Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf

Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
	Luisen high school
type of school	high school
address	Bastionstrasse 24
place	40213 Düsseldorf
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 13 '21 " N , 6 ° 46' 34" E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '21 " N , 6 ° 46' 34" E
carrier	City of Düsseldorf
student	680
Teachers	60
management	Gabriele Patten
Website	www.luisen-gymnasium.de

The building of the Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf (formerly Luisenschule ) at Bastionstraße 24 in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte was built from 1905 to 1907 according to plans by the architect Johannes Radke in the material and monumental style of reform architecture with economical Art Nouveau ornaments. It shows a stylistic relationship to the neighboring Stahlhof , also created by Radke. The building is a four-storey stone building . The facades are of different widths side and center risalits divided. The risalites have curved gables at the top. The formal design of the ground floor differs from that of the upper floors. The facade consists of bosses ashlars , which emphasize the material effect of the building. The windows show a round arch shape. The risalits do not lead down to the ground level of the ground floor zone, but only begin at the level of the arch beginners and step forward. This increases the monumentality. The building is listed .

history

Since in 1837 only the Catholic St. Ursula grammar school was available in Düsseldorf for the education of “ higher daughters ”, there was a desire among Protestant families to establish such a higher school. There the girls should be given an intellectual and moral education beyond elementary education. Since 1833, "Miss Wilhelmine von Erkelenz" has run a private school for Protestant daughters at Ratinger Straße 9. For a new private school, the license was granted to a “higher girls' school”, the administration of which was to be taken over by a “scholarchate” under the supervision of the city's evangelical community.

Princess Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg and of Prussia , painting by Wilhelm Schadow , 1843

This new private Protestant girls' school was opened on October 30, 1837, merging with the school of Fräulein von Erkelenz. The new school, in the founding of which the Düsseldorf government and school councilor Hermann Altgelt played a leading role, was under the protectorate of Princess Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg and Prussia , after whom the school was named Luisenschule . The school began with four teachers and 49 pupils, Miss von Erkelenz was one of the teachers. Classes took place in the previous rooms on Ratinger Straße . The head of the school's scholachat was from 1838 to 1854 the chairman of the presbytery of the evangelical parish of Düsseldorf, division pastor Peter Thielen . In 1839 classes were moved to the building at Kanalstrasse 1. In 1840 Miss Wilhelmine von Erkelenz left the school and reopened her own private school for Protestant girls, the "Teaching Institution for Higher Class Daughters", on Neustraße 26. This existed until 1854 and was most recently on Kanalstraße and the corner of Grabenstraße 788. This was followed in 1849 by the relocation of lessons at the Luisenschule to rooms at Königsallee 10. From 1846 to 1854, Pastor Karl Krafft was President of the Luisenschule administration.

From 1854 to 1863 the respective president of the evangelical community was head of the scholarchate. In 1854 the school was taken over by the Protestant community as the "Church Community Institute". At the end of the 1850s, lessons were again relocated, this time to rooms on Breite Straße 4 , where the school has been demonstrable since 1859 and where the "Konditorei Bierhoff" ran its business from 1863.

At the beginning of the 1860s, the Protestant congregation acquired a piece of land at Steinstrasse 25. On May 30, 1862, the foundation stone was laid on this property for the construction of a separate school building for the Luisenschule. Moving into this new house took place on June 30 of the following year. The operation of the school in its own building led to an upgrading of the school and an increase in the number of female students. In the school year 1862/3 134 students were registered, this number rose to 212 in 1863/4. On February 23, 1863, the senior teacher Victor Uellner was appointed the first director of the community school. This replaced the teacher Miss Julie Quincke, the previous headmistress who left the school.

On May 1, 1864, a seminar class for the training of teachers was founded in addition to normal school lessons. With initially six students, the operation of a teacher training institute on Steinstrasse began. The school stayed on Steinstrasse for the next few decades. In order to adapt to the steadily increasing number of female pupils, the school building was expanded to include an extension on the Steinstrasse 23 property. From 1873 three new additional classrooms were available for teaching in this extension.

From 1875, the evangelical community negotiated with the city of Düsseldorf to take over the Luisenschule together with the teacher seminar. The takeover was agreed on May 1, 1876 and took place on May 20 at a ceremony. At that time, the teaching staff, under the leadership of the director Victor Uellner, consisted of 13 teachers and 525 students. Under director Georg Howe, Uellner's successor, the school won the bronze medal of the "School Department" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 for great merits in the German secondary school system for girls . The school stayed on Steinstrasse until the beginning of the 20th century. From 1905 a new building was erected on the corner of Kasernenstrasse and Bastionstrasse, in which the Luisenschule has been teaching since 1907. The municipal teacher seminar did not move, but stayed on Steinstrasse. The Luisen-Gymnasium is currently still using the historic building on Kasernenstrasse.

