Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium

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The State Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium Simmern (abbreviated HJG ) is the oldest high school on the Hunsrück . It stands in the almost uninterrupted tradition of the Simmern Latin School in the Palatinate residence from the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century (consolidation). Today's school traces its name back to the son of the alleged founder, Johann II . The modern grammar school was built in 1912, the first Abitur of the institution , which had full rights from 1923, took place in 1926 with five candidates, including one high school graduate. The current buildings were occupied between 1976 and 1984. With around 1550 students, the school is one of the largest of its kind.

State Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium
Main entrance
type of school Mathematical and natural science
high school
founding 1465, new 1912
place Simmern / Hunsrück
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 59 '17 "  N , 7 ° 30' 58"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '17 "  N , 7 ° 30' 58"  E
carrier Rhein-Hunsrück district
student 1293
Teachers 111 As of October 18, 2012
management Elke Gresch
Website www.hjg-sim.de

Predecessor institutions

Latin school

In a document from Count Palatine Friedrich I von Simmern (1459–1480), the Simmern schoolmaster Bechtold Peter von Altendorff received a significant scholarship on March 24, 1465 with the condition that he should keep school to the best of his ability . From this it can be deduced that under the rule of this Count Palatine in our city of Simmern , the origin of the Latin school can be assumed. Duke Johann II, one of the most educated and important princes of the time, probably expanded the Latin school in his royal seat further. It is mentioned in documents as existing in 1514. Little is known of the early days of school. From 1569 28 rectors can be seen in the church files (now the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ). After the introduction of the Reformation in 1557, the head and at first the only teacher of the so-called Rector's School was always a younger Protestant theologian before assuming a pastor's office until 1881 , later the position was linked to the second Simmern pastor. At the time of the reintroduction of the Catholic Confession (1686) the rector was also Catholic. During the period when the two denominations were given equal rights , there were often two rectors. The purpose of the institute was primarily to prepare for university attendance, especially for future theologians. Subjects were therefore as usual: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, philosophy, geography, history, etc. The number of students is not known. They must have fit in a single room. The so-called Werner House on Fruchtmarkt is known as one of the first school locations. Towards the end of the Palatinate era, the school was briefly housed in the castle . However, the catchment area was large, even Kauber schoolchildren are reported. The French , who occupied the Rhineland , closed the school in 1805, as in other cities.

Higher civic school

Prussia allowed the school to reopen as a high school in 1822. The second rector from 1823–1824 was Friedrich Back , who later made a name for himself in the local church history. He was replaced by the theologian Heinrich Knebel (until 1827). In 1826, an assistant teacher had to be hired. In 1838 the school was housed in the Klostergasse building (opposite the church, Böhncke in 1960). In 1838 a second class was set up with another teacher, and the principal taught the upper levels in his apartment. From this time on, numbers are tangible: in 1840 two clergymen and a teacher taught 28 students again in the castle. From 1864 to 1916 the school was housed in the mayor's office: In 1864, a clergyman and three teachers taught 33 locals and seven non-residents, including 22 Protestants, 15 Catholics, 3 of whom were Jewish. Girls weren't allowed yet. They attended a secondary school for girls . Up until the First World War and after the construction of the Hunsrück Railway , the school grew to include 2 clergymen and five teachers, who had over 80 students in the lower (with four parallel real classes since 1903 ) and around 30 in the upper grammar classes ( Obertertia (O III) and Untersekunda (U II)) taught. For the school year 1911/12 there were 65 locals, 29 foreigners, of which 63 were Protestant, 25 Catholic and 6 were Jewish. For financial reasons, the Höhere Töchterschule was merged with the boys' school from 1899 to 1912 (application for recognition as a Realprogymnasium) and then finally in 1923. Abitur was not yet offered by this school. To do this, people usually went to Bad Kreuznach to what was to become a grammar school on the city wall . Most of the pupils did not want to study at all, but rather aimed at trades and trades.

