Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium (Berlin)
| Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium | |
|---|---|
| type of school | MINT - high school |
| School number | 03Y03 |
| founding | 1906 |
| address |
Dunckerstraße 65/66 |
| place | Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '46 " N , 13 ° 25' 20" E |
| carrier | State of Berlin |
| student | 836 (2019/2020) |
| Teachers | 72 + 11 trainee teachers / trainee teachers + 1 social worker (2019/2020) |
| management | Simone Ley |
| Website | www.kaethe-kollwitz-gymnasium.de |
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium is a high school in Prenzlauer Berg , a district of Berlin. The school is not far from the former home of the artist Käthe Kollwitz , today's Kollwitzplatz. Schoolchildren are accepted in grades 5 and 7. There is a wide range of courses that go well beyond the profile as a school with a special emphasis on mathematics, natural sciences and computer science.
history
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It all started with the establishment of the 3rd Oberrealschule in Berlin in 1906. At that time the school building was located in the community school at Choriner Strasse 74. In 1910 it moved to the Königstädtische Oberrealschule with 24 classes and 710 students under the direction of the first director, senior teacher Professor Dr. Paul Mellmann , in a building erected by Ludwig Hoffmann at Pasteurstrasse 7-11. The equipment included a tower for pendulum and drop tests , on which a telescope and an armillary sphere were located under a dome . As early as the 1920s, the school was distinguished by its remarkable scientific achievements.
On May 30, 1938, the school was given the name Blücher School, high school for boys . After an interruption at the end of the war, teaching was resumed. The telescope had been dismantled by the Soviet occupying forces , the fixed armillary sphere under the dome was preserved. While a girls 'school set up in the building was given the name of the artist Käthe Kollwitz on April 25, 1946 , the boys' school was named after the street patron Louis Pasteur Pasteur high school for boys . In 1948, advanced classes were set up at both schools, in which particularly gifted people were taken to the Abitur after eight years of attending primary school. In 1951 girls and boys' school merged to form EOS Käthe Kollwitz with a mathematical and scientific focus. Heiner Rasmuss (* 1927), a young SED member from the resistance against National Socialism , who promoted the development of the FDJ organization at the school and founded the Wuhlheide leisure and recreation center in the same year , took over management. The school was later run by Antje Reese, Albrecht Kuhn, Günter Voigtländer and Manfred Wensky. In the early 1960s, the school library fell victim to a GDR-wide destruction campaign. In 1975 the school received a modern new building in the prefabricated building style. The move to John-Schehr-Straße 38 took place on October 27th. Since 1972 a Käthe-Kollwitz-sculpture by the artist Rolf Winkler has stood in front of the school.
In the autumn of 1990 Jutta Grüschow was elected as the new headmistress by the college. At the beginning of the 1991/92 school year, the KKS moved from its school building on John-Schehr-Straße to Dunckerstraße 65/66. Due to the reorganization of the school system after reunification, the school lost its name and was now only called the 3rd Prenzlauer Berg Gymnasium . However, she successfully sought her old name. Since June 18, 1993, the artist's name has been on the school building again. The Kollwitz sculpture followed three days later. Under the direction of Jutta Grüschow, the school, which was also designed by Ludwig Hoffmann and built from 1898 to 1900, became a modern high school with a mathematical, scientific and information technology profile. Teachers and students learned how to design the new school together. In the years 2000 to 2009, 5th grade was accepted as a fast runner .
In the 2006/2007 school year, Gert Blach became the headmaster and converted the grammar school into a MINT school. It was accepted into the Berlin network of mathematical and scientific schools and has been a member of the MINT Excellence Center Schools Association since September 14, 2012. Since the school year 2010, pupils from grade 5 onwards have been taken to the Abitur in the mathematical and scientific profile.
In 2013, the high school was renamed from Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule to Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium . Since 2015 it has had the “German Chess School” seal of approval from the German Chess Youth .
Current school building
The building at Dunckerstraße 65/66 was built in 1899/1900 according to a design by Ludwig Hoffmann , on a small remaining piece of land along the S-Bahn route of the Nordring. The ensemble consists of the former community school for boys, with the main facade parallel to the railway line, and the former rector's house on the street front, which originally also housed a public reading hall. The former municipal reading halls, often connected to the school principal's houses as here, were of great importance for the densely populated districts at the turn of the century. They "were visited annually by an average of 121,000 people who sought to complete their education".
The historicizing building group in Renaissance forms is equipped with high pitched roofs, the multi-part sandstone-framed rectangular windows are horizontally combined by sandstone bands. The elongated school building has an L-shaped floor plan. The main facade is provided with a risalit-like projected central building. There, as on the building corners in the west, polygonal domed bay windows are attached. To the east is a square tower with an octagonal clock story and a curved dome with a double lantern . The roofs of the eastern part and the short side wing were restored after war damage with a lower roof pitch.
The former rector's residence and the people's reading hall are designed in similar shapes. The Renaissance gables are set in sandstone.
Since 1992 it has been reconstructed and rebuilt. New specialist classrooms, a reconstructed auditorium, two newly designed courtyards and an art studio were created. The former reading room has been reconstructed and is used as a school library.
Others
The school participates in the Berlin program for in-depth professional orientation (BvBO) and offers its students support in professional orientation and career choice.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, September 19, 2008, accessed on April 29, 2017 .
- ^ Paul Westheim In: Bauwelt. Born 1911, issue 21, p17-19.
- ↑ The building has been one of the two houses of the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Gymnasium since 2018 . See Bernd Wähner: Modern interior in the old school building (with pictures). In: Berliner Woche from March 15, 2018.
- ↑ Jens Wollenberg: 3. Morning pint: "Encounter between East and West - An Approach". In: The Schulzendorfer. June 6, 2012, accessed April 6, 2019.
- ^ Hans Plaumann ( BERU ): Encounters with Heiner Rasmuss. In: ders .: The old and the young August. Not a clown story. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2017.
- ^ On the elimination of school libraries in the GDR see Klaus Graf : Historische Schulbibliotheken - barely represented in the former GDR . In Archivalia of November 5, 2012, with further information, accessed on May 24, 2019.
- ↑ Klaus Grosinki: schools, students, school buildings in the district of Prenzlauer Berg. A handout for researching the school history of the district. published by the Prenzlauer Berg Museum for Local History and Urban Culture, 1998, OCLC 174378023 .
- ↑ Egon Bethge: Sheets on the development of popular education in the Prenzlauer Berg district.
- ↑ MINT Excellence Center Schools
- ↑ schulschachstiftung.schulschach-bayern.de/index.php?/archives/957-Deutsche-Schachschule-Ehrung-der-Gemm-Schule.html
- ↑ The architectural and art monuments in the GDR capital Berlin. Volume I, pp. 382f and 428.
- ^ Architecture by Ludwig Hoffmann in Berlin. 1987, pp. 21, 132/133.