Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg am Inn

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Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg
Luitpold Gymnasium Wasserburg 04.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1879
address

Salzburger Str. 11

place Wasserburg am Inn
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 3 '20 "  N , 12 ° 13' 53"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '20 "  N , 12 ° 13' 53"  E
carrier Rosenheim district
student 774
Teachers 73 (full-time)
management Verena Grillhösl
Website www.gymnasium-wasserburg.de
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The Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg is a scientific, technological and linguistic high school in Wasserburg am Inn , district of Rosenheim , Upper Bavaria and goes back to a royal secondary school founded in 1879. The grammar school is one of the oldest schools in Bavaria. The school has been named after Prince Regent Luitpold since 1914 .

School profile

Training directions and foreign languages

The grammar school offers the following courses:

  • Science and technology grammar school (NTG)
    Foreign language consequences:
    • English / Latin
    • English France
  • Sprachliches Gymnasium (SG)
    Foreign language consequences:
    • English / Latin / French
    • English / Latin / Italian
    • English / French / Italian

Elective courses and actions

The following elective courses and activities take place regularly at the Luitpold-Gymnasium:

Competitions

High school students regularly take part in the following competitions:

Youth work basketball

The basketball department of TSV 1880 Wasserburg has been cooperating with the Luitpold-Gymnasium for many years regarding basketball youth work. Some pupils are supported as part of the youth project basketball at the Luitpold-Gymnasium and are part of the high-performance teams of the club and the Bavarian Basketball Association. The national players Anne Breitreiner and Svenja Brunckhorst emerged from the collaboration between the grammar school and TSV Wasserburg. Due to this long-term and successful cooperation, the grammar school was named a partner school of the Bavarian Basketball Association in 2012.

School trips

The following school trips are organized at the Luitpold-Gymnasium :

  • School camp stay in the 6th grade
  • Ski camp in the 7th grade
  • Orientation days in the 10th grade
  • Study trip to Berlin in the 11th grade

There are also numerous excursions during the school year .

Student exchange

There are regular student exchanges with the following schools abroad :

All day offer

The grammar school has been an open all-day school since the 2012/13 school year .

School Chronicle

School history

Royal secondary school in the town hall 1896

The Königliche Realschule Wasserburg am Inn emerged from the commercial advanced training school that had existed since 1867. In 1877 such trade schools in Bavaria were converted into six-level secondary schools by royal order by King Ludwig II . In Wasserburg, however, plans were made to set up a four-level secondary school for economic reasons. On December 6, 1878, the Upper Bavarian District Administrator approved the establishment of such a secondary school. On August 3, 1879, this secondary school was set up by the king's “ highest resolution ”. The city of Wasserburg provided classrooms in the rear part of the town hall. The city also had to undertake to cover the maintenance costs and any renovation costs for the school. Therefore, the State Ministry of the Interior approved the increase in the local malt surcharge, a municipal beer tax, from 1.00 to 1.40 marks per hectolitre. In addition, the city received a foundation capital of 20,000 marks from the General Industry and Support Fund. In 1879 the secondary school was inaugurated and started with two classes: one year with 32 students and another with 9 students. In the next two years, more entrance classes followed, so that the school could be operated with four grades from 1881. Initially, only French was taught as a foreign language .

School boarding school Sankt Achatz 1900

The Wasserburger Realschule developed very promisingly until the neighboring Realschule in Rosenheim was expanded to six grades. The onset of student decline threatened the existence of the school at times. In 1894, the headmaster at the time, Alois Knörzer, recommended that the city council expand the secondary school to six grades and set up a boarding school on the grounds of the St. Achatz spa in order to increase the number of students through boarding school visitors. The city followed this recommendation and decided to provide the additional space required. The converted bathing building in St. Achatz was inaugurated as early as 1895. In 1896 the rearranged part of the town hall was completed. For this purpose, the magistrate had acquired two private houses adjoining the town hall, which were incorporated into the school building. In the school years 1895/96 and 1896/97, the school was also expanded by one class each, so that the expansion to a six-level secondary school was soon completed. On the initiative of Mayor Ertl and Rector Knörzer, three grades with Latin were added to the secondary school in 1906 , so that the students in the first three secondary school classes could now choose between French and Latin language lessons. However, this also meant that the school had to be expanded again.

Luitpold-Realschule Wasserburg 1914

In 1910, Rector Knörzer managed to convince the Ministry of Education that a larger school building was urgently needed. In addition, there was an ideal building site in the immediate vicinity of the existing student residence. In the same year, an architectural competition for the construction of a main building, a service apartment for the pedell next to the main entrance, an auxiliary building and a gymnasium was announced. The first prize of 1,000 marks went to the Munich architect Johann Mund, whose plan was implemented in a slightly modified form. The topping-out ceremony was held in October 1913. While the construction work was still going on , the city's magistrate applied for permission to name the school “ Luitpold Realschule ” on July 21, 1914 , as the new building had been approved and started during the reign of Prince Regent Luitpold, who had since passed away. The request was granted on August 21, shortly before the official inauguration. The inauguration of the new building took place on October 1, 1914 against the backdrop of the first World War , which had just begun in a simple setting. After handing over the keys with just a few speeches, the blessing and a tour of the school building took place. The design and equipment of the new school building received great recognition.

After the end of the war and the establishment of the Weimar Republic , girls were allowed to attend secondary schools for the first time in 1919 as part of the emancipatory development. Up until now, girls in Wasserburg could only attend middle school. A total of nineteen parents then submitted a corresponding application, which was granted on the condition that the girls had to prove their required level of knowledge in an entrance examination. The initiative was supported by the then headmaster Dr. Müller, who wanted to give his two daughters access to a higher school. His successor, Zimmermann, also brought his daughters to secondary school in the 1920s, so that co-education soon became established. In 1922, the 25th anniversary of the six-class secondary school was celebrated. Due to the economic and political problems during the Weimar period, there were no further changes to the status of the school.

Luitpold Realschule Wasserburg 1930

The school initially continued to exist as a six-tier secondary school during the Nazi era . However, the weighting of the subjects changed in the course of the conformity and the ethnic-national orientation of the schools. For example, a daily gymnastics lesson was introduced to train young people, which took place three times in the morning and twice in the afternoon. After conduct and hard work, the certificate no longer contained the subject religion, but " physical education ", broken down into athletics, gymnastics, swimming, games and boxing. Religious instruction, however, was not completely removed from the classroom and held two hours per week. The other subjects were oriented towards the principles of National Socialist ideology, especially German, history, geography, art education and music, which were combined into the subject group “ German Studies” . Mathematics and the natural sciences only played a subordinate role. In 1939 the Realschule was finally converted into a six-level high school . In order to complete the last two years of high school, which led to the Abitur, the students had to attend the nearest eight-level high schools in Munich or Rosenheim. At the beginning of their rule, the National Socialists reduced the number of grades up to the Abitur from nine to eight.

The outbreak of World War II in 1939 brought about massive changes in the school operations. From the beginning, the calling of numerous teachers made itself felt. In the later years of the war, many older students were drafted into the Wehrmacht or hired as air force helpers. In 1942 it was decided to expand the school into an eight-stage high school with a high school diploma. The application for this was submitted by students, parents and the then headmaster Dr. Seitz posed because the way to school to Munich or Rosenheim had become life-threatening due to the bombing of the railway lines. Since a military hospital was set up in the school building during the war , lessons had to be held in the St. Achatz student hostel. In the final years of the war, the loss of lessons finally took on dramatic forms. In the spring of 1945 the student home was also needed as a hospital, so that the remaining students were taught in inns, including the Bruck-Bräu and the Fletzinger-Bräu. After the end of the war, classes were suspended and American troops occupied the school building. There was no more school operation for the next eight months.

Luitpold secondary school in Wasserburg (1950)

After the end of the war, teaching was not resumed until January 1946 under the direction of Adolf Müller, but under very provisional conditions in the Danninger-Bräu and initially for the last three grades. In February Luise Hemmer took over the school management. From March onwards, lessons could be held again in the school building and in all eight grades. At this point in time, 279 students, including 67 girls, attended the “ Luitpold-Oberrealschule ”. In June, Karl Strauss was appointed headmaster. In July, 15 students took part in the Abitur, only six of them with success, as the students had little time to prepare. The Abitur examination took place in the small hall of the town hall and was also the first Abitur examination in school history. Since school education was very sketchy during the war, a repetition year was prescribed for all students in the following school year 1946/47. In the 1950/51 school year, the number of pupils had already risen to 384, so that ancillary and temporary rooms had to be converted into classrooms. In 1951 in Bavaria the ninth grade was reintroduced at schools with the Abitur, the 13th grade according to today's name, by simply renaming grades 5 to 8 to grades 6 to 9, so that in the following four years there is no grade was conducted. Accordingly, no Abitur could be held at the Luitpold secondary school in 1955, as the 9th grade was now missing. In 1956 there were all nine grades at the school for the first time. Due to the rapidly growing influx of students in the first few years after the introduction of the nine-tier secondary school , the shortage of space increased further. In 1952/53, 500 pupils finally attended the school. In the following years the number of pupils decreased again after the schools in Mühldorf and Grafing had also been expanded into nine-tier secondary schools .

Luitpold grammar school with extension (1968)

In 1964 the school celebrated its 85th anniversary since the school was founded and the 50th anniversary of the school building. On this occasion, the Luitpoldiana Study Community was founded , an association of former students, which set itself the task of keeping the contact between former students and their former school alive. In this year, due to the School Financing Act, the municipal school building became the property of the Wasserburg district , which now had to bear the costs of running the school as a material expense manager. The Bavarian state remained the personnel expense bearer. Therefore, the headmaster Karl Strauss sent the application for the urgently needed expansion of the school building to the district of Wasserburg, which was granted in the same year by district administrator Neuburger. For a while, a completely new building was considered on today's Badria site, but then preferred the more cost-effective solution with the extension behind the old school building. In the school year 1965/66 the upper secondary school was converted into a grammar school with a mathematical-scientific and a modern language branch. Since then the school has been called " Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg ". Construction work on the extension began in 1966 and was completed in 1968. After the sudden death of the headmaster Karl Strauss in 1967, the inauguration of the new building took place under his successor Hellmut Marx.

Extension and gym in 1970

The extension from 1968 with its 17 classrooms and a large music hall only partially eliminated the lack of space, as the gymnasium no longer met the growing demand. Therefore, as early as 1969, headmaster Marx applied for the construction of another gymnasium. District Administrator Stulberger was only able to promise a realization in the next two years. In the same year, Mayor Neumeier announced the closure of the dormitory because the city no longer had sufficient funds to take over the ongoing maintenance and the necessary structural renovation of the dormitory. After the retirement of the director of the student dormitory, Ovenbeck, the dormitory, which had existed since 1895, was closed. In the 1970/71 school year, the Luitpold-Gymnasium, together with twelve other schools from Bavaria, received approval to try out the college level model of the reformed upper level . Headmaster Hellmut Marx recognized and implemented this opportunity to further develop the grammar school. With the introduction of the college level, however, the space required in the subjects of biology, chemistry and physics increased significantly. Another drawing and music room was also required. There was also a lack of other classrooms and administrative rooms. Headmaster Marx was able to convince District Administrator Bauer of the urgency of a second extension based on a corresponding planning basis.

In 1972, the Ministry of Education gave schools the option of holding classes on five days and not on Saturdays as before. The prerequisite for approval, however, was the consent of teachers, parents and the student council . Since the parents 'council hesitated and the required two-thirds majority in the teachers' council was not achieved, the Luitpold-Gymnasium kept the six-day week with two free Saturdays per month for two years. The necessary majorities were only found after further attempts, and in January 1974 the five-day week could also be introduced at Luitpold-Gymnasium.

Old building from 1914 and new building from 1978

In 1972, headmaster Marx applied for a conversion and extension to be implemented. As a result of the district reform , the Rosenheim district took over the administration of material costs from the dissolved Wasserburg district and assured the implementation of the construction project. In 1973, however, the government of Upper Bavaria announced that the plans submitted by architect Hiebl could not be approved by the school authorities. In the justification, it was pointed out above all that the land area was insufficient for this project. After the necessary property expansion, an architecture competition was announced, from which the architect Wilke Troebst emerged as the winner. In 1974 he was commissioned to plan. In 1975, the renovation and expansion work began with the demolition of the gym and the outbuilding. In 1976, a new building with an auditorium, a music room and a drawing room, specialist rooms for biology, chemistry and physics and two gyms were built on this site. In 1977 the classrooms were ready for occupancy and in 1978 the renovation and renovation work was completed. On July 21 and 22, 1978, the 100th anniversary celebrations took place together with the inauguration, bringing it forward by a year. The building complex of the Luitpold-Gymnasium now comprised an old building and two extensions, which have since been referred to as the central building and the new building.

