Cantonal School Trogen

Cantonal School Trogen
Old Konvikt lithograph by Jakob Laurenz Gsell , approx. 1830 (detail)
type of school	High school, FMS, WMS
founding	1821
address	Kantonsschulstrasse 22
place	Trogen
Canton	Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Country	Switzerland
Coordinates	752 541  /  252786 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '30 "  N , 9 ° 27' 35"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred forty-one  /  252786
carrier	Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
student	436 learners (as of August 2020)
Teachers	96 (plus 37 administration)
management	Elisabeth Steger Vogt
Website	www.kst.ch

The Trogen Cantonal School (KST), also known as "Kanti Trogen" for short, was founded in 1821 and is the only secondary school in the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . This makes it one of the oldest educational institutions in the canton and, after the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau, the second oldest secondary school in Switzerland, apart from the ecclesiastical educational institutions. In addition to the grammar school , the offer of the canton school also includes a business and technical secondary school . A uniform secondary school has been run since 1907; This is currently done on behalf of the three municipalities of Trogen , Wald and Rehetobel .

Courses and offers

high school

The grammar school education follows on from the 2nd or 3rd grade of the lower secondary level and ends after four years with the federal Matura examination. With the Matura certificate, you can study any subject offered at a Swiss university or college . Since autumn 2016, the school has also offered the bilingual Matura (German - English).

Technical middle school

The Fachmittelschule (FMS) has existed at the Trogen Cantonal School since 2005 and offers a well-developed general education. In addition, there are practical assignments in preparation for vocational training or a degree in the fields of health / natural sciences , pedagogy and social work .

Business middle school

Today's business school (WMS) was opened in 1897 under the name Merkantilabteilung (later the commercial department). The focus is on school-based basic education, practical experience in companies and stays in various language areas as preparation for higher vocational training or a degree at a university of applied sciences.

Secondary school

In the cooperative model, the secondary school offers three levels of proficiency in mathematics, French and English as well as an expanded system of electives as preparation for apprenticeships and secondary schools.

Sports school

The KST has been a partner school of the Appenzellerland Sports School since 2005 . This offer is aimed at talented young athletes and offers a wide variety of training opportunities in the levels I and II by putting together an individualized overall package for the fulfillment of school and sporting goals.

Exchange

Since 2015, the KST has offered exchange programs with high schools in the canton of Valais : At the Lycée-Collège de la Planta and the Lycée-Collège des Creusets in Sion or at the Lycée-Collège de l'Abbaye in Saint-Maurice . The exchange year lasts one school year and is completed instead of the 4th grade at the Gymnasium of the Trogen Cantonal School. As an option, students in the 4th and 5th grades can also take part in a three-month short exchange.

history

Foundation, location

Johann Caspar Zellweger ,
around 1838

A former student of the KST described the location of the school as follows: “The Kanti Trogen is one of the most beautifully situated canton schools in Switzerland. I still remember how I always enjoyed getting out of the post bus and then down the little path where you already had the whole view. " The fact that the canton school of Appenzell Ausserrhoden is located far away from the big cities in little Trogen has historical reasons. When the philanthropist Johann Caspar Zellweger founded a higher private school with a few like-minded friends in 1820 , there were not any number of options open to him. The Zellweger family, who became rich through the canvas trade, had various buildings built in Trogen for their residential and business purposes. One of these buildings, which served as a workers' house for the nearby spinning mill , was made available by the founder for his school and donated to the canton in 1824. The extraordinary choice of location was therefore purely practical. On February 1, 1821, the "Teaching and Education Institute for the Sons of the Educated Classes" (with three teachers and 17 students) was opened in the old Konvikt by Johann Conrad Zuberbühler as the first rector (Zuberbühler was a student and assistant to Johann Heinrich for seven years Pestalozzi ). Although the institute was elevated to a cantonal school in 1825, it was still financially supported by the Trogen municipality and private sponsors. It was not until 1864 that the Cantonal Council decided to put the school under its patronage, also financially.

Look at

Cantonal school area in 1926, formerly a rural idyll for high school students from all over the world. Watercolor by Otto Schmid

Until the 1960s, only about a third of the students came from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, which can be described as a curiosity in the Swiss middle school landscape. The catchment areas outside the cantons included cantons from all over Switzerland, abroad and all parts of the world, as the KST had the reputation of being an exemplary school from an early stage. In 1882, for example, Pastor Alfred Altherr wrote about the late Rector Schoch and the grammar school in Trogen: “I know that many a family home on this side and the other side of the ocean and the Alps will never regret entrusting them with their son, often a problem child of the family because over the door of his educational institution the word I read in Arbon over the door of a doctor's house was allowed to stand: Here you get well! " And in 1966, the statement of a peasant woman confirmed the importance of the kanti: "Yes, this is a very famous school, rich people from all over the world send their children there." The main reasons for the high reputation of the KST were above all:

• The students lived far away from the urban hustle and bustle with its distractions
• The rural surroundings and mountain air of Trogen were seen as beneficial to health. "We have a lot of young people from all parts of Switzerland for whom the family doctor voted for Trogen." (Rector Wildi in a letter to the headmaster of the Zurich commercial school)
• Until the end of the 1970s, the KST was primarily a boarding school, which meant that the students were looked after, re-educated and checked around the clock (after school in the Konvikt or a village guesthouse) . “A large number of parents who send their children to Trogen are not just looking for proper instruction here, but also upbringing. That this can be found in Trogen is recognized by the extraordinarily critical former Rector Dr. Fiedler in Zurich, the best connoisseur of Swiss secondary schools, who in one of the last booklets on physical education names Trogen as the leading school in Switzerland (next to Biel). From a closer look at the actual circumstances, I can say that this assessment is largely due to the state Konvikt and the pensions of the cantonal school teachers. " (Rector Wildi in a letter to the canton school commission)
• In the free time, joint activities took place through a lively club life (in the 20th century there were around 20 student associations at the KST)
• The KST was a small school and thus, in the eyes of most parents, offered more personal care
• Discipline was trained by the Trogen Cadet Corps , among other things
• The KST was known for accepting difficult students who had failed in other places
• Overall, this way of life resulted in an intensive camaraderie and high level of identification with the school and the locality among the students. Years later, this defining factor caused the alumni to send their sons and daughters to the canton school in Trogen again

girl

The fact that girls were able to attend school at the KST as early as 1895 was due to the then rector August Meier, who took the initiative to also accept female students; He wrote to the canton school commission in this regard: «For the current year I would like to put a question to you which over time will become important for our school. More and more people are looking to open up new areas for their daughters and this has also happened in many places in the field of science. The discussion of the question of whether our school should also open the way for girls to study. [...] I got the idea from my daughter 'Adeline', who is in the first year of the girls' secondary school, proves to be capable and very likely wants to study. " 65 years later, Adeline Meier recalled: “In the autumn of 1895 it was so far that Elise Frei von Rehetobel was allowed to join the second grade grammar school department with me. [...] In the spring of 1896, Sophie A. Lutz from the rectory in Speicher joined us as the third member of the group . [...] The event of entry into the canton school in Trogen, which is so important for us girls, did not cause a lot of waves, because Dr. Wiget [Meier's successor] never mentioned it in the annual report for 1895/96. " Finally, in 1907, Article 1 of the reorganized cantonal school contained the provision: "As far as circumstances allow, girls should also be admitted." Ella Amstein was the very first woman to teach at the Trogen Cantonal School from 1926 to 1936.

