Frauenfeld Cantonal School

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Frauenfeld Cantonal School
Cantonal school 8500 Frauenfeld 1020028.jpg
type of school Cantonal school (grammar school), technical secondary school , commercial secondary school , computer science secondary school
founding 1853
address

Ringstrasse 10

place Frauenfeld
Canton Thurgau
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 710 225  /  268 193 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '19 "  N , 8 ° 54' 11"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and ten thousand two hundred twenty-five  /  268193
carrier Canton of Thurgau
student 850
Teachers 110
management Chantal Roth
Website www.kanti-frauenfeld.ch

The district school Frauenfeld in Frauenfeld is the largest middle school of Thurgau . The main building from 1911 is located on Ringstrasse. In the vernacular, this canton school is also usually referred to as Kanti .

history

Ever since the canton of Thurgau was founded in 1803, there was a need for higher education in the canton. Thirty years later, a cantonal teachers' seminar was opened in Kreuzlingen . Diessenhofen , Weinfelden and Frauenfeld were available for choosing the location for a canton school . In 1847, the Grand Council decided to found the canton school in Frauenfeld. The location for the future school building with Konvikt was to be on Promenadenstrasse. After the building decision, the new canton school was built according to plans by Johann Joachim Brenner-Drenzler until 1851 , but after Volksveto in 1850 it could not initially be used as a canton school, but served to store the liquidated monastery property of the Fischingen monastery and the Ittingen Charterhouse . The canton school in Frauenfeld was opened on November 14, 1853. The final expansion of the premises took place in 1857–58. In the first semester, 81 students and six teachers were counted. In the 1860s, the two student associations, Thurgovia (co-founder Ludwig Forrer ) and Concordia, emerged.

The increase in the number of students to 200 led to a lack of space in the building. For this reason, a second building was built, which today houses the higher court of the canton of Thurgau. When the space became too scarce after further increases in the number of students, the city of Frauenfeld supported a spacious new building on Ringstrasse. After a building competition in 1907 won by the Frauenfeld office of Brenner and Stutz , the project was also confirmed at the ballot box in 1908, and it was built from 1909 to October 1911. This new building offered the school enough space for almost sixty years. A later expansion consists of a new building on Speicherstrasse that was moved into in 1993.

The first gym, the so-called Konvikthalle, was opened with the canton school and was in use until 2003. In 1968 two more gyms were inaugurated. In 2003 these gyms were supplemented by a triple gym.

The canton school Frauenfeld now has a grammar school department, a technical middle school department , a commercial middle school department and a computer science middle school department .

building

The canton's library is now housed in the first school building from 1853, while the upper court is currently located in the former Konvikt.

Today's main building from 1911 by the architects Brenner & Stutz is built in the Art Nouveau style and stands out as a very representative building with old trees. The northern corner building is crowned by a lantern with a platform 5 meters wide, which is used as a lookout tower. The building was gently renovated between 1993 and 1995. With this renovation, it is considered one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau school buildings in Switzerland. It has been in the federal government's inventory of cultural assets since February 1, 2012 . In addition to classrooms, the building houses the school management, the school administration, the singing hall and the media library.

The new building from 1993 houses most of the special classrooms for science subjects and the cafeteria.

Personalities

Teacher

student

literature

  • The Frauenfeld Cantonal School and its poets. Catalog for the exhibition of the Emd class in the autumn semester 2008/2009. ( kanti-frauenfeld.ch , PDF, 1.8 MB)

Web links

Commons : Kantonsschule Frauenfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hanspeter Rebsamen: Frauenfeld . In: INSA: Inventory of Newer Swiss Architecture, 1850–1920 . tape 4 , no. 13 , 1982, pp. 127-128 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-5494 .
  2. ^ Emil Baur: The canton school in Frauenfeld . In: Swiss architecture . tape 4 , no. 13 , 1912, pp. 197-207 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-6206 .