Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium Cham

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Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium Cham
Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium Cham.jpg
Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium in Cham, front entrance
type of school Gymnasium ( scientific , technological and linguistic )
School number 0053
founding 1926
address

Dr.-Muggenthaler-Strasse 32

place Cham
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 13 '30 "  N , 12 ° 39' 50"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '30 "  N , 12 ° 39' 50"  E
carrier District of Cham ( material costs )
student 859 (as of 2017/2018)
Teachers 59 (as of 2017/2018)
management Uwe Misslinger
Website www.jvfg-cham.de

The Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium (short: JvFG ) is one of two high schools in Cham . The namesake is the physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer . In the 2017/2018 school year, the grammar school comprised 859 pupils (spread across grades 5–12) and 59 full-time teachers.

history

Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826) - who gave the school its name

The school was founded on April 23, 1923. The former preparatory school served as the school building for the 187 pupils, including 25 pupils. In June 1926, a new school building was built a little above the city on Lucknerfeld, named after Nikolaus von Luckner , in order to remedy the blatant lack of space. Shortly before moving in in the 1927/28 school year, 473 students were taught in nine different buildings. The expansion to a six-class Progymnasium , which today corresponds to a humanistic secondary school , was carried out in 1930. In 1937 the conversion and expansion to a full Progymnasium and an Oberrealschule for boys took place through a decree of the Ministry of Education. In 1939, the first high school graduates from Cham could finally be adopted.

In 1942 the then upper secondary school became a German school home . After the war, the building was used as a US barracks. It was not until October 1946 that lessons began again in the school, which was now called "Oberrealschule mit Gymnasium Cham" and in which around 870 students were taught. In the years 1954 to 1956, the building was expanded for the first time for the now 1,100 students. In the 1967/68 school year it was the second largest state school in Bavaria with around 1300 students. This led to a school division in the following year. The new Robert-Schuman-Gymnasium and the current Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium were built. From 1970 a triple gymnasium, a break hall and a caretaker's house were built. Following this, the old building was fundamentally renovated and significantly expanded. This came to a preliminary conclusion in 1974 with the inauguration of the newly built observatory. In order to do justice to the increased number of pupils, the school has been expanded and modernized in several stages since 1994. After the construction of a new science wing with the areas of physics, chemistry and biology and the subsequent general renovation of the old building, the newly built break hall and the cafeteria below were inaugurated on November 30, 2007. The general renovation of the triple gym followed in 2008/2009, and in April 2010 a new climbing hall was completed.

The previous headmasters were: Hans Betz (1923–1926), Eduard Bleifuß (1926–1936), Adolf Böck (1936–1937), Georg Raum (1937–1945), Hans Muggenthaler (1945–1952), Innozenz Riepl (1952– 1961), Johann Bauer (1961–1969), Clement Utz (1969–1985), Klaus Drauschke (1985–2004), Rudolph Reinhardt (2004–2011), Hubert Balk (2011–2019). The current headmaster is Uwe Misslinger.

School profile

The school is a science , technology and language high school with basic English.

  • English is a compulsory subject from the fifth grade and is an Abitur subject.
  • In the scientific and technological branch, French is an optional subject from the sixth grade onwards, or in the modern language branch it is the third foreign language from the eighth grade.
  • In the sixth grade, Latin is the second elective subject alongside French.
  • The second foreign language can be replaced by Spanish in the tenth grade .
  • Computer science is taught in the sixth and seventh grades as part of the subject "Nature and Technology", and in the scientific-technological branch in the ninth and tenth grades as an independent subject.
  • From the eighth grade onwards, physics and chemistry form the focus in the scientific and technological branch.
Electives and study groups

A variety of courses and subjects are offered, some on a voluntary basis. Among other things, the following subjects, courses or working groups can be taken by the students: CNC milling, microcontroller, choir, DELF preparation, experimentation / inventing (partly as a meeting of the SIGNO inventor club), photography, IT, instrumental music, conversation, Lego Mindstorms , Orchestra, plus mathematics course, training base, word processing, work, Comenius project, digital learning, movement arts, first aid course, school medical service , technical internship, music studies, school newspaper, performing, acting - creative expression - authentic being, inline skating , Sport climbing, parcours, network project and much more.

Services
  • The school newspaper Spektrum , the beginning of which dates back to 1958, is one of the most successful school newspapers in Bavaria. Among other things, since 1980 the editors have received first prize 22 times at district level (Upper Palatinate), 3 times first prize at state level (Bavaria) and 4 times in the competition for school newspapers organized by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. times the 2nd price. In March 2004, in a Germany-wide competition organized by Der Spiegel magazine and in which 1,300 school newspapers took part, they won fifth place in the "Issue Contents" category.
  • The Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium is Bavaria's most successful school in rhythmic gymnastics . In the 2007/2008 school year, the pupils won the national championship for the ninth time in a row.
  • In the sporting field, the volleyball team reached the final of the state championship almost every year.
  • Two out of 34 Bavarian students from the Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium each won first prize in the first round of the national mathematics competition .
  • Many prizes have been won at Jugend forscht as part of the SIGNO inventors' club.
  • As part of the SIGNO inventor's club, the young inventors have been exhibiting their projects at the iENA (the world's largest inventors' fair in Nuremberg) for several years, with the support of SIGNO , and have already won many awards there.
  • In 2009 the school was selected as the 2009 Research School in Bavaria.

Partnerships and student exchange projects

The Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium offers its students several possibilities for student exchange:

particularities

Observatory

In order to live up to the claim given by the patron saint, the high school inaugurated an observatory in 1974 , which is currently equipped with the powerful Carl Zeiss APQ triplet apochromatic refractor with a 150 mm lens and a focal length of 1200 mm is. It has three lenses for ideal color purity. A connected video camera can be used to transfer images directly to a screen in the adjacent music pavilion. In the near future, a high-resolution grating spectral apparatus will be added to the collection. The observatory is supervised by teachers and is regularly open to the public. In addition, the control room is also open to the public during astronomical events such as lunar eclipses, solar eclipses or planetary passages through the sun.

Einstein laboratory

On January 29, 2008, the new Einstein laboratory was inaugurated in the rooms of the high school. It is open to all students in the Cham district. It was developed by Hans Ruder , professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Tübingen, and clearly shows experiments and simulations relating to Einstein's theory of relativity. This laboratory is supplemented by a mobile unit, the "Einsteinmobil", which sets off to the other high schools in the district.

Base school

In the field of rhythmic gymnastics and soccer , the Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium is a support school. These areas are promoted in addition to normal physical education and enable students to train more intensively in this area. This enables successful participation in sports competitions.

School as a film location

For the Oscar- nominated anti-war film Die Brücke by Bernd Wicki, shot in Cham in 1959, the scenes that take place in and in front of the German barracks were filmed during regular lessons on the grounds of the grammar school.

Climbing hall with bouldering room

Together with the renovation of the triple gym, a climbing hall with a bouldering room was also built. Both rooms are used by the school for courses such as climbing or for all-day care.

Others

The Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium fulfills the criteria for taking DELF exams.

Well-known former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Search and find all schools in Bavaria. Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .