Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium (Osnabrück)
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium was a school founded as a high school for girls in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony).
In addition to the educational institution founded in 1848 as the municipal high school for girls , today's high school "In der Desert" , it was the only girls 'high school sponsored by the city of Osnabrück and the only communal girls ' high school that the city of Osnabrück founded after the end of World War II .
From 1970, when coeducation was introduced in Osnabrück's municipal schools , boys also attended the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium.
The grammar school existed from 1961 to 1990. Since then it has been designed as a single class in the secondary school branch. As an organizationally combined secondary and secondary school, it runs two secondary school classes in parallel. In 2012 it was decided to give up the school location in Ameldungstrasse.
history
By resolution of the city council, the second urban girls' high school was built on Ameldstrasse in the southern part of Neustadt. The naming was at times controversial in the city council and in public. The artist Käthe Kollwitz , according to the opinion of bourgeois parties and part of the population during the Cold War , could not be a role model for girls as a communist . On the other hand, the socially critical content of her works and the artistic isolation during the time of National Socialism were reason enough to make Käthe Kollwitz the namesake of a higher educational institution in the still young Federal Republic.
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium was built on a hillside at the foot of the Schölerberg as a two- to three-story, tiered building in a U-shape with three staggered playgrounds. It had a gymnasium, which also had a small gym as an extension. The nearby sports field on Schölerberg was used in the warm months for outdoor lessons in athletics, team sports and for sports festivals and competitions. Swimming lessons were initially given in the Pottgrabenbad swimming pool and, in summer, in the open-air swimming pool in the desert , the Moskaubad . Biology, physics and chemistry rooms with an extensive collection of teaching aids were available for scientific teaching, and art and music rooms for musical education, as well as craft rooms and a school kitchen for housekeeping. In addition to a small concert hall with a collection of instruments, the school also had a large auditorium with a concert and theater stage in the part of the building on Ameldstrasse / Schölerbergstrasse. The location at the foot of the wooded Schölerberg and the lush greenery of the school grounds made the school a high school in green.
The grammar school was set up as a new language girls' grammar school with a women's upper school . The condition for admission was a recommendation from the primary school and successful participation in a one-week trial lesson during the fourth year of primary school.
Most of the students came from the southern part of the city and the southern part of the district of Osnabrück , where there was no grammar school apart from the Lower Saxony home school Iburg , which is sponsored by the State of Lower Saxony. Since the home school in Bad Iburg was a boarding school with a grammar school in short , which began with the seventh school year, led to the Abitur in seven years and focused on arts subjects and sport, many parents preferred to bring their daughters to Osnabrück to grammar school send regardless of the difficulties for learner drivers.
Most of the students came from Protestant families. Catholics were in the minority because the traditional girls' schools in Osnabrück were the Angela School and the Ursula School , which were sponsored by the Catholic Church .
The first foreign language from the fifth grade onwards was English. In the seventh school year, French or Latin were added as a second foreign language. The students who had chosen French as their second foreign language were able to take Latin lessons as a voluntary elective and thus take the small Latinum up to the Abitur . Handicraft lessons were a compulsory subject for all students until the end of the eighth school year.
In addition to the modern language branch, there was a women's high school with home economics classes. For a long time this peculiarity earned the grammar school the derisive nickname 'pudding grammar school'. The women's secondary school accepted the students from the women's secondary school branch of the municipal girls' grammar school at Heger-Tor-Wall, which later became the grammar school “In the desert” . Their women's high school was spun off to Schölerberg in 1959 and became part of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in 1961. Completion of the women's high school did not lead to a general higher education entrance qualification and only made university studies possible in exceptional cases. However, it was possible to study at universities of teacher education that trained primary and secondary school teachers. Graduates of the women's high school took advantage of this opportunity until the University of Education in Osnabrück was merged into the University of Osnabrück in 1974. Lessons in cooking and home economics and nutrition were given only to the students in the women's high school, not to those in the larger modern language branch.
Particularly talented graduates from Realschulen , referred to as secondary schools until 1964 , who had had English and French lessons, were accepted into the building branch of the upper level . Some of them were taught together with the other students. In some cases, especially in language lessons, separate lessons were given due to the different prior knowledge.
