Latina (school)

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Latina August Hermann Francke
Latina Hall Logo.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1697, re-establishment: 1991
address

Latina August Hermann Francke, Franckeplatz 1, house 42

place Halle (Saale)
country Saxony-Anhalt
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 28 ′ 33 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 22"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 33 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 22"  E
carrier Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
student about 800
Teachers 80
management Dietmar Hoge, Claudia Schmidt
Website www.latina-halle.de

The Latina August Hermann Francke is the oldest school of the Francke Foundations in Halle. Originally conceived as a Latin secondary school, it has existed since the end of the 17th century. In 1991 it was re-established as a humanistic state high school sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1997 it has been called the "European School". 80 teachers currently teach around 750 students. A special feature of the school is the musical branch that has been integrated since 1993.

history

The Latina (formerly also: Latin School, Latin Secondary School) was founded as one of the first schools of the Francke Foundations in 1697. It was intended for boys from middle-class families who intended to take up academic studies . In the first decades after it was founded, classes were held by students from the University of Halle, who received a free lunch in return. The first seat of the school was the Gasthof Zum Raubschiff , a building that also housed foreign students. In 1709 the number of pupils was 256, among them 64 were orphans. The school's first inspector was Magister Justinus Töllner .

Francke Foundations: Historic orphanage, temporary seat of the Latina (copper engraving, 1749)

The increasing number of pupils made it necessary to move soon, in 1714 the first classes moved to the two upper floors of the main building of the orphanage, from 1734 the entire Latina resided there. The number of students continued to grow in the following years, in 1857 there were 640 students.

In 1873, the Royal Pedagogy of the Francke Foundations, which was founded in 1695 as an educational institution for children from the nobility and the rich bourgeoisie , was integrated into the Latina . In 1906 the Latina moved into a newly built school building (House 42 of the Francke Foundations). The school statistics from 1925 showed nine classes with a total of 322 students.

From 1939 to 1945 the Latina was at the instigation of the then headmaster Wilhelm Weise in Mackensen School. Stiftische Oberschule for boys renamed after Field Marshal August von Mackensen , who attended the Francke Foundations' Realschule from 1865 to 1868 .

Latina school building (house 42), around 1925
School building of the Latina (house 43), 2016

On March 31, 1945, the Latina school building was hit and partially destroyed in an air raid. In May 1946 the legal personality of the Francke Foundations was abolished by the law on the democratization of the German school . The school building and the building of the pension institution of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle were transferred by a regulation of the government of the presidium of the province Saxony .

The Latina was after the end of World War II, first as a high school Francke continued with 25 classes. This used the directly neighboring school building of the former secondary school (house 43) of the Francke Foundations , which was not damaged during the war . After reconstruction, the former Latina school building was used from 1950 by the newly founded workers and farmers faculty , and later also by a day-care center.

Through the law on the socialist development of the school system in the German Democratic Republic of December 2, 1959, the August Hermann Francke secondary school was converted into the concept of an extended secondary school (EOS). This school kept the name August Hermann Francke and, together with the Polytechnic High School of the same name, which is also part of the Francke Foundations, may have been one of the few schools in the GDR named after a theologian .

The school was one of nine schools in the GDR that offered extended classes in ancient languages ​​(Latin and ancient Greek).

View of the long house with the Latina pension institution (2016)

After the Peaceful Revolution , EOS was converted into the August Hermann Francke State High School for the 1991/1992 school year . At the same time, the old name Latina was adopted again. Due to the increasing number of pupils, the former Latina school building, which was available again, was used in the following years .

The pension institution belonging to the Latina was founded in 1697 and is still used today as a boarding school with 94 places for students living further away. It has been located in the Long House of the Francke Foundations (houses 10-13), the largest half-timbered building in Germany , since 1714 .

A comprehensive renovation of both historical school buildings used by Latina (building 42 and 43) began in 2010 . Both school buildings were united by a connecting structure in 2013. The necessary construction measures are borne by the state and federal government (economic stimulus program II), from the Francke Foundations' own resources and through private donations.

