Lessing-Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main)

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Lessing high school
Lessing-Gymnasium from the air.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1520
address

Fürstenbergerstrasse 166

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 20 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 20 ″  E
carrier town Frankfurt am Main
student about 1000
Teachers about 80
management Bernhard Mieles
Website www.lessing-frankfurt.de

The Lessing-Gymnasium is an old-language grammar school with a musical focus and one of the most traditional schools in Frankfurt am Main , named after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). It goes back to the city's Latin school , which was founded in 1519 by the city council to educate the patrician sons. To this day it invokes its humanistic tradition, so that the first foreign language is Latin and ancient Greek can be chosen as the third foreign language in the eighth grade . In the 2008/2009 school year, around 940 students attended Lessing Gymnasium.

School profile and school life today

The Lessing grammar school is committed to the tradition of the humanistic grammar school . The educational goals include a broad basic education, value and method orientation, science orientation, action and professional orientation with the aim of comprehensively developing the personality of the students . It is one of the two schools in Frankfurt that start with Latin as the first foreign language. English is also taught as a second foreign language from the sixth grade (fifth grade). Until the end of the 20th century, ancient Greek was a compulsory subject, since then, alongside French, it has been offered as a third foreign language from the lower secondary school (eighth grade). In the lower (twelfth grade) and upper prima (thirteenth grade) a total of five students took a Greek course in the 2006/2007 school year, and twelve in the 2007/2008 school year.

The Lessing-Gymnasium is characterized by its orchestras and choirs and thus continues its musical tradition. There is an orchestra for each of the lower, intermediate and upper levels. There are also three choirs, one for the sixth grade, one for the quinta (sixth grade) and quarta (seventh grade) and one for the middle and upper grades. In addition to the traditional symphonic school concerts that take place in the school auditorium, the choirs also occasionally appear on public stages, for example at the Frankfurt Opera in 2002 at the world premiere of the children's opera Dr. Popel's nasty trap by Moritz Eggert . A theater group, in which pupils from all grades can participate, rounds off the school's cultural offerings.

Traditionally, since 1967, there has been a skiing holiday to Niederau (municipality of Wildschönau , Tyrol ) during the Christmas holidays , in which over 200 schoolchildren take part. Parents and former employees form the team of supervisors and ski instructors on a voluntary basis.

The Lessing-Gymnasium maintains a school partnership with the Duluti Secondary School in Arusha , Tanzania . There has been a regular student exchange with the Lycée du Parc in Frankfurt's twin city of Lyon for around 50 years .

Foundation of the Latin school

Rectors of the Latin School
Period Rector
1520-1523 Wilhelm Nesen
1523-1524 Ludwig Carinus
1524-1533 Jacob Micyllus
(1533-1537) Johann Moser
1537-1547 Jacob Micyllus
1547-1550 Eobaldus Sylvius
1550-1562 Johann Knipius
1562-1563 Georg Dimpelius
1563-1568 Jeremias Homberger
1568-1576 Philipp Lonicer
1576-1580 Henricus Petreus
1581-1582 Theobald Müller
1583 Johannes Raschius
1584-1598 Mathaeus Bader
1599-1615 Adelarius Cravelius

At the end of the Middle Ages, Frankfurt did not have any public schools. There were collegiate schools at the three collegiate monasteries St. Bartholomäus , St. Leonhard and To our Dear Lady on the Mountain , but these mainly served the training of their spiritual offspring. The rising bourgeoisie was dependent on private tutors for the education of their sons. At the beginning of the 16th century, influential patricians , especially Hamman von Holzhausen , Claus Stalburg and Philipp Fürstenberger , began to persuade the city authorities to set up a Latin school. On December 23, 1519, the city council of Frankfurt finally decided that one should look for an honest, learned and skilled fellow who would stop the young children in their apprenticeship and instruct Fürstenberger to start negotiations. To finance the rector's position, one less servant should be maintained in the future, unless the position could be maintained with the help of wills.

On June 2, 1520, Johannes Cochläus , dean of the Liebfrauenstift since the beginning of the year , applied to Fürstenberger, albeit in vain, because on September 14, 1520, probably on the recommendation of Stalburg, the council appointed the poet and Erfarnen in Latin and Greek, Wilhelm Nesen to the first rector . On October 11, 1520, the council made the deed of appointment; this day is therefore considered the founding date of the Latin School.