Realprogymnasium

Since 1910 there was a struggle to expand the school into a full-fledged grammar school. Among others, the Hunsrück MP Albert Hackenberg and later the District Administrator Brandt campaigned for the school. For the first time there was state subsidy. From Easter 1912 the school was allowed to call itself Realprogymnasium iE [= in development] (with co-education ). For this purpose, a new building was planned and built on a 5000 m² site on the Füllkasten (dialect: Fillkaste) in the World War from summer 1914 to summer 1916 with broken stones, a column portal and onion dome . There were six classrooms, two reserve rooms, a physics room with rising rows of seats and darkening, side rooms, waiting room for learner drivers in the basement (the trams and later buses were geared towards the start of work at 7 a.m.), caretaker and director's apartment, etc. Easter 1923 was the first upper second (O II) increased , which then for the first time in 1926 went to the High School. In 1924 the school was subordinated to the school department at the regional council in Koblenz . The city was still responsible for the project (with grants from the district). However, further expansion was stopped during the World War, so that full recognition was denied for the time being. The Abitur had to be recognized first. It was not until September 10, 1929, that the topping-out ceremony for the necessary extension with a gym, drawing room, music room (above) and four classrooms could be celebrated. From March 12, 1930, the school was then fully recognized as a reform secondary school of the district and the city of Simmern-Hunsrück with secondary school department in U II (with community education) .

The elementary schools in Kastellaun , Stromberg , Kirchberg , Morbach and at times also Büchenbeuren acted as feeder schools initiated by the director Karl Götzke . There the elementary school students were also instructed by and with the pastors in Latin and, for example, ancient history and especially for the girls in French (in Kastellaun by the Catholic pastor) from around 11 a.m. and prepared for the entrance examination for the Quarta , which took place in 1919 before the Director as state (until 1918 royal) commissioner had to be discarded.

Hunsrück School as a German secondary school

At Easter 1938 the school was converted into a German secondary school by the then ruling National Socialists , the regular school form alongside the rarer grammar school, and taken over by the district. It was now called the Hunsrück School, a high school for boys , ran for over 12 years and got the inevitable national orientation. In addition, despite the support of some influential parents, Director Goetzke was dismissed and transferred to a teaching position at the Burggymnasium in Essen . Now English was started instead of Latin, at least the school now got a mathematical and scientific branch. She now had 480 students (despite the programmatic name also with girls), two thirds came from outside by bike or by train.

The school name Hunsrückschule was taken over in 1981 by the special needs school , founded in Kirchberg in 1968 and located in Gemünden from 1973 to 81, with a focus on learning in the district, which after the new construction of the grammar school after appropriate renovation also the old buildings in what is now known as Herzog-Reichard- Strasse uses.

State modern language grammar school

After the war, the old form was reverted to as the new language grammar school Simmern (Hunsrück) . The nationalization was decided by the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate on October 12, 1951 with effect from June 1952. The first certificate with the new name Staatliches Neusprachliches Gymnasium Simmern (Hunsrück) was issued on December 19, 1952 after the end of the second third of the year . The high school grew, in 1959/60 a generous extension and renovation was carried out. The school name was changed three more times: in 1959 and mathem.-natural science was added. In 1961 the mind went back to the State Hunsrück School (modern language and mathematic-natural science high school), Simmern . Since 1965 it has been called the State Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium Simmern .

The new school

The school was already overcrowded in 1972/73, although a comprehensive school experiment had started in Kastellaun . In 1976 1010 pupils attended 35 classes (or courses in the Reformed Upper School ), 72 high school graduates attended the final courses . The foundation stone for the new building then took place on November 19, 1976, the first phase of construction was taken over on October 19, 1978 with the so-called Simmern chair movement from the old to the new building. The remaining three construction phases were completed by autumn 84 and ceremoniously handed over on September 7, 1984. At first, the high school was called a parrot cage because of the colorful painting on the outside , before the crumbling facade was secured. The exterior image is now shaped by the dark slate attached to the exterior facade. 1392 students attend the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium today, taught by 105 teachers. In the meantime there is again a lack of space at the school, so that additional rooms had to be created using containers. With the new comprehensive school in Kirchberg, the number of pupils will continue to decrease in the next few years; in the 2009/2010 school year only five 5th classes were set up.

