KK Kronprinz-Rudolf-Gymnasium Brody
| K. k. Kronprinz-Rudolf-Gymnasium | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1817 |
| place | Brody |
| Oblast | Lviv |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '57 " N , 25 ° 9' 5" E |
| Website | bgit.narod.ru Ukrainian |
The kk Kronprinz-Rudolf-Gymnasium (for imperial-royal Kronprinz-Rudolf-Gymnasium) in Brody (Ukraine) was after the Polonization of the Galician high schools next to the high school in Lemberg until 1914 the only German-speaking high school in Galicia .
history
Brody's oldest middle schools were founded in 1784. In 1817 an Israelite secondary school with German as the language of instruction was set up in the city . In 1854 those responsible turned it into a general public school and, from 1865, gradually converted it into a secondary school . The building that still exists today was erected in 1883 and the school was named kk Kronprinz Rudolf Gymnasium after Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary . The author Joseph Roth graduated here in 1913 (in German) with distinction.
The municipality, which financed a third of the maintenance and the teaching staff, insisted on German as the language of instruction for decades. In 1896, however, the local council unanimously decided to polonize the school, which was only implemented gradually from 1907/08. After that, Polish was the language of instruction for each year, but the existing classes continued to be in German up to the Matura . In June 1914, therefore, the last matriculation examination took place in German.
In the interwar period, the school was named after the Polish-English writer Joseph Conrad , who was born in Brody . With the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939, the grammar school was converted to Ukrainian and run as School No. 1. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , it was not until 1997 that the name of the Gymnasium was reverted to and named after Iwan Trusch .
present
Today (as of June 2016) around 500 children and young people are taught in the national language Ukrainian , while English is offered as the first and German as the second foreign language. Classes begin on Monday with a clergyman's address and a kind of roll call during which the Ukrainian national anthem is sung. Around a third of the graduates of the grammar school study in Poland because of the better opportunities. The Ukraine conflict also has an impact on the high school students: On the one hand, several family fathers perished in the war, on the other hand, children from families who have fled the conflict areas are also being taught.
Prominent students
From the fall of 1905 until his Matura in 1913, Joseph Roth was a high school student. He belonged to the penultimate year, the language of which was still German throughout. The Ukrainian painter Iwan Trusch attended grammar school from 1881 to 1887. Since 1984 a memorial in front of the school has commemorated famous former students and teachers, and the biographies of these personalities and details of their school careers are presented in a museum room.
literature
- Julian Kustynowicz: History of the KK Rudolf-Gymnasium in Brody. Verl des Studienfonds, Brody 1904 ( digitized version )
- Annual report of the KK Rudolf-Gymnasium in Brody. 20.1897 / 98 - 29.1906 / 07 ( digitized )
- Sprawozdanie CK Gimnazyum Im. Rudolfa w Brodach. 30.1907 / 08 - 31.1908 / 09 ( digitized )
- Börries Kuzmany: Brody. A Galician border town in the long 19th century. Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78763-1