Well-known teachers and students

Wilhelm Hollenberg , teacher in the 1840s
Frances Ridley Havergal , guest student from 1852 to 1853
Hedda Eulenberg , student (Abitur 1893)
Anna Siemsen , teacher from 1915 to 1920
Anne Franken , teacher from 1930 to 1956
Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen , drawing teacher from 1868
Ruth Niehaus, citizen Ruth Lissner , student
Bernhard Fluck , teacher from 1974 to 1999, headmaster
Christa Ritter , student
Silvia von Schweden , student (Abitur 1963)
Isabel Varell, citizen. Isabel Wehrmann , pupil (expelled from school in the late 1970s)
Elisa Klapheck , student
Gisela Piltz , student (Abitur 1983)

literature

Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, No. 40 on p. 32.
Bernhard Fluck, Edmund Spohr: Düsseldorf, school reform and urban development. The Luisen-Gymnasium. Boss Druck und Medien, Goch 2007
Viktor Uellner: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule and the associated teacher training institute in Düsseldorf. Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the institution on October 30, 1887. Voss, Düsseldorf 1887 Digitized

Web links

Commons : Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
High school website
Program of the Luisenschule in Düsseldorf, Evang. Higher girls' school with teacher training institute . Voss, Düsseldorf 1864–1875 ( digitized version )
Inauguration of the building erected for this evangelical secondary school for girls: on June 30, 1863 . Voss, Düsseldorf 1863 ( digitized version )
Program of the Luisenschule zu Düsseldorf, Städt. Higher girls' school with teacher training institute . Voss, Düsseldorf 1877. ( digitized version )
Program of the Luisen- und Friedrichsschule zu Düsseldorf, Städt. Higher girls' schools . Voss, Düsseldorf 1879–1898 ( digitized version )
Annual report of the Luisenschule zu Düsseldorf, municipal lyceum, upper lyceum (women's school) and college for secondary schools 1900–1915 ( digitized version )
Opened on October 30, 1837 in Ratinger Strasse, 175th anniversary in 2013 , on “Open Monument Day” 2013

Individual evidence

↑ www.luisen-gymnasium.de: The school management of the Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf .
↑ Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [29] -.
^ In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the rural communities. First part . 1907, p. [30] 16.
↑ Victor Uellner: To the history of the municipal school of Luis . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [31] 17.
^ Wilhelmine von Erkelenz, b. September 27, 1808 in Amsterdam, date of death unknown. Headed a private secondary school for girls (later the Luisenschule) in Düsseldorf, residing at Kanalstr. 788.
^ Address book for the Düsseldorf administrative region , 1842/43, p. 16
^ In: Address book for the Düsseldorf administrative region. I. District of Düsseldorf . 1842/3, p. [35] 27.
^ In: Apartment gazette and address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf . 1850, p. [56] 46.
↑ Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [48] 34.
↑ Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [44] -.
↑ Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [53] 39.
↑ Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [72] 58.
↑ H. Südkamp, B. Fluck: 175 years of the school of personalities: The Luisen-Gymnasium through the ages . In: Jan Wellem. Journal for culture and tradition of the Alde Düsseldorfer Bürgergesellschaft von 1920 eV 87th volume, issue 3 (August to October 2012), p. 16 ( PDF )
^ In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the rural communities. First part . 1907, p. [67/8] 37/8.
↑ Dr. Aegidius Huppertz: One hundred years of the Düsseldorf Luisenschule 1837 - 1937 . Self-published, Düsseldorf 1937, p. 174 .
^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Isabel Varell returns to Düsseldorf. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .

Remarks

↑ For the first time in 1863 the "Konditorei Bierhoff" can be found on Breite Straße 4, which previously ran its business on Mittelstraße 15. (Evidence: address books of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1859 and 1863. 1863, p. [17] 11).
↑ In the internet link of the Luisen-Gymnasium, the government and school councilor Hermann Altgeld is listed as one of the school directors. In the various internet links to the Luisenschule that can be called up, he is only mentioned as a temporary teacher. However, Altgeld was one of the most important initiators and supporters of the school.

[1] www.luisen-gymnasium.de: The school management of the Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf .

[2] Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [29] -.

[3] In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the rural communities. First part . 1907, p. [30] 16.

[4] Victor Uellner: To the history of the municipal school of Luis . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [31] 17.

[5] Wilhelmine von Erkelenz, b. September 27, 1808 in Amsterdam, date of death unknown. Headed a private secondary school for girls (later the Luisenschule) in Düsseldorf, residing at Kanalstr. 788.

[6] Address book for the Düsseldorf administrative region , 1842/43, p. 16

[7] In: Address book for the Düsseldorf administrative region. I. District of Düsseldorf . 1842/3, p. [35] 27.

[8] In: Apartment gazette and address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf . 1850, p. [56] 46.

[9] Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [48] 34.

[10] Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [44] -.

[12] Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [53] 39.

[14] Victor Uellner. In: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule . 1887, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [72] 58.

[15] H. Südkamp, B. Fluck: 175 years of the school of personalities: The Luisen-Gymnasium through the ages . In: Jan Wellem. Journal for culture and tradition of the Alde Düsseldorfer Bürgergesellschaft von 1920 eV 87th volume, issue 3 (August to October 2012), p. 16 ( PDF )

[16] In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the rural communities. First part . 1907, p. [67/8] 37/8.

[17] Dr. Aegidius Huppertz: One hundred years of the Düsseldorf Luisenschule 1837 - 1937 . Self-published, Düsseldorf 1937, p. 174 .

[18] Westdeutsche Zeitung: Isabel Varell returns to Düsseldorf. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .

[11] For the first time in 1863 the "Konditorei Bierhoff" can be found on Breite Straße 4, which previously ran its business on Mittelstraße 15. (Evidence: address books of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1859 and 1863. 1863, p. [17] 11).

[13] In the internet link of the Luisen-Gymnasium, the government and school councilor Hermann Altgeld is listed as one of the school directors. In the various internet links to the Luisenschule that can be called up, he is only mentioned as a temporary teacher. However, Altgeld was one of the most important initiators and supporters of the school.