Kippenberg high school
| Kippenberg high school | |
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| Vietor house | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1859 |
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| place | Bremen |
| country | Bremen |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 '59 " N , 8 ° 50' 20" E |
| student | about 1200 |
| Teachers | about 100 |
| management | Axel Herzig |
| Website | www.kippenberg-gymnasium.de |
The Kippenberg-Gymnasium is a public gymnasium located in the Schwachhausen district of Bremen , where grades 5 to 12 are taught throughout. The school was a girls' high school until 1971 .
history
The school was founded in 1859 by the Bremen teacher August Kippenberg (1830–1889), who worked at a state free school, first as a private teacher training college , as there had been no proper training for teachers until then. Kippenberg was able to hold this seminar in 1868 - together with his second wife Johanne Kippenberg , b. Koch (1842–1925) - expand to become a teaching institution for adult daughters and a teacher training college .
On April 14, 1872, August Kippenberg received the concession to establish a secondary school for girls, which in the following years became the largest private secondary school for girls in Germany. In 1882 she had more than 750 students.
When August Kippenberg died in 1889, his widow Johanne Kippenberg took over the management of the school for another fifteen years. From 1904 she passed the management to her son Hermann August Kippenberg . At that time the school building was still on Am Wall . After the First World War , the number of pupils fell due to economic hardship and in 1922 the school finally lost its status as a private school. The entire girls' higher education system was nationalized and the school became a lyceum .
After the turmoil of the Second World War and the post-war period , the Kippenberg-Gymnasium finally found a new home on the current site, as the old school was destroyed by air raids. The old Villa Biermann (Haus Blumeneck), which is called the Vietor House within the school, and the villa of the painter Aline von Kapff (No. 62, demolished in 1968), which were on the site earlier, were integrated. In the mid-1950s, the whole school moved to the partly newly constructed building on Schwachhauser Heerstraße . Villa Biermann has been a listed building since 1981.
As early as 1957, the Kippenberg grammar school had become a modern language and music grammar school. In 1971 co-education was introduced at the school. Since then, boys have also been taught at the Kippenberg-Gymnasium and have completed their school career in mixed classes. The ratio between boys and girls has now been balanced.
The possible priorities
A musical branch was introduced in 1994. The students can decide whether they want to attend a regular class or one with a focus on music or art. Depending on the class selected, there can be pure musical or regular-musical-mixed classes. In these classes, more art and music lessons take place at the beginning of the seventh grade, which are initially five - but now only four hours. The subject is also counted as a major. In addition, an additional course trip for each of these classes took place at the beginning, during which art exhibitions and architecturally extraordinary buildings or concerts were visited. Every year the art exhibition "What does art do?" takes place, where the work of all grades is exhibited. In the upper level there is the possibility of taking art or music as a second advanced course .
Well-known teachers
Well-known students
Architecture and renovation
The Kippenberg-Gymnasium consists of eight different buildings that are used for normal lessons. There are also two gyms. The so-called Vietor House (see photo), which was built in 1913 in the classic Art Nouveau style, is particularly interesting from an architectural point of view . The listed building is mainly used for high school classes.
literature
- Georg Bessel: 100 years of the Kippenberg School 1859–1959, Bremen 1959
- Christa Meisel / Ilse Pratje / Elisabeth Hannover / Wulf-Ingo Schlöpke: 125 years of the Kippenberg-Gymnasium Bremen - Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Kippenberg-Gymnasium, Bremen 1984
- Ursula Myke / Hermann Pribbernow (eds.): 150 years of Kippenberg. From daughter school and teacher training to modern grammar school, Bremen 2009
Individual evidence
- ^ Werner Kloos : Bremer Lexikon. A key to Bremen. Hauschild, Bremen 1977, 2nd edition 1980, Lemma Kippenberg school.
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
