Lessing High School (Neu-Ulm)
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| type of school | Linguistic and scientific-technical high school |
| founding | 1880 |
| address |
Augsburger Strasse 75 |
| place | New Ulm |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 23 '57 " N , 10 ° 0' 29" E |
| carrier | District of Neu-Ulm |
| student | 734 (school year 2017/18) |
| Teachers | 52 |
| management | Martin Bader, Markus Zimmermann-Meigel (deputy) |
| Website | lessing.schule.neu-ulm.de |
The Lessing grammar school is one of two grammar schools in Neu-Ulm . The school was named after the writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .
description
The Lessing-Gymnasium was founded on October 3, 1880 as the Royal Realschule by King Ludwig II and is today one of five high schools supported by the Neu-Ulm district. In a checkered history, the school changed from an upper secondary school to today's linguistic and scientific-technological high school. The Lessing-Gymnasium is located in the immediate vicinity of the Danube bank path in Neu-Ulm, about ten minutes' walk from the historic center of Ulm . English, French, Latin and Spanish can be learned as foreign languages. In the lower and intermediate levels, teaching is based on the "open learning landscape" method. If possible, this concept is also used in upper school. The school has open all-day care and tied all-day classes .
In January 2016 the school was recognized as a Fair Trade School .
The school's robotics group has successfully taken part in world championships several times and has achieved top places in the On Stage and Soccer disciplines every year.
In 2015, a group from Lessing-Gymnasium won the special award from the Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture, Science and Art at Jugend forscht in Neu-ulm. They received this for building a forearm prosthesis.
New school building
In July 2015, the Neu-Ulm district council decided to build a new high school instead of renovating the existing site. A new school building including new sports facilities is to be built in northern Wiley for 41.2 million euros . Together with the Mark Twain primary school, which was completed in 2018, this new location is to function as the second Neu-Ulm school center . A date for the start of construction of the high school has not yet been set. In September 2016 the government of Swabia put the new school building to the test to see whether it was actually more economical than renovating the old location. The planned completion of the new building by 2021 is endangered. This review was completed in November 2016 with the result that the new building is more economical than renovating and expanding the old location. This means that the new building in Wiley Nord can be subsidized with subsidies from the State of Bavaria. By January 2017 at the latest, the Bavarian Ministry of Culture still had to decide on specifications such as G8 or G9 before the construction program and costs could be finally determined.
With the efforts of the city to leave the Neu-Ulm district ( see: Nuxit ), the project stalled. Both partners agreed to push ahead with the planning for the new school building at the agreed location, but to transfer this completely to the district. Should it come to the district freedom of Neu-Ulm, the city will take over the planning costs retrospectively. Since the district-free city would later be responsible for secondary schools, it would also have to take over the entire financing, which, according to initial estimates, is around 50 million euros. In addition, an exchange of land was agreed: the city will provide the area for the new school building in Wiley Nord free of charge and will receive the area on Augsburger Strasse on which the old school building is located after the school opens. However, there is disagreement about a second area in the Wiley Sports Park, on which the gymnasium's sports facilities are to be built separately for reasons of space. This area belongs to the city of Ulm and would have to be bought by the city of Neu-Ulm. The district demands that the city then make this area available to him free of charge. An application at the end of June 2018 to suspend the planning for the new school until the decision on the Nuxit was made was rejected. Instead, the construction program for the school building and the establishment of a steering group with representatives from the city and district were decided as soon as all property issues had been clarified. An architectural competition is also to be announced for 2019. If there are no longer any major delays, construction will start in October 2021 and an opening in summer 2024 is realistic. The total costs of around 50 million euros break down into 43 million euros for the main building, 5 million euros for a triple gymnasium and 2 million euros for the outdoor sports facilities.
Known students
- Franz Sperr (1878–1945), resistance fighter and monarchist
- Bruno Grosse (1892–1976), painter
- Achim Wixforth (* 1956), physicist
- Gerold Noerenberg (* 1957), former Lord Mayor of Neu-Ulm
- Ulrich Noethen (* 1959), actor
- Florian Weiss (* 1976), radio and television presenter
Web links
The school's website at lessing.schule.neu-ulm.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
- ^ Augsburger Allgemeine: Neu-Ulm's first Fairtrade school. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Young talented researchers present clever ideas. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Lessing-Gymnasium is newly built in Wiley-Nord. In: Südwest Presse . July 17, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2016 (German).
- ↑ A possible school center planned in Wiley-Nord. In: Südwest Presse . March 13, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2016 (German).
- ^ New construction of the Lessing grammar school in Wiley is delayed. In: Südwest Presse . September 28, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2016 (German).
- ↑ Government: New construction is economical. In: Südwest Presse . November 10, 2016, accessed on November 10, 2016 (German).
- ^ A b Lessing High School and Nuxit: War of the Roses before the divorce. In: Südwest Presse . June 8, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Lessing new building: Planning continues now. In: Neu-Ulmer Zeitung . June 21, 2018, accessed on July 3, 2018 (German).