College of St. Blasien

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College of St. Blasien
Old gate of the St. Blasien college
Old gate of the St. Blasien college
type of school High school with boarding school
founding 1596
place St. Blasien
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 45 '36 "  N , 8 ° 7' 48"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '36 "  N , 8 ° 7' 48"  E
carrier Jesuit order
student about 800
Teachers about 90
management Hans-Martin Rieder SJ college director, Michael Becker headmaster, Marco Hubrig, boarding school director
Website kolleg-st-blasien.de

The College of St. Blaise is a nationally recognized and from the Jesuit -run school with boarding facilities in the southern Black Forest . In the 2019/20 school year, around 800 students were taught at the St. Blasien college, including around 220 internal students.

The school was founded in 1596, when a school was founded in Friborg , Switzerland, which moved to Feldkirch ( Vorarlberg ) in 1856 and finally to St. Blasien in 1934, to the building of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Blasien . The school was closed by the National Socialists in 1939 and reopened in 1946 after the end of World War II .

history

Founded by Petrus Canisius in 1596 in Freiburg im Üechtland

The history of the school begins in Freiburg im Üechtland. There the first German Jesuit, Petrus Canisius , founded a college, whose eventful history has come to a temporary end in Sankt Blasien . Although the initially small Jesuit order, which was founded by Ignatius von Loyola in 1540 , originally had no interest in building schools, as this would have required too many order members as teachers, the Jesuits soon discovered that their motto “Omnia ad maiorem Dei gloriam "(" Everything for the greater glory of God ") could be implemented through the training of young people, as the principles of faith could be imparted here very early in the life of the young believers. The Jesuit order was - due to the unconditional obedience to the Pope - initially as the universally deployable "army" of the Pope. The order was also very active in the Counter-Reformation and saw schools as an important field for strengthening the Catholic worldview against Protestant " heretics ".

At the end of the 16th century, Petrus Canisius, the first Provincial of the Upper German Province of the Order, founded the St. Michael College in Freiburg, Switzerland , after colleges in Ingolstadt , Augsburg , Munich and Innsbruck . In 1596 this college became a full high school, in 1597 Petrus Canisius died in Freiburg.

In 1773 the Jesuit order was repealed by Pope Clement XIV ; with that the teaching activity in Freiburg ended.

After the re-approval of the order by Pope Pius VII in 1814, teaching at the St. Michael College was resumed in 1827. Only 20 years later, in 1847, the now Franco-German college was driven out of Switzerland after sectarian tensions as a result of the Sonderbund War; In the Swiss constitution of 1848, the Jesuits were even forbidden from doing any activity in Switzerland. This regulation was not repealed until 1973.

Stella Matutina Feldkirch 1856

Stella Matutina in Feldkirch

In 1649, at the request of the then Prince-Bishop of Chur, Johann Flugi von Aspermont , the town of Feldkirch in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg received a mission station with two Jesuit fathers, which was expanded into a Jesuit school with 150 pupils in the following year and was named "Collegium Societatis Jesu Veldkirchy, Patronus S. Nicolaus ”existed successfully until November 10, 1773, when the order was abolished.

In 1856 P. Clemens Faller SJ, a former Freiburg college student, reopened the old college in Feldkirch in a newly built but unused barracks under the name Stella Matutina (Morgenstern). This location proved to be favorable: A culturally diversified, initially around 250 young students from Germany, the territories of the Habsburg monarchy but also from France, Great Britain and America were taught there by 27 Jesuits and other lay people. Settlement in France or Germany would no longer have been possible from 1872 onwards, as the Jesuit Law, which was valid until 1917, prohibited the order from any activity. The school was a state school under the direction of the Jesuits until 1868, until after the state approval was withdrawn, thanks to the support of the German parents, the school could continue to operate on a private basis. In 1898 the school was recognized as an Austrian grammar school. The First World War limited the supranational nature of the school to Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In 1930 the Stella was recognized as a German school abroad. In 1931, almost 500 students were taught in Feldkirch.

The German students of the Stella Matutina were brought into great trouble by the thousand-mark ban , a Nazi law of May 27, 1933. According to this, all German nationals had to pay 1000 Reichsmarks before traveling to Austria. This law of the National Socialist state severely endangered the German pupils remaining in the Austrian Stella, as the German parents found it difficult to pay the pension. In addition, it became more and more questionable whether parents would be allowed to have their school-age children study abroad in the future. Ultimately, financial and political pressure led the German students to move to the southern Black Forest. On March 20, 1934, the 240 German boys and many of their teachers and educators, including Professor P. Alois Grimm , Prefect P. Alfred Delp and School Director P. Otto Faller , said goodbye to Feldkirch.