Reorganization and expansion

The teaching staff at the Trogen Cantonal School: 1931 with Rector Ernst Wildi , 1994 with Rector Willi Eugster

In 1907 the canton school underwent a profound reorganization: under Rector Ernst Wildi , the school's own Matura with a grading scale from 1 to 6 was introduced, the school fees for students living in the canton were abolished and the “State Convict for Boys” was opened (previously boarding school). In addition, the secondary schools in Trogen, Wald and Rehetobel were integrated into the KST campus. The second half of the last century was mainly characterized by the implementation of additional buildings as a result of the steadily growing number of students. From 1988 to 2013 the 10th year of school was also taught in Trogen and in 2005 the Fachmittelschule (FMS) was founded. In the almost 200-year history of the KST, the continuously increasing number of pupils and the resulting lack of space have been a constant problem. The State Economic Commission also repeatedly pointed out the chronic lack of space in its reports from 1911 to 1919. For example, the teacher's room even had to be occupied for lessons from time to time and from 1915 to 1931 the school management felt compelled to move drawing lessons to the ground floor of the pentagonal palace of the Zellweger family. The first annual report of the KVT (Cantonal School Association of Former Students) in 1923 said, among other things: “The classrooms are absolutely inadequate and would not be sufficient for half of the approx. 250 students; They are scattered in 7 buildings in the village (school house, study, Konvikt, drawing room in Kaspar Zellwegerhaus, gymnasium in the Vordorf school house, orchestra in the 'crown', craftsmanship in the Niedern). The translation of the classrooms is unhealthy and irresponsible, the chemistry and natural history rooms and the accommodation for the collections are simply unworthy. " The history of the Trogen Cantonal School is therefore characterized by recurring construction activity and thus also a small architectural history that reflects the zeitgeist of the last 200 years in a unique way.

buildings

Old Konvikt

KST postcard from a schoolboy from 1920: Altes Konvikt and Altes Schulhaus

The "original cell" of the thirteen KST buildings is the residential building built in 1804 with the attached wash house on the northern slope ( Im Nideren ) of Trogen. The workers of the neighboring mechanical spinning mill of Johann Caspar Zellweger lived there. The location of the house away from the village center, and thus also the location of the future canton school, resulted from the fact that the spinning mill was operated with water power from the nearby Töbelibach . The closure of the factory cleared the building for its new use as a school. When the school started operating in 1821, there was still a barn in the eastern third. There was a classroom on the western ground floor, a teacher's apartment on the upper floor and the students' bedrooms on the top floor. In 1829 the stable part was also converted into additional classrooms. After the construction of what is now known as the old school house in 1865, the entire building served as a boys ' convent and was also called "Köfferli" by the students; At the beginning of the 20th century it was even the main motif for a postcard. Further interim uses such as meeting rooms, music rooms etc. followed until it was converted into a school management center with caretaker apartments in 1997. The elongated building has a Bollenstein cellar masonry and a shingled knitted structure. It is closed by a keel- arched gable roof in eaves position. The shingle facades and windows were renewed during the restoration. Although the use of the rooms has changed several times, the shape as well as the material and space quality of the original house have been preserved.

"Olympus"

After the stable part of the old Konvikt was rebuilt in 1829 , the institute stadel , today's "Olymp" , was built as a replacement (1837 at the latest) . Due to a lack of space in the Konvikt, the then rector August Meier set up four heated bedrooms on the upper floor at his own expense in 1885. In 1967 the stable on the ground floor was converted into a commuter room; until then it served as accommodation for the Konvikt animals (cows and pigs). The renovation was financed by the “Trade Association Appenzell Ausserrhoden” on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. In the course of the following decades, the building was further converted and still serves as the campus' youth club with offices for the student organization.

Old school house

Old school house

In 1863 the municipality of Trogen offered to build a new cantonal school east of the Konvikt at its own expense in order to remedy the prevailing lack of space. By donating to the canton, the “Cantonal Institute” officially became a canton school in 1864, a teaching and educational institution for boys belonging to the canton. In the same year work began on the new schoolhouse, which was built by master builder Daniel Oertli from Herisau according to the plans of architect Christoph Kunkler. On August 31, 1865, the ceremonial handover and inauguration of the new three-story stone building took place. The type of construction with brick facades and wooden beam ceilings corresponded to the type of public buildings of that time. The classicist building was completed by a hipped roof. In 1969 the old schoolhouse was renovated and expanded: a risalit extension with new classrooms was built on the north side of the house according to plans by architect Hans Ulrich Hohl .

"Education"

From 1884 the number of pupils increased considerably and Rector August Meier decided to build a new building. Again (as with the expansion of the bedroom in the "Olymp") Meier paid for this expansion out of his own pocket. Carelessly, he let the new building, whose name derives from the fact that mainly supervised task assistance (study) took place in it, but erected in 1886 on cantonal soil; This “wild building” meant that in 1895 the canton finally bought the “Studium”. The property was renovated twice before it was demolished in 1977 in favor of the cafeteria building .

Old gym

In 1927 the school was fortunate that the Fenkart family donated a gymnasium to the KST. The building was completed just one year later. The formation of corner pilasters and the hipped roof shaped the masonry hall construction as a public building. During the complete renovation in 1991, the structural qualities were preserved.

→ Detailed chapter: Construction of the old gym

"Red School House"

«Red School House». Left: linocut by drawing teacher Otto Schmid , 1931. Right: 4th grade in the mercantile department, 1934/35

In order to do justice to the increasing number of pupils, the canton examined in 1919 to expand the KST with the armory of Trogen. This project was dropped in favor of a new building. However, in 1920 the rural community rejected this project heavily. Eight years later, the reconstruction of the Honnerlag family's double palace was considered; but this idea was also judged to be unsuitable in comparison to the new building project. In 1930 the local community finally approved the construction of an additional building. The architects Ziegler & Balmer were thus able to start building work on today's Red Schoolhouse , which was completed in autumn 1931. Only proven and solid building materials were used for the construction. Above the concrete structure , the upper floors are made of brick masonry. As a testimony to a time of great economic crises, the exterior without a fashionable design is a result of the chosen construction. The red schoolhouse was last extensively renovated in 1998. A peculiarity in the history of the building is the fact that its realization was at times in doubt when the Trogen Cadets were fired at from a pine cone in 1929.

→ Detailed chapter: Construction of the «Red Schoolhouse»

→ Detailed chapter: "Fir cone affair"

"Annex"

The "Annex": 1963 with a flat roof and in 1988 after the addition

Because the number of schoolchildren grew by around 50% to 472 in ten years, the Landsgemeinde approved an implementation loan in 1962 for a further expansion. A concrete and brick building was built according to the plans of architect Heinrich Naef. A covered break hall was also created as a connection between the new “ Annex ” building and the Red Schoolhouse . In keeping with the spirit of the times, the building was constructed as a rectangular concrete frame construction with a flat roof . In the summer of 1965, the KVT gave the school a sundial, which was installed on the west facade of the "Annex". It was designed by the former drawing teacher Otto Schmid . The KVT President at the time, Elisabeth Pletscher, wrote in the annual report: “The genuine Appenzell, initial skepticism towards this idea disappeared more and more, the wall appeared increasingly bare and even in the summer meeting the board of directors was unanimously of the opinion that a sundial should be there. [...] Prof. Otto Schmid was persuaded to take over the artistic design, and the project has already progressed so far that Prof. Schmid's house is almost no longer sufficient to hold the huge drawings! » In 1988, the school building was raised by an additional full floor and finished with a hipped roof, which meant that an architectural contemporary witness of the 1960s was lost. In the run-up to the project planning, a former schoolboy also criticized the increase in the “Annex” and said that “the next time the renovation is carried out in thirty years, the preservationist will in any case ensure that the hipped roof is removed again, and then you will wonder about the cultural confusion the 80s will be surprising ». The loss of the flat roof was taken into account by creating a joint formation all around the facade between the 1st and 2nd floors indicating the former flat roof end.

