College of St. Thomas the Dominicans

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College of St. Thomas the Dominicans
College St Thomas the Dominican old building.JPG
College St. Thomas the Dominican old building
type of school high school
founding 1902
address

Dominikanerweg 45

place Vechta
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 43 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 4"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 4"  E
carrier Dominican
student 696 (as of Feb. 28, 2015)
management P. Andreas Bordowski OP
Website www.kolleg-st-thomas.de

The College of St. Thomas the Dominicans (KST) is a state-recognized free high school in Vechta ( Lower Saxony ) sponsored by the Dominicans . The school, whose origins go back to 1902, currently has 696 students. Girls and boys of Catholic and Protestant denominations are now taught at the school. All school-leaving qualifications are equivalent to those obtained in public schools.

School history

In April 1902 the Konvikt St. Josef was founded in Vechta . The students attended the state high school Antonianum . In 1908 the opening of an own religious and mission school in Füchtel followed. Today's main building was completed in several steps by 1923. At the end of 1939 the college was closed and the buildings were confiscated for hospital purposes by the Wehrmacht treasury. Shortly afterwards, almost all students and Dominicans left the monastery and college. The upper prima was allowed to stay until the Abitur .

After the war the construction of the monastery church began (1946). At Easter 1947 the school opened under its current name, no longer as a job-related junior institution of the order, but now as a free boarding school . The first Abitur exams after the Second World War took place in 1954 . In the 1960s and 1970s, a new convent building and extensions to the school were built. External students were accepted for the first time at the beginning of the 1970/71 school year. At this point in time, a total of 181 students attended the college. In May 1990 the boarding school was closed.

In recent years the school has been expanded to include new subject rooms for chemistry and biology classes , a multimedia room and a concert courtyard.

In 2005, the school was ranked 46th in the nationwide school ranking by the business magazine Capital .

Since the 2006/2007 school year , girls have also been admitted to the so far only boys' school .

AGs

There are several active working groups at the St. Thomas College . The brass orchestra , which was reactivated by P. Siegfried Dörpinghaus OP in 1980 and is now directed by Blair Carmichael , has produced CDs to this day. Concert tours take place regularly, most recently to Newbridge (Ireland), Walberberg (near Cologne) and Spain ( Caleruega and Barcelona ). Further offers are a DPSG master group, a computer science group, a first aid group / paramedic group, a choir for grades 5–12 and training to become a paramedic. In addition, there exists a robotics project under the name "Thomas", which is one over the network remotely controlled and self-propelled robot based on Debian and C ++ is. The sports groups are carried out in close cooperation with the school sports and volleyball club DJK Füchtel Vechta . Some of the students also use the school's own biotope .

Well-known teachers and graduates

literature

  1. ^ College of St. Thomas the Dominicans - The School , accessed February 28, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Dominican convent "Maria de victoria" (Ed.): 100 years of Dominicans in Vechta. Festschrift for the anniversary year . Vechta 2002
  3. ^ College of St. Thomas the Dominicans - The Students , accessed February 28, 2015
  4. ↑ a b http://www.dominikaner-vechta.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68%3Ageschichte-2001-2006&catid=48%3Ageschichte&Itemid=75  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dominikaner-vechta.de  
  5. ^ Website of the THOMAS project , accessed on May 2, 2015
  6. ^ College of St. Thomas the Dominicans - DJK Füchtel , accessed on February 28, 2015

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