School of Our Lady Mulhouse

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School of Our Lady Mulhouse
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type of school private high school for girls and boys
School number 165797
founding 1888
address

Main street 87

place Grefrath
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 20 '40 "  N , 6 ° 21' 53"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '40 "  N , 6 ° 21' 53"  E
carrier Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady
student 1099 (Oct. 15, 2015)
Teachers 87 (Oct 15, 2015)
management Christoph Aretz
Website www.lfsm.de

The Liebfrauenschule Mülhausen is a privately owned grammar school and one of the largest grammar schools in the Viersen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the municipality of Grefrath in the district of Mulhouse .

history

In a villa in Oedt bought in 1888 by the Superior General of the “ Sisters of Our Lady ” in Oedt , classes began as a secondary school for girls at Easter with 18 pupils. At first it was a girls' boarding school that grew rapidly and attracted students from neighboring countries; Boarding school brochures were also sent in French and English at that time. Due to the increasing number of students, numerous extensions were built over the years. From 1908 on, boys were also admitted to lower and middle school. Until 1926 the school was also a teacher training college . In 1941 the school was closed by the Nazi regime; it was converted into a Wehrmacht hospital with 800 beds. The school reopened in September 1945. As a recognized private school, the Liebfrauenschule has received state grants since 1952 and has been able to employ lay teachers on a permanent basis. In 1981 a three-storey extension building with natural science rooms and a pedagogical center was built, in 1985 new sports facilities and in 2009 a new double sports hall.

Focus on religious and social education

The school wants to be a place of holistic education against the background of a consensus of values ​​based on the Christian image of man among all those involved (school authorities, pupils, teachers and parents). It promotes social engagement and religious life in various forms. Individual talents and interests should be encouraged in school lessons and also in non-curricular activities. There is a social internship in grade 10, women's and school projects are supported in Brazil and there is a one world group and a one world shop in the school. Morning prayers, days of reflection and self-designed services are part of everyday school life. Students must study religion throughout their entire school career.

The school today

School of Our Lady from the west

Since the beginning of the 2007 school year, grades 5, 6, and 7 have received full-time lessons on certain days of the week . In addition to English, Latin and French as compulsory subjects, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Chinese are offered. There are working groups in areas such as speed skating, football, newspaper time, fencing, research and discovery, swimming (triathlon) and theater. The students publish the magazine Mül (l) tonne . Stays abroad are funded; For example, the school takes part in the German Bundestag's scholarship procedure for a one-year stay in the USA. School partnerships exist with schools in France, Russia, Sicily and England. External well-known experts from politics, business, media and sport regularly enrich the lessons with practical and economic-political questions and case studies. Since 2006 there has been a cooperation with the football club FC St. Hubert (UNICEF Kicker). In 2011 the players sang together the 2011 World Cup team song, u. a. as part of large events in Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach. The Liebfrauenschule Mulhouse has been one of 12 official DFB training schools in North Rhine-Westphalia for the Junior Coach licensed training system since September 2013.

Since 2007, there have been two special classes in grade 7, in which the students receive intensive support according to their individual abilities, a natural science and a bilingual specialist profile class. In the project "Students help students" based on the type of tutor concept, deficits are specifically addressed. The “ Lions Quest ” project for grades 5 to 10 helps to grow up, and the “Gifted Education” project enables, for example, to skip a grade or to take part in lessons in other classes. In cooperation with the district music school Viersen, a "wind class" was set up, which offers every child the opportunity to learn a wind instrument.

On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the school, the entire school community traveled to Rome with almost 1,300 participants and was particularly welcomed by Pope Francis on October 16, 2013 at the general audience on St. Peter's Square .

Förderverein and PRO SCHOLA

A development association that has existed since 1972 has an annual budget of around € 22,000 through membership fees, cafeteria and various campaigns and thus finances special purchases (e.g. software ) and afternoon care; she also organizes readings by authors. PRO SCHOLA was founded in 1999 by a group of parents, teachers and representatives of the religious order and is an association for the preservation of the free sponsorship of the Liebfrauenschule. Despite the subsidies from the diocese of Aachen and the community of Grefrath, the religious order can not raise the legally prescribed 6% of the total budget without additional financial help. The association currently has around 800 paying members. There is also a foundation for large donations; The long-term financing of the independent sponsorship should be secured from the interest income from their assets.

Well-known former students

literature

  • Maria Bernardo Lansing: One Hundred Years of Mulhouse Monastery and School of Our Lady Mulhouse 1888–1988 . In: Home book of the district of Viersen . Viersen 1988.
  • School of Our Lady Mulhouse. Inauguration of the extension . Published by: Liebfrauenschule Mülhausen, Oedt 1981.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ (District champion 2012, bronze medal school league 2012, runner-up district, UNICEF tournament winner 2010)
  2. ↑ www.vatican.va