Queen Katharina Stift Gymnasium Stuttgart

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	Katharinenstift, from 1903, Schillerstraße 5.
type of school	high school
founding	1818
address	Schillerstrasse 5
place	Stuttgart
country	Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 46 '53 " N , 9 ° 11' 8" E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '53 " N , 9 ° 11' 8" E
management	Kathrin von Vacano-Grohmann
Website	www.koenigin-katharina-stift.de

Old Katharinenstift, 1818–1903, Friedrichstrasse 34 / corner of Schloßstrasse.

The Königin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasium (colloquially also Katharinenstift or Katzenstift ) is a high school in Stuttgart .

history

Bust of Queen Katharina, owned by the Queen Katharina Stift

Although compulsory schooling for girls and boys between the ages of six and 14 had already been introduced in 1649, school attendance was often rather irregular. a. because of the help of the children in their parents' farms and the school fees to be paid. The higher education of girls was also very controversial at the time, as they were essentially to be prepared for their duties in later marriage. The political situation in Württemberg in the post-Napoleonic period can only be described as very uncertain at the time the school was founded. It is all the more important to emphasize the founding of a school for girls in the political center of Württemberg in 1818, the aim of which was to achieve an educational standard well above the primary school level.

The young Queen Katharina von Württemberg knew the Russian Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg, in which a strict training of daughters of senior civil servants was guaranteed when she founded a royal educational institute in 1818, which was renamed "Queen Katharina Stift" after her death .

The first rector of the school was the educational advisor to Queen Karl August Christoph Friedrich Zoller .

Zoller suggested u. a. proposed to open the school with boarding school not only for the daughters of high earners and high-offs, which convinced Queen Katharina, d. H. From the beginning, a few daughters from less well-off families were always taken in. Life in a boarding school can best be compared to that in a monastery, e. B. the girls were not allowed to leave the school and boarding school premises without the company of a governess. The equipment was very simple and modest, e.g. For example, in class the girls sat on benches without backrests. The weekly number of hours was initially 36 hours.

The Queen Katharina Monastery was, among others, the place of activity of Bernhard Gugler , Gustav Schwab and Eduard Mörike . It became famous through Mörikes' lessons held there in 1851, the so-called "Fräuleinsleionen".

The school started operations in 1818 with 203 students. Many of them came from private subsidiaries whose funding had not been guaranteed in the long term - unlike the royal educational institute that was now established. At the time of its 50th anniversary, 3,687 schoolgirls had already visited the Königin-Katharina-Stift. On the occasion of this jubilee celebration, the city of Stuttgart took over the costs for two vacancies for worthy and needy daughters of the city for the first time, 35 years later the school became fully municipal.

In April 1874 a higher seminar for teachers was attached to the school.

Between 1901 and 1903, Emil Mayer erected a new building at Schillerstraße 5 , since the school has no longer had a boarding school . In 1953 the “Höhere Töchterschule” became a “Gymnasium”. The Königin-Katharina-Stift still exists today as a high school, since 1972 as a coeducation .

principal

The school had the following principals:

1818–1843 Karl-August Zoller (1773–1858)
1843–1869 Karl Wolff (1803–1869)
1869–1894 Adolf Heller (1834–1894)
1894–1910 Emil Heintzeler (1845–1929)
1910–1934 Eugen Mann (1877–1935)
1934–1944 Marie Renz-Tscherning (1888–1944)
1945–1952 Ernst Metzger (1885–1965)
1952–1972 Klara Stumpff (1910–1990)
1972–1985 Karl Georg Fischer (1930–1985)
1985-2004 Regine Büchel
2004–2010 Günter Olbert
2010–2013 Christof Martin
2014–2019 Franz Baur
2019–2020 interim rector Stefanie Duddey
2020-today Kathrin von Vacano-Grohmann

students

Among others, the following schoolgirls (also called "cats" in the vernacular) visited the Königin-Katharina-Stift:

Agnes Günther (1863–1911), writer
Marie Daiber (1868–1928), zoologist
Vera Vollmer (1874–1953), lady-in-waiting and reader of Queen Olga, teacher
Gertrud Stockmayer (1880–1963), one of the first three women to study in Tübingen and to graduate like the male fellow students
Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt (1886–1964), professor of German philology at the University of Leipzig, student of the teachers' seminar at the Königin-Katharina-Stift
Jenny Heymann (1890–1996), teacher, manager of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
Jella Lepman (1891–1970), author, editor at the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt, founder of the International Youth Library , Munich
Lisa Heiss (1897–1981), writer
Marta Fuchs (1898–1974), concert and opera singer
Elisabeth Daur (1899–1991), councilor of Stuttgart
Maria Koppenhöfer (1901–1948), actress
Rose Sommer-Leypold (1909–2003), painter
Maria Friedemann (1912–1999), CDU politician
Lenore Volz (1913–2009), Protestant theologian
Eva Zippel (1925–2013), sculptor
Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977), RAF terrorist
Gabriele Riedle (* 1958), reporter and author

present

School profile

Today the Königin-Katharina-Stift offers a bilingual - Italian profile from grades 8 to 10.

