Landfermann High School

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Landfermann High School
Landfermann-Gymnasium (Duisburg) 11.JPG
type of school high school
School number 164549
founding before 1280
address

Mainstrasse 10

place Duisburg
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '3 "  N , 6 ° 46' 25"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '3 "  N , 6 ° 46' 25"  E
carrier City of Duisburg
student over 1300
Teachers 91
management Christof Haering
Website www.landfermann.de

The Landfermann-Gymnasium (also called "LfG" for short) is an urban humanistic gymnasium for girls and boys located in the center of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia . The grammar school is one of the oldest schools in Germany and was founded before 1280 as the "Schola Duisburgensis".

history

prehistory

The first documentary mentions of the Schola Duisburgensis date the founding of the first precursor school before the year 1280.

In 1512 the city council of Duisburg had the old school building of the Schola Duisburgensis demolished and a new building erected at the Salvatorkirchhof . It consisted of two floors with classrooms and a teacher's apartment in the gable. The former school building is to be rebuilt at its former location from 2020.

But because it was too small from the start, the sales hall on the old market (now visible in its outlines above the excavation area behind the town hall) and the old chapel on the Salvatorkirchhof were added. Even before these old buildings were destroyed in 1943, today's "old building" was inaugurated - in keeping with the 350th anniversary.

Reformation in Duisburg and foundation of the grammar school

From 1544 the Reformation also spread in the Duchy of Jülich-Kleve-Berg and thus also in the city of Duisburg, which belongs to it, in 1555 the " Salvator Mundi " was removed from the Salvator Church. The two mayors who had already converted decided to take advantage of the fact that the old Latin school had fallen into disrepair, and presented them to Duke Wilhelm on this pretext.

He had planned the establishment of a Klevian state university in Duisburg since 1551 (see Old University of Duisburg ) in competition with the universities of Cologne and Leuven , which had remained "old believers" . The main problem was therefore the “political correctness” of the teaching staff and of course the financing, which was only possible through benefices and monastery assets .

When the city asked for an academic high school to be established , the ruler was the first rector to attract the humanist Heinrich Castritius Geldorp (1522–1585), who was born in Geldern . This had wanted to not be separated, although by the Catholic Church, 1558 but had him excommunicated made it that in Duisburg sought refuge. The city was also able to fall back on three other humanists with a migration background, namely the theologian Magister Georg Cassander (1513–1566), the cosmographer Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594) and the philologist Johann Otho (around 1520–1581).

In the meantime, however, the Duke had become suspicious, so he withdrew his offer of financial support. This prompted the council to employ the rector and the other teachers for a salary. They could then share the school fees - 2 talers for noblemen, 1 taler for commoners. Geldorp used posters to attract teachers, and so other Dutch refugees came: Cornelius Rhetius , Johann von Groningen and the masters Jacob a Mola and Thomas Gruter . The Flemish Johannes Molanus (educator) (1510–1583) conveniently brought his students with him from Bremen. Still, the beginning was modest: 80 students in the grammatical classes, 20 auditors in the philosophical course.

One of Pope Pius IV. Sent in spring 1561 establishment bull that allowed the entry of ownership secular fraternities favor of the professors and students, but was withdrawn after a few days because had penetrated to Rome to become a base anti-Catholic aspirations Duisburg threatened. After the dissolution of the scientific school and the philosophical course, the Duke received the desired privileges in 1564.

Start of teaching

The entrance of the high school

In any case, on October 18, 1559, Geldorp was able to start teaching with six teachers, and he was supported in particular by Mercator. The actual grammar school consisted of the tertia , secondary and prima classes, in these classes the grammatical studies were completed, the command of the language perfected and the study of philosophy began. The lowest faculty of the universities, the artist faculty , where Geldorp, Molanus and Mercator lectured, was also established.

It is noticeable that no book by Erasmus of Rotterdam was used, instead letters from the Apostle Paul were primarily used . There was hardly any recourse to the church fathers, and Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon were not explicitly acknowledged either. However, there was already a four-hour lecture on civil law .