Refectory building

2017: The newly renovated cafeteria building after the second renovation phase

Compared to the other KST buildings, which were largely left in their basic state, the cafeteria building underwent several extensive changes in the course of its construction history; both in terms of appearance and function. This started with the 1967 report by the sociologist René Riesen: Among other things, he drew the conclusion that the KST would not be viable in the long term as a state middle school without additional accommodation and food options for commuters: “For health and educational reasons, rather the expansion of the Konviktes than excessive expansion of commuting. " This is how the new building project for a Konviktes with cafeteria came about . This building project was rejected by the Landsgemeinde in 1972 , but approved five years later. Before the construction work could begin, however, the "Studium", built in 1886, had to make room and be demolished. After a two-year construction period, the new boys ' convent (the girls' convent initially remained on the village square) with the canteen / auditorium was put into operation in autumn 1979. The building made of brick walls and concrete ceilings planned by architect Max Rohner was completed with flat roofs on different levels. The large volume of the multi-purpose building formed a form that was difficult to grasp and fittingly reflected the architectural style of the 1970s. With regard to the new cafeteria building, Ueli Widmer , the former government councilor and building director of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden , remarked in 1995 that this was the only rather unsuccessful building of the KST and that it might one day be demolished. The future should partly prove him right. In 2002 the boys' convict was closed due to a lack of demand and the upper rooms were used. In 2011, in a first construction phase, the lower part of the building was extensively renovated by the architects Kimlim and adapted to the Minergie standard. The vertical clay baguettes, which gave the facade cladding a new independence and completely disappeared from the 1970s architectural style, were particularly striking. The outdated infrastructure of the cafeteria was also replaced by a new interior design: a total of 300 seats were created and the kitchen was adapted to the new hygiene standards. In the second phase of renovation from 2016 to 2017, the upper floors were expanded so that work, lecture and study rooms and new classrooms were created from the old Konvikt rooms. The original form of the former Knabenkonvikt disappeared completely.

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  1890:
  The «study» of the canton school

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  1977:
  "Study" with the Old Konvikt (right)

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  1977:
  abandonment of the "course" built in 1886

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  1979:
  New boys' convent with cafeteria and auditorium

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  2012:
  After the first renovation phase

Gym

In 1983 a planning commission had to be set up to clarify the gym question. It turned out that a spatial concept had to be created for the entire canton school. In addition to the new sports hall, the concept created also provided for an expansion of the existing facility. For the time being, the gym with outdoor facilities planned by Piet Kempter could be occupied in the spring of 1989. The wooden framework supports a light-looking metal roof over the concrete skeleton building with a light blue Eternit facade . A glazed skylight that extends over the entire hall contributes to optimal illumination. The central entrance with its canopy and the division of the front facade show architectural elements of the postmodern planning period.

"Pharos"

In 1989 the pavilion was built to the west of the Red Schoolhouse . With this medium-term temporary school room by the architectural office Schläpfer & Schweizer , the prevailing lack of space should be counteracted once again. In accordance with its intended use, it is constructed as a timber element structure and placed on small individual foundations. The building houses a large room that serves as a study area for several classes. In 2014 the building was renamed “Pharos” as part of a renovation.

"Ark"

The "ark" from the southwest (left) and northwest (right)

From 1993 to 1995, construction work took place on the largest construction project to date at KST: the “Arche”. Approved by the Landsgemeinde in 1992, the architecture firm Loesch Isoz Benz took over the planning and execution of the four- story building, which nestles against the northern slope of Trogen. The large structure opposite the two school buildings from the Wilhelminian era combines the individual buildings into a unified whole and gives the cantonal school complex an urban character. With the curved facade, the building interprets the parallel, steep north slope and at the same time represents the bow of a large ship. This impression is reinforced by the round windows in the form of portholes and a tapering " bow ", which extends to the west through the " Waves ”of the staircase plows. All classrooms face south, the temperature-sensitive music rooms face north. The construction is designed according to the curved shape with concrete walls and ceilings. The facade cladding with sandstone slabs refers to the stone palaces of the founding family Zellweger on the village square. Twenty-four geothermal probes bring geothermal energy as heating energy into the district heating network for six cantonal schools. As with the construction of the “Annex”, the new building was also criticized here. A former pupil wrote to the rector: “On September 15, 94, our class in Trogen held a class reunion - exactly 50 years after our Matura to the day - and not only refreshed memories, but also the graves of the old professors and not last visited the school houses. But what a shock: the “Arche” towers like a block in front of the slope and, visually and in terms of its cube, crushes the old school building and the Konvikt [...] because the distances are much too short. One would have had to either move the building more into the slope or move it more to the east, and maintain clear proportions. [...] But this gives the impression that the Trogen main station has slipped down to the canton school and the TGV will soon be arriving ... »

Auditorium

The last new building to be inaugurated in 2001 was the auditorium , also by the architects Loesch Isoz Benz . With its curved south facade, the multi-purpose building takes up the form language of the higher-level north facade of the ark, which connects the two volumes. The glazing across all floors provides a view of the foyer on the ground floor and the media library on the upper floor. The hall part is constructed with wooden beams and the flat roof can cause rainwater retention thanks to the greenery . Like its predecessors, the building shows in an exemplary manner how every building is always an expression of its time in terms of construction and architecture. With its individual buildings typical of the time, the renewed and expanded complex forms an architectural-historical image of the origins and development of the Trogen Cantonal School.

Konvikte and village pensions

In order to accommodate the many foreign students, a number of accommodations were created for the learners from the start. The era of Konvikte and pensions came to an end under Rector Ernst Kuhn (1971–1985), when Trogen became more and more accessible in the second half of the 20th century thanks to newly developed transport links (e.g. the Herisau - Trogen Postbus course , 1974) and the number of students from outside the cantons also fell sharply as a result of new canton schools. Those students who previously stayed at the school were either absent or returned home after school ended. If the KST was previously a kind of boarding school with a large number of students coming from abroad who lived in teacher and private pensions or in the Konvikt, it developed into the "Middle School of the Ausserrhoder". Finally, a further effect was that the earlier identification with the Trogen school location by the new day commuters no longer took place to the same extent.

