Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium

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Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium
Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium Cologne Sülz.JPG
type of school high school
School number 166716
founding 1888
address

Leybergstrasse 1

place Cologne-Sülz
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 55 '0 "  N , 6 ° 55' 59"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '0 "  N , 6 ° 55' 59"  E
carrier city ​​Cologne
student about 1000
Teachers about 85
management Stephan Deister
Website www.hvb-gymnasium.de

The Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium is a high school in the Cologne district of Sülz . It is named after the Benedictine nun Hildegard von Bingen .

founding

The school was founded when there was a shortage of schools for girls in Cologne in the 19th century . After the French era , the Prussians introduced compulsory schooling for girls, but only one public school was available. After the license was granted, the school was founded on April 16, 1888 by the merchant's daughter Hedwig Drammer as one of several private secondary daughter schools . The school moved into a building on Hohenstaufenring. In 1909 the school was recognized as a "higher education institution for female youth". In 1918 Philomene Clemens took over the school management. The following year the city of Cologne bought the school building; From then on, the board of trustees “Verein Lyzeum Drammer” acted as sponsor.

In 1928, the move began in the building of the former Silberberg & Mayer straw hat factory on Lotharstrasse in Sülz, which the city had taken over from the Jewish factory owner family and which, following a plot of land, belonged to the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund from 1940 . From 1930 onwards, the girls' school was expanded to become an upper lyceum by building an upper level and was given the name "Private Hildegardis Upper Lyceum". The students took their first Abitur exams in 1933.

During the Nazi era , the school was nationalized and denominated. On April 1, 1939, the Oberlyzeum was formally closed and reopened as the “State High School for Girls, Linguistic Form”. The school management took over Dr. Walter Steinert, who was a member of the NSDAP . When Steinert was recalled to guard prison camps , a colleague took over the position. When the Wehrmacht seized the school building for two years in 1939, lessons were given in a building in the Weyertal in Sülz. On September 27, 1944, classes were suspended like in all other schools in the destroyed Cologne; on October 31, 1944, the school was badly damaged in bombing.

After the end of the war

On October 25, 1945, classes were resumed in the school building on Lotharstrasse; the school was now called Hildegardis Gymnasium again. The house was so badly damaged that it was poorly restored by teachers before the State Building Department stopped this illegal project in October 1946 and undertook a scheduled reconstruction. It wasn't until 1950 that there was enough space for classes to take place in the mornings. The Hildegardis School used the left half of the building, the Apostle High School the right. The restored atrium served both schools as a gym and auditorium. Still, conditions were cramped. So there was little space for the lower classes in the shared schoolyards. The upper levels had to stay in the corridors or even in the classes with the windows open during breaks, so that as early as 1949 considerations were made for new school buildings.

From 1950 the school was expanded into a women's high school; In 1958 an old language branch was introduced. Until then, English and French had been taught as foreign languages. On April 17, 1958, the foundation stone for a new school building was laid in Leybergstrasse and the school was renamed "Hildegard von Bingen School". In November 1961, the move of all students was completed. In 1967 the school received an educational branch. The upper school reform changed the form of teaching from 1969, the various branches were discontinued. In 1974 the school passed from state to municipal sponsorship. In 1976 co-education was introduced.

particularities

  • In 2002, the school set up an international remedial class in which children with a migration background are specifically promoted in the field of language skills in cooperation with students studying German as a second language at the University of Cologne , so that they can then be accepted into regular classes in the middle school.
  • Since 2009 the school has followed the concept of all-day school with a special emphasis on sport; the school is a founding member of the "Association of Sports-oriented Schools".
  • There are school partnerships with a school in Tanzania, among others .
  • The school organizes various events such as a poetry slam , reading competitions and many concert evenings throughout the year.
  • The Cologne a cappella group Wise Guys emerged from students at Hildegard von Bingen grammar school .
  • The school has a musical focus: It has two school choirs, a parents' choir, two orchestras and a big band that also performs outside the school. In addition, there are so-called wind and string classes in cooperation with the Rheinische Musikschule .

Personalities

Known teachers

Known students

Web links

Commons : Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium (Cologne)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Leggewie : 100 Years of the State Apostle High School Cologne , Cologne 1960, p. 35 f.