Cardinal-von-Galen-Gymnasium (Kevelaer)
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1751 |
| address |
Jahnstrasse 20 |
| place | Kevelaer |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '51 " N , 6 ° 14' 3" E |
| carrier | City of Kevelaer |
| student | 740 |
| Teachers | 50 (school year 2017/18) |
| management | Karl Hagedorn |
| Website | www.kvgg.de |
The Kardinal-von-Galen-Gymnasium is a gymnasium in Kevelaer that is run by the city. It is named after the bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen , who publicly opposed " euthanasia " in the Third Reich and who himself visited Kevelaer in 1942.
location
The high school is located on the western outskirts of the city, right next to the former historic water tower.
history
Shortly after the pilgrimage had been established in Kevelaer , in 1657 the oratorian Johannes Stalenus proposed to set up a grammar school. However, this was rejected by the monastery because there was too much work in pastoral care.
Johann Krickelberg then took up this idea again in 1748 and, with the support of several citizens, set up a Latin private school at Egmontstrasse 11 in 1751 as a “student school”. Johann Heinrich Keysers became the headmaster . This high school was attended by about 35 students annually. Keysers died in 1790, the school was subsequently continued by Vicar Horlemann and continued as a public school. One taught in High German and French . In 1791, under French occupation law , the school was forcibly closed.
After the French withdrew, Pastor Johann Heinrich Krickelberg tried in 1820 to re-establish the grammar school. However, the private rectorate school was only opened on October 25, 1859 in the west wing of the Kevelaer priest house and had eight students and the headmaster Heinrich Kottenstette . Chancellor Otto von Bismarck converted the rectorate school into a "family school" in the course of the Kulturkampf in 1872 , which again meant the end of the grammar school.
Pastor Joseph van Ackeren , with the help of a church rector's association, ensured that a boys' school could be set up on the corner of Twistedener and Römerstraße in 1894. It also made it possible for girls to be taught from 1902 onwards, which is now the St. Marien Kindergarten.
The city of Kevelaer took over the sponsorship of the private boys' rectorate school in 1922. At this point in time 90 boys attended the school and 70 girls attended the girls' secondary school on Bogenstrasse (today Antwerpener Platz) and were directed by St. Antonius.
The mayor Aloys Eikelberg, together with the local councils, ordered the school to be closed in this way in order to transform it into a “ pre-grammar school ” for the grammar school in Geldern . For this purpose, the dean Wilhelm Holtmann was put under pressure to make one of the two school buildings available. The girls' school was closed in 1939 and the Progymnasium was established there.
After the bombing raids in 1945, the “Higher School Kevelaer” was destroyed and the students moved to the Valks restaurant on Busmannstraße or the Butzon & Bercker premises until the building on Bogenstraße was repaired in 1946.
For the Progymnasium, a council resolution in 1952 erected a new building with an auditorium, today the concert and stage house as well as the public meeting place. The school was also expanded to include an intermediate level.
In 1959 the Progymnasium became a regular high school with an Abitur examination. In 1960 the grammar school was renamed Kardinal-von-Galen-Gymnasium in memory of the personality and work of the bishop in the Third Reich, who had also visited Kevelaer in 1942.
The premises became too small, barracks were temporarily set up before the new school center in Hüls am Wasserturm was moved into together with the two secondary schools in 1978. In addition to the spacious school building, a swimming pool, a stadium and a sports and multifunctional hall were built.
School life
Numerous activities are offered at the school:
- Soccer, the girls' team became district champions in 2017
- School newspaper
- Student and teacher choir
- School beekeeping
- Library
and there are school partnerships with the schools:
Well-known former students
- Denis Hartwig (Former PietSmiet member)
- Peter Georg Smits (PietSmiet | PietSmiet)
- Jonathan William Moritz Apelt (PietSmiet | Jay)
- Sebastian Lenßen (PietSmiet | Sep)
- Dennis Brammen (PietSmiet | Br4mm3n)
- Christoph Schmitz , German trade unionist and journalist