Rychenberg Cantonal School

Rychenberg Cantonal School
type of school	Cantonal school ( grammar school & technical secondary school )
founding	1959
address	Rychenbergstrasse 110
place	Winterthur
Canton	Zurich
Country	Switzerland
Coordinates	697 809 / 262 397 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '18 " N , 8 ° 44' 13" O ; CH1903: 697,809 / 262 397
carrier	Canton Zurich
student	1209 (2018/19)
Teachers	about 150 (2018/19)
management	Christian Sommer
Website	www.krw.ch

The Rychenberg Cantonal School in Winterthur (KRW) is a public secondary school in the Canton of Zurich . It is a high school with a regular school duration of six years. Various new and old language profiles as well as a bilingual Matura are offered . There is also the option of attending the cantonal technical college . Rector Christian Sommer and the three Vice Rectors Ursula Schifferle, Ulrich Schlaginhaufen and Felix Ziegler form the school management . In the 2018/19 school year, 1209 pupils attended the Rychenberg Cantonal School.

history

The roots of the Rychenberg canton school go back to 1862, when the industrial school and grammar school of the city of Winterthur were first run as maturity schools and were financially supported by the canton of Zurich. In 1919 the Canton of Zurich took over the Winterthur high school and the industrial school, which also gave it the solution to the urgent problem of space. In 1925–1928 he therefore had a new school facility built in the Lee area .

Due to the sharp increase in the number of students, the construction of an extension had been under discussion since 1942. In 1952, the government council of the Canton of Zurich approved a space program submitted by the school and in 1954 announced a competition for a new building, which was won by the Zurich architect Erik Lantner. Since the number of pupils continued to rise in the meantime, the convention in 1955 spoke out in favor of dividing the previous comprehensive school into two completely separate schools, which was organized in 1959. While the upper secondary school with the teacher training school remained in the old school building and was named Kantonsschule Im Lee , the grammar school was to be relocated to the new building together with the municipal girls' school as the Rychenberg Cantonal School . The year 1959 is therefore considered to be the founding year of the Rychenberg Cantonal School. The new building was built between 1959 and 1962 right next to the existing facility, on the area of the former Rychenberg cemetery.

The cemetery chapel on the lee side, which was demolished for the construction of the school

In 1976 the canton also took over the Winterthur girls' school, which was converted into a secondary school and remained part of the Rychenberg canton school. In 2009, the canton school Rychenberg was shown on a ranking list of the ETH Zurich as the canton school that best prepares for an ETH degree in Switzerland.

investment

A supplementary building to the existing cantonal school should first be built on the property. The flat roof buildings were built between 1959 and 1962 by the architect Erik Lantner in the style of Le Corbusier . The facility soon proved to be too small and had to be supplemented with extensions or quartered in adjacent buildings. The flat roof buildings from the 1960s were later classified as cultural assets of regional importance and are under monument protection .

Between 1987 and 1990, the facility was expanded to include a building designed by the Winterthur architects Peter Stutz and Markus Bolt for natural science subjects and a cafeteria . From 2004 to 2007, another extension was added that was used jointly with the neighboring Im Lee cantonal school, comprising a triple sports hall, eleven classrooms, three music rooms, a bicycle cellar and a media library. The Berlin Jost Haberland was won as the architect. The roofs were gradually equipped with a photovoltaic system that was set up for educational purposes.

Due to the increased number of pupils, the government council of the canton of Zurich decided in spring 2016 to renovate the cafeteria building and to add an upper floor with additional seats and three new classrooms. In January 2018, the converted building was finally put into operation.

View of the campus of the Rychenberg Cantonal School from the southwest in spring 2016
South facade of the main building built in 1962
The special wing completed in 1962
The auditorium from 1962
The media library building completed in 2007

Others

The student organization (SO) Rychenberg represents the student body. She organizes events such as B. the ski day, the European market day or the rose day. There is also an environmental group at the school. As a Winterthur secondary school association , Vitodurania is also active at the Rychenberg Cantonal School.

The two NLA floorball clubs HC Rychenberg Winterthur and Red Ants Rychenberg (formerly part of the HCR) were founded by students from the Rychenberg Cantonal School and are named after her.

Well-known alumni

Jürg Amann (1947–2013), writer
Angelo Barrile (born 1976), politician, Cantonal Councilor and National Councilor ( SP )

Jacqueline Fehr (born 1963), politician, national councilor and councilor (SP)

Jürg Fleischer (born 1974), Professor of German Studies

Peter Hauser (born 1943), lawyer and student historian

Caspar Hirschi (born 1975), historian and professor at the University of St. Gallen

Rudolf Ernst Keller (1920–2014), Professor of German Studies

Ralf Margreiter (born 1971), politician and Cantonal Councilor ( Greens )

Mattea Meyer (born 1987), politician, Cantonal Councilor and National Councilor (SP)

Hans-Jakob Mosimann (born 1956), lawyer

Felix E. Müller (born 1951), journalist and editor-in-chief of NZZ am Sonntag

Jonas Projer (born 1981), television presenter

Constantin Seibt (born 1966), journalist and author

Christa Tobler (born 1961), legal scholar

Thomas Vogel (born 1972), politician and Cantonal Councilor ( FDP )

