Steinmühle - School & Boarding School

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Steinmühle - School & Boarding School
Landschulheim Steinmühle (2) .jpg
type of school high school
founding 1949
place Marburg , district Cappel (Marburg)
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 46 '14 "  N , 8 ° 45' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '14 "  N , 8 ° 45' 26"  E
carrier School association Landschulheim Steinmühle eV
student 700
Website steinmuehle.de

The Steinmühle - Schule & Internat is a grammar school with an all-day school in private ownership and an attached boarding school in the Marburg district of Cappel . The facility was founded in 1949 by Gerhard Buurman (1904–1987) as head of the rural education home and Joseph Müller (1885–1965) as head of the grammar school in Cappel (Marburg) in an old mill and the adjacent commercial and residential buildings. This gave rise to the earlier name "Landschulheim Steinmühle". Since 2018 the stone mill has been known as the "stone mill - school & boarding school". The stone mill is a member of the boarding schools association and the school association Blick über den Zaun . The property is first mentioned with the mill in 1299.

Location and campus

The stone mill is located on the Lahn and at the gates of the university town of Marburg. Various school buildings and some historic residential buildings (mill, main building) form the campus, which is supplemented by a dining room, a sports hall, a sports field, tennis courts, a riding stable, a boathouse and a bathing jetty with a beach volleyball field. The forum, which was built in 2006, houses the school library, music and group rooms and a large event hall in which the pupils perform their work from music and theater groups. In 2010, with the “Centrum 5/6”, a house was built only for grades 5 and 6 in order to offer the younger students a special place to learn and live. In January 2019 the new middle school building, called "Atrium 7-10", was opened. It offers 12 rooms for grades 7–10 with interactive board systems (multi-touch displays), group room and storage room for every grade, a large multifunctional room, kitchen and teacher support point.

History of the stone mill

The stone mill was founded in 1949 as the Landschulheim Steinmühle by Joseph Müller and Gerhard Buurman in an old mill and the adjacent commercial and residential buildings. The founders saw themselves committed to the tradition of the rural education homes and thus to the pedagogue Hermann Lietz .

Classes started on May 10, 1949 with 50 students, and a little later the first boarding school students moved into the main building. In 1951 the old mill building was expanded and used, followed in 1954 by the Bremerhaus, in 1958 a sports hall, a boat shed, other buildings and leisure facilities and finally the Westfalenhaus, where the first girls were housed.

In 1955 the stone mill was given the status of a state-recognized independent school. In 1962, Gerhard Buurman founded a non-profit school association as the sponsor of the stone mill. After a short time, Georg Gaßmann took over the chairmanship. Since then, there have been two separate structures (school and boarding school).

From 1965 to 1999 Gert-Ulrich Buurman , the son of Gerhard Buurman, ran the Steinmühle school home .

At the end of the 1970s, the decision was made to provide comprehensive supervision for external students as well, and all-day school operations began in 1978. In 2006 the Steinmühle became an expanded all-day school with a comprehensive support system for all grades. In 1984, Steinmühle students smuggled a GDR citizen across the border on a school trip. The case caused a great stir nationwide.

The school has been supporting the city of Marburg since October 2015 by offering 14 unaccompanied refugee minors a place to go to school and to live. Care is provided by a youth welfare facility founded by the school under the supervision of the Marburg Youth Welfare Office.

In the 2019/20 school year, the newly founded "Bilingual Steinmühle Primary School" starts with a flexible school entry phase in grades 1 and 2. The bilingual elementary school forms the basis for an international school branch, which will be expanded to grade 10 with the school year 2027/28.

The school of the stone mill

The Steinmühle is an all-day school that is based on the one hand in the tradition of pioneering educational concepts such as multi-channel learning (Pestalozzi), the development of independence (Montessori), action competence (Dewey) and a free personality (Freinet), on the other hand the Uses the findings of modern teaching research (Helmke, Hattie). A particular concern is to do justice to the individual and to understand the school as a community in which the principle of equality (Juul) is lived between students and teachers.

