Kant-Gymnasium Boppard

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Kant-Gymnasium Boppard
Kant-Gymnasium Boppard, Altbau.jpg
Old building of the Kant high school
type of school high school
founding 1765
address

Mainzer Strasse 24

place Boppard
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 13 '51 "  N , 7 ° 36' 5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '51 "  N , 7 ° 36' 5"  E
carrier Rhein-Hunsrück district
student about 630
Teachers about 60
management Wolfgang Spriewald
Website www.kant-boppard.de

The Kant-Gymnasium Boppard is the only Gymnasium in Boppard with a wide catchment area in the region and a long tradition. It was founded by the Franciscans as a Latin school in 1764 , approved as a public school in 1765 and has been a full high school since 1904. Today (2016) the school has three classes, has around 630 students, who are taught by around 60 teachers. The Kant-Gymnasium is also one of the training schools for trainee lawyers at the Koblenz study seminar . The old building is a listed building .

location

The Kant-Gymnasium Boppard has the address Mainzer Straße 24, it is located at the eastern end of the Boppard district. The listed part of the building is on the corner of Mainzer Strasse and Gymnasialstrasse. Mainzer Strasse was part of Bundesstrasse 9 until the end of the 1980s . To the north of the original school building are a new building, a sports area and the sports hall located directly on the Rhine.

history

Franciscan Latin School

In 1764 the Franciscans began teaching Latin in Boppard. In the following year, the city asked Elector Johann Philipp von Walderdorf to give the school a public character. This was approved on November 5, 1765, and on February 4, 1766 this school was officially opened. When the French Revolution reached Boppard in 1794 , the religious fled and the monastery was closed. After a few years the first returned, and in 1797 teaching was resumed. In 1803 the school was located in the Ritter-Schwalbachhaus, which belonged to the former Franciscan monastery , but moved to the Carmelite monastery a little later . The school was replaced in 1805 by a municipal secondary school , which was run by the same principal.

Progymnasium

In 1866 the school was recognized as a Progymnasium , four years later the number of pupils rose to over 100 for the first time. Since the former Carmelite monastery was too small for the Progymnasium and the classrooms urgently needed to be modernized, the idea of ​​building a new building came up. In order to be able to finance this new building, the city of Boppard applied to nationalize the school. This request was not approved. For this reason, the idea, which had been considered as early as 1896, came into focus of expanding the Progymnasium into a full high school . For this reason the city council was able to provide 250,000 marks for the new building. On January 16, 1902, the Minister for Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs approved the expansion to a full high school. At Easter 1902 the Obersekunda was attached to the previous six-class school. The hospital property in Mariensmark, where the grammar school is still located today, was chosen as the site for the new building. The new building should offer space for 400 students. Construction began in March 1904 and was directed by the architect Josef Mockenhaupt . After 18 months of construction, the building was completed and inaugurated on January 11, 1906. The number of students was over 200. In connection with the expansion to a full high school, the St. Michael Alumnate was built in Boppard . Almost forty years later, on September 18, 1944, the school was closed by order of the Reich Defense Commissioner .

After the Second World War

The school reopened on October 1, 1945. This was the first day of school after the end of World War II for 261 boys and 29 girls . On October 23, 1945, the French occupation forces named the school Boppard Municipal Realgymnasium . From around 1950 the structure of the higher schools in Rhineland-Palatinate was reformed. There were three types to choose from for the grammar schools. The high schools in Rhineland-Palatinate had to decide whether they should adopt an ancient language, a modern language or a mathematical and scientific form. The parents of high school students from Boppard decided on the name Urban Modern Language High School Boppard . On April 1, 1960, the law to nationalize secondary schools in Rhineland-Palatinate came into force. The former district of St. Goar took over the building and the state took over personnel management and salaries. That is why the name of the school was changed to Staatliches Neusprachliches Gymnasium Boppard .

Due to the rapidly growing number of students, there was inevitably a lack of suitable classrooms. The school had 200 students in 1945 and 861 students in 1960. To counter this grievance, under the director Dr. Paul Kämchen designed a building development program. This envisaged a new building for classrooms and a sports hall on the Rhine . The sports hall was completed in 1967 and the classroom wing two years later in 1969.

Another four years later in 1973, the grammar school was renamed after the philosopher Immanuel Kant and has been called the Kant-Gymnasium Boppard ever since . In 1974 with the introduction of the Mainz study level (MSS) a school library was set up. A string class was set up in the 2001/02 school year. Until 2015, pupils who want to attend the fifth grade of the Kant-Gymnasium could decide whether they want to go to this special class.

Since the 2016/2017 school year, the Kant-Gymnasium has been breaking new ground in music lessons at the orientation level. In the future, one hour of music theory will continue to be given in class. The second (in string lessons also the third) hour includes practical music lessons, which are designed in a new concept based on inclination and across classes. The pupils can choose between different offers depending on their personal interests and preferences for the orientation level. The previous “string class” will also be integrated into the new concept as “string lessons”.

During the expansion of the attic wing on the Rhine side in 1997, preliminary work was also made for the expansion of the opposite wing. This was completed in 2010 for € 480,000 and four new classrooms were set up. The school currently has 36 classrooms available. In addition, the school was renovated with regard to energetic criteria during this renovation work. The basement rooms and attic areas were better insulated, a solar system was installed on the roof and the single glazing in the break hall was replaced by triple glazing. These renovation measures cost a further € 400,000. Both the extension of the top floor and the energy-efficient renovation were financed with the help of the economic stimulus package II .

In the summer of 2015, the school celebrated its 250th anniversary with a ceremony and a school festival.

In 2018 the grammar school was awarded as a school without racism - school with courage .

Web links

Commons : Kant-Gymnasium Boppard  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments in the Rhein-Hunsrück district (PDF; 1.5 MB). Koblenz 2011.
  2. ↑ Koblenzer Heimatblatt: Alt-Koblenz, Koblenzer Mundart, Heimatpflege, page 185
  3. ^ Heinrich Josef Nolden: On the history of the city of Boppard : annual report on the Progymnasium in Boppard; 1866/67; timeline
  4. ^ Johann Josef Klein: History of Boppard . 1909, p. 249 , urn : nbn: de: 0128-1-36929 .
  5. ↑ Prport.net: Boppard: Gymnasium expanded and vocational school renovated energetically ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Accessed on September 5, 2010
  6. ↑ SWR Aktuell: How a high school in Boppard becomes a "school without racism" . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on September 29, 2018]).