Nesen had been privately teaching the sons of some prominent patricians in Frankfurt since the spring of 1520, among them Justinian von Holzhausen . Nesen received an annual salary of 50 guilders and a school fee of two guilders per student per year. In addition to teaching Latin students, he also undertook to give one hour of lectures a day for honorable listeners and to keep himself available to the council for further use, for example as the author of ceremonial speeches.

The school was initially housed in the Zum Goldstein building (in Buchgasse , roughly where the Langer Franz town hall tower now stands). Diagonally opposite was the Gasthof Zum Strauss , where Martin Luther stayed on his trip to the Worms Reichstag on Sunday, April 14, 1521, and on his return on Saturday, April 27, 1521.

The day after his arrival, Luther visited the newly founded Latin school and got to know Nesen. Nesen became the intellectual head of Luther's followers in Frankfurt, his confrontation with his inferior competitor and radical Luther opponent Cochlaeus was one of the first steps towards introducing the Reformation in Frankfurt. In April 1523 he was appointed to the University of Wittenberg . His friend Ludwig Carinus from Lucerne succeeded him as principal of the Latin School .

Head of the Melanchthon statue at the school

In Wittenberg, Nesen met Philipp Melanchthon , who was influential in the further development of the Latin school. In the summer of 1524 Nesen, Melanchthon and Camerarius traveled together through Frankfurt. Since Carinus was dissatisfied with his post as rector, Melanchthon recommended one of his students, Jakob Micyllus , who was only 21 years old , as his successor. In his letter of recommendation to Hamman von Holzhausen he wrote:

“Not only does Micyll's erudition deserve respect, but his manners are so amiable that they turn out to be an ornament to his erudition. The manners and character of some scholars contribute to the reputation of the sciences themselves; but Micyll's fine and considerate demeanor can only serve to increase the value of the learned studies in the eyes of all well-meaning. "

Micyll was then appointed rector. Johann Fichard and Hartmann Beyer were among his first students . Micyll initially remained rector until 1534 and then accepted a professorship in Heidelberg. This office was paid less, but in Frankfurt it suffered from increasing attacks from the radical Reformed preachers. After his departure, the office of rector initially remained vacant - Johann Moser , named in some chronicles as his successor, was not appointed by the council, but officiated as a private individual. In the years that followed, Frankfurt sought connection to the Lutheran wing of the Reformation. After joining the Schmalkaldic Confederation and the signing of the Wittenberg Agreement in 1536, the Frankfurt patricians Justinian von Holzhausen , Johann Fichard and Johann von Glauburg achieved that Micyll received a renewed call to Frankfurt, combined with an increase in his annual salary to 150 guilders.

During his second term from 1537 to 1547, the Francofurtanum grammar school was finally established. It received its first school regulations in 1537 and in 1542 it moved into a renovated building in the cloister of the former barefoot monastery , where it remained until 1838. The students and teachers were also responsible for the choir singing at the Barfüßerkirche (today's Paulskirche ), the main Protestant church in Frankfurt. In 1549 the school was divided into four classes.

With the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 and the forced acceptance of the Augsburg interim in 1548, a period of foreign policy and economic distress began for the Lutheran imperial city of Frankfurt, which also affected the grammar school. A progressive devaluation of money and, especially towards the end of the 16th century, a noticeable deterioration in coins meant that teachers had to accept considerable losses in purchasing power despite nominally rising salaries. The social status of the collaborators who supported the rector was also low. Lersner mentioned the grammar school in his chronicle mainly in connection with salary demands and requests from teachers. On May 28, 1555, he wrote, for example, that Johannes Acontius and Johannes Latomus , both collaborators in the barefoot school, asked them to be released from cheating, guarding and watching: Should their desire be denied them. The collaborators were therefore not recognized as members of the learned class, in contrast to the preachers and the Syndici of the council. In 1563 the newly appointed rector Jeremias Homberger succeeded in enforcing his exemption from guarding the council.