Around 700 students are currently attending the stone mill, around 80 of whom live in the boarding school. The class sizes are in the lower level 22, in the intermediate level 22–24 and in the profile upper level (learning in fixed groups) 12–24. In addition to general lessons, there are project lessons, topic-oriented days at the beginning and at the end of a school year, as well as action-oriented elective lessons.

The Steinmühle teaches the following languages: English, French, Latin, Spanish, Italian and Russian in the school network; In addition, there are bilingual classes from Grade 7 to Abitur, the opportunity to acquire internationally recognized language certificates, and partnerships with schools in the USA, Spain, France and Uruguay.

The basic musical and cultural education includes vocal and instrumental music-making, wind classes, performing games, choir, musical projects, a theater group and a freely available studio (“culture mill”).

The Steinmühle is the only school in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district that offers its students in the so-called option model in addition to G9 and G8 (decision will only be made in the 7th school year).

The boarding school of the stone mill

The boarding school offers space for 90 children and adolescents from grades 5 to 13. They live with their educational supervisors and their families in six houses on the Steinmühlen site: the Biohaus for the younger children, the Hessenhaus for the girls in the middle school and the introductory phase for the upper school historical mill that gave the campus its name and houses the rooms of the boys, the parent house for young people in the middle and upper grades as well as the Westfalenhaus and the Bremerhaus for the upper grades. The international students also use a weekend house on the edge of the Marburg forest. The residential buildings have single and double rooms, a common room and an eat-in kitchen.

The Steinmühle school and the boarding school are independent institutions, each with their own pedagogical teams, which means that the boarding school students have independent contact persons and confidants in the school and boarding school. In addition, a learning office is available to the children and young people of the boarding school, where they are supervised by a team of teachers and students from the University of Marburg in their extracurricular learning activities.

History of the mill

The stone mill was first mentioned in 1299 as "Keppelremule". At that time it is located on a significant passage through the Lahn, which connects the “Grünberger Strasse” and Weinstrasse (Wagenstrasse) trade routes. In 1492 the mill was rebuilt with walls up to 2.25 meters thick. In 1513 it burned down completely and had to be rebuilt. The stone mill existed in this form until 1951, when it was converted and renovated into a boarding school building with school and bedrooms in accordance with the requirements of the monument protection.

Stone mill

The adjoining house, known today as the “Stammhaus”, was built in 1796.

Over the centuries, the mill was owned by the landgraves and operated by local millers under feudal law. It was not until 1850 that the mill passed into private ownership by law. As a grain mill, it was shut down in 1935, leased by Gerhard Buurman in 1949 and purchased in 1958.

Sponsorship

The stone mill is divided into a school and a boarding school. The boarding school is privately run by Landschulheim Steinmühle GmbH. The independent sponsor of the school is the non-profit association Steinmühle Marburg e. V., who rented most of the school buildings from the above-mentioned GmbH. The stone mill is a member of the boarding schools association and the school association Blick über den Zaun .

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Head of the school
  • 1949–1956: Joseph Müller
  • 1956–1962: Wilhelm Stier
  • 1962–1965: Gerhard Ehl
  • 1965–1977: Ingeborg Lindner-Helmer
  • 1977–1980: Dieter Jöllenbeck
  • 1980–1981: Gangolf Reccius (acting)
  • 1981–1991: Klaus Teichler
  • 1991–1993: Gerhard Müller (provisional)
  • 1993–2002: Brigitte Kettner
  • 2002–2005: Ulrich Schmermund
  • 2005–2006: Bernd Holly (acting)
  • 2006–2010: Helmut Jäckel
  • 2010–2011: Bernd Holly, Elke Karasek (acting)
  • since 2011: Björn Gemmer and Bernd Holly as a team
Head of the boarding school
  • 1949–1965: Gerhard Buurman
  • 1965–1999: Gert-Ulrich Buurman
  • 2002–2006: Jörg Kettner
  • 2006–2011: Sascha Buurman
  • 2011–2012: Marc Apfelbaum
  • 2012–2015: Stefan Lange
  • since 2016: Anke Muszynski and Nils Schwandt as a team

Known students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Steinmühle boarding school - places to feel good. In: steinmuehle.de. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .