Ludwigsgymnasium (Saarbrücken)

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Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken
Saar 1952 320 Ludwigs-Gymnasium Saarbrücken.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1604
(collegiate school since 1223)
address

Stengelstrasse 31
66117 Saarbrücken

country Saarland
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E
student 850
management Christian Heib
Website www.ludwigsgymnasium.com

The Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken is the oldest grammar school in Saarland .

history

The Sankt Arnual Abbey already had a collegiate school in 1223. After the dissolution of the monastery in 1569 and the introduction of the Reformation in 1575, Philip III formed. from Nassau-Saarbrücken it became a Latin school in the 16th century . In 1604, Count Ludwig II of Nassau-Saarbrücken finally founded a high school as an educational center for Nassau-Saarbrücken , which was financed by the income of the St. Arnual Abbey. The first rector was Wilhelm Ursinus . In accordance with the church tradition of the grammar school and its main purpose during the Baroque period to prepare the country’s young pastors and officials for theology or law studies, the teachers and rectors of the grammar school were also Protestant pastors.

The history of the school was very changeable, parallel to the ups and downs in the history of the region. In the middle of the 18th century, the school flourished under its sponsor, Prince Wilhelm Heinrich . The Thirty Years' War and the French Revolution, however, brought life-threatening crises with them.

Until the end of the 19th century, the Ludwigsgymnasium was the only Saarbrücken grammar school.

After the Second World War, the school took off in the 1960s. It was considered the leading grammar school in Saarland, and the humanistic education imparted there was of great importance. There was and is an ancient language branch with Latin , French and Greek and until 1964 Hebrew as well as an ancient-modern language branch with Latin, French and English as foreign languages. French as a second foreign language was a peculiarity in the humanistic grammar school, which was based on a treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and France concerning the Saarland.

Main entrance of the Ludwigsgymnasium

At the beginning of the 1970s, as part of the attempt to reform the upper level Saar , the school converted the highest school age groups from a class to a course system. In those years, the traditionally pure boys' high school also accepted girls for the first time.

School yard

After declining new registrations (in the school year 1990/91 the Sexta comprised only 50 students) and rumors of closure, a purely modern language branch with the language sequence French – English – Spanish was added in the 1991/92 school year .

In the 2017/18 school year, 850 girls and boys study at the Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken in a total of 38 classes and courses, with the number of girls now predominating. The school employs 71 teachers.

school-building

In its history, the grammar school never stayed in the same place for long. Often cramped by secular and spiritual interests, almost always under austerity, driven by the political and social upheavals of the time, accompanied by the almost permanent lack of space and the destructive effects of constant conflicts, the school moved into changing buildings in the area of ​​the Saar cities of Saarbrücken and Sankt Johann .

Before founding

At the Sankt Arnualer Markt, part of the state capital Saarbrücken since 1897
City map of Alt-Saarbrücken around 1740 after Adolph Köllner , at the foot of the castle church at the eastern end of Altneugasse with number "133" the so-called "Gymnasium"
With interruptions, the Comeniushaus on Keplerstrasse has already been a permanent location twice - in between, it has also been a permanent alternative location for the grammar school
80–170 pupils were taught on the upper floor of the Friedenskirche in Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse. The “interim solution” lasted for 72 years

The early years of the then Catholic collegiate school Sankt Arnuals probably took place in buildings around the collegiate church . According to the sources, the school operation can be documented from 1472, so it must have been established much earlier. With the construction of the Gothic castle church around 1475, the school also moved into premises at the foot of the castle rock (today indeterminable). In the 1550s and early 1560s, tradition came to a complete standstill after teaching at this location - due to a lack of interested students.

Ostpforte Altneugasse (1576–1750)

It was not until 1569 that a contract between the two Saar cities decided to rebuild the school and thus to revive its operations. A building can now be clearly located for the first time, it was located in a small triangular square at the end of Altneugasse, where a retirement home was built after the Schmalkaldic War and the prince uprising during Count Johann's reign , which should now give way to the new building. It was not until his successor Philipp laid the foundations of what would later become Saarbrücken Castle with the construction of the so-called summer house in Saarbrücken in 1575, and after the Reformation introduced the educational institution as a Latin school, with part of the expenses coming from the assets of the canon monastery , confiscated in 1569 . The school supervision changed to the parish of Alt-Saarbrücken. Since the building was very long, it was not handed over to its intended purpose until 1576, so the school had a permanent home for the first time - after all for almost 175 years.

When Count Ludwig took office in 1602, the material equipment of the Latin school increased, but with it the influence of secular power. The year 1604 is the official founding date of the grammar school. A ceremony was celebrated in the castle church on August 1st. Headmaster Stumpf solemnly delegated the official duties to Rector Ursinus. On the basis of regular income from the Herbitzheim monastery , which was abolished in 1544, new teachers were hired and the horizons were expanded to include humanistic educational ideals.

After Ludwig's death, in the Thirty Years' War , Saarbrücken was almost completely destroyed in 1627 and burned down except for seven remaining houses. The secular and spiritual elite, the counts and civil servants, fled to Metz in 1635 , followed by the plague and did not stop at the teaching staff of the Latin school. Rector Philipp Schröter and three other teachers fell victim to her, the only thing left was Magister Johann Philippi. In addition to his pastor duties in Sankt Arnual, Fechingen and Wilhelmsbrunn, he taught the few remaining students without pay . The city population of Saarbrücken had shrunk to 70 people. The troubled times by no means ended with the Peace of Westphalia , as Spain and Lorraine were excluded from it and only reached an agreement with France decades later . Its determination as a bone of contention between the Ancien Régime and the Old Reich was to outlast the return and subsequent departure of the princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken in the state on the Saar. In 1677 the French set Saarbrücken on fire again during the Franco-Dutch War , and the city and school only recovered slowly from the consequences, well into the 18th century.

Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse to Ludwigsplatz (1750–1820)

Under Prince Wilhelm Heinrich , the school experienced a new heyday. The old building from the 1560s, which had been patched up again and again between past wars and devastation, had long been in disrepair and no longer usable - the teachers often simply taught their not very numerous students at home. The baroque design of the city backdrop by the master builder Friedrich Joachim Stengel resulted in a new palace and the Ludwig Church, a central monumental building on the opulently furnished and newly laid out Ludwigsplatz. Here on the outskirts, in the line of today's Wilhelm-Heinrich-Straße, the new building of the Saarbrücker Gymnasium for 80 to 100 students was built. The foundation stone was laid on May 10, 1749, completion and start of school operations took place on October 1, 1750. The building corresponded in plan and size to the Comeniushaus in Keplerstrasse, but only had two floors with an attic and therefore wanted to be closed The houses in the rest of the buildings on Ludwigsplatz, which were all higher up, never really fit. In addition, it was exactly in the middle, for example in the area of ​​the outside staircase, the access to Ludwigsplatz from today's Eisenbahnstraße. It was thus also in the line of sight of Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse and blocked the direct passage to the new complex of Schlossplatz development. As early as 1763 there were calls for the building to be demolished so that the desired connection between the castle and the newly emerging Ludwigskirche still be preserved. All fundamental objections against it went unheard, at least in the end negotiations were made about giving up only part of the building. A school building also served as a residence for the teaching staff, which was common at the time. On January 29, 1768, the prince ordered the central tract to be removed without replacement - he died six months later. The construction work of his son, Prince Ludwig (not to be confused with the count of the same name , who in today's retrospect is considered the founder of the school) was subject to strict austerity constraints. In addition, the administration (at that time) was of the opinion that running a school should cost as little as possible. For a long time, the school had to be content with the two remaining side wings. Later the lessons were partly held in a house belonging to the monastery on Ludwigsplatz. In addition, the already cramped classrooms soon had to be used as a storage facility for files rescued from the Saarbrücken Castle when it was occupied and looted by the French Revolutionary Army and finally caught fire in 1793. To the great annoyance, with the regrettable demolition of the school, the auditorium went under, so that the Comenius House had to be claimed for all gatherings and celebrations, an orphanage , breeding and work house in princely times , in which with the Napoleonic Wars and the During the French period at the turn of the century, a French military hospital moved in.