On September 3, 2009 at 11:22 a.m. at the neighboring secondary school plus a wooden structure came loose and crashed into the school yard of the secondary school. Only a few minutes before the bell had ended the break, so that at the time of the accident there was no one left in the school yard. Several organizational mishaps occurred during the evacuation of the secondary school. The cell phone network collapsed due to calls from the students, which made work difficult. Lessons could be continued on the following day as planned.

School profile

In addition to English, French and Latin, the school also offers Spanish, Russian and Italian as a study group. Other equipment of the school includes the media library, which is regarded as exemplary nationwide, a large and a small film hall, a cafeteria and a multi-purpose hall as well as a sports hall. An observatory is also available. The school's newspaper Die Pause has been available at the school since 1958, and since 1993 it has been called Chatterbox .

School partnerships

The school maintains exchange programs (partly under the Comenius Program of the EU ) with:

In addition, there have been student exchanges with the following schools in the past:

Prices

  • Since 1990, the Günter Felke Foundation at the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium has awarded the prize donated by the former student Günter Felke from Sohren to individual students or teams at the school for special academic achievements.
  • The grammar school received the Willy Brandt Prize in 2006 for the special design of its school partnership with the Norwegian partner school. The award was presented by the then Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier .

principal

Directors of the Modern Age (from Easter 1912)
  • 1912-15. October 1933 Karl Goetzke / G. Wytzes -stellv. Ladder-
  • April 1, 1934-17. June 1935 Winkelmann / G. Wytzes
  • 1936–1937 Schneider / G. Wytzes
  • 1940–1945 Karl Ostermann
  • 1945–1949 Robert Lueben - 1949 W. Schatz - Deputy. Ladder-
  • 1950–1958 Martin Hess
  • 1958–1970 Eberhard Meier-Staude
  • 1970–1972 Manfred Dietz
  • 1972–2000 Wolfgang Heinemann
  • 2000–2001 Ernst Enno Hilgert -Head-
  • 2001–2009 Rudolf Windecker
  • since 2009 Elke Gresch

Known students

School center

The grammar school is integrated into a school center consisting of the Dr. Kurt Schöllhammer elementary school with around 200 boys and girls, the vocational schools with the commercial grammar school for around 2000 pupils and the Realschule plus .

Individual evidence

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160107012113/http://hjg-sim.de/statistik/
  2. The information on the school history up to 1961 was taken from the writings of Ernst Siegel, senior teacher at the grammar school and founder and first chairman of the Hunsrück History Association , and Wolfgang Heinemann, former director of the school
  3. NN: Fifty years ago we graduated from high school. Memories of a sixty-nine- year-old, in 50 years of matriculation, p. 23 ff.
  4. also the first author
  5. Verein Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium (ed.): 50 years high school diploma at the Gymnasium Simmern 1926 - 1976 , Simmern 1976
  6. Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Verschieferung, school homepage (accessed September 2012)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20160107012113/http://hjg-sim.de/statistik/ , school homepage (status 2011, accessed September 13, 2012)
  8. http://rhein-zeitung.de/on/09/09/04/rlp/t/rzo611754.html Report of the Rhein-Zeitung from September 4, 2009 / accessed on October 17, 2009
  9. | Official homepage of the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium - Exchange Program France
  10. | Official homepage of the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium - Exchange Program Spain
  11. | Official homepage of the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium - Exchange Program Hungary
  12. Archive link ( memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), homepage of the Kaleidoskop school (accessed September 13, 2012), painting by Ernst Seifert
  13. ^ Schulte at UT-Dallas
  14. https://physiologie.med.uni-rostock.de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiter
  15. ^ Homepage of the chair at the FSU Jena

literature

  • Ernst Siegel: The history of the high school in Simmern , ed. from the Hunsrück School Association, Simmern 1961
  • Festschrift: 450 years of the Gymnasium zu Simmern , Simmern 1964 (this and other FS available on the homepage)
  • Wolfgang Heinemann: Simmerns way to the education center of the Hunsrück, contributions to the history mainly of the secondary schools (1459-2008) , ed. from the city of Simmern as volume 4 of the series: Contributions to the history and culture of the city of Simmern , Simmern 2009

Web links

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