New opening in St. Blasien 1934

Cathedral of St. Blasien

The monastery, which was first mentioned in the 9th century and probably became independent around the 11th century, was considered one of the most important Swabian reform monasteries and influenced many other monasteries until the 12th century. The monks then devoted themselves to expanding their manor, which reached its greatest extent in the 14th and 15th centuries. The now Upper Austrian monastery, which was not influenced by the Reformation , suffered severe fire damage in 1768. The French architect Pierre Michel d'Ixnard built a domed dome during the reign of Abbot Martin Gerbert between 1768 and 1781.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the monks of St. Blasien looked after 20,000 souls, ran numerous elementary schools, pharmacies, a banking system for small farmers, and ran three high schools in St. Blasien, Constance and in the Sion monastery in Klingnau . Some worked as well-known scientists with connections to universities at home and abroad. All of this was called into question by the threat of secularization .

The secularization of the St. Blasien monastery was therefore controversial. Schleich reports on attempts in the spring of 1806 to let the monasteries of St. Blasien and St. Peter exist together "in a manner appropriate to the circumstances". After its failure, the secularization took place in the autumn of 1806. After that, the previous monastery building served as a machine factory and as a spinning mill , which went into liquidation in 1932 , until in 1934 the Jesuit order resumed the school operations that had been abandoned in St. Blasien in 1806.

At Easter 1934 - after some discussions with the previous residents, the employees of a factory housed in the building - the lessons of the German students began in the buildings of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasien . Since the German department in Feldkirch had already achieved “recognition as a German school abroad” in 1924, the St.Blasier school model essentially corresponded to that practiced in Feldkirch. However, life was made increasingly difficult for the head of the college: worry and uncertainty lay over the college. One could not always absolutely rely on all pupils. It could happen that individuals marched through the corridors singing anti-Jesuit Nazi songs. Some parents became insecure. You could not write to them because the correspondence was largely controlled. Ever increasing restrictions for high school graduates, who have to take the Abitur not only at another school (the college was only approved, not officially recognized), but also in their home area, endangered the college's existence as early as the mid-1930s, especially For example, children of civil servants were prohibited from entering the college by the state from 1938 onwards.

Marian Spirituality and the Marian Congregation

During these difficult years, the college liked to take refuge in devotion to Mary . Thus Father Dold preached in 1935:

“If you will still be able to use her, this wonderful mother, watch out, the life that lies ahead of you is probably not that easy despite the power and size of our fatherland. The wonderful mother should show you the entry into life, [...] should secure your exit from life, it comes sooner or later. "

- Dold 1954, page 7.

Since Ignatius of Loyola , the spiritual orientation of the Jesuit colleges has always been strongly Marian. Marian feasts were particularly popular and in May there were May devotions to the Mother of God almost every day . This was presented to the boys as a possibility where they could take their worries, hopes, problems, fears and homesickness to. They should have a home if they ever felt homeless in college. Since 1935, the St. Blasien College has had its own image of the miraculous mother, Mater Ter Admirabilis, in the house chapel, where the daily mass took place. A picture that gave many support and hope during the Nazi persecution and later in the terrible war years, which numerous letters from 1946–1950 to the college are impressive proof of.

Since the Jesuit educational tradition could not be reconciled with the model propagated by the National Socialist state , the school was opened after only five years in St. Blasien on March 9, 1939, despite strong protests from Archbishop Dr. Conrad Gröber was one of the first in the Archdiocese of Freiburg to be forcibly dissolved by the National Socialists, although she was not entirely free from adjustments in the period before that: by order of the state, the national flag was hoisted at the beginning of the school year 1934 and the Horst Wessel song was sung . Membership in the Hitler Youth was also allowed under pressure from the party, but only upon written application from parents and under the leadership of the Jesuit-led Marian Congregation , which always had the leading spiritual charisma in Jesuit college life.