Friedenskirche (1820-1892)

Records from princely times were to gradually department archive of Trier hiked, the school won again more space. After the fall of Napoleon , Saarbrücken was incorporated into the Prussian Rhine Province in the Second Peace of Paris in 1815 . However, the Prussian school commissioner found the room situation so depressing during his first visit that a temporary solution had to be found quickly. One looked for and found her directly opposite in the (Reformed) Peace Church . Thanks to the Saarbrücken Union , which united the Lutheran and Reformed congregations in Saarland into one church, the church was temporarily vacated. It was also located in the immediate vicinity of the Ludwigskirche, which was carefully guarded by the citizens of Saarbrücken during the turmoil of the revolution and was previously purely Lutheran, with enough space for both parts of the community. The church quickly became a school, the costs of the renovation were borne by both cities together, according to records, the former monastery only contributed a thirteenth part of the construction costs. At the end of the high school were six classrooms upstairs, archive and library on the top floor, and an apartment for the caretaker in the tower available. There was no staff room. Four further classrooms on the ground floor were intended for the municipal elementary school. Ludwigsplatz served as the “school yard”. The Great Hall of the neighboring Justice of the Peace was used for assemblies, housed on the site of today's district building on Schlossplatz. In addition, one could occasionally claim the Ludwigskirche. Even so, a renewed visitation in 1825 still classified the situation as “bad” and lasted longer than feared. Gradually, the school management "conquered" two rooms of the elementary school, claimed two more rooms in an external Sankt Johann school and built their own school barracks at the Friedenskirche. Schools dragged themselves more badly through the 19th century. On August 6, 1870, the day of the Battle of Spichern in the Franco-Prussian War , classes were suspended indefinitely. The school subsequently served the allied warring parties of the North German Confederation against France as a field hospital. With the end of these warlike times, the number of students slowly recovered and the question of space arose again, this time all the more urgent.

Hohenzollernstrasse (1892–1936)

The grammar school had to give up the new building in Hohenzollernstrasse built in 1892 after 44 years in favor of a "college for teacher training"

In the Prussian budget there was for the first time a funding commitment for a new school building at state expense in 1888 , without any involvement of the monastery. The construction project began in autumn 1889 in Hohenzollernstrasse on the corner with Roonstrasse, roughly at the point where the Marienschule is today. The inauguration took place on January 15, 1892. 15 classrooms were available for 490 pupils from the (then only) “Saarbrücker Gymnasium”, plus a preschool class with 40 pupils, a reserve class with 60 pupils, as well as an auditorium and common rooms. As early as 1905, two further side wings could be built on the generously dimensioned property, which was made necessary by the over 600 student numbers. For the first time in its history, the grammar school had quarters that appeared to be entirely tailored to its needs, was not a makeshift, and could not be shared with others. With its house at Ludwigsplatz No. 16 (destroyed by the consequences of the war on October 5, 1944, today the location of the State Chancellery ), the monastery provided a director's residence and living space for two other teachers. This was followed by a world war and the period in which the Saar - again a bone of contention between the conflicting parties - under the protectorate administration of France was. The school operation at the higher educational institution, which was named "Ludwigs-Gymnasium" for the first time on March 14, 1905 - with imperial approval - was largely stable under the changing political and social circumstances of this time. The previously tended say the St. Arnual founder pin to school matters, however, was the mandate from the government issued a final rejection on 10 January 1920th

Comeniushaus on Keplerstrasse (1936–1944)

Only for five years after the war: the Ludwigsgymnasium and Oberrealschule am Landwehrplatz
Newly built school building in 1950 in Roonstrasse