Knabenkonvikt

Dormitory in the "boarding house", around 1897

When the canton school started operating in 1821, dormitories for pupils had already been set up in the attic of the old building . Until 1907 the "institute" or "boarding school" was largely a private company of the respective director. Then it was renamed from the canton to the "Staatlichen Konvikt" and the position of a Konviktleiter was introduced. These were usually also teachers at the KST at the same time. In its prime, the old boys' convent accommodated over 50 students who ate the three main meals together in the dining room. In addition to the domestic servants (cook, maid, servant) there was also a cattle stall in the Konvikt: On the ground floor of Olympus pigs were fattened, which were an important source of income for the Konvikt. When the sociologist René Riesen came to the conclusion in his report in 1967 that the canton school would not be viable as a state middle school without pensioners and commuters, the New Knabenkonvikt was built with the cafeteria and replaced the Old Konvikt in 1979 . In the late 1980s, however, the number of occupants had steadily declined: the transport connections had greatly improved and school attendance had become possible from most of the canton's municipalities even without a Konvikt. In addition, the number of students from outside the canton has declined. For these reasons, in 1996 the girls from the girls 'convent were also accepted into the boys' convent. In August 2003 the boys' convent was finally closed completely.

Girls' convention

It was almost 150 years since the KST was founded before the school had its own girls' convent. In 1958, the Cantonal School Association of Former Students (KVT) acquired the factory owner's house on Trogener Dorfplatz, built for Anna and Conrad Zellweger-Rechsteiner around 1650. This was finally opened in 1968 under the KVT presidency of Elisabeth Pletscher . The registrations were so numerous that it was possible to start with a full house right from the start. During the next 28 years, during which the girls' convent from the KST lived and fed, the house was run by four women directors. Towards the end of the 1980s there was an initial decline in the number of female residents; the same decline in pupils could also be observed in the boys' convent at that time. For economic reasons, the girls 'convent was closed in the summer of 1996 and merged with the boys' convent until it was completely closed seven years later. Since 2013, the house has been part of the “Trogen Cantonal School Foundation” . In the following year, the apartments were renovated in order to give those interested in KST shared accommodation (e.g. KST sports and exchange students) a place to live in the immediate vicinity of the campus.

→ Detailed chapter: Development of the Girls' Convict

Private pensions

Trogen and the canton school. Postcard from Carl Künzli-Tobler , 1893

For a long time the village of Trogen was shaped by the canton school. Most of the students had to live in the village while they were still at school, as public transport was still underdeveloped. The Konvikt was usually reserved for students who lived in the canton. Its capacity was insufficient, however, and so it happened that most of the cantonal school teachers and their wives opened boarding schools to offer students accommodation. The main reason, however, was the modest salaries that forced most teachers to take this step. For example, the then physics teacher Arnold Rothenberger wrote in 1920: “We would also like to be emphasized in the submission to our authority that we must insist that the cantonal school teachers in Trogen are finally compensated so that they can get by without substantial additional income. [...] We all know that the people do not like to see the increase in boarding schools, which the state itself has called with insufficient teachers' salaries. We fully acknowledge the necessity of boarding schools and their beneficial repercussions on schools, but believe that it is an unhealthy situation that a cantonal school teacher can only find a sufficient existence if he opens a boarding school, and that it is downright impossible a canton school teacher to devote himself only to school. " And the first annual report of the KVT 1923 read: «The salaries of teachers are modest, except for those who work with religious; the approaches are the minimum of what can be offered to a man with an academic background, i.e. also later employment opportunities. [...] Nevertheless, the teachers work with devotion and certainly not a little idealism. It has already happened repeatedly that teachers refused professions that were much better paid because they did not want to disclose the humanly beautiful relationships with colleagues and students just because they were better off financially. " But a number of private families from Trogen also opened a pension in order to secure additional income in difficult times. The private pensions thus formed an economic factor that should not be underestimated, so that in the 20th century 49 pensions offered space for almost 260 students. From the mid-1970s, the era of family pensions also ended.

→ Detailed chapter: Pensionat Wildi

Culture

music

First school orchestra of the Trogen Cantonal School, after 1900

Music was very important at the Trogen Cantonal School very early on. Since the school was founded, singing lessons have been taught in the choir. Instrumental lessons developed around the turn of the 20th century from the house music of the Knabenkonvikt (“boarding school” until 1907): individual students learned to play instruments and thus made music together. This small house orchestra performed for the first time at the closing ceremony in 1901. The photograph showing the orchestra with its conductor, music director Bergmann (on the right) dates from this period. In addition to the 17 students, you can recognize the school director Theodor Wiget on the cello. In 1915, the official canton school orchestra emerged, which became an integral part of the cultural scene at the annual closing ceremonies and school evenings. By the middle of the 20th century it had become a tradition to hold an orchestra evening in the Kronensaal in Trogen at the end of June. Mainly chamber music works were performed and danced afterwards. Since then, the closing ceremonies have taken place in Trogen Church. Among the musical highlights of the orchestral and choral performances of the KST include original compositions for the centenary, which listed 1,971 anniversary cantata for the 150th anniversary or the cantata for the inauguration of the Ark , which had its premiere in 1995. Since then, the music department of the canton school has developed significantly and is one of the school's flagships with over 200 learners in instrumental lessons. In the field of music theater in particular, major projects were realized with works such as the Westside Story , Carmina Burana , Orfeo or the Magic Flute in 2015. The intensive musical life of the school consists of weekly rehearsals by various bands, choir, choir and chamber music ensembles as well as many public concerts .

Excerpt from the cantata for the dedication of the ark ^{? / i}

theatre

Theater on the school evening, 1928
(on the bench: Rolf Liebermann )

It is a long tradition that theater is played at the KST: in 1911 the teaching staff (at the suggestion of Rector Ernst Wildi to organize an annual school evening) attempted a larger theater performance. A piece about Andreas Hofer was rehearsed , in whose intermediate acts the canton school orchestra also played. Encouraged by the unexpected success, it was decided, in addition to the final evening, to stick to the newly introduced school evening with its play. In the second half of the 20th century there was even a theater company of its own: the basement theater of the Trogen Cantonal School , which was founded and directed by the German teacher Gerhard Falkner. Falkner worked at the KST from 1961 to 1999 and had directed over 40 productions during this time, including his own, experimental ones , in combination with music, with dance or in cooperation with the village of Trogen : The two cantatas for the centennial of the Kantonsschule Trogen (1971) and “Die Ausfahrt der Arche” for the inauguration of the new school building “Arche” (1995) or the production Jedermann (1982). Today, the theater course, which is offered as an optional subject, offers all KST students the opportunity to get to know theater not only literarily or theoretically, but also practically. Every year a performance project is developed that corresponds to the needs and conditions of the KST and its participants. For example, Schiller's robbers and Brecht's threepenny opera have been staged in recent years . In cooperation with the choir and orchestra, major music theater events were also created (see music). With its last nine projects, the KST theater group was nominated by the Junge Schauspielhaus Zürich, among others, to participate in its school theater meeting taking place in the Schiffbau and invited to various theater meetings. She was with her own movie in the regional cinemas and appeared in numerous special venues, for example in the Lokremise Heiden .

art

Installation Kanu by Roman Signer , 1991

A tour of the campus of the Trogen Cantonal School reveals a rich repertoire of art examples that has grown over decades. There are works by Wilhelm Meier , Hans-Ruedi Fricker and Roman Signer , among others . The latter installed a red canoe on the new sports field after a competition in 1991 for the “design of the outside spaces of the sports hall” , which moves (over a wire rope and pulleys) parallel to the 100 m race track 27 cm a day and so 1 year for the all the way. At the canoe opening in 1994, Rector Willi Eugster mentioned, among other things: “Signer's work of art [...] seeks intellectual debate. It is an examination of the zeitgeist, in this case the lack of time. Next to the high-speed track, not on it, is a kayak , a boat that has time. It has a lot of time and thus goes against the zeitgeist. " In 1992, another project on the “Artistic Design of Outdoor Spaces at the KST” took into account art in public spaces: Even before construction of the “Arche” began, artists were given the opportunity to develop a project within the framework of a competition. In 1993 a committee selected three works that had been carried out up to the inauguration of the "Arche" and which now form part of everyday school life. After the brochure “Art & Architecture at the Cantonal School Trogen AR” had collected a small part of the works at the KST in 2001, all works of art (including woodcuts , watercolors , inlays , prints , lithographs and oil paintings ) that were in the Property of the canton school are systematically recorded and cataloged; Since then, these can be called up in the library catalog of the KST media library using the search term Kunst KST .