In order to make a living, the older teachers, who had to support families, were particularly dependent on additional income, for example by taking in private students and diners in their own households, or by renting rooms during masses or imperial coronations. During this time, there were repeated complaints about inappropriate secondary employment. In 1561 the council dismissed the son of the rector Johannes Cnipius , who worked as a collaborator with his father at the school because he was also working in the Egenolff printing house. In 1604 the teacher of the quinta, Laurentius Bulla , applied to be allowed to work as a clerk on the city scales during masses.

The discipline at the school apparently left a lot to be desired during this time. Especially during the tenure of Rector Adelarius Cravelius from 1599 to 1615, the chronicles report on nocturnal debauchery of students and teachers who roamed the streets as rough and lost bacchants and evaded the access of the city guard by retreating into neighboring Bockenheim . Cravelius had been appointed to Frankfurt from Pforzheim because of his erudition, person and authority , but could not meet expectations. During the Fettmilch uprising from 1612 to 1614, the council exhorted the rector, instead of using the vehemence previously used, to exercise due gentleness and modesty, to diligently wait for his school, to stop singing in the street at night and to forego presents from poor students in future . The reputation of the Frankfurt high school was correspondingly bad. Around 1610, the Frankfurt students at the surrounding universities were considered bad grammarians ( Francofurtani mali grammatici ). Cravelius resigned as rector and went to Wertheim as town clerk in 1617 .

Francofurtanum high school

From 1542 to 1838 the grammar school was located in the former barefoot monastery.

Instead of the previous official name - Latin School , occasionally School to the Barefooted - the name Gymnasium Francofurtanum appeared at the beginning of the 17th century , which over time replaced the old name. The Frankfurt citizens called the grammar school only "the class" until the 19th century; the high school students called themselves "Klässer" or said in the Frankfurt dialect that they went 'to the class' .

Rectors 1616 to 1806
Period Rector
1616-1627 Heinrich Hirtzwig
(1627-1635) Ludwig Selzer
1635-1684 Johannes Valentini
1684-1691 Georgius Grabowius
1691-1716 Johann Gerhard Arnold
1717-1722 Johann Jacob Schudt
1722-1737 Johann Thomas Klumpf
1737-1770 Johann Georg Albrecht
1770-1806 Johann Georg Purmann

In 1615 the Ministry of Preachers turned to the council with a petition to improve the salaries of teachers at the grammar school and to make them more independent of their additional income. In addition to an annual salary increased to 200 guilders, the teachers of the secondary, tertia and quarta received housing allowance as well as credits for grain, salt and firewood. The Quintanus , teacher of the entrance class, had to be content with a lower salary of 130 guilders, but received a free apartment. The council appointed Heinrich Hirtzwig , who had previously been rector in Speyer , as the new rector . He received an annual salary of 300 guilders, which was significantly more than the earnings of a professor at the nearest university in Giessen.

Hirztwig set about rebuilding the college. In 1616 the Quintanus Laurentius Bulla was dismissed for indolence , in 1623 his successor, Eucharius Arminius. In 1626 none of the teachers from 1615 was in office anymore. This year the council strictly forbade high school teachers any private lessons, even during the holidays. Hirtzwig also made an effort to keep the students disciplined. Four pupils were expelled from the institute and the office of a decurio responsible for order and supervision was established.

The number of students grew strongly in these years. In 1616 a sixth was created as a new entry class. In 1626 the Sexta had over 100 students, so that it was divided into two piles and its lower pile expanded to the Septima in 1627. Hirtzwig also set up an exemte class for older students that was not integrated into the normal class system. Primans and exams together formed the upper level of the grammar school; they were taught by the rector and by Magister Ludwig Selzer, who was specially appointed to teach dialectics, rhetoric, ethics, physics and metaphysics . The exact number of students from these years is not known.

Despite all his zeal for reform, Rector Hirtzwig turned influential opponents against him, including the preachers, through his autocratic behavior and a tendency to intransigence. The council reprimanded him for making unauthorized changes to school rules. When Hirtzwig was appointed court preacher to Butzbach in 1627 , the council passed him without any major formalities. His request to be allowed to keep the Frankfurt citizenship was refused. Ludwig Selzer held office as Hirtzwig's successor until 1635, without the council formally appointing him as rector.

During the Thirty Years War , a severe plague epidemic broke out in the city in 1635 . 80 pupils and numerous exams died, others left. The rector Johannes Valentini, newly appointed in 1635, and three teachers also fell ill with the plague, but recovered. In total, over 10,000 people died in Frankfurt during the plague years of 1635 and 1636.

During Valentini's almost fifty-year term in office, the number of students dropped dramatically. Around 1680 only 122 students were paying the so-called wood money ; the number of pupils could hardly have been higher, because apart from the sons of the teachers, the sons of the 12 Frankfurt pastors were exempted from it. At the same time, the educational quality of teaching and the school's reputation deteriorated. Only under the rectorate of Georgius Grabowius and increasingly under Johann Gerhard Arnold did the grammar school take a new boom. In 1691 the grammar school again had 200 students.

Nevertheless, the development of the grammar school stagnated throughout the 18th century. Although the rectors from Arnold to Johann Georg Purmann were respected scholars, the number of pupils remained small. 1805, in the last year before the end of the Holy Roman Empire , which also ended the era of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, the grammar school had 164 students. Rector Purmann had accepted 1,251 students in 36 years of office, which corresponded to an average of 34 new admissions per year.

An important reason for the stagnating number of students was that the Frankfurt patricians and wealthy citizens did not want to send their sons to the local grammar school. They preferred foreign, well-known institutions or let the students teach privately. Johann Caspar Goethe , son of an innkeeper who had become wealthy, visited the Casimirianum Coburg , for example , and his son Johann Wolfgang received private lessons in his parents' apartment. He chose two renowned grammar school philologists, Rector Johann Georg Albrecht and Vice Rector Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius, to teach the ancient languages .

A pupil of the grammar school, Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor , set Scherbius in the comedy Der Prorector published in 1794 a literary monument. It is the oldest traditional theater play in Frankfurt dialect.

School inspection

Since 1540, school supervision has been in the hands of a council committee, the four members of which were usually referred to as Scholarchen . They performed their office together with the Ministry of Preachers, the governing body of the city's 12 Lutheran pastors. In 1579, Rector Heinrich Petreus tried to make the school more independent of the scholar and preachers by means of new school rules. This led to a conflict that ended with Petreus saying goodbye in 1581.

After several rank and competence disputes between scholarchen and preachers, the council formed a joint authority in 1728, the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory , which consisted of five councilors, two theologians and two lawyers. Among the directors of the consistory were distinguished councilors with the most benevolent influence on the grammar school , including Johann Wolfgang Textor , Johann Karl von Fichard , Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode , Johann Wilhelm Metzler and Samuel Gottlieb Müller .

Structure of lessons and holidays

The Francofurtanum high school did not yet have a school year , but divided the year into two semesters . According to the rhythm of the spring and autumn fair , which determined life in Frankfurt, the semester began on the Saturday of the last week of mass. There were two weeks of vacation during the spring fair and three weeks during the autumn fair. The Micylls school regulations provided for five classes from Quinta to Prima, and from 1616 the Sexta was added. Each class was in three to four orders , between which the students could switch with each semester according to their individual learning progress, so that Sexta, Secunda and Prima were generally to be completed in four semesters, Quinta, Quarta and Tertia in three semesters. According to Micyll's plan, the daily teaching time was supposed to be four hours, but the workload could not be achieved with the available teachers during this time. In the 17th and 18th centuries, classes were generally taught for three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. Only Wednesday and Saturday afternoons remained free, so that the students had 30 hours per week.

The grammar school did not know subjects in the current sense for a long time. The focus was on the practice of the ancient languages ​​Latin and Greek, plus music, catechism and arithmetic once a week. It was only since Rector Hirtzwig that a distinction was made between language and non-technical instruction (in Latin). In 1747, Rector Albrecht introduced the first division of subjects for the secondary and primary schools. In addition to Hebrew and Greek - still in Latin - theology, history, poetry, geography, philosophy and rhetoric are taught. In 1784, Johann Jakob Römer became the first French teacher at the grammar school.

Major reforms only came about at the end of the 18th century at the instigation of the Frankfurt school reformers Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel and Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode . The Vice Rector Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche , appointed in 1795 , introduced the new subject of natural science and ensured a stronger emphasis on German lessons, modern foreign languages ​​and the so-called real sciences . From 1804, Carl Will taught English to interested volunteers. In 1805 Johann Heinrich Moritz Poppe became the first teacher of mathematics and physics and class teacher at the Tertia - the first member of the college who was not a classical philologist.

The range of duties of a rector of the institution is made clear by the service letter from Matthäus Bader of March 24, 1584.

School programs

From 1737 the Frankfurt grammar school, following the example of other learned institutions, published two programs a year , from 1747 even four. The occasion was the invitations to the public exams and the progression celebrations . The exams took place in the week before the spring and autumn fair, the progressions after the end of the fair. From 1583 until the old Barefoot Church was demolished in 1786, the celebrations were held in the large auditorium of the Barefoot Monastery, then until 1886 in the Roman Imperial Hall . The council bore the considerable printing costs. The main part of each program was an extensive scholarly dissertation, generally written by the respective rector. Johann Georg Albrecht came up with 85 treatises between 1737 and 1764, his successor Johann Georg Purmann even with 119. The rector Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche, who was in office from 1803 to 1806, simplified the exams in 1805. From then on, programs appeared twice a year until 1853, annually until 1881, and then every two years until World War I. In the 1881 program, Mommsen estimated the total number of programs published to date at 390, although not all of them had survived even then.

The high school in the 19th century

Directors of the municipal high school until 1897
Period director
1806-1822 Friedrich Christian Matthiä
1823-1853 Johann Theodor Vömel
1853-1864 Johannes Classen
1864-1886 Tycho Mommsen
1886-1897 Karl Reinhardt

Until the end of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, the school had only Lutheran students and teachers. It was only with the Education Act of February 1, 1812, that the new ruler, Grand Duke Karl Theodor von Dalberg , ordered the Frankfurt grammar school to be open to all denominations. In addition to the Jews who had only had equal rights since 1811, this also gave Catholics and Reformed people access to the grammar school, which was now called the Grand Ducal grammar school . The grammar school was placed under the supervision of the state and the teachers hitherto employed were hired as state officials.

The Grand Duke also had a personal influence on the curriculum and school regulations of the grammar school. On July 27, 1807, he decreed that the students who frequented the local grammar school ... should not leave the school without attending its first class diligently for at least two years ... and to examine this properly through the teachers ... and to them A conscientious testimony must be drawn up on the evidence of their abilities that has been filed . Until then, there was no mandatory school leaving examination for all students at the grammar school .

According to the new curriculum of October 29, 1812, the grammar school should represent the lower scholarly school and be completed by the students in six years. Only the subsequent visit to the Lyceum Carolinum , the higher school of scholars , led to the university entrance qualification in another two years. Six college members were simultaneously appointed professors at the Lyceum. In addition to rector Friedrich Christian Matthiä , these were his vice rector Georg Friedrich Grotefend , Friedrich Christoph Schlosser , Johann Heinrich Moritz Poppe , Georg Michael Roth and Heinrich Adolf Herling .

With the end of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1813 and the restoration of the Free City of Frankfurt , teaching at the Lyceum came to a standstill. The grammar school and the possibility of direct access from the grammar school to the university were restored on the recommendation of a senate commission. The grammar school should " exist as a secondary school at the same time and be set up in such a way that no religious part is prevented from attending." A corresponding senate resolution was issued on August 25, 1814. For the realities , mathematics, natural sciences and history, subject teachers were now for the first time College accepted who did not have their own class to lead.

Municipal high school

The grammar school was housed in the Arnsburger Hof (to the right of the gate) from 1839 to 1876.

In 1839 the dilapidated barefoot monastery was demolished and the school moved to the Arnsburger Hof in Predigergasse. The ancient, winding building complex was extremely unsuitable for school operations. Nevertheless, another move did not take place until 1876. The city had taken over a building erected in 1873 by the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts and its Auxiliary Sciences in the Neue Rothofstrasse / corner of Junghofstrasse and prepared it for the purposes of the grammar school. While the number of students in the first 350 years of the school's history was always between 100 and 200, it rose rapidly after 1868. In 1886, 744 students attended the grammar school, which had 18 normal classrooms, two specialist rooms for physics and science classes, a room for Catholic religious instruction, a singing hall, a drawing room and a small gym.

In 1888 the state Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium (today Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium ) was founded to relieve the burden . Nevertheless, the number of pupils at the school, now known as the municipal high school, continued to rise. In 1896 the grammar school had 638 students, 138 of whom were Jewish.

Foundation of the Lessing-Gymnasium

Statue of Lessing in front of the school
Directors of the Lessing-Gymnasium
Period director
1897-1904 Christian Baier
1905-1926 Friedrich Neubauer
1926-1933 Ernst Majer-Leonhard
1933-1945 Hans Silomon
1950-1953 Otto Kracke
1953-1959 Will judge
1959-1970 Karl Ringshausen
1971-1995 Gerhard Schaffner
1995-1999 Klaus Meyer
2000-2015 Rupert Frankerl
since 2016 Bernhard Mieles

In 1897, due to the steadily increasing number of pupils, the city's educational institution was divided after the classes had been divided into two departments since 1892: The Goethe-Gymnasium was re-established as a reform grammar school according to the Frankfurt curriculum by the director Karl Reinhardt , who had been the successor to Tycho Mommsen since 1886 . It moved into a new building on the train (today Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage ), while the Lessing-Gymnasium in the old place Junghofstraße under the previous Deputy Director Christian Baier continued the tradition of humanistic Gymnasium. It also took over the library and archive of the municipal high school and is considered its successor.

1902, the Lessing-Gymnasium was referring to the Hansaallee a Gothicising new building with an elaborate staircase and an auditorium, were listed in the 1933 to Greek dramas in the original language. The school grounds included a north and a south school yard, as well as a sports area to the north called a palaestra .

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1933, when the National Socialists came to power , anti-Semitism also reached the Lessing grammar school. On April 1, 1933, a Jewish student, the primary school student Hans Stern, committed suicide because of the harassment by his classmates . The director at the time, Ernst Majer-Leonhard , tried to oppose the synchronization , but was put into early retirement - not least because of interventions by the college. The previous optional Hebrew was abolished in 1934. The Jewish students were gradually pushed out of the institution. At Easter 1936 Werner Bamberger, the last Jewish high school graduate, passed his examination. There is a memorial in the stairwell for the former Jewish students .

In 1944 the school was badly damaged by aerial bombs in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main and the students were relocated to Bad Marienberg in the Westerwald .

Reconstruction and modern times

Ferdinand Lammeyer: Departure , relief wall at the main entrance
GE Lessing and Ph. Melanchthon in the south courtyard

Since the school grounds were in the American restricted area around the IG Farben building after the end of the war , the classes were initially taught in the rooms of the Heinrich von Gagern high school, which was also damaged. In 1948 the Lessing Gymnasium had 210 students. In 1952, school operations could be resumed in the poorly restored ruins. The gym, music and drawing room were destroyed, the building only covered with an emergency roof. Initially only ten classrooms were available, so that lessons were held in shifts until 1955. In 1957 the city rented an apartment in the nearby Holzhausenviertel, in which another four classrooms and a teachers' room were built. In 1958, 684 students, including 107 girls, attended the Lessing grammar school.

In 1967/1968 the school building, which still exists today, was built and moved into based on a design by Günther Balser (* 1923), a son of Ernst Balser , with the collaboration of Lothar Menzel (* 1928) and K. Egli. The retired Frankfurt Städelschule rector Ferdinand Lammeyer designed the ceramic relief "Aufbruch" for the new building. The hand-made and glazed tiles from clay occupy an area of ​​13 × 10 m next to the staircase to the main portal and represent three walking figures. During the construction period, lessons continued in barracks that were built on a vacant site on Hansaallee. The official inauguration of the new building took place on March 4, 1968. In 1976 the Lessing-Gymnasium introduced the Reformed Upper School as one of the last schools in Hesse . The number of pupils rose in the 1970s from around 700 to over 900, and then gradually fell again to around 620 by the end of the 1990s, as the traditional language orientation with Greek as a compulsory subject gradually became less attractive. With the change in the curriculum, the number of students began to rise again.

From spring 2010 to autumn 2013 the building was completely renovated. During the construction period, some of the lessons took place in containers.

Personalities

Numerous well-known people were and are connected with the school. The following list includes some of them:

Teacher

The first rector Wilhelm Nesen
Jacob Micyllus
Johannes Classen

student

Three of the resistance members of July 20, 1944 ( Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel , Caesar von Hofacker and Friedrich Karl Klausing ) also graduated from the Lessing Gymnasium.

literature

  • Rudolf Bonnet: The Lessing High School in Frankfurt am Main. Teacher and pupil 1897–1947. Publishing house Dr. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1954.
  • Heinz-Joachim Heydorn, Karl Ringshausen (Ed.): Beyond Resignation and Illusion: Festschrift for the 450th anniversary of Lessing-Gymnasium, the old Frankfurt Latin School from 1520. Moritz Diesterweg publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1971.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School information for parents of primary school children, year 2008/2009
  2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 17, 2002
  3. ^ Rudolf Jung , Archivalische Findlinge - Cochlaeus as applicant for the rectorate of the Frankfurt Latin School 1520 , in: Archive for Frankfurts History and Art (AFGK) 25, 1899, p. 335
  4. ^ Ernst Nebhut , Ferry Ahrlé : Frankfurter streets and places . First edition. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-7973-0261-4 , page 20.
  5. ↑ Achim Mittler: Martin-Luther-Straße. frankfurt-nordend.de
  6. ^ Georg Eduard Steitz : The humanist Wilhelm Nesen, the founder of the grammar school and first stimulator of the Reformation in the old imperial city of Frankfurt a. M. Life picture, presented on the basis of the documents . In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art (AFGK) 14, 1877, pp. 36–160
  7. ^ Gerhard Dolinsky: From the history of the Frankfurt high school . In: Heinz-Joachim Heydorn, Karl Ringshausen (Hrsg.): Beyond Resignation and Illusion: Festschrift for the 450th anniversary of Lessing-Gymnasium, the old Frankfurt Latin School from 1520. Moritz Diesterweg publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 19
  8. ↑ a b c d Achilles Augustus von Lersner , The far-famous Freyen imperial, electoral and commercial city of Franckfurt am Mayn Chronica: Or Ordinary description of the city of Franckfurt . 2 volumes, Frankfurt 1706–1734, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-1110969 , chap. XXV-XXVI, pp. 107-114
  9. ↑ Quoted from Karl Reinhardt, school program 1891
  10. ↑ town clerk Adelarius Gravelein / Cravelius
  11. ^ Rudolf Jung : Review of the history of the Frankfurt grammar school 1520–1853 . In: Gymnasium Francofurtanum 1520–1920. Awarded to the participants in the four-centenary celebration on August 26 and 27, 1920 . Kunstanstalt Wüsten & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1920, p. 14 .
  12. ↑ In the 1880 program, Tycho Mommsen assumed 450 students around 1630, a number that was not reached again until around 1880.
  13. ^ According to Purmann in the 1779 program, p. 27
  14. ^ Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor: The Prorector: A comedy in 2 acts. Retrieved February 2, 2016 .
  15. ^ Tycho Mommsen in the 1873 program
  16. ^ Service letter from Matthäus Bader ( Wikimedia Commons )
  17. ↑ On the history of the programs of the Frankfurt grammar school there are detailed treatises in the program 1837 (edited by Johann Theodor Vömel ) and in the program 1881 by Tycho Mommsen
  18. ^ Otto Liermann: The Lyceum Carolinum. A contribution to the history of education in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. , Supplement to the program of the Wöhler Realgymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, Easter 1908 ( digitized version ), p. 17
  19. ^ Liermann, Das Lyceum Carolinum , p. 13
  20. ^ Vote of the Senate Deputation on August 13, 1814
  21. ↑ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Frankfurt am Main and its buildings . Self-published by the association, Frankfurt am Main 1886, p. 187-189 ( archive.org ).
  22. ^ The Jewish students and teachers at Lessing-Gymnasium 1897–1938 , documentation for the exhibition of the archive work group of Lessing-Gymnasium from 1998
  23. ↑ Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt a. M. - creases and folds on db-bauzeitung.de ; accessed on January 8, 2017
  24. ^ Website: Art in public space in Frankfurt am Main