Leibniz School (Frankfurt am Main)

Leibniz School
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type of school	high school
founding	1843
address	Gebeschusstr. 24
place	Frankfurt am Main
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 6 '19 "  N , 8 ° 32' 30"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '19 "  N , 8 ° 32' 30"  E
carrier	town Frankfurt am Main
student	820
Teachers	35
management	Acting: Thomas Strauch (Deputy Headmaster)
Website	www.leibnizschule-ffm.de

The Leibniz School in Frankfurt's Höchst district is one of the oldest grammar schools in Frankfurt with a history going back more than 175 years.

history

founding

Founded as a secondary school in Höchst as early as 1818 on the basis of the sovereign edict of March 24, 1817, the educational institution was closed in 1822 despite the initial great interest due to declining student numbers. After modifications to the existing edict were made in 1840, including the integration of the languages ​​English and French, as well as a given teaching period of three years, this led to the opening of a real class within a private institution. Since the teaching activities were inadequate in a room in a private apartment, the state government ordered that a room for the school in the city's newly acquired town hall had to be made available.

Thus, a secondary school was founded in 1843, which can be considered the actual forerunner of the Leibniz School.

Further development to a higher educational institution

In the course of the following years, the previous private school was merged with the Realschule. Additional classes and gymnastics lessons were introduced. From 1859 it was approved that girls could also attend school - with the exception of the scientific subjects mathematics, physics and chemistry. In November 1861, the Realschulen, which had previously been directly subordinate to the state government, were given an independent position.

Although the abolition of joint teaching for boys and girls was considered, this co-educational method was retained for financial reasons. Nevertheless, a private secondary school for girls was founded in 1874, the successor of which is today's Helene Lange School .

A ministerial approval for the establishment of a higher educational institution and a ten-year contractually agreed financial support from the Farbwerke Hoechst AG led from 1884 to 1887 to the gradual transformation of the Realschule into a Realprogymnasium, where no girls were admitted.

In order to cope with the expansion of the Realprogymnasium, the steadily increasing number of pupils and the increased need for teachers with rooms, a new school building was built at the end of 1890. With the expansion of the class levels and the teaching content as well as some decrees in the same year, the educational institution finally developed into a grammar school and a secondary school in Höchst am Main at the end of the 1903/04 school year .

Younger past and present

After further relocations and the turmoil of the two world wars, during which teaching was largely stopped, the city of Frankfurt decided in 1972 to merge the two upper levels of the Leibniz School and the Helene-Lange School, where boys and girls were separated until 1975 could obtain the general university entrance qualification. With the construction of the Education and Culture Center in Frankfurt , which was also completed in 1975, lessons for the upper school took place in the newly built Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium .

With an exception of several years in the school years 2011/12 to 2013/14, in which the school model G8 was practiced, it was possible to obtain secondary school leaving certificate at the Leibniz School with the 10th grade and later as part of a school network together with Helene-Lange -Schule and the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium switch to the last-mentioned upper-level high school.

This school association is characterized by personal and pedagogical cooperation. Teachers teach at both the Leibniz School and the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium. After the 10th grade, the students at the Leibniz School have the privilege of admission to the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium in order to pass the Abitur there.

School profile

The Leibniz School is an intermediate high school (youngsters 5–10). It works in the school network with the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium, where the Leibniz students complete the upper school. In addition, the Leibniz School is a certified school with a focus on music. Thus it offers profile classes in music, but also profile classes in the natural sciences (see below). As a school with an all-day offer (profile 2), learners find homework supervision in the afternoon for the youngsters. 5 and 6 an extensive range of working groups.

Promotion of German language skills

• Interdisciplinary concept to promote reading
• "Reading Club" in cooperation with the Reading Foundation
• Participation in reading and debating competitions ("Jugend debattiert").
• Elective course "creative writing"
• Remedial courses and author readings

Violence prevention

• Getting to know and orientation trips
• Project days
• Mentoring program
• Project offers from the social worker

Help with career orientation

Company internship in the tenth school year

Student exchange and partnership

Twice a year to France (Brittany and Lorraine)

Focus of the school

Mathematics / natural sciences

• Profile class Nawi
• Mathematics AG and math laboratory
• Participation in math competitions
• Elective courses in science and technology

Music / art

• Certified "school with a focus on music"
• Choir, Orchestra (in cooperation with the Frankfurt Music School)
• Theater AGs
• Elective Art
• Annual concerts, theater performances and art exhibitions
• Awarded by the Hessian Ministry of Culture with the title school with special musical support

"New technologies"

• Word processing in German lessons
• Spreadsheet and powerpoint in math class
• Presentation techniques in geography lessons
• Elective courses in computer science

Sports

• Ski courses, swimming lessons
• Sports festival
• AGs: rowing, handball, soccer, inline skating etc.
• Participation in school sports competitions
• Participation in "Youth trains for the Olympics" in rowing

languages

• 1st foreign language English from age 5, 2nd foreign language French or Latin from age 6,
• School partnerships in France with exchange to Lorraine and Brittany
• Third foreign language Spanish or Latin as an elective subject from the age of 9
• Elective English courses (preparation for the Cambridge Certificate)

School grounds

The school consists of a main building with access from Gebeschusstraße, a new building and a gym, which is located in the north on Peter-Bied-Straße. A green inner courtyard in the main building serves as a "green classroom" and as a quiet zone during breaks.

main building

• Classrooms for grades 5–8
• Subject rooms for biology, physics, chemistry, art, music
• Subject rooms for German and social sciences
• two computer rooms
• Student library
• Theater basement
• Orchestra practice room

New building

• Classrooms for grades 9-10
• Specialist room for foreign languages
• Office of the social pedagogue
• Common room for grades 8–10

Well-known former students

• Karl Becker (1923–2002), doctor and politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag from 1976 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1990
• Hellmut Brunner (1913–1997), Egyptologist; Abitur in 1931
• Hans Günther (* 1941), Slavist and literary scholar; High school diploma in 1960
• Marko Marin (* 1989), football player
• Rudolf Schäfer (1914–1985), journalist, historian and the highest local researcher
• Anton Schindling (1947–2020), historian; Abitur in 1966
• Hermann Josef Wehrle (1899–1944), Roman Catholic priest and resistance fighter against National Socialism; Graduation from high school in 1917
• Hans Zürn (* 1936), German actor

Web links

• Redesign of the inner courtyard of the Leibniz School
• Chronicle of the Leibniz School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ School guide of the city of Frankfurt on www.frankfurt.de
2. ^ School edict in the Duchy of Nassau
3. ^ Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium in the school network with the Helene-Lange-Schule and Leibnizschule