Luisenschule (Magdeburg)
The Luisenschule is a listed former school building in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The school building is located at Leiterstrasse 9 in Magdeburg's old town .
architecture
The four-storey building today was built between 1846 and 1848 as a two-storey building in the late Classicist Schinkel style according to plans by the city building council HA Schüler. In 1860 the school was first increased by one floor. The auditorium was moved from the first to the second floor. The building's two stairwells led directly up from the vestibule . In 1895/96 the neighboring gymnasium, which is also a listed building today, was built. Under the direction of the town planning inspector Wilhelm Berner , the conversion to today's four-story structure took place in 1910/11, including the relocation of the auditorium to the top floor.
The eleven-axis facade of the plastered building is decorated on the ground floor and on the first floor with ashlar and ribbon rustics. The rectangular windows on the side of the first floor are decorated with brackets and cantilever panels. The three central axes are designed as a flat central risalit crowned by a triangular gable . It is decorated with tendrils worked in the style of antiquity . On the second and third floors of the risalit, the windows are emphasized by fluted pilasters . On the third floor, which houses the auditorium, there are also Corinthian capitals. There is a strong cornice below the gable roof .
To the north, a little set back, is a single-axis building. This somewhat lower part of the building was built in 1910/11 and originally served as a connecting building to the school building further west on Prälatenstrasse.
In the local register of monuments , the school is listed as a monument under registration number 094 06342 .
history
The school was operated as a municipal high school for girls in 1819 . It was considered part of the city's progressive school system. Unlike the four private daughter schools that already existed in Magdeburg at that time, this facility provided a higher education. Higher daughter schools only existed in Prussia from the beginning of the 19th century. Initially, the school was housed in a residential building at 6 Fürstenwallstrasse. In the first few years, Karl Zerrenner won over the teacher Henriette Hasenbalg for the school. The lessons initially consisted of female handicrafts and ethics . In addition, there were light language, natural history and arithmetic lessons, which, however, only played a subordinate role. From 1824 teachers were also trained at the school. Until then, such training in Prussia had only been available in Berlin . Due to the increasing number of female pupils, a new school building became necessary after a while. For this purpose, the Treasury ceded a plot of land belonging to the Domvogteigehöft north of the Sankt Sebastian Church , on which prison buildings had previously been located. The building then took place from 1846 to 1848. The address of the building was then Breiter Weg 199/200. From 1848 to 1884 the pedagogue Karl Gude worked at the school.
In 1867 the school was already the largest girls' college in Prussia . In 1874 the school had 900 students. From 1875 the neighboring first middle school for girls in Prälatenstrasse had to be used. Because of the increasing numbers, the city of Magdeburg founded another secondary school for girls in 1880. Designations were necessary to differentiate. The first school was named Luisenschule, the second Augusta school. In 1902, half of the school operations were relocated to the school building of the Augusta School, which was then Bismarckstrasse 1a, today Leibnitzstrasse. A third secondary school for girls, the Viktoriaschule, was formed from this in 1904. From 1904 to 1908 Klaudius Bojunga was the head of the school. In 1911 the building in the neighboring Prälatenstrasse was also used.
Between 1984 and 1986 the school building was extensively reconstructed. From 1987 it served the municipal adult education center , since 2009, after renovation and conversion, the building has been used by the Higher Administrative Court of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the office of the State Commissioner for Data Protection of Saxony-Anhalt .
literature
- Sabine Ullrich, Magdeburg Schools , Ed .: State Capital Magdeburg, City Planning Office Magdeburg 2006, page 154 f.
- List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 382.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 2593.
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 56 ″ E