Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer High School
| Magnus-Gottfried-Lichtwer High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1873 |
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At the Gymnasium 3 |
| place | Spice up |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 '33 " N , 12 ° 45' 9" E |
| carrier | City of Wurzen |
| student | about 700 |
| Teachers | approx. 60 |
| management | Marina Schwarzbach |
| Website | www.gymnasium-wurzen.de |
The Magnus-Gottfried-Lichtwer Gymnasium is a gymnasium in the city of Wurzen and is run by the city . The catchment area of the school extends to the wider Wurzen area and the Wurzener Land .
school
The Magnus-Gottfried-Lichtwer-Gymnasium is located on the north-eastern outskirts of Wurzen, in the immediate vicinity of the swimming pool and the sports field. The school is a new building and was inaugurated in 1996. The building design is an interesting and stimulating tension between commonality and individuality. The generosity of the facility has a very positive effect on the development of the students. Both the number of floors and the layout of the school correspond to a high degree to this concern. English is taught as the first foreign language at the school. From grade 7 onwards, students can acquire knowledge of one of the three languages Spanish, Russian or Latin. With the beginning of the 8th grade, the students have the opportunity to complete their training either in the artistic or in the natural science profile, according to their inclinations. A variety of all-day offers are available for all students in the afternoon. The students currently attend almost 700 students, who are taught by around 60 teachers and 5 trainee teachers. The Magnus-Gottfried-Lichtwer-Gymnasium has 41 classrooms, 15 specialist rooms, 3 laboratories, 2 sports halls, 2 tennis courts as well as a cafeteria, auditorium and library.
history
Already in 1871 there was an application by the city councilor Otto Hösemann and his "75 comrades" to establish a "Second Order Secondary School" in Wurzen. In 1873 a "Second Order Secondary School" was opened on the Domplatz zu Wurzen in a former monastery building near the house where the fabulous poet Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer was born . The first rector was the theologian Heinrich Theodor Friedrich Pötzschke. In 1879 the first 7 students passed the school leaving examination in Wurzen and in 1880 the new school, which was already under construction, was placed in "care of the state" by resolution of the Wurzen city council, with the proviso that it was converted into a humanistic grammar school . In 1881 the move into the new building on Langen Straße (today: Straße des Friedens) and the establishment of the first high school classes. The school was handed over to the Saxon state in 1883, the focus of the training was on the "humanistic subjects: Latin, Greek and Hebrew". From 1907 the training also took place in mathematics and natural science subjects. The building of what was then the Royal Saxon High School now houses the vocational school center.
In 1920, three girls attended the Wurzener Gymnasium for the first time and in 192 the humanistic gymnasium was renamed a "Reformgymnasium Dresdenerordnung". This meant a change in the focus of the educational content, the importance of the natural science and mathematics subjects increased. From 1922 to 1924 the French and English language subjects were introduced. In 1933 the name was changed to "Staatliche Oberschule für Jungs" (around a quarter of the students were girls) and in 1938 the Abitur education was completed after 12 years of schooling and the National Socialist orientation and orientation of the teaching staff was clearly noticeable. Towards the end of World War II , the grammar school was converted into a reserve hospital in 1944, and the upper classes received their school-leaving certificate without an examination (teacher shortage due to reserve and military service). With the end of the war in the spring of 1945, classes ceased and the school building subsequently became the headquarters of the Red Army. In October of the same year, school operations are resumed on the orders of the SMAD and an anti-fascist-democratic school reform is carried out. In the following year, 1946, the first "post-war high school graduates" left the school, and the classes of the commercial school and the "state secondary school" were merged.
In 1949 the new secondary school (as Goethe secondary school) moved into the building on Seetzenstrasse (today Diesterweg primary school on Eduard-Schulze-Strasse), and the training took place in two stages, divided into a linguistic and a mathematical-scientific branch. From 1959 onwards, training only takes place in the mathematical and natural sciences branch, the school becomes an " extended secondary school ". Since the 1980s, the "Extended High School" in the GDR has only included the 11th and 12th grades. After the political and social change in the GDR in 1989, the school in the resurrected Free State of Saxony was restructured in 1991 . Due to the increased number of students, the move to the Domplatz in the building of the former "Diesterweg Oberschule Wurzen" (formerly girls' school). From 1992 the "Extended Oberschule" was run as a grammar school, the 1993 school conference decided on the Magnus-Gottfried-Lichtwer-Gymnasium Wurzen as a new name. In 1996 the Magnus-Gottfried-Lichtwer-Gymnasium received an ultra-modern school building on Lüptitzer Strasse.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of our school. In: www.gymnasium-wurzen.de. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Ebert, Wolfgang: The history of high school education, In: Festschrift on the occasion of the inauguration of the new school building, Wurzen 1996 .