Media library

Auditorium building with media library on the first floor

As early as 1820, a Mr. Ulrich Reich von Trogen, resident in Paris, had promised 150 francs a year for five years "for the prosperity of the institute". This donation was ultimately used to establish the «institutional library». Thereafter, the inventory was expanded through annual contributions from students and sponsor gifts in the form of books for young people and scientific works, as the financial situation did not allow official purchases for decades. The KST's book collection led a “shadowy existence” until the mid-1960s, when the teachers' convention decided that a room in the “old schoolhouse” should officially be designated as the library of the cantonal school. Due to the growing shortage of classrooms, the library room was soon increasingly used as a piano room. In addition, most of the books were locked in cupboards, and a reading corner was set up in the "Alten Konvikt" with only a small inventory of books for young people. However, a practical solution emerged for this unsatisfactory solution: when the "Annex" was expanded in 1988, the library was given a prominent place under the new hipped roof and subsequently switched from the card catalog to a computer system and decimal classification . In 1998 the construction of the new multi-purpose building including the auditorium began . The rector at the time, Willi Eugster , urged the library to be relocated to the new building: a year before the groundbreaking ceremony, he reported, referring to a needs analysis by the canton: “The room for the school library is too small. The library should be able to take up at least twice as much floor space. Their expansion into a media library is to be encouraged. So that the more extensive ideas of independent and responsible work can be realized, suitable work rooms and facilities must be available. The "Federal Office for Industry, Commerce and Labor" complained as early as 1990 that the area was too small. A library / media library for our school would have to have an area of ​​250–300 m². [...] Space has to be created in the new multi-purpose building for the media library. " As a result, the construction management changed its concept and integrated the installation of a modern media library on the first floor, which has been offering media (currently around 25,000) for study and leisure for all students and employees since the opening of the auditorium in 2001.

archive

A special feature is the school's own archive of the KST, which since 2014 has been using scopeArchiv to secure and record the extensive inventory that has been accumulated since 1821 for the state archive of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . In addition to manuscripts and correspondence, the numerous archive items also include glass plates , photos, 16 mm films , works of art and objects such as cadet rifles or epidiascopes , which are stored in the KST's cultural property protection room.

societies

Student associations played an important role at the KST for a long time. Over the decades, partly in line with the zeitgeist, new clubs emerged, which also disappeared again. At the school there was, among other things, a abstinence club ( Hilaritas Trogensis ), a stenographers club (SVT), a ski club (SCT), a canton school gymnastics club (KTV), a discussion club (DCT), a bible group (BGT), a computer club (CCT) and from 1967 to 2003 even a student union ( Comitia Trogensis ). The student organization (SOT) is still active. However, three clubs deserve a closer look: the KVT, the Albatros glider club and the Trogen Cadet Corps .

KVT

«KVT-Mitteilungen» No. 24. Cover by Otto Schmid

The Trogen Cantonal School Association (KVT) was established in 1921 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the KST and responded to the need of alumni and friends of the school not to lose sight of each other. The aim of the association was and is to network with each other and to support the Trogen Cantonal School. For example, in 1927 the KVT helped financially with the basement of the old gymnasium or in 1962 with the donation of the sundial on the west facade of the new "Annex" building. In 1958 the KVT bought the oldest house on Landsgemeindeplatz in Trogen, which was built in 1650 for the governor Conrad Zellweger-Rechsteiner , and thus enabled the KST's girls' boarding school to run from 1968 to 1996 . Since it was founded, the Cantonal School Association has been informing its members about the school's activities and texts from alumni from all over the world with the "KVT-Mitteilungen", a printed annual report. By 1965 Otto Schmid , who was a drawing teacher at the KST from 1922 to 1956, designed most of the cover pictures of the annual publication with motifs related to the school. In the 2007/08 school year, the “KVT-Mitteilungen” were merged with the “KST Annual Reports” and have not been published individually since then. The KVT is now increasingly involved in the organization of class reunions and events at the canton school and has over 1100 members who can also find information on the KVT website.

"Albatross"

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Canton students in the air,
ca.1929

The club “Albatros” is an absolute specialty. It was one of the first Swiss gliding clubs , which was also run by KST students. It started with the canton student Helmut Berg giving a lecture about a gliding course he had attended. As a result, Berg founded the "Albatros" gliding group with several students in 1928. The then rector Ernst Wildi was well-disposed towards the ambitious plans of the young pilots and promoted them. So they started building the first hang glider based on a flight technician's plan. To finance the materials for the glider, public events with lectures by well-known flight pioneers (who waived a fee) were organized; the first was Walter Mittelholzer . As early as October 1928, the first aircraft, called the «Kauz», was transported to the Hirschberg near Gais and flight training began. In 1929 Helmut Berg flew in four and a half minutes from the five-country view to Altenrhein Airport . Until the association was dissolved in 1933, the five to ten members sailed down into the valley in a real glider from the Hirschberg or the Hohen Buche (Trogen municipality); and this without a single accident. In the annual report of 1934 Ernst Wildi goes into the «Albatros» for the last time and explains the reasons for the end: «Difficulties that the glider club« Albatros »had with the accommodation of its aircraft on the Hirschberg, complications in the regulations for the Flight instructors from a gliding club and the departure of particularly active guides to the university forced the Albatros to liquidate at least temporarily. Surely with a heavy heart, the birds 'owls' and 'marabou', which they had built themselves with so much hard work and sweat and which can tell of many a beautiful flight, were allowed to move to Zurich. [...] The association's assets were entrusted to the rector's office for safekeeping. The work carried out by the Albatros over the years fills a sheet of paper in the history of the canton school youth, on which praiseworthy things are recorded about initiative, youthful enthusiasm, energy, perseverance, courage and friendly cooperation. The rectorate, which so often had to mediate between worried parents and daring boys, feels relieved of a responsibility which, however, was never felt to be too oppressive given the careful and systematic work of the young glider pilots. "

Cadet Corps

Trogen cadets, 1926

The cadets in KST were, strictly speaking, not a club, but part of the lesson. Nevertheless, the association with all its activities had a very connecting effect. The cadet corps emerged in middle schools in Switzerland in the 19th century and served, among other things, to prepare for the recruit school . The cadet corps was created in Trogen in 1857, but regular military exercises were not included in teaching until after 1870. From the beginning, great emphasis was placed on sniper shooting, which has been subsidized by the federal government since 1891. Two years later, compulsory uniforms were introduced in Trogen. The exercises were led by instructors, mostly officers living in Trogen, but also by teachers from the cantonal school. Once a week discipline and perseverance were practiced by walking through the area, organizing shooting days, or doing combat and night exercises. Every two years cadets marched into other cantons for several days. After the end of the two world wars, the cadets came under criticism and the voices calling for their dissolution were loud. In the course of the worldwide peace movements of 1968, the cadets at the KST were finally disbanded five years later.

