Märkisches Gymnasium Schwelm
| Märkisches Gymnasium Schwelm | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 170008 |
| founding | 1597 |
| address |
Presidential Street 1 |
| place | Schwelm |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 16 '52 " N , 7 ° 17' 13" E |
| student | 888 (Oct 15, 2015) |
| Teachers | 56 (Oct 15, 2015) |
| management | Katharina Vogt |
| Website | www.mgs-schwelm.de |
The Märkisches Gymnasium Schwelm ( MGS ) is the only gymnasium in the city of Schwelm .
At over 420 years old, the Märkisches Gymnasium is Schwelm's oldest school, whose origins lie in the Latin school founded in 1597 . The central building of today's high school is the "old building" from 1912, which was badly damaged by bombing in 1945. After reconstruction, the MGS was expanded in three further construction steps over the years. The history of the MGS is documented on a private website in cooperation with the city of Schwelm.
history
The Märkisches Gymnasium Schwelm started in 1597. In that year a church-sponsored Latin school was founded in Schwelm. The sons of the commercial upper class received a comprehensive education. In 1807 the church lost its school supervision to a state school commission. The school moved to a new building on the north side of the Lutheran Church. As a result of a city fire, the school moved to Südstraße in 1829, where it remained until 1876. The "Higher Citizens School" passed into the ownership of the city in 1858. In 1876 the school moved to a new building on Schillerstrasse. A school extension in 1897 eliminates the shortage of space caused by the increasing number of classes. In 1907, the school was converted into a Reform Realgymnasium, where the Abitur examination for entitlement to university studies could be taken for the first time. In order to compensate for the repeated lack of space, a new school building in the current old building was inaugurated in 1912 on President Street. With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 four dissident teachers were suspended "unreliable" first time being on duty. The important educational reformist Fritz Helling was finally banned from working with another colleague, and the other two teachers were transferred to another position. All attempts by the headmaster Hasenclever, who himself was threatened by the professional ban, to protect himself in front of his colleagues were in vain. The staunch National Socialist Fritz Klein ran the school in 1936. In 1937 the school was named "Hermann Göring Oberschule". The school building was badly damaged in bombing raids in 1945 and school operations could only be resumed in 1946.
Fritz Helling took over the management of the two high schools for boys and girls. In addition to rebuilding the school, Helling devoted himself above all to a school reform based on reform pedagogical principles, which can still be found today in the concept of the differentiated intermediate level. In 1949 the school was given a mathematical and natural science training focus and consequently in 1950 the name “Municipal Mathematical and Natural Science High School”. Since 1955 the school has been called "Märkisches Gymnasium Schwelm" in memory of the former Grafschaft Mark. The dissolved women's secondary school was initially continued as a girls 'branch at the boys' grammar school in 1963, until both branches were merged into a coeducational grammar school. The increasing number of schoolchildren led to the construction of today's central building in 1965. In 1967 a new sports facility was also built. The educational reform of 1970 triggered a rapid increase in the number of students and an enlargement and rejuvenation of the teaching staff. Under the headmaster Hans Graf (1970–1993) the school got a further extension in 1977, today's new building.
The Märkisches Gymnasium celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1997 with numerous events spread over the year. The number of students has stabilized at around 1000. Over 60 teachers teach at the school. The range of courses broadly encompasses all areas of activity at the grammar school. Well over 20 working groups have been set up for extracurricular events. Since 1996 the school has had a well-equipped "New Media" department (computer workstations with internet access). School concerts and school theater events take place on two technically well-equipped school stages. Since this year the school has had a solar power system on the flat roof of the central building. The Märkisches Gymnasium inaugurates its fourth building, the new cafeteria, in 2010. With the introduction of partial all-day operation, it offers the MGS students the opportunity to consume their own food or the food offered within the school and creates a new space for getting together. In 2016 a memorial plaque was put up for the former headmaster Fritz Helling .
principal
School principals and their term of office
- Bernhard Brochmann 1597–1623
- Johannes Jesinghaus 1623–1636
- Peter Borner 1636-1644
- Peter Keppelmann 1644-1648
- Clamerus Florinus 1648-1654
- Jobst Middeldorf 1654-1664
- Georg Melmann 1664–1673
- Johann Georg Fabricius 1673–1681
- Nicolaus Heusler 1681–1693
- Caspar Wolle 1693-1746
- Andreas Karsch 1746–1762
- Karl Ludwig Braun 1762–1765
- Andreas Karsch 1764-1767
- Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum 1768
- Johann Heinrich Castorff 1768–1803
- Georg Friedrich Keßler 1804–1807
- August Ernst Rauschenbusch 1808–1814
- August zur Hellen 1815–1818
- Ewald Müller (Acting Rector) 1819
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hammerschmidt 1819–1820
- Georg zur Hellen 1820–1823
- Heinrich Bohres 1823-1858
- Eduard Köttgen 1858–1890
- Wilhelm Tobien 1890-1904
- Max Wiesenthal 1904–1907
- Adolf Gregorius 1907–1911
- Max Hasenclever 1911-1935
- Walter Bellingrodt (Acting Rector) 1935
- Fritz Klein 1936–1937
- Langemann 1938–1939
- Walter Bellingrodt 1938–1939
- Fritz Helling 1945–1951
- Wilhelm Kaspers 1951–1955
- Wilhelm Lehmgrübner 1955–1970
- Hans Graf 1970-1993
- Jürgen Sprave 1993-2008
- Thomas Daub 2008–2011
- Katharina Vogt 2012–
Former students
- Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011), singer
- Wilhelm Hasenack (1901–1984), economist
- Johannes Klevinghaus (1911–1970), Protestant theologian
literature
- Schulbau Praesidentstrasse 1911/12 , Cornelia Hackler (editor), Edition Archaea, Schwelm 1997, 80 p. With 80 bw- u. 13 color illustrations, ISBN 3-929439-92-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Märkisches Gymnasium. On: heimatkunde-schwelm.de