Empress Theophanu School

Empress Theophanu School
type of school	high school
School number	166650
founding	1938
address	Kantstrasse 3
place	Cologne
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 56 '13 "  N , 7 ° 0' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '13 "  N , 7 ° 0' 26"  E
carrier	city ​​Cologne
student	about 1000
Teachers	88
management	Oliver Schmitz
Website	www.kts-koeln.de

The Kaiserin-Theophanu-Schule (also called "KTS") is a municipal high school in Cologne - Kalk . Due to its location, it is shaped by many nationalities and cultures. It consists of a secondary level I and II, has a development association and is an all-day school .

history

prehistory

In 1898 the "Liebfrauen Oberlyzeum (reform high school direction) of the sisters of the poor child of Jesus" was opened in Cologne-Kalk. The Catholic school was closed by the state on March 30, 1938 during the Nazi era.

The Oberrealgymnasium for boys was located in Kantstrasse and was closed in 1938. On April 1, 1938, the “Municipal High School for Girls” (modern language form) was set up in its building. The school accepted an entry class, the six classes from grades 2 to 7 were taken over from the Liebfrauenschule. The school had 212 students, Edmund Hahn became the headmaster.

In 1939, one month after the start of the Second World War, on October 1, 1939, the girls in the secondary class were drafted into the Reich Labor Service .

The school's rooms were occupied in 1943 by the Klöckner-Humboldt company . Only the upper-level teaching of the natural sciences remained in the specialist rooms, the rest of the teaching takes place in the rooms of the boys' high school in Deutz.

Due to the war, all schools in Cologne were closed in October 1944. Schoolgirls in the upper school were called up to serve in the war, and teachers were assigned to various services, for example to the “army laundry room” in Cologne-Brück .

After the end of the war, teaching was resumed in November 1945 as the Cologne-Kalk study facility and temporarily housed in a building at the former Cologne-Merheim airport. The lyceum had six classes (5–10), the headmaster was Otto Freund.

At Easter 1948, ten classes returned to the building on Kantstrasse. In 1949, schoolgirls passed the Abitur for the first time after attending grammar school for nine years.

The school received a “basic women's high school” (UIII-OI) at the beginning of the school year at Easter 1950.

Because of the increasing shortage of space, rooms in non-school buildings (Catholic youth center, Gasthaus Böhmer, Gasthaus Kärten) were rented in 1954/1955.

The Empress Theophanu School

The KTS 2006

On July 2, 1957, the school was renamed "Kaiserin-Theophanu-Schule" after Theophanu , who was one of the most influential rulers of the Middle Ages and who was widowed in Cologne. In the same year, the expansion wing, the so-called B wing, was moved into. From 1959 to 1963, the school converted the A wing and built a new gym. In 1966 the women's high school became a "gymnasium for women's education to obtain a subject-specific higher education entrance qualification ". As a result of the 1972/73 upper level reform, the school was one of 65 schools in North Rhine-Westphalia , whose students could choose their subjects individually.

After long controversial discussions, coeducation was introduced in the 1973/74 school year , which meant that the school was opened to boys. From 1974 to 1975 the pavilion and the containers, the so-called C-wing, were erected. In 1978/79 the school was one of the first to introduce a non-teaching Saturday. In 1961 the tradition of wall paintings for the Abitur classes began, and in 1982 computer science classes were introduced with eight Apple II computers. Another tradition is the project week, which has always been held shortly before the summer holidays since 1983.

The expansion of the KTS

Design of the extension building with the triple sports hall

In 1998 the city of Cologne decided to expand the KTS as part of the "Kalk-Süd" project. In 2009 it was decided to build a triple sports hall and an extension wing. The design by the architect Zander emerged as the winner from the architectural competition. The extension should actually be completed by the school year 2018/19, but the completion was delayed by a few years, so that the extension will only open at the beginning of the school year 2020/21. The whereabouts of the old main building is uncertain; a renovation or demolition is being considered.

School profile

Due to the high proportion of students with a migration background , the grammar school sees itself as a cosmopolitan, tolerant school and has been a member of the network School without Racism - School with Courage since 2019 . It is also characterized by its diversity in the expanded range of foreign languages. In addition to the usual foreign languages, English , Latin and French, there are also Spanish and Japanese .

That Japanese can be learned as a foreign language at the school and the fact that in the rooms of the high school of the Japanese School Cologne e. V. holds his classes, led to the fact that after the earthquake in 2011 and the associated nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japanese students were admitted to the KTS.

Every school year the school runs the project week, which is dedicated to the diversity of the school and, in cooperation with the light bridge, organizes an annual sponsorship run to support the poor population in Bangladesh .

The school offers all-day places for lower secondary level. Students are at school from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to the lessons, this leaves time for joint activities; this is how the children prepare their lunch, play together and do their homework under supervision.

The school takes every year on competition Youth Debate in part, at the DLR School Lab of DLR and the KVB -Fahrzeugbegleitern.

The Kalk district is a classic working-class district. According to a report in Zeit Online , there is a large social gradient there, with the poorer among the schoolchildren attesting a particular ambition. For this reason, the KTS has been participating in the Study Compass project of the German Business Foundation since May 27, 2014 . The project aims to support children from non-academic households. Cooperation partner is RTL West . The students should be given the opportunity to gain an insight into the world of media and to get to know the variety of tasks in television.

people

• Berivan Aymaz , politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), high school diploma in 1990

Web links

• Website of the Empress Theophanu School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Teaching College | Empress Theophanu School Cologne. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (German). 
2. ^ School chronicle
3. ↑ Everything new after the summer holidays | Empress Theophanu School Cologne. Accessed July 1, 2020 (German). 
4. ^ School without Racism | Empress Theophanu School Cologne. Accessed January 10, 2020 (German). 
5. ^ Report: Students flee from Japan , focus.de, April 12, 2011, accessed on February 24, 2017
6. ^ Rich students, poor students , zeit.de, September 5, 2008, accessed on February 24, 2017
7. ↑ Studies or training , rtl-west.de, September 7, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2017