Johann Heinrich Voss School

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Johann Heinrich Voss School
Eutin, Johann-Heinrich-Voss-Schule.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1566
address

Bismarckstrasse 14

place Eutin
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 54 ° 8 '23 "  N , 10 ° 36' 40"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '23 "  N , 10 ° 36' 40"  E
carrier City of Eutin
student 638 (school year 2015/2016)
Teachers 52 (2015/2016 school year)
management Tanja Dietrich
Website http://www.voss-schule.de
The Johann Heinrich Voss School in Eutin (side view)

The Johann Heinrich Voss School is a grammar school in Eutin .

history

The Latin School

In 1309 the collegiate monastery Eutin was founded in Eutin . The collegiate monastery ran a Latin school where clerics taught Latin to talented boys who were chosen as future clergymen . In the time of humanism , Greek and Hebrew were added. But there was no continuous school operation. Rather, instruction was only given when “supply” and “demand” came together: priests who were able to teach and pupils who were willing to learn.

The school of scholars

After the Reformation, the school developed from a Latin school to a scholarly school . With this name it claimed to be a higher school, which should prepare for university studies. The fact that the name learned school prevailed in the 18th century shows that it has now met this claim.

The decisive factor was that the Lübeck cathedral chapter had committed itself in 1566 to taking over the salary of a " schoolmaster ". With this "external financing", which was more reliable than the fluctuating income from school fees and the occasional donations from the - now Protestant - collegiate foundation and the city, the permanent existence of the school was guaranteed. In this respect, the year 1566 can be seen as the actual founding year of today's Johann Heinrich Voß School.

For two decades, from 1782 to 1802, Johann Heinrich Voss was rector of the school of scholars; he later became its namesake. He shaped his school according to the ideal of the humanistic grammar school .

The scholarly and citizen school

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars , the reorganization of the school system in the Principality of Lübeck was overdue. In 1821 the school regulations for the royal residence city of Eutin were enacted and the scholarly school was merged with the previous city ​​school as a united scholarly and citizen school . Citizens' school means that it gives its students the knowledge they need for civil , especially commercial, professions. In the autumn of 1833 the school moved into a classicist building on Plöner Strasse (today's Carl-Maria-von-Weber-School ), built according to plans by Lübeck's city architect Heinrich Nikolaus Börm . The connection between the two schools was reversed in 1859. According to the provisions of the State Basic Law of Oldenburg , the United Scholars 'and Citizens' School was divided into a state high school and a municipal citizen school.

The Grand Ducal Gymnasium

Grand Duke Peter II of Oldenburg gave the “new” grammar school the name Grand Ducal grammar school , because since 1803 the Principality of Lübeck with Eutin as the residential city was linked with the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . The school bore this name until the revolution of 1918 , when Grand Duke August II of Oldenburg had to abdicate.

The Realgymnasium / Reform-Realgymnasium

As early as the end of the 19th century it was clear that the industrialization of Germany required a better scientific school education. In Eutin, too, it was planned to convert the grammar school, which had seen itself primarily as a humanistic school since the rectorate of Johann Heinrich Voss, into a secondary school, especially thanks to the impetus from Paul Bobertag for its mathematics and science lessons beyond the city limits also received attention. But done this step as a result of the First World War until 1920. The school, which had the "Grand Ducal" is deleted after the end of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as a name and as a high school Eutin changed its name, was in 1920, founded only in 1910 urban Friedrich-August-secondary school for State high school and Realgymnasium Eutin combined. It moved to the building of the former secondary school at Bismarckstrasse 14. This building was built before the war according to plans by the Hamburg architect Heinrich Bomhoff and was inaugurated on October 28, 1913 in the presence of Grand Duke Friedrich August .

In the same year 1920 the grammar school changed its name to Reform-Realgymnasium (occasionally also written Reformrealgymnasium ). In the Weimar Republic , in some places even at the end of the German Empire , secondary schools put the word “reform” in front of their names to express that they also had “real classes without Latin” and to clearly indicate their connection with the new model of reform pedagogy close.

The Johann Heinrich Voss School

After the National Socialists came to power, the addition “Reform” was deleted again, as the National Socialists suspected the ideals of reform pedagogy. The Nazi propaganda proclaimed the “ Volksgemeinschaft ” in which everything elitist was supposedly overcome, including the “educational arrogance” expressed in the word “grammar school”. Therefore, the high schools were renamed "Oberschulen". This is how the last part of the previous name fell in Eutin. In 1937 the Reform Realgymnasium became the Johann Heinrich Voss School, a high school for boys .

After the end of the Second World War , all schools were closed on May 10, 1945 by order of the British military government . At the Johann Heinrich Voss School, lessons could only be resumed on January 24, 1946 under extremely difficult conditions.

In 1973 co-education was introduced.

The school was comprehensively expanded and renovated in 1984 with the construction of a large extension building for the natural sciences and a basic renovation of the old building. The auditorium , which was also renovated, has 250 seats. In order to meet the requirements of an all-day school , an additional canteen with 100 seats was built in 2007 .

The historic main building ( old building ) is a listed building .

The Johann Heinrich Voss School today

The Johann Heinrich Voß School sees itself today as an open all-day school. In the 2015/2016 school year the school had 638 students who were taught by 52 teachers.

The school offers a number of working groups such as choir, orchestra, musical, theater, physical-technical group, computer science group, gymnastics and ball sports. In addition to the national youth games and winter national youth games, the so-called Voss run (currently on the second Saturday in September), a basketball / volleyball tournament and a teacher-student soccer game are held every year.

The school has five school partnerships with schools in Lithuania, Finland, Italy, France and Kansas (USA).

The Johann-Heinrich-Voss-Schule became known nationwide in 1977 when it was the location for the episode of the Reifezeugnis of the Tatort television series .

The city of Eutin has been responsible for the school since 2010.

Personalities

Rectors and Directors

Teacher

Known students

literature

400 years of Eutin high school. Commemorative publication of the Johann Heinrich Voss School . Editor Wolfgang Klein. Graphic design: Dieter Ohlhaver. [Eutin: Selbstverlag] 1966, 215 pp.

Ulrich Pohle, Horst Seepel: The Johann Heinrich Voss School in Eutin and its predecessor schools . In: Festschrift for the ceremonial handover of the extension building for science lessons . Eutin 1984, pp. 9-87.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official school name , accessed January 30, 2012
  2. ^ Ernst-Günther Prühs : History of the city of Eutin . Struve's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Eutin 1993. ISBN 3-923457-23-5 . P. 370.
  3. ↑ a b c d Ulrich Pohle, Horst Seepel: The Johann Heinrich Voss School in Eutin and its predecessor schools (see literature).
  4. ↑ Recorded in the holdings of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF) in Berlin.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office (ed.): Staats-Handbuch des Freistaates Oldenburg , edition 1920, p. 111.
  6. ↑ Ernst-Günther Prühs: Inauguration of the municipal secondary school in 1913. In: Festschrift for the ceremonial handover of the extension building for science classes . Eutin 1984, p. 85.
  7. ^ Uwe Bremse: Eutin in old views . Uitgeverij Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel (Netherlands) 1996. ISBN 90-288-6286-2 . P. 33.
  8. ↑ School program of the Johann Heinrich Voß School 2016–2020, online: [1]
  9. ^ Biography of Leverkus, Wilhelm. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 418-420 ( online ).

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