After the school was closed, most of the students had to move to other schools. The older ones were usually called up for military service. The College of St. Blaise dead blackboard on the wall of the chapel with about 120 names remembered until a few years ago to the many dead and missing from the College of Family. The college building was initially rented to the AOK Stuttgart, thus preventing the establishment of an Adolf Hitler school . During the Second World War , the building was then used as a reserve hospital and arms factory. The later handover to the army was carried out by the Jesuits themselves in order to block attempts by the SS to get their hands on the school buildings for their training system.

Resistance to National Socialism by St. Blasier Jesuits

From 1934, from the beginning, the Jesuits of St. Blasien braced themselves out of their Christian faith against National Socialist delusions. Just a few weeks after the opening of the college, the then school director P. Otto Faller SJ preached in the St. Blasien Cathedral on the feast day of Peter and Paul:

“You are Peter and on this rock I want to build my church [...] What does our time say about it? A counter-chorus rings out through our world in a thousand ways: We don't want to know anything more about the Church. We don't need a church. We can do without a church. Do you hear [...] the voices of so many deluded people in our own homeland? What shall we tell them? Deluded, so we call to them! Do you not see that you need the Church more urgently than ever? Because in it Christ lives, Christ the teacher, Christ the shepherd, Christ the priest of all humanity. "

The active resistance of the Jesuits at the time, especially Fr. Alois Grimm and Fr. Alfred Delp , who were therefore executed by the National Socialists, also plays an important role in the present day self-image of the college . The memory of the two fathers is kept alive in the college.

In 1934 P. Alois Grimm was one of the pioneers who moved the German department from Feldkirch to St. Blasien and who worked as a Latin, Greek and German teacher until the college was closed in 1939. The college was a thorn in the side of the NSDAP from the start. They also suspected P. Grimm SJ. He gave courageous sermons and, above all, castigated the party's claim to the whole human being, pointing out that Christ is the only lawgiver to whom human beings are obliged. A trap was set for him and a young soldier, a Gestapo spy, was sent to him, who pretended to convert, in order to provoke him to make statements against the regime, which they succeeded. In October 1943 P. Grimm SJ was arrested and transferred to Innsbruck. From there he was taken to Berlin and sentenced to death by guillotine for degrading military strength. His urn reached St. Blasien in a roundabout way, where it was buried behind the plaque in front of the house chapel. The house of the Jesuit community , a valuable historical building next to the college, has been named after Fr. Alois Grimm . Father Alfred Delp , who also participated in the Kreisau Circle , is honored today, among other things, by naming the college's multi-purpose hall.

However, other Jesuits who had taught at the college also resisted, such as the Prefect General P. Johannes Dold, Rector P. Gustav Fernekess, P. Johannes B. Wiedemann, P. Lothar König and P. Provincial Augustin Rösch . Despite violent protests from Archbishop Gröber against the renewed expulsion of Jesuits from Germany, Jesuits from St. Blasien again had to leave their homeland in 1939, according to Father Otto Faller, Father Josef Schader and Father Josef Weinberger. The first rector of the college, P. Hugger, had been forced to resign by the Nazi rulers before the college was closed because of alleged violations of Nazi laws. Even if the Reichstag member Albert Hackelsberger from the Center Party , who was jointly responsible for the entry of the Jesuits ordered into the Reich into the monastery of St. Blasien, was not a priest, he still belongs to the ranks of those people who were closely associated with the college who were during National Socialism lost their lives in the resistance.

Until the reopening, the facility was rededicated by the National Socialists as a naval hospital, which was subordinate to the chief medical officer of the Navy and was headed by the well-known and renowned chief physician of the pulmonary clinic Adolf Bacmeister in personal union.

Reopened in 1946

“Child, don't forget the wonderful mother” and “We'll be back” were the farewell words of Father Dold in the overcrowded cathedral of St. Blasien on March 19, 1939. After March 19, 1939, Father Dold and other Jesuits have everyone Day prayed for it. A reopening of the college after the war in 1946 was not initially planned by the order.