Linguistic branch

After the students learn English in primary school from the third grade , the second foreign language ( Latin or French ) is introduced at the Latina from the fifth grade . A third foreign language (French, Russian , Spanish or ancient Greek ) is compulsory from the eighth grade. Hebrew can be learned in a study group from grade 8.

Musical branch

Together with the singers of the Stadtsingechors zu Halle they form the music classes. The instrumental training takes place in individual and group lessons, in the upper level in the profile course music . Cross-year participation in choir and orchestral work is compulsory. The singing training in the city singing choir includes, among other things, individual voice training. The aim is an optimal vocal development of every singer as a basis for the realization of a demanding choral repertoire.

Specialty of the school

The linguistic and musical branches enable the Latina to develop a rich cultural life. The Latina takes part in various educational projects with partner schools in France , Italy , Russia , Argentina , Israel , USA and Finland . Student exchanges are carried out with a high level of commitment from the colleagues, students and host parents involved. Guest students from other countries are also accepted every year. They take part in classes, are involved in school and extracurricular life, and return to their countries with many new impressions.

The school has a large and well-equipped school library that is not only equipped with around 35,000 books, but also with space for Internet research . The Latina school library is looked after by a full-time librarian .

In their free time, Latina students have the opportunity to take part in various German and foreign language theater groups , in mixed choirs and orchestras, and to support the cultural work of the Francke Foundations. This happens, for example, in the junior group and on guided tours through the foundation premises. There are numerous working groups such. B. in the field of sports , computer science , art and natural sciences .

The intensive cooperation between Latina and the Francke Foundations, the educational, social, scientific and cultural institutions of the city located in Halle and many other institutions within and outside the state borders of Saxony-Anhalt (e.g. the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Bonn and the Elisabeth Lebek Foundation for Lively Latin in Pullach) is another specialty in the German school system.

Teacher

Famous students of the Latina

Partner schools

  • 636. Saint Petersburg Middle School, Russia (for language branch)
  • Special School for Music of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory Saint Petersburg, Russia (for music branch)
  • Liceo Classico e Scientifico "Galileo Galilei" Tarquinia, Italy
  • Liceo Scientifico Statale "Paolo Ruffini" Viterbo, Italy
  • Lycée Racine Paris, France (for music branch)
  • Lycée Paul-Louis Courier Tours, France (for language branch)
  • Pöllönkankaan Ylaaste Oulu, Finland
  • Instituto Schiller A-643, Buenos Aires

literature

  • Helmut Obst and Paul Raabe : The Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale). History and present. Flugkopf Verlag, Halle 2000, ISBN 3-930195-35-6 .
  • Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg: August Hermann Francke and his Halle orphanage. , Publishing house of the bookstore of the orphanage, Halle as 1898.
  • Penelope Willard (Ed.): 2009 annual program of the Francke Foundations , Verlag der Francke Foundations, Halle / Saale 2009, ISBN 978-3-939922-13-1 .
  • Armin Stein: Arnold Strahl - a school life . Kempe publishing house, Leipzig 1903

Web links

Commons : Latina August Hermann Francke (school)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Obst and Paul Raabe: The Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale). Past and present , Flyhead Verlag, Halle 2000. ISBN 3-930195-35-6 , page 184.
  2. Jump up ↑ These nine extended secondary schools were GDR-wide: Heinrich Schliemann School in Berlin, Humboldt School in Potsdam, Kreuzschule in Dresden, Thomas School in Leipzig , Gerhart Hauptmann School in Zwickau, Ernst Abbe School in Eisenach, August -Hermann Francke School in Halle, Humboldt School in Magdeburg and Herder School in Rostock. Source: Markus Gruber: Statistical information on the situation of ancient Greek teaching in the Federal Republic of Germany (2009/10) ( Memento from May 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Obituary: "Wolfgang Kirsch (1938–2010)" .