The Protestant orientation was established by Johann Gerhard Hasenkamp . Hasenkamp became rector in October 1766. At the request of the city's magistrate, in addition to school service, he took over church services in the Salvator Church for four years . As a theologian, Johann Gerhard Hasenkamp was open and far-sighted for the interpretation of the Bible. His extensive correspondence with Johann Caspar Lavater testifies to a great knowledge of the Bible and a broad philosophical knowledge. Hasenkamp's critical arguments with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe prove his keen willingness to fight. The pedagogue Hasenkamp succeeded in improving school lessons. Together with the elementary school teacher Johann Hermann Tops from Mühlheim, he developed modern learning methods. After his early death in 1777, his brother Friedrich Arnold took over as rector and continued his educational work.

Extract from the study regulations:

The linguistic and philosophical studies should not remain the only ones and therefore the preoccupation with ethical, political, economic, and mathematical problems is added. We strive for a systematic order by means of instructive instruction and we are clear about which writer must be given preference over another at a certain point. But we also use a method with which we coordinate everything in the best possible way and thus do not feel haphazardly back and forth without focusing on a goal. In our work, we exhaust the last possibilities without having to commit ourselves to anything in advance.

Further development

View of the school building complex
The school yard of the high school

The sponsorship of the school changed several times over the centuries, so in 1821 it became a foundation grammar school, in 1885 a royal grammar school and in 1918 a state grammar school.

Since 1925 the school has been named after its former director (1835 to 1841) Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann . In 1974 the sponsorship was finally transferred to the city ​​of Duisburg .

In the school year 2019-2020 the school will celebrate its (at least) 460th anniversary; Due to the current restrictions, however, the school party will only be able to be celebrated in the next school year.

Since 2012 the European School has redeveloped its humanistic profile and realigned it under the motto "Shaping the future from tradition". This profile basically includes the focus on old and new languages, individual talent development and personal development as well as IT in the MINT area.

In the 2019-2020 school year the auditorium and sports hall will be completely renovated and redesigned.

Special features of the school

The Landfermann-Gymnasium was a pioneer on the way to the eight-year high school . The class enrolled in the 2004/2005 school year was already taught according to the curriculum for the shortened grammar school career (this was only mandatory for all grammar schools in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005/2006).

Since January 25, 2011 - recertified in 2016 - the Landfermann-Gymnasium is the European school of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The school has also been a CertiLingua school since January 2011 .

The catchment area of ​​the school is traditionally not limited to the surrounding districts ( old town , Dellviertel , Duissern and Neudorf ). Many students come from the south of Duisburg, from Rheinhausen and also from Mülheim-Speldorf .

Since the 2012/2013 school year, the Landfermann-Gymnasium has been part of the school landscape with an individually tailored inclination concept. In addition to the bilingual branch, there are the regular classes. In both branches the lessons are supplemented by freely selectable inclination courses with which the school aims to discover and promote special interests and talents. The inclination courses are to be changed every six months; they include robotics, applied mathematics, microscopy, climate and sustainability, theater and music, an introduction, for example, in Japanese and Latin. The Latin inclination course can be continued in lower secondary level up to the Latinum.

The personality development takes place within the framework of a so-called Landfermann hour in levels 5 to 8.

The Landfermann-Gymnasium has been a Fairtrade school since December 15, 2016.

The Landfermann-Gymnasium is a member of the following networks and projects:

Networks

  • Reference school in the future schools network of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Project and network "Performance goes to school (LemaS)"
  • School in the Duisburg project learning 25
  • "Developing Potential - Strengthening Schools" by the Mercator Foundation
  • Member of the network School without Racism - School with Courage
  • Network school in the project "Promote diversity" of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Cooperations

  • APEIROS eV
  • Duisburg competence center for the gifted and gifted
  • Project talent scouts from the University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Co-operation school with the opportunity organization eV to promote learning
  • Cooperation with the Volkshochschule Duisburg
  • Cooperation with the Duisburg Music School
  • Theater Duisburg
  • Cooperation with the learning holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Employment Agency Duisburg

Language offer

English bilingual

In addition to the four to five hour major, English, geography, history and politics are taught in English every year. In the upper level, the Certilingua certificate and the certificate for the bilingual Abitur can be acquired.