“Our fathers in Germany were far from this conviction. One thought in all seriousness of getting rid of St. Blasien and opening a large day school in or near Stuttgart or in Munich. But L'uomo propone, Iddio dispone. All of these plans were shattered. We just had to go back to St. Blasien. It was so God's will and gracious providence. And this thought gave us tremendous courage to start over. "

- Otto Faller 1959, page 25.

retrospectively wrote P. Otto Faller, the first rector after the reopening in 1946. But the college urgently needed help, especially the daily food. In the Latin lesson of the ninth grade, the Confessions of St. Augustine were read, "Unfortunately, the beautiful reading does not contain any details on how to feed 500 people a day at a height of 800 meters", reported the first college letter of July 31, 1946. Pope Pius XII helped . “Empty our magazines, send everything to St. Blasien” was the papal mandate to the head of the papal magazines at the time, Pascalina Lehnert . Mainly thanks to the material and ideal support of this Pope Pius XII., Who, in view of the difficult situation in the destroyed post-war Germany, had a lot of important food brought to St. Blasien, the college was ceremoniously reopened by Archbishop Conrad Gröber on May 1, 1946 being held. A little later, state recognition as a private school was achieved, so that the school quickly regained its old size. Leading personalities shaped the intellectual image of the college at the time: Josef Adamek, Johannes B. Fiala, Anton Stricker and Friedrich Weber SJ.

The 1960s

The 1960s brought three important changes: for the first time, a large number of external students were admitted to the school, which had previously been run as a boarding school, and in the wake of the Second Vatican Council , which initially fundamentally questioned the educational tradition of the Jesuits, the sponsorship was also given Changed the school: Until now, the order was essentially responsible for the school. Since then, there has been a sponsoring association made up of representatives of the most important financiers, employees and a few personal members. This restructuring of the college in both educational and organizational terms was an essential reason that the college in St. Blasien could be kept, as it had previously been considered to move to a big city again. The third major innovation was that an (external) girl was allowed to attend the college for the first time in the 1965/66 school year.

In the 1968/69 school year, the college students fought for the right to join democratic parties with a “strike”. The first real strike took place in the spring of 1968, when the then senior prime ministers achieved through a long-lasting "sit-in" on mattresses that a classmate was not excluded from the high school graduation ceremony - because of a violation of school regulations.

Evangelical students

However, the presence of Protestant students at the college was nothing new. As early as 1934, out of 297 students, five (external) were Protestants. This number rose to 13 by 1965, but after that - as part of the increasing pacification of the dispute over denominational schools in Baden-Württemberg - the number of Protestant students rose rapidly: in 1975 there were 104 Protestants among 718 students. In the same year, this led to the establishment of Protestant religious instruction; the Protestant students had previously attended Catholic classes. Since 1981 the regional church of Baden has permanently assigned a pastor to the college, since 1989 there has been an official Protestant school chaplain, and since 1993 internal Protestant students have received confirmation lessons . In the past few years around a third of the students were Protestant.

The 1977 fire

On May 27, 1977, a severe fire damaged large parts of the college, but there were no fatalities. The new organizational structure that has existed since 1968 also made a significant contribution to coping with this situation, which threatened the existence of the college.

Cases of abuse

In the abuse scandal surrounding the former Father Wolfgang S., who worked in St. Blasien from 1982 to 1984, the Waldshut-Tiengen public prosecutor's office initiated an investigation on January 31, 2010. The proceedings were closed on January 4, 2011. A former student, defense attorney and writer Ferdinand von Schirach , wrote in the Spiegel about his memories of the boarding school days. Investigation reports on cases of abuse in institutions of the Jesuit order are available on the website of the college and the German Jesuit province. On May 12, 2011, the Kollegsrat published the guideline “Protecting dignity - not tolerating violence. Binding guide as an aid to prevention and intervention at the St. Blasien College ”in force. At the meeting of the college council on October 25, 2011, the topic was taken up and it was decided to further develop these guidelines and create appropriate structures. These include in particular: regular training for employees and the discussion of violence prevention in a comprehensive concept of education and social learning in schools and boarding schools.

Jesuit education

The St. Blasien college sees itself as a Jesuit school and is based on the educational principles of the Society of Jesus, for which the “Ratio Studiorum Societatis Jesu” has been in effect since 1599 (“Study Regulations of the Society of Jesus”). Jesuit education strives for a "world- and life-affirming" attitude and calls for learning and research in all areas of life, but always from a Christian, i.e. religious perspective.

financing

The college is financially supported primarily by the Jesuit Order and the Archdiocese of Freiburg , the college also receives grants from the state of Baden-Württemberg and the district of Waldshut.

In addition, there are educational contributions for internal (22,800 euros per year) and external (1,620 euros per year) students as well as admission fees (220 euros). Parents who are unable or unable to afford the pension price can receive help from the solidarity fund borne by other parents. The parents of internal students pay a further 660 euros and the parents of external students pay 60 euros per year, provided they are financially able to do so. In addition, the costs for school books, tickets and excursions must also be borne by the parents.