After the first Saar referendum on January 13, 1935, the Saar area became part of the National Socialist German Reich . The new government set up a "college for teacher training" in Saarbrücken, and the grammar school had to vacate it after 44 years. With immediate effect it moved to 5 Keplerstrasse, to the Comeniushaus , which had provided the school with alternative quarters for centuries before. It was used as barracks for the Dragoons stationed in Saarbrücken , then came into the possession of the municipality and was made available to the State Conservatory Office at the end of the 1920s, which opened the first museum for prehistory here. The shortage of funds in the 1930s forced the operators to give up soon. Now the Ludwigsgymnasium took possession of the rooms, which again proved to be completely inadequate. Some classes were taught in the neighboring Crown Prince School. Physical training could only be granted with the help of the Altsaarbrücker Turn- und Sportverein von 1848 eV , which accepted the high school as a subtenant in its two sports halls. Schools were interrupted with the evacuations of the Red Zone at the start of the war in September 1939, school operations revived in the fall of 1940, and lessons were held regularly until the end of 1942. By the summer of 1944 at the latest, regular classes were no longer possible. The youngest pupils were evacuated from the city area via the Kinderlandverschickung . Older students born in 1926 and 1927 were required to serve as flak helpers on site . If you want to put it that way, the school changed its location to the flak position at Saarbrücker Kieselhumes, where most of them were stationed. There they received further instruction from their teachers in the most essential subjects; 20 hours per week were required, which were rarely fulfilled due to the schedule. On August 11, 1944, the position suffered two direct hits and two students died. Air raids on Saarbrücken in the night of October 5th to 6th destroyed the Comeniushaus; it burned down completely. Director Becker and his family also died in his apartment on Ludwigsplatz. School was literally over.

Am Landwehrplatz (1945–1950)

The French military government ordered after the war to the resumption of instruction for 1 October 1945th The Ludwigsgymnasium was reconstituted and, together with the state high school for boys (today's Otto Hahn Gymnasium ), took up a position between Nauwieser Viertel and Sankt Johanner Landwehrplatz. The neoclassical school building erected there in 1904 had survived the war surprisingly well. Both types of school had to share the room, which was not an easy task with a total of 600 students (325 of them high school students) and 20 teachers. Books, paper, writing utensils, visual aids and heated classrooms were still in short supply for years.

Roonstrasse (from 1950)

It was time to build the renowned grammar school! Although not designed by the same architect , the design and axis guidance in the Mouvement Moderne style , which was also used in the prestige project “ French Embassy in Saarbrücken ” of the semi-autonomous state government in the following year, is certainly no coincidence, but is due to the zeitgeist in particular . This time the technical director of the “Department of Reconstruction” of the Saarland, Government Building Councilor Friedrich Rheinstädter, who at the time would have liked to contribute his own design to the project “ Habitat Stockenbruch Habitat ” project . The government laid the foundation stone for the new school building on December 19, 1949 - just a stone's throw away from the former school building on Hohenzollernstrasse, which had sunk into ruins due to the war. On the stamp portrait you can recognize the remains of the ruins on the right edge. Contemporary witnesses, at least not judged to be "poor" when they first moved in, convinced the functional building with a decent range of classrooms, functional rooms for visual arts, music and natural sciences, a multi-purpose auditorium and thus two sports halls, and its own sports field. Inauguration and first occupancy followed on September 11, 1950.

However, even this building was unable to withstand the growing number of pupils in the baby boom years, at times it rose to over 1,000 and the number of teachers to over 60. The rooms required at short notice were provided by the construction of a new pavilion on the neighboring site of the Protestant parish Alt-Saarbrücken and Found in the evangelical Gustav-Adolf-Haus - a provisional solution that had to last until the end of the 1960s. The upper level soon had to be “outsourced” again and found shelter again in the Comenius House (reconstructed after the end of the war and completed in 1953). The situation, which was not exactly unusual for the teaching company from past experiences, settled again in the 1960s. In addition to the teaching staff, he also kept the students on the move, because the classes - later courses - changed on foot between the Comenius House and the main building to use the sports facilities and function rooms. It has only been since 1985 that all courses and classes have been fully accommodated in the main building.

