Joseph-König-Gymnasium Haltern am See

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Joseph-König-Gymnasium Haltern am See
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type of school high school
School number 168257
founding 1844
address

Holtwicker Strasse 3–5

place Haltern am See
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 44 '20 "  N , 7 ° 10' 56"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '20 "  N , 7 ° 10' 56"  E
carrier City of Haltern am See
student 1054 (Sept. 15, 2019)
Teachers 80 (Oct 10, 2019)
management Ulrich Wessel
Website www.joseph-koenig-gymnasium.de

The Joseph-König-Gymnasium Haltern am See is the only grammar school in the Westphalian city of Haltern am See . With more than a thousand students, it is one of the larger high schools in North Rhine-Westphalia . It shares a building complex (school center) with the municipal Alexander-Lebenstein-Realschule .

The school received greater media attention in the spring of 2015 after 16 students and two teachers were killed in the crash of Germanwings flight 9525 .

history

The current school goes back to the Höhere Stadtschule founded in 1844 and has existed as a full high school since 1962. Until 2003, the Joseph-König-Gymnasium was called the Städtisches Gymnasium Haltern . On June 18, 2003, the grammar school was named after the chemist Joseph König , who was born in Haltern in 1843 and who was the founder of food chemistry in Germany. On November 15, 2010, the official certification ceremony for the European school took place in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament .

On March 24, 2015, fourteen schoolgirls, two pupils and two teachers from the school were killed in the crash of Germanwings flight 9525 . They were on the return flight from a week-long student exchange with the Institut Giola in Llinars del Vallès .

Lessons offered

foreign languages

The sequence of foreign languages ​​is the same as that used in high schools:

1. Compulsory foreign language:

English from grade 5

2. Compulsory foreign language:

Latin or French of your choice from grade 6

3. voluntary foreign language:

French or Latin from grade 8 or 10. Since the 2006/2007 school year, there has also been the option of choosing Spanish as a new foreign language in the upper grades .

Since the 1988/89 school year, the Joseph-König-Gymnasium has been one of the first high schools in the Federal Republic to have a German-English bilingual branch .

Upper school

There are numerous advanced and basic course subjects for the upper level. In addition to advanced courses in German, English, French and Spanish, there are also courses in geography, history, pedagogy, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. In the basic course area, in addition to the usual compulsory subjects, basic courses in computer science, Latin, philosophy, social sciences, art, music and literature are offered.

Working groups

A theater AG, a musical AG, an art AG, an orchestra, an Internet AG and others are offered as working groups. The main focus of the high school is sport . Talented and capable students in this field can take part in voluntary work groups for handball , volleyball or soccer .

School partnerships

The Joseph-König-Gymnasium maintains the following school partnerships on an international level:

Well-known former students

  • Rita Stockhofe (born November 1, 1967 in Haltern am See), politician
  • Bernd Wehren (born January 16, 1970 in Haltern am See), teacher and textbook author
  • Marco Sprinz (born April 18, 1970 in Haltern am See), actor
  • Christoph Metzelder (born November 5, 1980 in Haltern am See), former professional soccer player and national soccer player
  • Benedikt Höwedes (born February 29, 1988 in Haltern am See), professional soccer player and national soccer player

literature

  • 1844–1994, 150 years of secondary school in Haltern . Haltern municipal high school, Haltern 1994
  • Gerhard Schmitt: On the history of the city high school Haltern . 1987
  • Gerhard Schmitt: The higher city school in Haltern or how you unintentionally get into a grammar school . 1994
  • Eberhard Fisch: The murals in the Haltern high school . 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph-König-Gymnasium Haltern am See: School news. Joseph-König-Gymnasium Haltern am See, September 15, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Benjamin Glöckner: School check: Joseph-König-Gymnasium offers high quality study groups . In: Halterner Zeitung . No. 235 . Lensing Media, October 10, 2019 ( online [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  3. ↑ halternerzeitung.de, March 26, 2015
  4. ^ Germanwings catastrophe - moving obituary notice for killed pupils and teachers . March 25, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Airbus crash - students from Haltern among the victims. In: wdr.de . ARD , March 24, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2015 .
  6. ^ Peter Bandermann, Benjamin Glöckner, Vanessa Dumke, Sophie Bissingen: Joseph-König-Gymnasium - Haltern mourns 16 students and two teachers. In: halternerzeitung.de. Halterner Zeitung, March 24, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Comunicat de l'Institut Giola. (No longer available online.) In: institutgiola.org. Institut Giola, March 24, 2015, archived from the original on March 26, 2015 ; Retrieved March 25, 2015 (Catalan).
  8. ↑ http://www.reviersport.de/51601---schalke-ii-privat-jet-barcelona-zur-klausur.html