The Foundation Kolleg St. Blasien has existed since 2001 (initially the “Petrus Canisius Foundation”), which aims to avoid a future reduction in supply due to falling state subsidies. In particular, it supports extraordinary long-term projects such as cooperation with China, Lithuania and Hungary, remedial classes and the improvement of IT equipment. Some scholarships are also financed from the foundation fund.

The college receives further financial and ideal support from the Association of Friends and Patrons of the St. Blasien college. The group, which is briefly referred to as the “Friends' Association, consists mainly of parents and old school students. He sees his support for the college in particular in the financial and material support of initiatives and projects arising from the college.

Organization of the college

Sponsoring association and college board

The supreme body of the college is the Kolleg St. Blasien e. V. In addition to the Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits and the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, he includes the District Administrator of the Waldshut District , the Mayor of the City of St. Blasien, elected representatives of the parents, teachers and educators, the chairman of the Friends' Association and a few personal members on. The sponsoring association meets about twice a year to decide on the budget and accounting.

The college board includes the college director, headmaster, boarding school director, managing director and elected representatives of teachers, educators, the Jesuit community, parents and the sponsoring association.

College and school management

The college management consists of Hans-Martin Rieder SJ (college director), Michael Becker (headmaster), Cathrin Stoll (deputy headmistress), Marco Hubrig SJ (boarding school director), Stephanie Duttenhöfer (deputy boarding school director) and Daniel Poznanski (managing director). In the weekly meetings of this group, the main decisions of the college are discussed. Personnel matters (educators, teachers and students) are discussed in the inner circle, which includes the college director, school principal and boarding school director and their deputies.

In addition to the headmaster and his deputy, the school management includes the department heads Patrick Lebrecht, Martin Backhaus and Holger Köpcke.

College council

In addition to the directors of the college, the college council includes elected members of teachers, educators and students. In college council meetings, pedagogical decisions are discussed in particular, and decisions are made on smaller projects.

Other bodies

The employees, in addition to the educators and teachers, also the administrative employees and the craftsmen, elect a staff council (employee representation).

The student co-administration, which consists of the student representative, the external speaker and the two boarding school speakers at the top and the speakers of the individual school classes and boarding school groups, represents the interests of the students towards the college management. There are also trusted teachers and trusted prefects. The parents are represented by the parents ' council, which consists of two parents from external and internal students for each grade.

Finally, there is the Jesuit community consisting of around a dozen fathers and fratres (brothers) with the colonel (superior), Fr Wolfgang Bauer SJ.

Boarding school

East wing (new building) of the St. Blasien College, building of the boarding school, where some of the boys live
Alois-Grimm-Haus, residential building of the Jesuit community
Former Mill, building of the boarding school at the St. Blasien college, where some of the girls live

The approx. 220 boarding school students come from around 27 countries, including, in addition to neighboring countries such as Switzerland, some students from China . The boarding school regulations regulate, for example, that internal students are not allowed to have any vehicles at the college and that each internal student may only drive home once between holidays. Minor offenses against the boarding school regulations are punished with detention, serious violations with the "Consilium", a stay at home lasting up to 2 weeks. Drug possession or use leads to immediate exclusion from the college.

The boarding school attaches great importance to the good coexistence of different cultures and social classes: While that was more about getting to know each other between aristocratic and non-aristocratic students immediately after the Second World War , now, after a greater internationalization of the school and the boarding school, it is mainly about the good Together with students from different cultures.

Boys

The boarding school for boys, which already existed before the move to St. Blasien, accommodates around 120 pupils who live in boarding school groups divided into classes. Each of these boarding school groups, which are physically separated from one another, is led by two or more boarding school teachers (prefects). All groups are accommodated in the main building of the college.

girl

The boarding school for girls, which has been in existence since 1989, has around 100 female pupils who are divided into various boarding school groups. Some of the girls live in the French building, which was prepared for it after the complete renovation with funds from benefactors. The other girls live in the mill. In the time of G9 (13th school year), this was different for a while, when the respective high school graduation class of the girls lived in the Jesuits' Alois-Grimm-Haus (colloquially Bagnato house). The same rules apply to the girls as to the boys.