Profiling

The Ludwigsgymnasium has its main profile as an ancient-language-humanistic grammar school, Latin is offered as the 1st foreign language from grade 5, Greek as the 4th foreign language if there is sufficient demand in grade 10. There is also a new-language European branch with the language sequence French-English-Spanish /Italian.

Working groups (AGs)

The school offers numerous study groups.

Technology & research

Math, Learning Support & First Aid

  • Math lab
  • Maths night (once a year in autumn)
  • Tandem (internal school funding project)
  • School Medical Service (SSD)

Dance, Movement & Sport

Books & library

  • Student library
  • Library and books club

languages

Musical area

Directors

  • 1604–1609 Wilhelm Ursinus
  • 1609–1613 Tobias Herold
  • 1613–1635 Philipp Schröter
  • 1635–1654 Johann Philippi
  • 1654–1658 Philipp Jakob Reichardi
  • 1658–1665 Christoph Petschke
  • 1665–1676 Konrad Bayer
  • 1682–1684 Johann Stein
  • 1684–1685 Johann Kaspar Epplin
  • 1685–1698 Johann Friedrich Reuss
  • 1698–1702 Johann Philipp Weidemann
  • 1702–1708 Johann Bernhard Pfeiffer
  • 1708–1710 Johann Georg Schlosser
  • 1710–1739 Johann Friedrich Dern
  • 1739–1759 Johann Ehrhardt Rupp
  • 1759–1767 Friedrich Jakob Belzer
  • 1767–1808 Johann Nikolaus Kiefer
  • 1808–1834 Karl Ludwig Zimmermann
  • 1834–1853 Georg Heinrich Ottemann
  • 1854–1864 Karl Peter
  • 1864–1883 ​​Wilhelm A. Hollenberg
  • 1883-1894 Karl Breuker
  • 1895–1897 Ernst Fischer
  • 1897-1900 Julius Nelson
  • 1900–1919 Heinrich Neuber
  • 1920–1936 Max Schmitt-Hartlieb
  • 1936–1940 Emil Issel
  • 1940–1944 Karl Becker
  • 1945–1947 Anton Kahr
  • 1947–1959 Georg Plettung
  • 1959–1963 Wilhelm Saar
  • 1963–1969 Johannes Menard
  • 1969–1983 Helmut Rixecker
  • 1983–1990 Werner Johann Schild
  • 1990–2001 Manfred Eisenbeis
  • 2001–2002 Klaus Funck
  • 2002–2014 Heinz Paulus
  • from 2014 Christian Heib

The list comes from the school chronicle and is regularly echoed in festival publications, for example (until 1979) in the one for the 375th anniversary.

