Boarding high school, Bad Sachsa

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Boarding high school, Bad Sachsa
Boarding school education and student memorial “Frechdachs” in front of it
type of school High school with boarding school for boys and girls
founding 1890
address

Easter valley 1–5

place Bad Sachsa
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 36 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
carrier Waldheimschule Pädagogium Kuhlenkampffstiftung e. V.
student about 450
Teachers about 50
management Sido Kruse
Website www.internats-gymnasium.de

The Bad Sachsa education center is a boarding school in Bad Sachsa ; it describes itself as the "oldest independent school in Northern Germany ".

The institution, founded in 1890, is a state-recognized private school for boys and girls from grade 5. It ties in with the historical pedagogy as a boys' educational institution with very high standards.

School operation

The boarding school stay is possible for boys and girls from grade 5 to grade 13. Approx. 450 internal and external students have numerous leisure opportunities at the school as well as various learning aids and support. The average class size is 21 students. As is common in Lower Saxony , the school is subject to a central high school diploma and focuses on personal development, small classes with a maximum of 26 students, well-trained teachers and a wide variety of courses in the upper level . The pedagogy is also affectionately called "Päda" by its students.

The director of the school is currently (2015) Sido Kruse and the boarding school director is Torsten Schwark. A special feature was the four-hour Saturday class every two weeks, which has not been held since the 2010/11 school year. Until then, afternoon classes only took place from grade 10.

School history

On June 24, 1890, Willbrandt Rhotert acquired a 3800 m² meadow in the Ostertal and had today's central part of the main pedagogical building built on it. In April 1891 the school founded in Roßla was relocated to Sachsa. Since the school and boarding school were opened in the same year, the year of foundation of the pedagogy is 1891. On July 24, 1909, the pedagogy was recognized as a “military private school”. In 1920 it came into the possession of Pastor Kimpel and his wife Marie, b. Lahusen, about. On November 12, 1922, the Association of Former Students Absolvia was founded; 1st chairman was Hermann ("Manne") Ertel. The construction of the secondary school began in 1929. A boarding school for female students (Haus Tannenberg), which was run by a professional nurse, was added in 1931.

The first Abitur was held in 1932 after the pedagogy was recognized as a “private school entitled to matriculation”. In 1937 the facility was converted into an upper secondary school according to state regulations . Those born in 1926/27 were drafted as Luftwaffe helpers on February 20, 1943 , including 25 interns and 3 externals in grades 6 and 7. On February 15, 1944, those born in 1927/28 were drafted as naval helpers , the rest of the 1926 class for the Reich Labor Service . There were still three boys and several girls in grades 5 and 6. The pedagogy was finally nationalized on April 1, 1944 and was named “State Boarding School Bad Sachsa”. In April 1945, the last boarding school students were sent home as the school was occupied by British and American troops. In May 1945 it was clear that 96 former students had died in World War II .

On October 5, 1945, the first five boarding school students moved in again. Permission to continue the private school was obtained from the British military government. This required the appointment of a pedagogically competent and also anti-Nazi headmaster who was found in Willi Hammelrath . He took over the school operations as a Nazi-free person and rebuilt both the boarding school and the school itself. In 1948 Willi Hammelrath resigned as headmaster. The decisive development work is due to him. After that, various headmasters worked under the patronage of the owner. Among them was Fritz Heiligenstaedt (1887–1961), headmaster from 1951 to 1955, who, on the contrary to Willi Hammelrath, had a remarkable career during the Nazi era: from 1912 teacher at the Leibnizschule Hannover , 1921 and 1927 director first of the grammar school and Secondary school in Goslar, then the Leibniz School in Hanover, he was involved in the organization of the book burning in Hanover in 1933, before finally moving to Berlin in 1937 as head of the Reich Office for Public Libraries in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and Public Education under Bernhard Rust .

school-building

The pedagogy is located in the Ostertal near the spa park. The old school building and its listed gymnasium date from different eras. The educational institution and its students shape the townscape of Bad Sachsa. There are a total of nine buildings in the Ostertal: the mansion of the boarding school director, the main house (it contains boarding school, teaching and administration rooms), the gym, the “black house”, the carpenter's workshop (the caretaker's workplace), the cafeteria, the art building Haus Kuhlenkampf (today the boarding school for girls) and Haus Tannenberg (boarding school for boys and classrooms).

There is also a soccer field and a small all-weather sports field. There is a beach volleyball field above the soccer field .

Student memorial

cenotaph

The “Frechdachs”, Germany's first student memorial, stands in front of the entrance to the school premises. The memorial was inaugurated on May 12, 1951 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the pedagogy. The "Frechdachs" was donated by the K. V. Absolvia e. V. , the school's alumni association. When the news magazine Der Spiegel dealt with the educational problems in Germany in 1959, the “Frechdachs” appeared on the cover of the issue.

In the entrance of the main building is a plaque that commemorates the students, teachers and employees who depend on the First World War fallen are.

The memorial in the clearing behind the school's sports field is said to be the first memorial to commemorate those who died in World War II that was approved by the Allied occupation. This only happened because the British officer in charge was himself a former boarding school student.

Convertible tower

The Wandelturm, also known as the Forschnerturm, was built in 2000 on the school premises according to plans by the art teacher Manfred Forschner. The tower was about 4 meters high and had a previously accessible rotating platform. On the outer wall of the researcher tower there were reversible plates that could be moved by hand or mechanisms attached to the stairs and thus changed the exterior of the tower. The outside of the tower was completely painted with abstract pictures. For safety reasons, it was dismantled during the 2011 autumn break.

Well-known former students

  • Ewald Samsche (1913–1975), CDU politician, senator and member of the Hamburg parliament
  • Klaus Holzkamp (1927–1995), psychologist, attended education until shortly before graduating from high school.
  • Arwed D. Gorella (1937–2002), painter, book illustrator, caricaturist, set designer, university professor
  • Rolf Kalmuczak (1938–2007), author of the youth crime series TKKG . Some of the locations and settings from the radio play actually exist in Bad Sachsa and the surrounding area.
  • Hans-Heinrich Sander (1945–2017), FDP politician, Lower Saxony minister and member of the state parliament
  • Axel Hartmann (* 1948), German diplomat, 2009–2013 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Slovakia in Bratislava (Pressburg).
  • Claudia Garde (* 1966), German director and screenwriter.

Well-known teachers and educators

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Junghanns u. a. (Red.), Leibnizschule Hannover (Ed.): 125 years Leibnizschule Hannover. A grammar school under the sign of the reforms from 1874 to 1999. Leibnizschule, Hannover 1999, p. 254.
  2. ^ Carola Schelle: The book burning in Hanover. In: Nils Schiffhauer, Carola Schelle (ed.): Date of barbarism. Notes on the book burning in 1933. Hanover 1983, pp. 55–63, here pp. 58f. and Hannover in the word
  3. ↑ Volume 13, No. 19, May 6, 1959