Daily routine in the boarding school

After getting up and having breakfast in one of the dining rooms, the boarding school students go to their classes. Pupils who do not have a single room (up to grade 10) are not allowed to go to their rooms during school time, but upper school students are allowed to do so. After lunch, the students have free time until their "studies" start at 4:00 pm on weekdays. This starts at 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. During the two and a half hours that follow, the students sit in study rooms (in the upper level in the single rooms) - separated by groups - and do their homework. There is calm; Activities other than schoolwork are not permitted. Dinner begins immediately after the end of the course, after which there is again free time, provided that the school situation or an approved absence does not require an additional course of study in the evening hours. All students must be back in the college building by 10:00 p.m. at the latest. Daily routine applies from Monday to Friday. Saturdays are always considered normal school days. On Sunday, boarding school students are required to attend mass in St. Blasier Cathedral or the house chapel or - for Protestant students - to attend the service in the Protestant church in St. Blasien. Occasionally, the Protestant school pastor also organizes a school service in a prayer room in the college itself.

Extracurricular activities

The college offers a variety of opportunities to get involved in other areas in addition to the actual teaching. Every boarding school student is obliged to choose at least two activities from over 50 offers and to pursue them for at least one school year. It is possible to work in the school garden or at the weather station, in the theater group, in music (big band, college orchestra, college choir), in the school newspaper (Gegenwind), in college television (KFS), with the altar boys , in the Vincent's Conference (Viko), in the studio or in the college's own sports club with more than a dozen sports.

Party room

In the basement of the college building there is a room that is used twice a week for entertainment, celebrations and theme parties. The party cellar is run by the PK-AG under the direction of a mentor. Here, students from the tenth grade can meet for a beer under the supervision of the educators and end the day with table football or billiards. In addition to the regular opening times, various festivals, balls and theme evenings, such as the Bavarian Evening, are organized by the PK-AG , for which the party cellar is decorated accordingly and the appropriate dishes are offered in consultation with the kitchen.

school

The grammar school also teaches around 580 external students, most of whom come from the Waldshut district and the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district . Since the school year 1999/2000 the eight-year high school could be chosen, since the school year 2004/05 the so-called G8 train is compulsory (as in the whole of Baden-Württemberg). If the third foreign language on the G9 train did not begin until grade 9, the G8 students receive lessons in another language from the eighth grade onwards. The afternoon program of the college is also almost entirely available to external students. As of the 2013/14 school year, the college expanded the educational offer with an advanced high school for students who want to achieve the general Abitur based on an intermediate level.

School schedule

Classes start Monday to Saturday at 7.35 a.m. A morning prayer is read at the beginning of the first double hour. The double-hour model was introduced in the 2012/2013 school year. This means that the subjects are usually taught in double hours. Students in the lower and middle grades usually finish their school day at 12:35, on some days, like every Saturday, the school day can end at 11:50. For high school students, the sports, art and music lessons are often held in the afternoon. The lessons are subject to the regulations of the state of Baden-Württemberg and are predominantly given by non-Jesuit teachers. On special occasions (beginning and end of the school year, church holidays) the entire college community attends the service in the cathedral.

Euroclass

Since 1994, students from all over the world have been studying in the international Euroclass for one year in St. Blasien and shape the international character of the college with over 25 nations. Most of the students came to the college from France, from the large Hispanic region (especially Spain and Mexico) and from China to learn German. Every year pupils from Eastern Europe also take part in the program - the graduates of the Euroclass are now spread around the world. The one-year visit to the Euroclass is intended to familiarize students with the German language so that at the end of the visiting school year they can take the “Zertifikat Deutsch” (= B1) or the “Central Intermediate Level Examination” (= B2) of the Goethe Institute. The costs amount to 28,500 euros for one year; some excursions are included in this amount. The students receive lessons in German, regional studies (geography, history and politics) and religion. Outside of the special hours of the Euroclass, the pupils are divided into a normal class corresponding to their age, in which they are taught the other subjects. The year ends with an exam from the Goethe Institute . Numerous students in the Euroclass stay at the college after the year of German course and take a regular German Abitur .

Day school

Since the 2012/13 school year, the college has been offering homework support in the afternoons. A team of full-time and volunteer workers, adults and young people welcomes the children after the end of regular lessons. After a joint lunch there is time and space to rest and play, but also a period of time in which the schoolwork is done. The day school offers pupils from the fifth to the eighth grade, daily from Monday to Friday, a relaxed working atmosphere in which the pupils learn to do their homework independently, but also with help if needed.

Language sequence

For pupils who came to the college in the fifth grade, English was the first foreign language mandatory. The first foreign language begins in the fifth grade, the second in the second half of the fifth grade. French and Latin are currently available. As a third language can Ancient Greek , Spanish and (since 1997) French are and the Math and Science Branch elected to replace a third language, since 2005, Chinese as a regular third language. Students on the G8 train have been learning two languages ​​since 2007 in fifth grade. English is compulsory as the first language. Latin or French can be chosen as the second language. Chinese has been offered as the third regular foreign language since 2006 - from 1996 onwards - combined with a three-month language stay at the two partner schools in Shanghai and Jiangyin. In 1996 - for the first time at a German private high school - there was the opportunity to take Chinese as a basic course in a study group and in the upper school. Other languages ​​such as Italian , Russian and Dutch are offered as a study group from intermediate level.

Partner schools and school trips

The college maintains numerous partnerships with (Jesuit) schools abroad and enables regular student exchanges (e.g. England, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland). In particular, the college cultivates the partnership with a secondary school in Jiangyin , which lies between Shanghai and Nanjing , which has existed since 1999 , as well as the cooperation with the Tongji secondary school in Shanghai, which has existed since 2003. Until 2005 the student exchange was only part of a two-week study trip, but now students also have the opportunity to include a stay of several months in China in their curriculum vitae.

Since 2006/07 the college has also offered a three-month exchange with the boys' boarding school at Clongowes College ( Ireland ). The college has another partnership with Stonyhurst College ( United Kingdom ). Selected students in the tenth grade take part in a short exchange consisting of one week of visiting English students and one week of visiting colleagues abroad.

Since 2017/18 the St. Blasien College has also been participating in the German-Polish student exchange between the St. Blasien College and the Polish Jesuit school from Gdynia . This is attended by up to 11 students in grade 8 every year.

Further partnerships exist with schools in France (Paris / Reims), Lithuania (Vilnius), Palestine (Beit Jala), Spain (Badajoz / Zaragoza) and Hungary (Miskolc). In addition, school trips in tenth grade often have European cities as their destination.

Religious instruction

Attending religious instruction is compulsory. Catholic and Protestant students attend classes corresponding to their denomination, while other students can choose between the two types. De-registering from religious instruction brings the end of the school contract and thus the end of school education at the college. In grades 5 and 6, a 45-minute word service is held once a week in the house chapel.

Days of reflection, graduation exercises and social internship

One-day days of reflection take place for the fifth grade, three days each for the eighth grade. Course level 11 colleagues do a two-week social internship in non-profit locations such as homes for the disabled, hospices, social stations, hospitals and other charitable institutions. What has been learned and experienced is reflected immediately afterwards on the three-day reflection days. The social internship is a central project of social learning as part of the extensive social curriculum at the college. The aim is to develop social skills for use in college life and for the common good of society.

Church influence

While the principles of the Catholic Church and the Order are practiced in a variety of ways in everyday life at school and boarding school ( church services , days of reflection, retreats , morning prayers, etc.), school education is completely subject to the education law of the state of Baden-Württemberg . Therefore, biology classes , for example, are not subject to any religious restrictions.

Pentecost

The feast of Pentecost is the most important date in the calendar and summit of the college. Parents and old school pupils come back to the school for the four days during which a large artistic and intellectual program is regularly on the agenda. The kick-off is on Friday evening with a musical introduction to Pentecost, while the first Pentecost party room takes place at the same time. On Saturday and Sunday there are demonstrations of the various working groups and office hours for the parents of internal students, until in the evening the Whitsun Theater, in which students perform a play, again competes with the party room. On Sunday morning there is also a meeting of the college community, in which a lecture is given on a current event and related to religious topics. Finally, on Monday morning, the boarding school students, who had to spend the night in the college until then, can go home with their parents.

Old colleagues

Former students

Every three years (most recently in 2019) there is an old collegiate meeting at which, in addition to the obligatory reunion celebrations in the party room, information on current school life is given - especially for the older generation. While the Stellaner Association includes old school students from all German Jesuit colleges, especially older age groups, the unofficial Altkollegianer homepage is aimed more at younger old school students. The former students who call themselves old colleagues include: a .:

College letter and interjection

Since 1946 the “Kollegbrief” has been published annually at Christmas time. In addition to the farewells to previous employees and introductions to new employees, it primarily contains reports from college life and religious-educational articles. It is sent to all parents and also to the old school students, as is the “interjection” that has appeared since 2003. The interjection, which appears in May or October, contains the Whitsun program and further information, which should be passed on before the publication of the college letter.