In 1982, Senior Studies Director Marx retired after a 15-year term in office. He was succeeded as headmaster by Hermann Wachter, who was able to take over a fully developed school with 805 students. In 1983, after four years , the district of Ebersberg discontinued the school bus route to Wasserburg, as the extension built at the Grafing grammar school now offered sufficient space. In addition, some students migrated to the newly founded grammar school in Gars . Together with the pill kink , this led to a decrease in the number of pupils to 678 in the 1985/86 school year, which roughly corresponded to the level of the early 1970s. In the following years the number of pupils increased again and reached 724 in the school year 1989/90. During this time, rooms in the old and middle buildings were modernized and a computer room and a language laboratory were set up.

Ovenbeck villa with park

In 1990 Dr. Otto Helwig the school management. In the following years the number of pupils increased from year to year by a little more than one class, exceeded the 1000 mark in the 1997/98 school year and reached an interim high of 1,128 in the 1999/2000 school year. In order to counteract the lack of space, headmaster Helwig applied in 1993/94 for the school to use the Ovenbeck villa adjoining the school premises, which the Rosenheim district had acquired in 1988. In addition, he negotiated from 1995/1996 with the city of Wasserburg and the district about the outsourcing of the city and school library, which had been created in 1979 in the old building. In 1996, after careful renovation work and an exterior renovation, the Ovenbeck Villa and the surrounding park became the school area. This new school building was presented to the public on the occasion of the ceremonial opening of the exhibition “ 50 Years of Abitur at Luitpold-Gymnasium ”. In 1998 the city and school library moved into a building in the former student dormitory. The school library was converted into two classrooms and the large hall of the city library into a staff room. Another computer room and a classroom were created from the previous teacher's rooms. Further refurbishment and renovation work was carried out in the secretariat, so that in the school year 1998/99 the school had the best room situation since its existence. In 2004 the Luitpold-Gymnasium celebrated the 125th anniversary since the school was founded in a big ceremony.

New cafeteria building in 2006

With the introduction of the eight-year high school in the 2003/2004 school year and the associated afternoon classes, the establishment of a cafeteria became inevitable. However, there was not enough space for lunchtime supervision, intensive lessons and individual learning support. Therefore the headmaster Dr. Helwig submitted an application for a corresponding extension at the northern end of the central building in good time and with foresight. Negotiations with the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Rosenheim district as material expenses went well, so that the structural implementation of the project could begin in the summer vacation 2005. In the 2005/2006 school year, Peter Rink succeeded Dr. Helwig as headmaster. The completion of the cafeteria extension took place in 2006. The inauguration of the extension building, which includes a cafeteria, a computer room, intensive rooms and smaller rooms for learning support, took place at the beginning of the 2006/2007 school year.

Refurbished central building in 2010

In the following years it was necessary to renovate the central building. In 2008, the administrative district, as the material expense agency, decided to turn it into an ecological showpiece. The architect Richard Kröff was commissioned with the planning. In 2010, the renovation of the central building was completed and a wood chip heating system was put into operation. The insulation could be lowered almost to passive house level, which reduced the energy requirement to a tenth. The outer facade was also given a contemporary redesign. The inauguration took place on October 22, 2010. In July 2011, the 55th Theater Days of the Bavarian grammar schools took place at the Luitpold-Gymnasium . In the course of the term of office of senior director Rink, the number of pupils increased again, as the newly introduced eight-year grammar school brought increased numbers of visitors to the Luitpold grammar school. In the school year 2011/12, in which the double Abitur of the eight and nine year grammar school took place, the number of pupils reached 1,132, the highest level in the history of the school. In the following school year the number of pupils fell to 1045, as the school now only comprises eight grades.

