Empress Augusta School

Empress Augusta School Cologne
type of school	high school
School number	166595
founding	1902
address	Georgsplatz 10
place	Cologne-Altstadt-Süd
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 55 '54 "  N , 6 ° 57' 30"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '54 "  N , 6 ° 57' 30"  E
carrier	city ​​Cologne
student	about 1000
Teachers	about 78
management	Mirja Matysiak
Website	www.kas-koeln.de

Empress Augusta School

Kaiserin Augusta School (Georgsplatz 10)

The Kaiserin-Augusta-Schule (KAS) is a municipal high school in Cologne . It is named after the former German Empress Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . There are currently around 1050 students attending the school.

history

The grammar school was founded in 1902, with Dr. Friedrich Blumberger , who headed what was then the “First City School for Higher Daughters”, today's Queen Luise School . Initially, the building was on the street “An Lyskirchen”, a short time later the company moved to its own building on the Carthusian Wall. During the First World War the building was used as a hospital, after 1919 the building was occupied by British troops for a year.

During the Second World War , in which the school building was confiscated by the Wehrmacht, there was another move, this time to the current building at Georgsplatz 10, which was previously used by the church Liebfrauenschule in Cologne . Until 1972 the school was an all girls' school. From this point on, boys could also attend school.

Pedagogical approach

Since 1987 the school has been teaching according to the approach of the reform pedagogue Peter Petersen . The school is set up as an all-day school.

Focus on new media

Great emphasis is also placed on education in the new media . The computer is used for teaching purposes, and there is internet access in all rooms of the school. In addition to the library, a self-study center with nine computers and two computer rooms for whole classes was set up. The school has been involved in the CAS project, a project for better computers in Cologne schools, since 2009 and has therefore received new LAN connections in all rooms as well as new computers for the self-study center, the computer rooms and one per subject room. Since February 2011, thanks to the support of the friends' association, the school has had 30 tablet computers that can be transported in three mobile rolling systems. Weblogs and a school wiki support the lessons. From November 2018, the KAS was equipped with 120 additional iPads, so that almost 200 tablets are now available to all students via an internal booking process. In September 2018, the KAS presented its media concept to a group of visitors from the city of Herten, and the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schule is still one of the digital pioneering schools in Cologne.

deals

The school offers English or French as a first foreign language. Currently, Latin, information technology, natural sciences, art and performing games, business English (with an internationally recognized certificate) and ancient Greek are offered as electives from year 8 onwards in cooperation with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium . In addition, Spanish and Italian are offered as study groups. The French certificate DELF / DALF can be obtained.

The high school has partner schools in France, Texas, Greece, Bolivia and Chile. The school community is committed to the charitable institution Kairos in Santiago de Chile . The school has been participating in the “ Youth Debate ” competition for years .

There are a number of working groups in the fields of music, science, languages, sports and theater. In November 2009, the upper school took part in a film project announced by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , in which 67 students made 17 short films.

Collapse of the Cologne City Archives

In addition to the heavily damaged neighboring school Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, the KAS was also affected by the collapse of the Cologne City Archives in March 2009 . After the school was closed for three weeks and lessons were relocated to the Cologne University of Applied Sciences , where the load-bearing capacity of the subsoil and the statics of the building were checked, lessons could be resumed at the old location after a month.

Well-known teachers and graduates

Stumbling stone in memory of the former student Gisela Herz.

Teacher

• The later politician Helene Weber (1881–1962) taught at the school from 1911

student

• Maria Hasemeier-Eulenbruch (1899–1972), ceramist and art professor
• Lilli Jahn (1900–1944), Jewish victim of National Socialism
• Louise Jörssen (1897–1987), founder of Catholic social schools
• Freya von Moltke b. Deichmann (1911–2010) resistance fighter
• Jutta Dahl b. Weitbrecht (* 1943), first winner of the Aachen Peace Prize (1988)
• Paulus Vennebusch (* 1968), author
• Marietta Slomka (* 1969), television journalist
• Reingard M. Nischik, professor at the University of Konstanz
• Sinje Irslinger (* 1996), actress
• Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003), Protestant theologian and poet

Web links

Commons : Kaiserin-Augusta-Schule  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• School website
• School wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The KAS compact. Kaiserin Augusta School Cologne (as of 2019)
2. ↑ Digital pioneering school - Kaiserin-Augusta-Schule presented media concepts. In: [digital] education cologne. Retrieved November 27, 2018 . 
3. ↑ according to 100 seconds from the student's point of view . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , November 16, 2009
4. ↑ Martina Windrath: School closed. - Looking for a new home. In: Rundschau Online. March 5, 2009, accessed April 9, 2019 . 
5. ^ Marc Steinhäuser: City archive collapse - Cologne is looking for the culprits. In: Zeit Online. March 4, 2009, Retrieved April 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Students of the Kaiserin Augusta School can return to their building. Press release. City of Cologne, March 24, 2009, accessed April 9, 2019 . 
7. ^ Helene Weber (CDU). Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on April 9, 2019 . 
8. ^ Maria Hasemeier-Eulenbruch (1899–1972) - The artist was born in Kelberg. In: Heimatjahrbuch 2000. Vulkaneifel district, accessed on April 9, 2019 . 
9. ↑ according to Manfred Berger:  JÖRISSEN, Louise Helene Maria Hubertine. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 710-718.
10. ↑ Jörg Böhnk: Service for a courageous woman from Cologne , in Kölner Stadtanzeiger from December 16, 2010, p. 35
11. ↑ Prof. Dr. Reingard M. Nischik. University of Konstanz, accessed on April 9, 2019 (English). 
12. ^ Anselm Weyer: Cologne "search for traces" Dorothee Sölle, the arguable. In: Kölnische Rundschau. September 13, 2018, accessed April 9, 2019 .