The school's partners include the John-Cranko Ballet School, the State Theater and the House of History.

As one of two schools in Stuttgart, the school also has a highly gifted train . This offers u. a. an additional two-hour "enrichment" offer, in which the students can choose additional lessons in the form of different offers from creative, musical, economic and scientific fields. Since 2009, the "Forest Week" in cooperation with the House of the Forest in Stuttgart-Degerloch has been a starting point for educational and content- related work in "Enrichment".

From the 2018/19 school year, the school is also offering the new profile subject Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics (IMP) from grades 8 to 10.

In the 2017/18 school year, the school was recognized as a location with a particularly successful form of professional orientation.

Alongside the English-speaking Ramstein High School , the grammar school is now one of the few schools in Germany that offers its students a FIRST Tech Challenge program . In the 2015/2016 season, the team at the FTC Dutch Open not only won the Inspire Award (2nd place) but also the Murata Control Award and thus qualified as the strongest FTC team in Germany. There were two teams at the school in the 2016/2017 season. There has even been a third team since the 2019/20 school year.

From the 2018/2019 school year on, the Königin-Katharina-Stift will offer the subjects of literature and theater for the grade level.

The school has been completely renovated since the 2012/13 school year and now has its own cafeteria.

languages

English from grade 5
French / Latin (only in the regular train) from grade 6
Italian from grade 8 / bilingual Italian
Italian as AG from grade 5 (preparation for profile subject in grade 8)

STEM area

Profile subject computer science, mathematics, physics (IMP) from grade 8
"Forest days" / "Forest week" in cooperation with the House of the Forest in grade 5
Lego League AG from grade 5
First Tech Challenge
Regular participation in competitions (Mathematics and Physics Olympics, Kangaroo of Mathematics, Beaver Competition, Explore Science, FLL, FTC etc.)
World Robot Olympiad
FIRST Global Challenge

Social curriculum

Class council, class hour, week group in grades 5 to 7
Learning companion program in grades 5 and 6
LionsQuest program
Sports week / sports days in grade 5
Student sponsorship program
Dispute Resolution AG

AG area

Choir and orchestra work
Dance group
Theater AG
Lego AG
Technology AG
Robotics AG

literature

Annual report of the Städtische Mädchenrealschule Königin-Katharina-Stift in Stuttgart: about the school year 1903 / 04–1915 / 16.
Elisabeth Skrzypek: The higher girls 'school system in Stuttgart, at the end of the 19th century using the example of the Katharinenstift and the private girls' high school. Hagen 1998.
Richard Zanker: Beloved old Stuttgart. Memories and encounters. Stuttgart 1965, page 111.
Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift , Stuttgart 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Queen Katharina Stift Stuttgart, director Franz Baur (Ed.): 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Stuttgart July 2018, p. 27 ff .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 37 .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 41 .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 51 .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 97, 130 ff .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 113 ff .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 235 .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 311 .
^ Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 185 ff .
↑ Königin-Katharina-Stift becomes IMP-Profilschule. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
^ Heidi Mosch: Day of professional orientation now at all secondary general education schools in Baden-Württemberg. February 2, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .
^ Winners of the FTC Dutch Open 2016. Accessed March 23, 2017 . FIRST-Tech-Challenge - February 1st, TU-Munich. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
^ School website. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
↑ FTC Stuttgart | Home page. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .

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[8] Gisela Gündert, Wolfgang Kress, Josef Buck: 200 years of Queen Katharina Stift . Ed .: Franz Baur. Stuttgart July 2018, p. 311 .

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[10] Königin-Katharina-Stift becomes IMP-Profilschule. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .

[11] Heidi Mosch: Day of professional orientation now at all secondary general education schools in Baden-Württemberg. February 2, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .

[12] Winners of the FTC Dutch Open 2016. Accessed March 23, 2017 . FIRST-Tech-Challenge - February 1st, TU-Munich. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .

[13] School website. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .

[14] FTC Stuttgart | Home page. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .