Johannes Turmair High School

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Johannes Turmair High School
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type of school high school
School number 0297
founding 1631
address

Am Peterswöhrd 5,
94315 Straubing

place Straubing
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 53 '18 "  N , 12 ° 35' 19"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '18 "  N , 12 ° 35' 19"  E
carrier Straubing
student 746 (as of 2017/2018)
Teachers 52 full-time employees
management Andrea Kammerer
Website www.turmair-gymnasium.de

The Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium (short: JTG ) is one of the four high schools in Straubing, Lower Bavaria , alongside the Ludwigsgymnasium , Anton-Bruckner-Gymnasium and the Ursulinen Gymnasium . The school is named after the historian and humanist Johannes Turmair .

history

The grammar school was founded by the Jesuits in 1631 , at a time when schooling was still largely in the hands of the Church. During the Thirty Years War , the building work at the school was largely destroyed. Teachers and students died as a result of the war and the plague. The reconstruction lasted until 1663. Until 1773 the school remained firmly in Jesuit hands. Eventually the state replaced the Jesuit order and took control of the school.

After the Jesuit order was replaced as the teaching college, the state faced the problem of a shortage of teaching staff. So the elector stepped in and filled the missing positions. However, he was forced to fall back on the clergy ( Benedictines or Premonstratensians ). During the Spanish and Austrian War of Succession, the grammar school was used for billeting and as a hospital. However, by 1810, the school experienced catastrophic change. The city of Straubing was not in a position to raise the costs of the grammar school. In 1814/1815 there are only three Latin classes with 118 students.

Due to pressure from the Straubing citizenship, the high school was completely resumed in 1824. A first secular rector entered service. Although the citizens of Straubing had taken over the financing, the school almost found itself facing insolvency again. Ludwig I then took over the financing. Under his direct influence the nature of the school improved and Straubing became the center of higher education in Bavaria.

Six teachers and 163 pupils were drafted for the First World War . One teacher and 25 students were killed. After the war, the grammar school tried to reintegrate the dismissed. The first girls were accepted from 1922. The first political and ideological disputes arose in the school environment from 1931 onwards. After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, the schools were brought into line and also hit the grammar school. This process was completed by 1936. 84 percent of the students belonged to Nazi organizations.

Since 1966 the grammar school has been called "Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium", or JTG for short . In the 2017/2018 school year, 746 students were taught by 52 full-time teachers. The grammar school was expanded and expanded again and again. After moving to the new school premises at Peterswöhrd in 1982, there were discussions in the early 1990s about merging with the Ludwigsgymnasium . Since the turn of the millennium, however, the JTG has enjoyed a steadily growing number of students. Therefore, in 2005 the school received an extension with further subject and classrooms and in 2006 a modern cafeteria with 120 seats. A new stairwell is currently being built to provide more safety in the event of a fire.

classes

Foreign language humanistic area

In addition to the usual modern foreign languages ​​( English , French , Spanish ), the Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium also offers the traditional humanistic languages Latin and Greek . The students can complete the Graecum here .

The "European School" project

Since 1999 the school has participated in the “European School” project. A combination of natural science and foreign language areas is offered. The main focus is on foreign languages. In contrast to the conventional introduction to the first to third foreign language, everything is brought forward by a year. Example: English as the first foreign language from the sixth grade instead of the seventh grade. The project will be discontinued soon.

Library

The Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium has a historical library. In this library, documents of inestimable value have been collected since the grammar school was founded in 1631 (at that time still the library of the Jesuit college). In the course of secularization , entire monastery libraries were taken over, and even if duplicates were handed in and volumes were sold, the library still has a treasure trove of 298 incunabula (published before 1500), 28 post incunabula (before 1520) and 11,117 volumes published before 1850 are.

As a result of a ministerial resolution in 1962, all holdings of the library of the grammar school published before 1850, insofar as they were owned by the Free State of Bavaria, were transferred to the administration of the Passau State Library. However, the holdings remained on permanent loan to today's Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium. The historical and the newer stock have since been set up separately; In the current school building, the library has its own extension, in which the historical holdings are housed in the rococo-decorated bookshelves, probably from the Carmelite library, separate from those of the older grammar school library (1850 to approx. 1920).

School newspaper

At the beginning of 2008, some students founded the school newspaper Digitus . Digitus is a website based on Wordpress 2.7x. It is intended to bring the students closer to the modern form of communication. You can see them via a link on the high school's website. Participation in the school newspaper can be taken as an elective.

List of school principals

  • Johann Peter Hölzl (around 1830)
  • Willibald Schmidt (founder of the Straubinger Hefte)
  • Max Greindl
  • Anton Petzenhauser
  • Simon Eckl (February 1978 - July 1989)
  • Walter Schäfer (August 1989 - March 1998)
  • Juliane Eigner (March 1998 - February 2007)
  • Hermann Achmann (April 2007 - August 2011)
  • Christian Metken (September 2011 - February 2016)
  • Markus Sabinsky (February 2016 - July 2016)
  • Andrea Kammerer (August 2016 - today)

Well-known graduates

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium Straubing in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on February 19, 2019.