Name of the school

  • 1879–1914: Royal Realschule Wasserburg am Inn
  • 1914–1939: Luitpold secondary school in Wasserburg am Inn
  • 1939–1945: Luitpold High School Wasserburg am Inn
  • 1946–1965: Luitpold secondary school in Wasserburg am Inn
  • since 1965: Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg am Inn

School management since 1879

  • 1879–1882: Josef Wollinger (Realteacher)
  • 1882–1916: Alois Knörzer ( Royal Rector )
  • 1916–1921: Dr. Herrmann Müller ( high school professor )
  • 1921–1926: Josef Zimmermann ( Director of Studies )
  • 1926–1931: Viktor Graf (Director of Studies)
  • 1931–1934: Anton Hartmannsgruber (Director of Studies)
  • 1935–1938: Anton Müller (Director of Studies)
  • 1939–1940: Gottfried Nonnenmacher (Director of Studies)
  • 1940–1945: Dr. Max Seitz (Director of Studies)
  • 1946: Adolf Müller (Director of Studies)
  • 1946: Luise Hemmer ( study assessor )
  • 1946–1967: Karl Strauss ( Senior Director of Studies )
  • 1967–1982: Hellmut Marx (Head of Studies)
  • 1982–1990: Dr. Hermann Wachter (Head of Studies)
  • 1990–2005: Dr. Otto Helwig (Senior Studies Director)
  • 2005–2019: Peter Rink (Head of Studies)
  • since 2019: Verena Grillhösl (Head of Studies)

Student numbers since 1946

Total number of students and male / female since 1946

In 1946, 279 students, including 67 girls, attended the Luitpold secondary school. Due to the influx of refugees, there was a sharp increase in the number of students in the following years. The expansion of the six-tier secondary schools in Grafing and Mühldorf to nine-tier schools with a high school diploma again led to a decline in the number of pupils in the second half of the 1950s. The proportion of girls fell from 24% to below 20% during this period. In the 1960s, the increasing transfer rate among girls in particular led to a renewed increase in the number of students. The proportion of girls increased from 25% to 40% in these years. In the 1970s, the flow to high school continued, with the proportion of girls eventually reaching 50%. The pill kink and the migration of students to Grafing and to the newly founded grammar school in Gars led to a decrease in the number of students in the 1980s. In 1981 the proportion of girls was greater than the proportion of boys for the first time. In the mid-1980s, a third phase of growth began, which peaked in 2000 with 1,128 students. In the previous year, the proportion of girls had also reached its maximum at 55%. The introduction of the six-level secondary school then led to a decline in the number of students. Since the mid-2000s, the number of pupils at Luitpold-Gymnasium has increased again and reached its last high point in the 2010/11 double Abitur class with 1,132 pupils before the school was reduced to eight grades. As at most high schools in Bavaria, the proportion of girls has been greater than the proportion of boys for 30 years and averages 52%.

Student connections

Until the time of National Socialism and the final synchronization of the youth associations , there were also student connections based on academic models at the Realschule and Oberrealschule . The Realabsolvia Wasserburg and the Absolvia Wasserburg are two well-known associations. Due to the dissolution or its continued existence in the underground during the Third Reich, the trace is lost during this time.
In 2011, the Absolvia Rosenheim student association , representing all former Rosenheim student associations at all grammar schools in the city ​​of Rosenheim and in the Rosenheim district , was reactivated.

Former students

literature

Web links

Commons : Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg am Inn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special recognition for commitment . Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, October 12, 2012 (last accessed on January 19, 2016).
  2. ↑ Luitpold-Gymnasium promotes basketball . Rosenheim24.de, October 10, 2012 (last accessed January 19, 2016).
  3. ↑ Color cards of the REALABSOLVIA Wasserburg . Color map database (last accessed on January 19, 2016).
  4. ↑ Color cards of the ABSOLVIA Wasserburg . Color map database (last accessed on January 19, 2016).
  5. ↑ Dr. Otto Helwig (Ed.): 125 years of Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg: 1879-2004 . Anniversary commemorative publication, Erdl Druck 2004
  6. ↑ Homepage of the Absolvia Rosenheim student association