→ Main article : Trogen Cadet Corps

Special

"Foundation Cantonal School Trogen"

Old gymnasium, a gift from the Fenkart family to the KST.
Linocut by Otto Schmid , 1929

Over the course of its history, the Trogen Cantonal School has repeatedly received financial support from former students. In 1927, for example, Josef Fenkart, a patron of the KST, whose sons attended school, made it possible to build the “old gymnasium” . Rector Ernst Wildi then wrote to the Cantonal Council: "A significant gift is now in a very safe prospect for the school, through the will [...] of the Fenkart family." From this donation, the «Fenkart Foundation» was created. Or in 1998, the then rector Willi Eugster succeeded in negotiating a contract with the Metrohm Foundation to set up IT lessons at the Trogen Cantonal School. This was also committed to charitable and cultural purposes and at that time launched a project competition from which the KST emerged as the winner. In the 1998/99 annual report, Eugster wrote: "This means that the urgently needed financial resources are available to give young people the tools they need to use modern communication and information technology efficiently." The foundation supported the project for eight years and invested over three million francs. This made it possible for the school to set up its own school network and the associated infrastructure for IT lessons at an early stage. Finally, in 2013, the “Stiftung Kantonsschule Trogen” was founded under the direction of Willi Eugster. This emerged from the amalgamation of all previous foundations of the KST: "Konvikt-Fonds", the "Rektor-Wildi-Stiftung" , the "Fenkart-Stiftung", the "Studienfonds Dr. Schiess »and the donation of the former KST Girls' Convict by the Trogen Cantonal School Association (KVT). The "Stiftung Kantonsschule Trogen" aims to cope with tasks that are in the interests of the students and the teaching staff of the Kantonsschule Trogen and has been chaired by Eugster ever since.

Observatory

KST observatory

In the 1920s, physics professor Arnold Rothenberger campaigned for schoolchildren to experience astronomy as a practical science lesson. A telescope I bought myself became an observatory . This (at that time still called "telescope house") was built in 1949 on a hilltop above the Pestalozzi village on the ground of the municipality of Trogen. In 1969 the gable roof was replaced by a sheet metal dome. The excellent location of the observatory allows the southern night sky to be observed well, as the influence of the light smog from St. Gallen is very low. The motorized telescope has a focal length of 2000 mm and three different eyepieces with which celestial bodies can be enlarged up to 200 times. Rothenberger was also always innovative in other areas: He was the first resident in Trogen to listen to the radio . In 1926 he let others participate in this new invention by holding a demonstration in the hall of the restaurant "Krone", to which he invited the whole village. Elisabeth Pletscher , who was at the canton school from 1921 to 1928, remembered this moment decades later: “He set up his set, installed the indoor antenna and gave some theoretical explanations about radio reception. A concert would now be broadcast from Königswusterhausen , where the German radio [...] station was stationed. [...] In the Kronensaal everyone sat reverently and listened. For a long time nothing could be heard, then suddenly there was a deafening whistle. ‹It has a disturbance›, stated the physics teacher and went on with great enthusiasm, while the listeners were amazed at the strange noises: ‹That really is a miracle! Imagine, this noise is being produced in Königswusterhausen right now and we can hear it in the Kronensaal at the same time! ›»

Ueli Prague Square

KST area with Ueli Prager-Platz (bottom middle) and mast of the weather station (top left)

In 1994 Mövenpick founder Ueli Prager , who was at the KST from 1929 to 1935, opened the “Ueli Prager Foundation ” with 300,000 francs . Their aim was to promote unusual and future-oriented projects of the KST (for example software - programming by students, development of a CCD camera for the observatory , networking of the school buildings with fiber optic cable , co-financing of the student exchange “Trogen- Irkutsk ” or the publication of an art brochure) . In view of the dissolution of the foundation in 2009, a playground was built between the old school building and the auditorium with the remaining amount . The architectural peculiarity is a four meter wide furnished wooden walkway that protrudes fourteen meters horizontally into the northern slope. Prager also took care of the grave of the former rector Ernst Wildi and wrote to the village priest in 1994: “From 1929 to 1935 I went to school in Trogen and I look back on a very happy time. I retired to my dear teacher and educator, Rector Wildi , whom I remember with gratitude. I was recently in Trogen on a two-day homesick visit and, as in previous years, I was delighted and delighted by the Appenzell landscape, but also by the typical Trogen atmosphere. I was also on the grave of Rector Wildi and saw with a little sadness and sadness that the inscription is hardly legible and the stone is covered by some lichen . Even the flower care was not quite as I would have imagined for a man who deserves such great service for Trogen. " As a result, Prager financed the renovation of the tombs and, six years later, paid the tomb upkeep by the Trogen municipality for the next two decades until 2022; he wrote to his former canton schoolmates: “The little heap that still remembers our then rector has shrunk. Max Honegger and I of the pensioners in the ' Wildihaus' are staying. Yes, and after 20 years the memories of all dear friends are probably gone! "

Weather station

A special feature is the WMO- compliant weather station on the eastern roof of the "Arche". It has been reliably measuring weather data for MeteoGroup Switzerland , which emerged from Meteomedia AG founded by Jörg Kachelmann , since September 3, 1999 ( temperature 5 cm / 2 m above ground / 20 cm in the ground, wind speed , wind direction , amount of precipitation , precipitation status, humidity , duration of sunshine , global radiation ). All information is sent every ten minutes via GPRS radio to the MeteoGroup databases , further processed and thus, with 17 other measuring stations in the Appenzellerland , provides weather forecasts for the region , among other things . The KST itself also prepares the current Trogen weather data for the last 24 hours, which can be viewed at any time at wetter.kst.ch.

Personalities

Rectors

Ernst Wildi , the longest official rector of the Trogen Cantonal School
(1904–1937)

Surname	employment	Term of office
Zuberbühler, Johann Conrad	1821-1822	1
Krüsi, Hermann	1822-1833	11
Gutbier von Pferdeleben, Adolf Anton Robert	1833-1837	4th
Zuberbühler, Johann Conrad	1837-1842	5
Tobler, Gustav Adolf	1842-1857	15th
Schoch, Johann Georg	1857-1875	18th
Müller-Röthinger, Samuel	1875-1882	7th
Meier, August	1882-1895	13th
Wiget, Heinrich Theodor	1895-1904	9
Wildi, Ernst	1904-1937	33
Comfortable, Oskar	1937-1948	11
Schlegel, Walter	1948-1971	23
Kuhn, Ernst	1971-1985	14th
Eugster, Willi	1986-2013	27.5
Zurwerra, Michael	2013-2017	3.5
Schläpfer, Johannes (Rector ad interim )	2017	0.5
Grief, Marc	2017-2020	2.75
Geiger, Lukas (Rector ad interim )	2020	0.5
Steger Vogt, Elisabeth	since October 2020