Christoph Zürrer (born 1969), politician and district administrator in the canton of Glarus (SP)

literature

Werner Ganz : The Winterthur Middle School from its beginnings until 1962 . In: One hundred years of high school in Winterthur, 1862–1962 . Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1963, pp. 11–102.
Büelrain Cantonal School, Im Lee Cantonal School, Rychenberg Cantonal School (Ed.): 150 years of the Winterthur Cantonal Schools. The Winterthur canton schools from 1862–2012 . Mattenbach AG, Winterthur 2012.
Kantonsschule Rychenberg (Ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg Winterthur. Architectural impressions . Winterthur 2009.
Walter Kronbichler: The Zurich Canton Schools, 1833–1983. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the state secondary schools in the Canton of Zurich. Teaching material publisher of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich 1983.
Verena Rothenbühler: Education and School. In: Erwin Eugster (Ed.): From 1850 to the present. Between steam and bytes - technology, culture, innovation. (= Winterthur city history. Volume 2). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1212-6 , pp. 353–371.
Franziska Widmer Müller: 150 years of canton schools in Winterthur - 50 years of Rychenberg. In: Kantonsschule Rychenberg (Ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg. Annual report 2012/2013 . Winterthur 2013, pp. 23–26.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Kantonsschule Rychenberg (ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg. Annual report 2018/2019 . Winterthur 2019, pp. 7, 12.
^ Verena Rothenbühler: Education and School. In: Erwin Eugster (Ed.): From 1850 to the present. Between steam and bytes - technology, culture, innovation. (= Winterthur city history. Volume 2). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1212-6 , pp. 364–368.
↑ Kantonsschule Rychenberg (ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg Winterthur. Architectural impressions . Winterthur 2009, p. 13.
↑ Michael Graf: The cemetery under the canton school. In: Der Landbote , August 7, 2008, p. 12.
↑ Werner Ganz: The Winterthur Middle School from its beginnings to 1962 . In: One hundred years of high school in Winterthur, 1862–1962 . Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1963, pp. 74–76.
^ Walter Kronbichler: The Zurich Canton Schools, 1833–1983. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the state secondary schools in the Canton of Zurich. Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zürich , Zürich 1983, p. 36f.
^ Michael Furger: High schools under pressure. In: NZZ am Sonntag , January 18, 2009, p. 67.
↑ Erika Burri: The choice of high school influences success at ETH. In: Tages-Anzeiger , Friday, January 16, 2009, p. 11.
↑ B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).
↑ Kantonsschule Rychenberg (ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg Winterthur. Architectural impressions . Winterthur 2009, pp. 33-34, 41-42.
↑ Haberland Architects (ed.): Kantonsschule Winterthur . Architekturforum Aedes , Berlin 2007.
↑ RySolar Plus project. In: RySolar Plus. Retrieved May 15, 2020 (German).
↑ Michael Graf: Rychenberg cafeteria becomes a double storey. In: Der Landbote , January 22, 2016, p. 4.
^ Government Council of the Canton of Zurich: 227th Rychenberg Cantonal School, Winterthur, cafeteria repair and expansion . In: Excerpt from the minutes of the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich. Meeting on March 16, 2016 , pp. 1-4.
↑ Marc Leutenegger: On the flat screen: Chicken nuggets for 8.10 francs. In: Der Landbote , January 13, 2018, p. 7.
↑ People on the website of the Rychenberg Cantonal School. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
↑ Manuel Strenge, Beat Furrer: Vitodurania student association . In: Kantonsschule Rychenberg (Ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg. Annual report 2018/2019 . Winterthur 2019, pp. 39–40.

[1] Kantonsschule Rychenberg (ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg. Annual report 2018/2019 . Winterthur 2019, pp. 7, 12.

[2] Verena Rothenbühler: Education and School. In: Erwin Eugster (Ed.): From 1850 to the present. Between steam and bytes - technology, culture, innovation. (= Winterthur city history. Volume 2). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1212-6 , pp. 364–368.

[3] Kantonsschule Rychenberg (ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg Winterthur. Architectural impressions . Winterthur 2009, p. 13.

[4] Michael Graf: The cemetery under the canton school. In: Der Landbote , August 7, 2008, p. 12.

[5] Werner Ganz: The Winterthur Middle School from its beginnings to 1962 . In: One hundred years of high school in Winterthur, 1862–1962 . Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG, Winterthur 1963, pp. 74–76.

[6] Walter Kronbichler: The Zurich Canton Schools, 1833–1983. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the state secondary schools in the Canton of Zurich. Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zürich , Zürich 1983, p. 36f.

[7] Michael Furger: High schools under pressure. In: NZZ am Sonntag , January 18, 2009, p. 67.

[8] Erika Burri: The choice of high school influences success at ETH. In: Tages-Anzeiger , Friday, January 16, 2009, p. 11.

[9] B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).

[10] Kantonsschule Rychenberg (ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg Winterthur. Architectural impressions . Winterthur 2009, pp. 33-34, 41-42.

[11] Haberland Architects (ed.): Kantonsschule Winterthur . Architekturforum Aedes , Berlin 2007.

[12] RySolar Plus project. In: RySolar Plus. Retrieved May 15, 2020 (German).

[13] Michael Graf: Rychenberg cafeteria becomes a double storey. In: Der Landbote , January 22, 2016, p. 4.

[14] Government Council of the Canton of Zurich: 227th Rychenberg Cantonal School, Winterthur, cafeteria repair and expansion . In: Excerpt from the minutes of the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich. Meeting on March 16, 2016 , pp. 1-4.

[15] Marc Leutenegger: On the flat screen: Chicken nuggets for 8.10 francs. In: Der Landbote , January 13, 2018, p. 7.

[16] People on the website of the Rychenberg Cantonal School. Retrieved October 18, 2019.

[17] Manuel Strenge, Beat Furrer: Vitodurania student association . In: Kantonsschule Rychenberg (Ed.): Kantonsschule Rychenberg. Annual report 2018/2019 . Winterthur 2019, pp. 39–40.