Lessinggymnasium Braunschweig-Wenden

Lessing high school
type of school	high school
address	Heideblick 20 38110 Braunschweig
place	Braunschweig
country	Lower Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 19 '38 "  N , 10 ° 30' 29"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '38 "  N , 10 ° 30' 29"  E
carrier	City of Braunschweig
student	about 1000
Teachers	about 100
management	Matthias Schröder
Website	www.lessinggymnasium.de

The Lessinggymnasium Braunschweig-Wenden is a general education grammar school in the northern Braunschweig district of Wenden . Around 1000 students are currently being taught there by around 100 teachers.

history

The school was founded in 1923 on Leopoldstrasse as a secondary school for the second educational path and was named six years later on the 200th anniversary of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's death . 30 years later, the current location in Wenden was built as a branch of the Lessinggymnasium. A few years later it was exchanged; the location in Leopoldstrasse 20 became the branch of the new building in Wenden. On August 1, 2008, the original location in Leopoldstrasse was the Kleine Burg grammar school . The main reasons for this were the great distance between the Lessinggymnasium in Wenden and the branch twelve kilometers away; The small castle is only a ten minute walk from Leopoldstrasse. Some of the teachers at the Kleine Burg had previously taught in Leopoldstrasse.

Structures

The first foreign language is English, the second foreign language offered is French, Spanish and Latin. From year 5 onwards there are numerous special offers in addition to lessons: method training (“learning to learn”) and trial courses, social learning with “ Lions Quest ”, computer courses , remedial classes in all major subjects and substitute hours in years 5–9. Three school profiles are offered in years 7–10 : There are scientific, artistic-cultural and bilingual classes. Computer science and performing games can also be chosen as subjects up to the Abitur .

Media attention

The high school became known nationwide in 2009 due to its badly in need of renovation. Despite protests from parents, students, teachers and school management, the city of Braunschweig refused to receive the urgently needed funds to renovate the school. The NDR satellite broadcast Extra 3 then gave the school the first three places in the category “The worst schools in the north”; the TV broadcaster RTL referred to it as a "scrap school".

Meanwhile, the Lessinggymnasium has long ceased to be a “scrap school”: the roof has now been sealed, the toilets have been renovated, as have all the classrooms and specialist rooms for biology, chemistry and physics, in which interactive whiteboards have been installed. There are two computer rooms and a large media library where the years 10–12 can work and spend their free time.

The expansion to an open all-day school has been completed: The Lessinggymnasium has a cafeteria with sufficient capacity, an auditorium and an appropriate leisure area with various indoor and outdoor play equipment. All-day operations began in the 2012/13 school year; participation is voluntary. In the outdoor area there is a green classroom, a school garden with a pond, two beach volleyball fields and a disc golf course with seven baskets.

Well-known students

• Gerd-Rüdiger Lang (* 1943), watchmaker and founder of the Chronoswiss company
• Bernd Wiegand (* 1957), politician (independent), graduated from high school in 1976.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Schäfer: Lessing-Gymnasium loses 300 students. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. July 4, 2007, accessed March 7, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Birger Menke: Restoration backlog extreme: How a scrap school with Schimmel makes politics. In: Spiegel Online. November 10, 2009, accessed March 7, 2017 .