Bilingual model

While the students choose either Latin or French or Spanish at the beginning of class 6, soon under G9 class 7 - Spanish from 7 as the only Duisburg grammar school - the students in this bilingual model take part in two language courses at the same time, each with only two hours per week . The material worked on in the intervening hours and the homework assigned to it are reworked independently by the students in the team.

The prerequisite for participation in this two-language model is a special ability and willingness to perform as well as a corresponding resilience on the part of the students, as they are expected to cope with the material of four hours per week with participation in only two hours per week with corresponding additional domestic rework.

Language overview under the new G9 conditions

  • English from grade 5
  • Latin from grade 5 - in a special inclination course model - or 7
  • French from grade 7
  • Spanish from grade 7 or 9 or 11
  • Greek from year 9
  • Japanese from Grade 9 or Grade 11 - Japanese from 9 as the only grammar school in the Ruhr area
  • Chinese from grade 11 (in cooperation with other Duisburg schools)

Student exchange

Current exchange programs
Flag of France.svg Collège Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Cluny , France
Flag of Spain.svg Colegio Hélade, Madrid , Spain
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Experimental Foreign Languages ​​School, Chengdu , People's Republic of China
Flag of the United States.svg Waterford High School, Wisconsin , USA
Former exchange programs
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Hurstpierpoint College, Hassocks, West Sussex , United Kingdom
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Roedean School for Girls, East Sussex , United Kingdom
Flag of the United States.svg Phoenix Country Day School (PCDS), Arizona , USA
Flag of the United States.svg Russel High School, Kansas , USA
Flag of Israel.svg Metro West High School, Ra'anana , Israel
Flag of France.svg Lycée Haute Qualité Environnementale Léonard de Vinci, Calais , France
Flag of Canada.svg MBCI-Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute, Manitoba , Canada
Flag of Brazil.svg Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro, Sao Paulo , Brazil

MINT focus

Since 2014, computer science has been the focus of the Landfermann-Gymnasium in the MINT area. The Landfermann-Gymnasium is a member of the computer science model project of the Düsseldorf district government and always offers several programs in the fields of programming, computer science and robotics in grades 5 and 6. In addition, computer science is always offered in the compulsory elective area from level 9; Basic and advanced courses in computer science are always held in the upper level.

Library

The library on the top floor of the old building has a collection of books, some of which are over 200 years old. This included some books of considerable value, including Bibles and Mercator atlases. These were lovingly cared for by a teacher at the school at the time, Klaus Wagener, and made accessible (almost) at any time if interested.

As the owner of the school, the city of Duisburg claimed these valuable books on the grounds that they should be made available to the general public. In the early 1990s, the books were removed from the school and then stored in the safe of a former Sparkasse branch in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, as the city did not have the money for the necessary restoration work. In the meantime, some of these books have become official gifts from the city of Duisburg for prominent visitors.

Parents who work voluntarily guarantee the library's opening hours. As a rule, the library is open to schoolchildren during the breaks and lunch break, there are workstations for personal work and computers with Internet access.

Sponsorship

The Landfermann-Gymnasium has been a sponsorship school of the former Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg ( East Prussia ) since 1955 . The aim of the "Collegium Fridericianum Professor Schumacher Foundation" is to promote and maintain East Prussian cultural assets. The most famous students of the former Collegium Fridericianum include Immanuel Kant and Eduard von Simson , the most famous teacher was Johann Gottfried Herder .

