State education center for the blind

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State education center for the blind
School building of the state education center for the blind
School building of the state education center for the blind
type of school special school
founding 1845
address

Bleekstrasse 22

place Hanover
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 21 '49 "  N , 9 ° 48' 22"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '49 "  N , 9 ° 48' 22"  E
carrier Lower Saxony
student 170 (as of 2020)
management Overall responsible: Maria Grodzki; Headmaster: Martin Baaske
Website www.lbzb.de

The State Education Center for the Blind (LBZB) Hanover is a social educational institution of the State of Lower Saxony for the counseling, education, training and rehabilitation of blind and visually impaired people. It connects a boarding school with general education special schools of the primary and lower secondary levels , vocational schools and other educational offers such as early childhood education , retraining , vocational training , therapy and care for students in other inclusive schools . The Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family has technical supervision and school sponsorship .

The state education center is located in the Kirchrode district on the border with Kleefeld , on the southern edge of the Eilenriede forest .

Educational offer

Until the child who is blind or severely visually impaired is enrolled in school (possibly in addition to other disabilities), the state education center offers early support for the child, development support for the family and counseling for parents.

Students are taught in two special schools. At school with the funding priority "vision (blind)" according to the Lower Saxony guidelines for basic - main - and special school "focus learning" with possible high school , Middle school or the Lower Saxony Advanced lower secondary education . Or in schools with a special focus on “seeing (blind people) and mental development” for pupils who are impaired in their mental development . Students are also looked after in other, integrative and inclusive schools.

There are various full-time schools, training courses, vocational preparation courses and qualification modules for vocational training. Among other things, the vocational school for business, the training as a businessman for office communication or the housekeeper . There are also offers for rehabilitation and retraining for those who become blind later.

Media center in the state education center for the blind in Hanover

The media center in the state education center for the blind in Hanover is responsible for the media supply of blind and highly visually impaired pupils and trainees who are taught inclusive in Lower Saxony . It also is responsible for the care of those children and adolescents who stationary in LBZB be schooled and trained. In Lower Saxony, around 450 blind, severely visually impaired and visually impaired people are supported by the media center in the state education center for the blind in their education with specific media.

Teaching and learning materials such as braille books, texts in large print, audiovisual materials in digital form, literature and reference works on data carriers, models, maps, tactile graphics are created in the media center, both nationwide and in the LBZB's libraries and specialist collections . Procured from the media center, recorded in the database and issued to the clientele if required.

In close cooperation with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture, the annual comparative and final theses as well as the Abitur exercises for blind, highly visually impaired and visually impaired students are prepared.

The media center in the LBZB works cooperatively with the media centers in all federal states.

history

Street sign at the original location of the institution for the blind

The state education center for the blind was inaugurated on May 27, 1845 on the birthday of the self-blind Crown Prince Georg V of Hanover as the “Royal Institute for the Blind” on Hildesheimer Strasse . Its first director, Emanuel Friedrich Flemming , had already taught six blind pupils after King Ernst August I, at Pastor Schläger's instigation , decided on Hanover as the location of an institution for the blind.

After the end of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866, the school was renamed "Provincial Society for the Blind" and moved to Kirchröder Strasse in 1893, where the Alice Salomon School is located today . After the First World War, the new building in the nearby Bleekstraße was finally moved into in 1919, 150 pupils and trainees went to school there.

Memorial plaque for a Jewish student in the asylum for the blind

With the onset of National Socialism, the school was renamed the State Institute for the Blind, and in 1937 a business school was established. Several buildings were destroyed and damaged in bombing raids in June and November 1944 and January 1945, and four people died. The lessons were then partially moved to Wunstorf and Walsrode . After the end of the war, classes were resumed and the war blind were retrained. With the founding of Lower Saxony, the name was changed to "Lower Saxony State Blind Institute".

In 1964, under the head of the school, Karl Heinz Baaske, a department for pupils with deaf blindness was founded. In 1969 the foundation stone was laid for an own deafblind center with school and dormitory, and in 1971 the company moved into it. In 1978, classes were set up for pupils with multiple disabilities; from 1979, community service providers are used. In 1982 the school was given its current name “State Education Center for the Blind”.

In 1995, when the school was 150 years old, a sports center and the Hanover Museum for the Blind were inaugurated. In 2013, 150 schoolchildren and trainees attended the state education center and 155 children attended early intervention. External students are also looked after.

  • School building in winter

  • Administration building

  • Boarding school

  • Fountain square

literature

  • Emanuel Friedrich Flemming: History of the asylum for the blind in Hanover. Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung , Hanover 1846. ( online via Google books )
  • Günter Mosel (chronicle): 150 years of education for the blind in Hanover. 1845-1995. ed. from the state education center for the blind. 1995.
  • Ludwig Hoerner , Rainer Kasties: State education center for the blind. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 381.

Web links

Commons : State Education Center for the Blind Hanover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g History of education for the blind in Hanover on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Organization chart. (pdf) In: www.lbzb.niedersachsen.de. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ We introduce ourselves on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  4. ^ Educational offers on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Early intervention - development support - advice on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ Special school with a focus on vision (blind people) on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ Special school with a focus on vision (blind people) and intellectual development on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Mobile service at the state education center for the blind on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ Vocational training opportunities at the LBZB on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ Retraining for later blind people on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  11. ^ History on the pages of the German Deafblindenwerk . Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  12. ^ Museum on the LBZB website. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  13. ^ The Hanover Blind Museum on the pages of the City of Hanover. Retrieved March 14, 2016.