Known teachers

Art lessons with Otto Schmid in the drawing room of the “Red School House”, 1935

Surname	employment	annotation
Fitzi, Johann Ulrich	1838-1842	Drawing teacher / draftsman and painter
Honegger, Jakob Adolf	1876-1891	Writing and drawing teacher / draftsman and lithographer
Schmid, Otto	1922-1956	Writing and drawing teacher / draftsman and painter
Heierli, Hans	1958-1984	Chemistry and geography teacher / geologist
Giger, Paul	2001 - today	Violin teacher / violinist and composer

Well-known former students (selection)

Surname	entry	exit	annotation
Altherr, Alfred	1857	1862	Evangelical Reformed clergyman and writer
Ammann, Thomas	1965	1971	Art dealer
Caroni, Andrea	1995	1999	Politician, National Council , Council of States
Datwyler, Max	1943	1949	Entrepreneur
Datwyler, Peter	1940	1946	Entrepreneur
Dubochet, Jacques	1958	1960	Biophysicist and Nobel Prize Winner 2017
Eisenhut, Heidi	1989	1995	Publicist for cultural history , head of the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library
Fueglistaller, Urs	1976	1979	Economist
Gutzwiller, Martin	1938	1942	physicist
Hall, Dieter	1968	1974	Painter
Hilti, Michael	1963	1969	Entrepreneur, Hilti AG
Holzach, Robert	1938	1942	Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bank Corporation
Honegger, René E.	1949	1952	Non-fiction author, former curator of the Zurich Zoo
Kern, Jakob	1974	1980	Culture engineer , director of the World Food Program
Kraska, Pjotr (civil: Peter Johannes Kraska)	1964	1967	Actor, author, artist
Liebermann, Rolf	1927	1930	Composer, artistic director
Malta, Alexander (civil: Alexander Lagger)	1954	1959	opera singer
Meier, Wilhelm	1894	1897	sculptor
Merz, Hans-Rudolf	1957	1960	Politician, Federal Councilor
Meyer, Carl	1885	1891	Lawyer, politician, journalist, founder of the Säntis suspension railway
Müller, Karl	1969	1973	Entrepreneur, founder of MBT shoes
Oswald, Werner	1920	1924	Chemist, entrepreneur, founder of Ems-Chemie
Pletscher, Elisabeth	1921	1928	Head laboratory assistant at the University Hospital Zurich, founder of the international professional association IAMLT, women's rights activist
Prager, Ueli	1929	1935	Entrepreneur, Mövenpick founder
Roth Eisenberg, Tina	1989	1994	Star blogger (“Swiss Miss”), web designer , app developer, creative design studio in New York
Rüegg, Hans	1933	1937	Entrepreneurs, Baumann Federn , politicians
Saxer, Walter	1911	1916	mathematician
Scherrer, Hans-Ulrich	1961	1963	Chief of Staff of the Swiss Army
Schmidheiny, Alexander	1965	1971	Entrepreneur, art collector
Schmidheiny, Max	1921	1927	Entrepreneurs, politicians
Schmidheiny, Stephan	1962	1967	Entrepreneur
Schmidheiny, Thomas	1959	1965	Entrepreneur
Seelig, Carl	1910	1915	writer
Sfountouris, Argyris	1955	1959	Physicist, poet and survivor of the Distomo massacre
Szondi, Peter	1945	1948	Literary scholar
Uebersax, Peter	1942	1945	Journalist, editor-in-chief Blick
Villain, Jean (civil: Marcel Bruno Brun)	1944	1948	Journalist, writer
Weishaupt, Matthias	1974	1980	Politicians, Government , Landammann
Wild, Paul	1943	1945	astronomer
Zellweger, Salomon	1821	1824	Entrepreneur
Zuberbühler, Sebastian	1823	1826	Pedagogue

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  Elisabeth Pletscher

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  Ueli Prager & Willi Eugster

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  Thomas Ammann & Alexander Schmidheiny

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  Hans-Rudolf Merz

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  Rolf Liebermann

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  Jacques Dubochet

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  Andrea Caroni

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  Tina Roth Eisenberg

literature

A bird's eye view of the Trogen Cantonal School

• Hermann Krüsi: Opening speech of the first examination of the Appenzell-Ausserrhodische Kantonsschule. Self-published, Trogen 1823, State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-05-02.
• Johann Caspar Zellweger: Report to the honorable Grosse Rath on the current state of the Trogen Cantonal School from the select committee of its supervisory authority. Self-published, Trogen 1831.
• Adolph Anton Robert Gutbier: The Appenzell-Ausserrhodische Kantonsschule near Trogen in their current endeavors. Self-published, Trogen 1833.
• Jakob Heim: On the history of the Trogen Cantonal School , in the Appenzell Cantonal School's program. Self-published, Trogen 1875.
• Cantonal School Commission: Reorganization of the Cantonal School of Appenzell A.Rh. Opinion of the enlarged commission. Self-published, Trogen 1906.
• Ernst Wildi: Appenzell a. Rh. Canton school in Trogen for the hundredth year of existence. Self-published, Trogen 1921.
• Various: Rectorate correspondence from Ernst Wildi, 1905-1939 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-60.
• Ernst Wildi: Annual reports of the Trogen Cantonal School , self-published, Trogen 1927–1937.
• Oskar Wohnlich: Annual reports of the Trogen Cantonal School , self-published, Trogen 1938–1946.
• Adeline Meier: The first canton students. In: KVT-Mitteilungen , No. 40. Self-published, Trogen 1962, pp. 26/27.
• René Riesen: Problems of the Middle School in the Canton of Appenzell A.Rh. Self-published, Trogen 1967.
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung : The Trogen Cantonal School. Well-known middle school in a small canton. 17th September 1968.
• Ernst Kuhn: Annual reports of the Trogen Cantonal School , self-published, Trogen 1980–1986.
• Walter Imhoof: Trogener memories from the time of the First World War. In: KVT-Mitteilungen Nr. 64, Eigenverlag, Trogen 1985, pp. 15-19.
• Helmut Berg, Kurt Lutz, Fréderic Fischer: Trogen on the up - aviation related to Trogen and Trogen. In: KVT-Mitteilungen , No. 66, self-published, Trogen 1986, pp. 63–75.
• Johannes Schläpfer: The structural development of the canton school from the beginning to the present. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 72, self-published, Trogen 1993, pp. 71–98.
• Heidi Eisenhut: The History of the Trogen Cantonal School . In: Special edition of the heartburn for the inauguration of the ark , self-published, Trogen 1995.
• Levin Engler, Reto Kefes, Viviane Schindler: Through time with the KST . High school diploma thesis at the vocational school for economics, 63 pages, Trogen 2015.
• Julia Nehmiz: Kaderschmiede Kanti Trogen: Celebrities in the country. In: St. Galler Tagblatt , October 8, 2017.

