Louis Braille School Düren

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Louis Braille School Düren
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type of school special school
founding 1845
address

Meckerstr. 1-3

place Düren
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 48 '50 "  N , 6 ° 28' 39"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '50 "  N , 6 ° 28' 39"  E
carrier Regional Association of Rhineland
student 220, of which 75 are internat
Teachers 75
management Kerstin Grün-Klingebiel
Website www.blindenschule-dueren.lvr.de

The Louis Braille School Düren is the Rhenish special school for blind and visually impaired pupils in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia .

General

Named after the school is Louis Braille , inventor of the eponymous Braille .

Catchment area

School types

The school is divided into several areas:

  1. the early intervention area,
  2. the preschool ,
  3. the multiple handicapped area,
  4. the elementary school
  5. and the secondary school .

A boarding school for up to 75 people is available to the schoolchildren . A total of 175 students attend the special needs school. It teaches visually impaired, visually impaired, blind and multiply injured boys and girls or men and women from 6 to 25 years of age.

history

Düren has a long tradition as the "city of the blind". As early as 1845, welfare for the blind was first mentioned as the Elisabeth Institute for the Blind . After a donation from the industrialist Rudolf Schenkel from Düren, the institution was rebuilt at its current location in 1879 due to lack of space in Düren-Nord. In 1876 it was taken over by the Rhine Province and was now called the Rheinische Provinzial Blindenanstalt . The Cellitinnen von St. Gertrud worked there from 1898 to 1968 . The school in Düren worked closely with the state school for the blind and visually impaired (Neuwied) .

The artist Will Sommer taught at the school from 1953 to 1961 .

Other facilities for blind people

In addition to the school, there are the following facilities for the blind in Düren:

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