See also

literature

  • Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Kollegbrief 1996. St. Blasien 1996, pages 128–184, 241 (overview of the history of the college).
  • P. Josef Adamek SJ: ST. Blasien, church, monastery, college. A guide. Revellio Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1986. (The long-time school director P. Adamek was in St. Blasien for over 50 years. Good description; valuable references).
  • P. Johannes B. Dold SJ: How the Wonderful Mother came to St.Blasien. In: Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Collegiate letter Christmas 1954. St. Blasien 1954, pages 2–8 (speech from 1935, Marian spirituality in the Third Reich).
  • P.Otto Faller SJ: 25 years at the St.Blasien College. In: Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Kollegbrief 1959. St. Blasien 1959, pages 20-25 (the history of the Kolleg 1934–1959 from the perspective of the former college director, rector and provincial of the Upper German province).
  • P. Otto Faller SJ: About the Church. Student sermon Peter and Paul. Manuscript. College St. Blasien June 29, 1934.
  • P.Otto Faller SJ: Pius XII. And we. In: Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Kollegbrief 1958. St. Blasien 1958, pages 5–9 (obituary; the Pope's auxiliary work).
  • Benedicta Maria Kempner : Priest before Hitler's tribunals . Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1967. Bertelsmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-570-12292-1 (summaries on P. Alfred Delp SJ, P. Alois Grimm SJ, P. Augustin Rösch SJ; briefly mentioned in the broader context former college fathers and prefects: Otto Faller SJ, Lothar König SJ, P. Tattenbach SJ, Mario v.Galli SJ and others).
  • P. Josef Knünz SJ: 100 years of Stella Matutina 1856–1956. JN Teutsch, Bregenz 1956.
  • P. Gottlieb Schleich SJ: St. Blaise in Carinthia. In: Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Collegiate letter Christmas 1952. St. Blasien 1952, pages 17–24 (The move of the monastery to St. Paul in Carinthia).
  • P. Gottlieb Schleich SJ: Secularization of St. BLASIA 1803–1807. In: Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Kollegbrief Sommer 1953. St. Blasien 1953, pages 19–28 (The process of secularization analyzed in detail).
  • P. Gottlieb Schleich SJ: The factory in the monastery. In: Kolleg St. Blasien (ed.): Collegiate letter Christmas 1953. St. Blasien 1953, pages 4–9 (The various economic functions of the monastery 1806–1933).
  • Stella Matutina (Ed.): 75 years of Stella Matutina. Volume 1-3. Self-published by Feldkirch, Austria 1931; Volume I: Treatises by Faculty Members. Volume II: Treatises by former pupils. Volume III: Stella times and stella lives. portrayed by pupils with 103 panels.

Web links

Commons : St. Blasien Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knünz 1956, page 9.
  2. ↑ see Knünz, page 133 ff.
  3. ↑ Gottlieb Schleich SJ: Secularization of St.Blasien 1803-1807. Pages 19-28.
  4. ↑ Gottlieb Schleich SJ: Secularization of St.Blasien 1803-1807. Pages 19 ff.
  5. ↑ Gottlieb Schleich SJ: The factory in the monastery. Pages 4-9.
  6. ↑ Knünz 1956, page 141.
  7. ↑ Dold 1954, page 3.
  8. ↑ Otto Faller, 1934, page 1.
  9. ↑ Johannes B. Dold SJ: Like the wonderful mother to St.Blasien. Page 2.
  10. ↑ Otto Faller, Kollegsbrief 1946, 2
  11. ↑ Pictures and report
  12. ^ FAZ on February 1, 2010: Allegations against Jesuit priests
  13. ^ Badische Zeitung December 7, 2010: St. Blasien: Hear the silent screams
  14. ↑ Badische Zeitung January 4, 2011: Abuse scandal: Investigations against priests from St. Blasien stopped
  15. ↑ Von Schirach, Ferdinand von A YOUTH IN THE JESUIT INTERNAT ST. BLOWS
  16. ^ Homepage of the St. Blasien College: Activities ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ Homepage of the Wetter AG of the St. Blasien college
  18. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from February 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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