economic branch you can choose between Latin and French .
In the 8th grade, students who do not attend the arts or economics branch choose the third foreign language: either ancient Greek ( humanistic branch) or French ( linguistic branch).
All students have the option of taking Italian from the 10th grade (in the nine-year grammar school from the 11th grade) instead of the 1st or 2nd foreign language.
There are regular student exchanges with Biscarrosse (France), Rovereto (Italy), Bergamo (Italy) and Szeged (Hungary) as well as Crimmitschau (Saxony).
history
The Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim was founded in 1899 as a Progymnasium - then housed in the monastery. Today's main building was erected on it in 1903/1904. This neo-Renaissance building is one of the most beautiful buildings in Forchheim today. In 1961, parts of the film City Without Pity were shot in the old auditorium of the grammar school, which is now used as a cafeteria .