Humboldt School (Kiel)

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Humboldt School
(Humboldt School Kiel)
Front of the school building from 1877 on Knooper Weg
type of school Gymnasium
( open all-day school )
founding 1861
address

Knooper Weg 63

place Kiel
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 54 ° 19 '35 "  N , 10 ° 7' 37"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '35 "  N , 10 ° 7' 37"  E
carrier City of Kiel
student 616
Teachers 56
management Dagmar Vollbehr
Website www.humboldt-schule-kiel.de

The Humboldt School , also known as the Humboldt School in Kiel , is a municipal high school in the form of an open all-day school in the Schleswig-Holstein state capital, Kiel . The school was founded in 1861 and has been located at its current location in the Schreventeich district of Kiel between Klopstockstrasse and Humboldtstrasse on Knooper Weg since 1877 .

The school is named after the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt .

The historic school building from 1877 is now a listed building .

history

Foundation and early years (1861–1877)

The Buchwaldsche Hof in Kiel around 1904

According to a founding resolution of the Kiel City Consistory , which was announced on May 17, 1861, the school was opened on October 21, 1861 as a high school for boys . The school was initially located in the Buchwaldschen Hof on the Kleiner Kiel and had 260 students in the first year. She only had five grade levels, the next year came the sixth and the next but one the seventh. The focus of the lessons at that time were the natural sciences and modern foreign languages. From 1871 to 1874 the citizen school was converted into a secondary school without Latin . In 1875 the first school leaving examination was passed.

The school building at that time was the residence originally built in 1621 for Aegidius von der Lancken , which had been in the possession of the old Holstein family of Buchwald since 1787 and served them as a noble Freihof . It was the largest court in Kiel where, among other things, the Treaty of Kiel between Denmark, Sweden and England was signed in 1814 . In 1944 the Buchwaldsche Hof was destroyed in the war.

The Imperial Period (1877–1918) and Weimar Period (1918–1933)

Auditorium of the Humboldt School in Kiel around 1900
50th anniversary poster

In 1877 the school in Kiel-Schreventeich on Knooper Weg moved into a newly built school building, which is the main building of the school today. The school grounds , which have since been expanded and provided with additional buildings, are located east of the Schreventeich water body , which gave the district its name. From 1880 the school was run as an upper secondary school . In 1888 the school received a gymnasium and in 1892 a school garden was laid out. In 1903 a school rowing club was founded which was named AEGIR . From 1907 to 1908 the school was expanded to include a new wing on Klopstockstrasse, which was inaugurated in 1909. At the same time, the school was in 1909 as a reform secondary school continued. In 1914 the first female teacher started working at the school.

Crossing in front of the school 1908

In 1920 the preschool was abolished. In 1922 a memorial was inaugurated in the school auditorium in honor of those who died in the First World War . In 1926, a train " German high school " was incorporated after the Richert grammar school reform of 1924/25. In 1927 the Association of Friends of the School was founded and the school's 50th anniversary was celebrated. In 1928 a "loudspeaker device with several plates for modern language teaching" was purchased as a modern achievement at the time.

The National Socialist Era (1933–1945)

In 1936 the 75th school anniversary was celebrated. In 1937 the school in the " Reichskriegshafen -Stadt" Kiel was  renamed the Admiral Graf Spee School , in honor of the Vice Admiral and heroized "sea heroes" by the National Socialists as part of the general propaganda and ideology of war mobilization of the Nazi era “ Graf Spee , who died in the naval battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914 during the First World War . Also in 1937 the school was converted into a " new type of high school "; in addition, the student rowing club AEGIR was banned. During the Second World War in 1941, air raids on German cities caused bomb damage to the wing of the old building. As part of the extended children's area dispatch , students from the school were then evacuated to various Baltic seaside resorts, namely in 1941 to the seaside resort of Bansin on the island of Usedom in the then province of Pomerania and in 1944 to the East Holstein seaside resort of Grömitz on the Bay of Lübeck. When extensive bomb damage occurred to the new wing in 1945, the school had to be closed.

principal

  • Rudolf Dietz (1861–1871)
  • Ernst Meissel (1871–1895)
  • Gustav Luppe (1895–1899)
  • Emil Hausknecht (1900–1906)
  • Albert Harnisch (1907–1928)
  • Adam Weygoldt (1928–1936)
  • Wolfgang Lüllemann (1936–1945)
  • Willy Danielsen (1947-1958)
  • Fritz Heber (1959–1970)
  • Helmut Kobligk (1971–1991)
  • Hans-Michael Kiefmann (1991 – January 2012)
  • Dagmar Vollbehr (from February 2012)

  • Rudolf Dietz

  • Ernst Meissel

  • Gustav Luppe

flag

The school's historic flag was handed over on March 24, 1898 after the school leavers were discharged. It is made of silk and refers to the Schleswig-Holstein survey : the two women probably refer to the parts of Schleswig and Holstein and March 24, 1848 was the founding day of the Provisional Government of Schleswig-Holstein . It had been missing since 1933, but was found in 1983 in the old attic.