Known teachers

Known students

  • Johann Friedrich Köllner , reformed pastor, local historian, mayor of Old Saarbrücken, high school diploma in 1782
  • Albert von Schultze , head of the Bavarian forest administration
  • Julius Kiefer , ornithologist, mayor and honorary citizen of Old Saarbrücken, graduated from high school in 1836
  • Gustav Bruch , brewery owner, member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation (1867–1869), high school diploma in 1840
  • Carl Röchling , industrialist, attended school from 1837–1844
  • Adolf Ludwig Fauth , pastor and homeopath, graduated from high school in 1857
  • Franz Fauth , theologian and educator, graduated from high school in 1861
  • Julius Becker , committed a rampage as a schoolboy in 1871
  • Oscar Mügel , lawyer , Prussian ministerial official and state secretary, graduated from high school in 1876
  • Hermann Röchling , industrialist, graduated from high school in 1891
  • Max von Vopelius , glass manufacturer, graduated from high school in 1892
  • Karl Lohmeyer , art historian, graduated from high school in 1897
  • Otto Weil , painter , graduated from high school in 1901
  • Richard Becker , politician, member of the state parliament (1955–1960), Abitur in 1902 at the Petrinum Brilon grammar school
  • Aloys Lehnert , grammar school teacher and regional historian, Abitur approx. 1908
  • Gustaf Braun von Stumm , lawyer and diplomat during the Nazi era, graduated from high school in 1910
  • August Clüsserath , painter, graduated from high school in 1917
  • Werner Straub , Protestant clergyman, high school diploma in 1920
  • Ludwig Alsdorf , Indologist, Abitur in 1922
  • Egon Reinert , lawyer and politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Saarland (1957–1959), Abitur 1927
  • Gerhard Schröder , Federal Minister (CDU), Abitur 1929
  • Franz Mai , director of the Saarländischer Rundfunk, student at the Ludwigsgymnasium until 1927, Abitur in Trier in 1932
  • Willi Graf , resistance fighter for the White Rose, graduated from high school in 1937
  • Karl Heinz Jacoby , Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Abitur in 1937
  • Heinrich Bender , conductor, graduation from high school in 1943
  • Dieter Heinz , architect, high school diploma in 1950
  • Peter Brokmeier , political scientist, Abitur 1955
  • Wolfgang Haubrichs , Germanistic Medievalist and name researcher, Abitur 1961
  • Harald Klyk , radio presenter and sports official, graduated from high school in 1965
  • Heiner Franz , jazz guitarist and music producer, graduated from high school in 1966
  • Klaus Jürgen Herrmann , historian and city archivist in Schwäbisch Gmünd, graduated from high school in 1967
  • Gero Gemballa , journalist and author, attended school until 1976, high school diploma in 1982 at the WWG Saarbrücken
  • Claudia Kohde-Kilsch , tennis player, left school in 1979
  • Klaus Michael Heinz , television author, high school diploma in 1980
  • Joachim Conrad , theologian, Abitur 1981
  • Klaus Richter , legal scholar, Abitur 1985
  • Matthias Steinmetz , astrophysicist, Abitur 1985
  • Ulrich Commerçon , State Minister for Education and Culture Saarland (SPD), Abitur 1987
  • Andrea Becker , State Secretary, Abitur 1989
  • Michael Seewald , theologian, Abitur 2005
  • Jonas Hector , soccer player, graduated from high school in 2008

Partner schools

Cooperations in the course offer

literature

  • Albert Ruppersberg : The Saarbrücken high school. 1604-1904. Saardruckerei, St. Johann 1904. (Reprint: Ruth Queißer Verlag, Saarbrücken 1977. ISBN 3-921815-00-2 )
  • Heinz Paulus, Ewald Wannemacher (ed.): 400 years of the Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken. Continuity and Change 1604–2004. Festschrift, SDV - Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hans-Walter Herrmann : From the history of the Saarbrücker Ludwigsgymnasium, in: Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken 1604–1979 - heritage and order , commemorative publication for the 375th anniversary; School Association of the LG eV, Joachim Widera (Ed.); Saarbrücken 1979
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rosel and Heinrich Rudnick: Remnants of the history of the Ludwigsgymnasium in the first half of the 20th century in the light of educational policy, in: Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken 1604–1979 - Erbe und Einsatz , Festschrift for the 375th anniversary celebration; School Association of the LG eV, Joachim Widera (Ed.); Saarbrücken 1979
  3. ↑ The St. Arnual Abbey, as an independent corporation under ecclesiastical law, continues to use the LG eV school association ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ludwigsgymnasium.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. significant influence, represented with a compulsory mandate on the board, it also provides a considerable amount of money annually to promote school operations
  4. ↑ Erich Jacobi: At that time ... The Ludwigsgymnasium in the decenium after the last world war. Memories of a former student, in: Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken 1604–1979 - Legacy and Order , commemorative publication for the 375th anniversary; School Association of the LG eV, Joachim Widera (Ed.); Saarbrücken 1979
  5. ↑ Working groups (selection). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ludwigsgymnasium.com
  6. ↑ Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken 1604–1979 - legacy and commission. Festschrift for the 375th anniversary; School Association of the LG eV, Joachim Widera (Ed.); Saarbrücken 1979.
  7. ↑ From schoolboy to director - Heinz Paulus, director of the Ludwigsgymnasium, is retiring today in: Saarbrücker Zeitung of July 24, 2014 (last accessed on July 27, 2014)