Personalities

Personalities of the predecessor institutions

Former students of the school

principal

  • 1559–1561 Heinrich Castritius Geldorp
  • 1561–1563 Johannes Molanus
  • 1563–1579 Antonius Luttelforst
  • 1580–1586 Johannes Tybius
  • 1588–1602 Ludger Merrenscheit
  • 1602–1610 Theodor Vorstius
  • 1611–1613 Petrus Scriverius
  • 1613–1614 Henricus Hermanni
  • 1614–1616 Mathias Wolter
  • 1616–1623 Johannes Monnichius
  • 1623–1636 Leonhard Weidner
  • 1637-1638 Isaak Cramer
  • 1638–1645 Johannes Philipp Geusauff
  • 1645-1650 Eucharius Cancrinus
  • 1650–1651 Johannes Walther Biermann
  • 1652–1653 Johannes Clauberg
  • 1653–1656 Heinrich Frens
  • 1657–1665 Christoph Fr. Crell
  • 1665–1670 Jonas Barbeck
  • 1670–1679 Joh. Gottfried Weysbecker
  • 1680–1702 Hermann Honn
  • 1703–1705 Johannes Gottschalk Wülffing
  • 1705–1716 Moritz Rudolf Heller
  • 1716–1727 Arnold Merckens
  • 1727–1765 Johann Adolf Baurmeister
  • 1766–1777 Johann Gerhard Hasenkamp
  • 1778–1779 Heinrich Adolph Grimm
  • 1779–1795 Friedrich Arnold Hasenkamp
  • 1796–1821 Johann Gottfried Christian nun
  • 1822–1829 Johann Daniel Schulze
  • 1829–1830 Adolf Schriever
  • 1830–1835 Friedrich August Schulze (pseudonym Friedrich Laun )
  • 1835–1841 Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann
  • 1842–1845 Heinrich Knebel
  • 1845–1875 Karl Eichhoff
  • 1875–1878 Alfred Eberhard
  • 1878–1881 Hermann Genthe
  • 1881–1908 Richard Schneider
  • 1908–1911 Ludwig Martens
  • 1911–1932 Max Wiesenthal
  • 1932–1938 Ernst Keßler
  • 1938–1939 Fritz Michel
  • 1940–1942 and
    1943–1945 Ludwig Neuschroer (acting)
  • 1942–1942 Friedrich draftsman
  • 1945–1951 Bernhard Kock
  • 1952–1965 Herbert Zimmermann
  • 1965–1977 Leonhard Domagalla
  • 1978–1997 Peter Westhölter
  • 1997–2009 Ulrich Tholuck
  • 2009–2012 Detlef Kleinschnellenkamp (acting)
  • 2012 – today Christof Haering

literature

  • Landfermann-Blätter, (at least) annual publication of the Landfermann-Bund
  • Kraume, Hans-Georg: Novum gymnasium linguarum et philosophiae, the Duisburg Academic Gymnasium 1559–1563 , in: Von Flandern zum Niederrhein , ed. by: Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg, Red .: Heike Frosien-Leinz, Duisburg, 2000, pp. 101–112, ISBN 3-89279-560-6

Web links

Commons : Landfermann-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/zeusmedienwelten/zeus/fuer-schueler/zeus-regional/duisburg/Der-Schule-Macher-id1267445.html
  2. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landfermann.de
  3. ^ Stephan Ehses: Andreas Masius to Cardinal Morone . Zevenaar. September 18, 1561. Concerning the University of Duisburg . In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity 22 (1908), pp. 62–66, esp. P. 63; Hubert Jedin : The cost of the papal privileges for the planned University of Duisburg 1560/61 . In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 64 (1969), pp. 218–228.
  4. - Environmentally active - "Fairtrade - Town Duisburg". Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  5. ^ Collège Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
  6. Colegio Hélade
  7. Experimental Foreign Languages ​​School ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cefls.com
  8. ^ Waterford High School
  9. ^ Hurstpierpoint College
  10. ^ Roedean School for Girls
  11. Phoenix Country Day School (PCDS)
  12. Russel High School ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usd407.org
  13. Lycée Haute Qualité Environnementale Léonard de Vinci
  14. ^ MBCI-Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute
  15. Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro
  16. ^ Jan Pieter Johannes Postema: Johan van den Corput, 1542–1611: kaartmaker, vestingbouwer, krijgsman , Kampen: Stichting Ijsselakademie, 1993, ISBN 90-6697-063-4