Architecture and buildings

The first building of the school on Knooper Weg in Kiel- Schreventeich  , which is still in existence today - later or today referred to as the "old wing" - was built in 1876/77 in the historicist neo -Gothic style according to the plans of the then Kiel city architect Friedrich Wilhelm Schweitzer. On the school property, which is located between Knooper Weg , Schrevenpark and the Humboldtstrasse power station , the building was set back from Knooper Weg and tilted towards Klopstockstrasse on the left, so that a small triangular square was created in front of the front of the building with the main entrance.

The main building of the school, the old wing from 1877, was placed under monument protection in August 1976. It was the first listed building for a school building in Kiel.

A "tower" was added to the new wing from 1951. In 2018, a cafeteria was added at the entrance from Humboldtstrasse.

  • Old building, south wing from the front

  • Old building, north wing from the front

  • Old building from the schoolyard

  • Old building, north wing of the schoolyard; Rebuilt after the Second World War

  • Old building, portico staircase

  • Old building, portico entrance from the schoolyard

  • Window at the entrance to the portico

  • Old building, stone portico in over a chapter - built AD 1876

  • Old building, organ in the auditorium

  • Gym from 1888

  • New building from 1951

  • tower

  • Mensa from 2018

neighborhood

Memorial to commemorate the destruction of the synagogue on Goethestrasse and the corner of Humboldtstrasse (2011)

In the immediate vicinity of the school, the Goethestrasse Synagogue , which opened at the beginning of 1910, was built at the end of the 1900s on the adjacent property on the corner of Humboldtstrasse and Goethestrasse , which, in addition to a large assembly room, also housed a religious school and which became a center of Jewish life in Kiel . The synagogue was destroyed during the Nazi era , in the pogrom night in 1938 . Since 1989 there has been a memorial designed by the sculptor Doris Waschk-Balz with a previously attached memorial plaque from 1968.

Opposite the school on Humboldtstrasse is the Humboldtstrasse power station , which was built in 1901 and which the Stadtwerke Kiel commissioned in the same year, thus starting Kiel's electricity supply. The power station has been supplying the city with district heating since 1907.

Partnership and student exchange

The school has partnerships with three schools:

Personalities

student

Teacher

literature

  • The Humboldt School in Kiel 1861–1961. Festschrift for the centenary. Ehlers, Kiel 1961.
  • Jürgen Plöger (author); Society for Kiel City History (ed.): History of the Humboldt School in Kiel. (=  Communications from the Society for Kiel City History , Volume 71). Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1986, ISBN 3-96458-971-3 .
  • Hans Michael Kiefmann, Unna Rothhardt, Klaus Siewert, Martina Haalck, Ulf Jesper: Humboldt School Kiel 1861–2011 . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary.

Web links

Commons : Humboldt School  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Capital Kiel, The Lord Mayor, Office for Schools: Kiel School Information - School Statistics of the State Capital Kiel for the school year 2018/19. P. 53.
  2. ↑ Directory of teachers . On the Humboldt School website. Called on October 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kiel schools under monument protection ( Memento from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). On: Website of the city of Kiel (www.kiel.de). Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c d school archive . On: Website of the Humboldt School in Kiel. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Plöger (author); Society for Kiel City History (ed.): History of the Humboldt School in Kiel. (=  Communications from the Society for Kiel City History , Volume 71). Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1986, ISBN 3-96458-971-3 .
  6. ↑ III. Kiel schools under monument protection. ( Memento from December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kieler Schulinformation. 39th edition, 2011/12, p. 38, published by the state capital Kiel , Office for Schools, Children and Youth Facilities. PDF file, 7.22 MB; Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  7. ↑ Karina Dreyer: Modern canteen for Kiel's "Hogwarts". kn-online.de , June 5, 2018, accessed on June 29, 2018 .