Web links

The canton school area 1923. Linocut by Otto Schmid

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

Social media

• Instagram channel of the Trogen Cantonal School
• Trogen Cantonal School Facebook channel
• Trogen Cantonal School Twitter channel
• Youtube channel of the Trogen Cantonal School

School currently

• 200 years of KST: Anniversary website of the Trogen Cantonal School
• Website of the canton school Trogen
• TWR Secondary School website
• Annual reports of the Trogen Cantonal School and the Cantonal School Association (KVT)
• Image film of the Trogen Cantonal School
• Website of the Trogen Cantonal School Association
• Website of the Trogen Cantonal School Foundation
• Current weather at the Trogen Cantonal School

School historically

• Former teacher at the Trogen Cantonal School, with a short biography
• Appenzell witnesses: 500 years of membership in the Swiss Confederation
• KVT reports online, 1923 to 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Winiger: Trogen-Lausanne, please - Former students of the Trogen Cantonal School report from Lausanne and the surrounding area. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 85, self-published, Trogen 2006, p. 21.
2. ↑ Alfred Altherr: Remember your teachers! - In memory of JG Schoch. In: Schweizerisches Protestantenblatt (5th year, No. 51), December 23, 1882.
3. ^ René Riesen: Problems of the middle school in the canton of Appenzell A.Rh. Report on the promotion of secondary education in the canton of Appenzell and the expansion of the Trogen canton school. Self-published, Trogen 1967, p. 59.
4. ^ Ernst Wildi: Letter to T. Bernet of April 12, 1933 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-60-9-02.
5. ^ Ernst Wildi: Letter to the Cantonal School Commission of December 6, 1932 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-61-5-01.
6. ^ August Meier: Letter to the Cantonal School Commission of June 11, 1895 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027.
7. ↑ Adeline Meier: The first canton students. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 40, self-published, Trogen 1961, pp. 26/27.
8. ↑ State Economic Commission: Annual reports on the structural situation. State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, 1911–1927, D.027-43-1-06.
9. ↑ Otto Ritzmann: Appeal to the former students, to the friends of the canton school Trogen and to the parents of the canton school students In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 1, self-published, Trogen 1923, p. 1.
10. ↑ Johannes Schläpfer: The structural development of the canton school from the beginning to the present. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 72, self-published, Trogen 1993, pp. 71–98.
11. ↑ Otto Hugentobler: Development and construction history of the canton school. In Art & Architecture at the Trogen AR Cantonal School. Self-published, Trogen 2001, pp. 53–76.
12. ^ Elisabeth Pletscher: Annual report of the KVT. In KVT-Mitteilungen No. 44, self-published, Trogen 1965, p. 4.
13. ↑ Johannes Schläpfer: The structural development of the canton school from the beginning to the present. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 72, self-published, Trogen 1993, p. 95.
14. ^ René Riesen: Problems of the middle school in the canton of Appenzell A.Rh. Report on the promotion of secondary education in the canton of Appenzell and the expansion of the Trogen canton school. Self-published, Trogen 1967, p. 139.
15. ↑ Ceremonial handover of the anchor - The new school building of the Kanti was inaugurated with an official ceremony. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . 4th September 1995.
16. ↑ Othmar Fries: Letter to Rector Willi Eugster of October 10, 1994 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-68-4-05.
17. ↑ Hans Peter Mettler: Former Rector Kuhn, Trogen, for his 70th birthday. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . September 15, 1990.
18. ^ Matthias Rhiner: Speech on the KVT annual report from May 2012. State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-63-5-02.
19. ^ Rudolf Widmer: Konvikte im Wandel . In KVT-Mitteilungen No. 74, self-published, Trogen 1995, pp. 81–84
20. ^ Elisabeth Pletscher, Matthias Weishaupt: History of the girls' convent Trogen. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 81, self-published, Trogen 2002, pp. 6–21.
21. ^ Arnold Rothenberger: salary revision. Application of the appointed commission to the teachers' conference 1920 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-61-5-01.
22. ↑ Otto Ritzmann: Appeal to the former students, to the friends of the canton school Trogen and to the parents of the canton school students In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 1, self-published, Trogen 1923, p. 1/2.
23. ^ Elisabeth Pletscher: Trogen, the school village in the twenties. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 74, self-published, Trogen 1995, pp. 71–73.
24. ↑ Hans Ess: From the musical life at the canton school. State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, 1991, D.027-59-1-01.
25. ^ Heidi Eisenhut: Gerhard Falkner (Trogen 1933-2013) . In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher , Volume 140, Herisau 2013, pp. 162/163.
26. ^ Gerhard Falkner: Theater group of the canton school. In KVT-Mitteilungen No. 63, self-published, Trogen 1983, pp. 66–68
27. ^ Gerhard Falkner: Theater at the canton school . In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 67, self-published, Trogen 1988, pp. 57-103.
28. ↑ Willi Eugster: Speech at the canoe opening on October 7, 1994. State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-52-5-01.
29. ↑ Kantonsschule Trogen (Ed.): Art & Architecture at the Kantonsschule Trogen AR. Self-published, Trogen 2001.
30. ↑ Brochure "Art & Architecture at the Trogen AR Cantonal School"
31. ^ Library catalog of the Trogen Cantonal School
32. ↑ Jakob Heim: On the history of the Trogen Cantonal School , in the Appenzell Cantonal School's program. Self-published, Trogen 1875, p. 24.
33. ^ Klaus Frischkecht: Annual report of the library . In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 68, self-published, Trogen 1989, pp. 61/62.
34. ^ Willi Eugster: Applications for the “new multi-purpose building” dated June 2, 1998 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-53-2-02.
35. ^ Library catalog of the Trogen Cantonal School
36. ↑ Martin Hüsler: Groundbreaking for the last stage - the multi-purpose building marks the end of the structural development of the Trogen Cantonal School. In: Appenzeller Zeitung. May 21, 1999.
37. ↑ KVT homepage
38. ↑ Helmut Berg: Trogen on the rise - Aviation in connection with Trogen and Trogenern. In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 66, self-published, Trogen 1986, pp. 63–75.
39. ^ Ernst Wildi: Annual report of the Trogen Cantonal School 1933/34, self-published, Trogen 1934, pp. 87/88.
40. ^ Walter Schläpfer: From the history of the Trogener Cadet Corps. In: KVT-Mitteilungen Nr. 68, Eigenverlag, Trogen 1988, pp. 72-77.
41. ^ Ernst Wildi: Letter to the Government Council of September 6, 1927 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-47-1-07.
42. ^ Entry of the "Metrohm Foundation" in the commercial register of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .
43. ↑ Willi Eugster: From school life. In: KVT-Mitteilungen, No. 78, self-published, Trogen 1999, p. 78.
44. ^ Website of the "Stiftung Kantonsschule Trogen" .
45. ^ Oskar Wohnlich: Final remark on the Telescope Fund . In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 27, self-published, Trogen 1948, pp. 76–77.
46. ↑ Dossier accounting observatory . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-55-2-01.
47. ↑ Alfred Hummler: To the alumni . In: KVT-Mitteilungen No. 28, self-published, Trogen 1949, p. 21.
48. ↑ Kurt Balmer: The observatory of the canton school Trogen . In: KVT-Mitteilungen Nr. 64, Eigenverlag, Trogen 1985, pp. 12-13.
49. ↑ Hanspeter Strebel, Kathrin Barbara Zatti: There are things that need time - Elisabeth Pletscher, contemporary witness of the 20th century. Appenzeller Verlag, Herisau 2005, ISBN 3-85882-410-0 , p. 88.
50. ↑ subseries Ueli Prager Foundation . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-41-1.
51. ↑ Sub-series playground Ueli Prager . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-43-7.
52. ^ Ueli Prager: Letter to Pastor Ueli Schlatter from August 30, 1994 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-60-5-24.
53. ^ Ueli Prager: Letter to alumni of September 27, 2002 . State Archives Appenzell Ausserrhoden, D.027-60-5-24.
54. ↑ Webcam on the Arche's weather station mast
55. ↑ MeteoGroup weather stations
56. ↑ Current weather at the Trogen Cantonal School