In the 1960s, due to a shortage of teachers, subject teaching in the natural sciences was often given by non-educated teachers such as engineers.
Students whose talent lay in science and aspired to a corresponding degree, changed after the middle school in the eleventh grade at the school of urban boy high schools as of the fourth Young high school , the first after the start of school operations in Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium (Osnabruck) has been renamed and offered classes in computer science as early as the late 1960s .
At the end of the 1960s the grammar school had about a thousand students. The location on the south-eastern edge of the residential area of Osnabrück Neustadt, which was popular at the time, and the neighboring rural communities, led to an influx of newcomers. The classroom soon became scarce, and temporary 'teaching pavilions ', each with two classrooms, were set up in the green open space along the lower Schölerbergstrasse.
The 1968 movement had little effect on teaching. Only the high school graduation celebrations that had been customary up to then with an address from the headmaster no longer took place; the Abitur certificates were handed over to the women without their parents being present. Increasingly, however, the grammar school got the reputation of a more left-liberal spectrum friendly teaching institution, not least thanks to the actively pursued school policy in the student co-responsibility (SMV), from which the student council grew. Wearing buttons of political content, for example with the inscription expropriated Springer , was accepted by the teaching staff. A language laboratory was set up at the school around 1970/71 .
A change in school life began with the admission of boys who were admitted to the fifth grade from 1970/71. Through this expansion of the student body, the declining number of students, caused by the pill kink , was planned successfully at times . In the mid-1970s, an ' orientation level ' was also introduced at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium . The associated shortage of space made new planning necessary. In 1976 a new administration wing was inaugurated on the site of the former teachers' car park and an adjacent allotment garden . There were further classrooms in the basement. The old administration offices have been converted into classrooms.
With the closure of the Lower Saxony home school in Bad Iburg, the establishment of the Bad Iburg grammar school and later other grammar schools in the Osnabrück district, the Käthe Kollwitz grammar school was no longer allowed to accept students from the district. The number of students decreased in the 1980s. The city of Osnabrück decided to close it.
In 1990 the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium was given up, but the school complex was still used for school purposes. The remaining students moved to the "In der desert" grammar school , which also took over the school files, and to the Graf Stauffenberg grammar school (Osnabrück) .
There was brief confusion in Osnabrück about the whereabouts of the bust of Käthe Kollwitz, which had stood on a pedestal in the entrance area of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium. Later it turned out that the headmaster of the grammar school "In the desert" had taken the bust into safekeeping and locked it in a cupboard in the director's room. The event inspired Fritz Wolf , the caricaturist for the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , to make a drawing on which the headmaster carried away the bust with the remark “Käthe, we both run off into the desert!”, Leaving an empty plinth with two schoolgirls standing next to it calling out: "Our director stole the Kollwitz!"
Timetable
Example of a timetable, here from the 1972 Abitur class in the modern language branch. The names of the subjects follow the names of the time. Mathematics classes ended for the students in the “nf” branch (French in the modern language) at the end of the 12th year of school, as did natural science subjects such as chemistry and physics due to a lack of teachers. Voluntary electives such as Latin lessons or working groups such as the theater, choir or orchestra are not listed. The differentiation between French I and II was due to the students' different prior knowledge. In the 1972 Abitur class, there were “nf” female pupils who had been taking French lessons since grade 7 with those who had passed through to upper school after completing secondary school. Religion was a subject, but female pupils from the age of 14 could withdraw from lessons regardless of whether they belonged to a religious community.
| Lesson | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | - | art | - | - | - | Sports | |
| 2 hours | French II | art | biology | French II | history | Sports | |
| 3rd hour | English | German | English | Geography | German | biology | |
| 4th hour | history | biology | history | English | French II | English | |
| 5th hour | Sports | French I. | German | - | Geography | German | |
| 6th hour | - | - | - | - | English | - |
Web links
- Anette Kanngießer: History of girls' education (PDF file; 310 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the school on Osnabrueck.de
- ↑ Ammeldungstrasse will soon no longer be a school location . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of November 24, 2012, p. 17
- ↑ Caricature by Fritz Wolf In: Christa Maria Gottfried: The seventies and eighties in the grammar school "In the desert ", p. 12
- ↑ Taken from own documents
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '23 " N , 8 ° 3' 57" E