Boarding school in Solling
| Boarding school in Solling | |
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| type of school | Boarding school - high school |
| founding | 1909 |
| address |
Einbecker Strasse 1 |
| place | Holzminden |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 49 '32 " N , 9 ° 29' 27" E |
| carrier | Landschulheim am Solling Foundation |
| student | about 250 |
| Teachers | 45 |
| management | Helga Volger |
| Website | www.internatsolling.de |
The boarding school Solling (before 2013 Landschulheim am Solling ) is a well-known private, state-recognized boarding school in independent sponsorship. It is located in a 50 hectare park-like area in the town of Holzminden on a hill between the Weser and the Solling-Vogler Nature Park . Around 200 boys and girls currently live in the boarding school, plus 50 external students.
history
The Landschulheim am Solling (LSH), as it was originally called, was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by the four teachers Alfred Kramer, Theophil Lehmann, Gerhard Viehbrock and Gerhard Zimmermann. At Pentecost 1909 the foundation stone of the first building ("lower house") was laid. In 1912 the upper house, twice as large, was built. In 1913 the Landschulheim Solling was one of the organizers of the Meißner meeting ( First Free German Youth Convention ). The First World War almost brought the school to a collapse, especially since the first director Alfred Kramer died in 1918. His successor Theophil Lehmann continued to run the LSH and fought for the independence of his school until his death in 1943. It reopened in autumn 1945 and the number of pupils rose until the late 1950s. In the 70s and 80s, when many boarding schools had to close due to the expansion of the state high school offer, the LSH could not avoid downsizing and sold some buildings. It has existed in its current size since 1985. In 2012 the 100th anniversary of the House of Lords was celebrated.
Boarding school today
"Education for head, hand and heart" is the educational motto of the LSH. The teachers are also the supervisors of the residential groups of 8 to 12 boys and girls each. The subject canon of public schools is supplemented by subjects of specialization and competence. In the middle and upper grades, job aptitude tests, career counseling fairs and university visits are offered. The young people gain practical experience in a small, independent research project with a final presentation and a four-week internship . In working groups and social works, life in the community should be tested and consolidated, personal strengths should be emphasized and weaknesses should be compensated. In the riding stables, the fitness room, the library, the cinema or the “tea room”, students take responsibility. Specific inclinations can be taken into account in the Abitur, all five upper school profiles are offered: linguistic, scientific, artistic, social and sporting.
Rituals
The rituals of the boarding school community include the so-called morning and evening languages. These are cultural events with music, theater and lectures that are organized from our own ranks, but also with outside guests. Participation is compulsory and brings all students together in the auditorium three times a week .
Networks
The LSH has a network in the various areas. Around 2,500 alumni stay in contact with their school through an alumni network and support them e.g. B. in vocational counseling or the placement of internships. The LSH has been a UNESCO project school since 2009, and has been a member of the National Excellence School Network MINT-EC since 2015 due to the offer in the mathematical and scientific profile . Every year an LSH student delegation takes part in the “Student UN” in The Hague ( THIMUN ). The Comenius program includes an exchange program with Norwegian schools. Traditionally, special relationships and contacts with Latin America are maintained. For example, there are collaborations with the German schools in Mexico City and Tenerife . Therefore the range of Spanish available plays a major role. In the course of the boarding school's history, students from six continents and around 80 countries have attended the school. The school is a member of the boarding school association .
Regular alumni meetings, the so-called “old school students' meetings” in October, are also intended to underline the long-term ties between the students and the boarding school. In addition, the school is a member of the school association Blick über den Fence .
Known teachers
- Bernhard Hell , author
- Wilhelm Lehmann , writer
- Jiří Nečas , artist
Known students
The school's better-known graduates include:
- Susanne Albrecht , former German terrorist and member of the RAF
- Michael Diekmann , German manager, former CEO of Allianz
- Nino Erné , former German journalist, writer and literary translator
- Diana Maria Friz , German entrepreneur, granddaughter of Waldtraut von Bohlen and Halbach and Krupp biographer
- Ernst Ludwig Heuss , a former German member of a resistance movement at the time of National Socialism, son of the future German President Theodor Heuss
- Michael Holzach , former German journalist and author
- Ingo Kramer , German entrepreneur and employer official
- Richard Abel Musgrave , former German-American economist
- Bernd Schultz, former German journalist, curator, cultural mediator and university professor, co-founder of the Berlin art auction house Villa Grisebach
- Raban Graf von Westphalen , German political scientist and professor of political science and public law
literature
The Solling boarding school has a largely complete archive with notices from the management of the home since 1927, the almost complete correspondence between the management of the home and the board of trustees, as well as all of the high school diploma theses and business documents since the time it was founded.
- 100 years Landschulheim am Solling 1909–2009, Festschrift Holzminden , Mitzkat, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940751-14-0
- Herrenbrück, Edgar; Theophil Lehmann: Head of the Landschulheims am Solling , Eine Biographie, Holzminden, Mitzkat, 2006, ISBN 3-931656-94-2
- The theater workshop of the Landschulheim am Solling. Roswitha Lehmann. 2003. ISBN 978-3-931656-59-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel page at www.internatsolling.de accessed on October 1, 2013 at internatsolling.de
- ^ Ruhr dynasty: feud with the stranger. In: www.zeit.de. October 14, 1988. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.internatsolling.de/images/PDFs/2014/140813_LSH_Giftschonung_Low.pdf ( Memento from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Journal of the former students of the LSH, August 2014, page 68ff. (PDF file, 6 MB, last accessed on November 5, 2014)
- ↑ Hans-Werner Sinn: Please bring me the New York Times. On the European roots of Richard Abel Musgrave . CESifo Working Paper, No. 2050, July 2007, p. 5.
- ^ Article on the archive of the Landschulheim am Solling at www.fachportal-paedagogik.de, accessed on October 1, 2013 at fachportal-paedagogik.de
