Hohenstaufen High School Bad Wimpfen
| Hohenstaufen High School Bad Wimpfen | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1872 |
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Schulstrasse 23 |
| place | Bad Wimpfen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 13 '41 " N , 9 ° 9' 40" E |
| carrier | City of Bad Wimpfen |
| management | Josef Knoblauch |
| Website | www.hohenstaufen-gymnasium.de |
The Hohenstaufen Gymnasium Bad Wimpfen is a high school in Bad Wimpfen in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . It goes back to the medieval urban Latin school and is located in the buildings of the former Wimpfen Dominican monastery, which enclose a common cloister with the attached Dominican church . The monastery buildings came into the possession of the city in 1838 and have been used as school buildings ever since. The Real and Latin School was re-founded in 1872, it has had its current name since 1960 and has been using the entire monastery buildings and surrounding new buildings since 1965/67.
history
The Hohenstaufen grammar school goes back to the municipal Wimpfen Latin school of the Middle Ages. In addition to the city's Latin school, there were also church Latin schools in Wimpfen in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period and thus an important educational system that produced numerous students from Wimpfen who were listed in the historical university registers. After the Thirty Years' War Wimpfen lost its former importance and degenerated into an agricultural settlement. The school system also experienced its decline, so that in the middle of the 19th century only 7 to 15 students attended the Latin school. In 1838 the city bought the former monastery buildings of the Dominican monastery cheaply and housed all of its schools in the buildings.
After the founding of the empire in 1871, calls for the establishment of a secondary school were loud in Wimpfen . On April 22, 1872, a new municipal secondary and Latin school was founded, which initially had 31 students. The Hessian state initially opposed the financing of the school project in the then Hessian exclave Wimpfen, so that the school had to be financed by the citizens, which led to prolonged adversity. In particular, it was problematic that students from the surrounding Baden and Württemberg communities attended school, while many students from Wimpfen preferred to go to the Heilbronn grammar school , so that the citizens of Wimpfen mainly paid for the education of foreign students. The first director was Ferdinand Wiedow, who moved to Chemnitz after only a year . His successor Adolf Birnbaum was forcibly taken to the mental hospital in Heppenheim in 1875 because of his great irritability . His successor, Karl Landgraf, threw himself out of a window on the third floor of the school. It was not until 1885 that Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse elevated the school to the Grand Ducal Realschule , and a little later privileges for graduates in military service and financial administration were added. As a result, the school experienced a significant boom and in 1897 was able to celebrate a big festival for its 25th anniversary.
In the late 19th century, school sports still focused on swimming in the Neckar , and in 1901 the historicist gymnasium was built near the monastery buildings. In the night of April 6th to 7th, 1907, most of the monastery buildings burned down and were rebuilt by 1910. The school survived the Second World War without being destroyed, but the monastery buildings were confiscated by the Wehrmacht in late 1944. In 1946, school operations were resumed in the monastery building. In 1960 the former Progymnasium received its current name Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium . After the construction of the primary and secondary school in 1965/67, the grammar school was finally able to use all the monastery buildings. Several extensions have been built since 1978.
profile
The Hohenstaufen Gymnasium Bad Wimpfen is a general high school with a scientific and linguistic profile. For grades 5 to 10 there is an all-day care offer with a canteen three days a week.
Monastery building
The four-winged building complex of the former Dominican monastery encloses a common cloister from the 14th century with the Dominican church . The monastery buildings are two-storey plastered buildings with mansard roofs (west and south wings) or hipped roof (east wing). The cloister has tracery windows and in the northern part remains of tombstones and wall paintings. The buildings got their present appearance through the construction activities of the Dominicans during the Baroque period in the 18th century. The refectory was once located in the east wing, in the basement of which the monastery brewery was also set up. The prior's apartment was in the southeast corner. After the monastery was closed in the early 19th century, the buildings came to the city of Wimpfen, which housed their schools there. After the fire in 1907, the wing buildings were largely renewed and since 1978 several modern extensions for the grammar school have been added. The complex is significant for the local monastery, town and church history and is a listed building .
literature
- Fritz Arens and Reinhold Bührlen: Wimpfen - history and art monuments . Association Alt-Wimpfen, Bad Wimpfen 1991
- Regional Council Stuttgart, Department of Monument Preservation (Ed.): Monument Preservation Value Plan - Entire Site Bad Wimpfen am Berg , Stuttgart 2008
