Maria Ward School Mainz

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Maria Ward School
Old Palais Dalberg.jpg
type of school High school , vocational school
founding 1752
address

Ballplatz 3
55116 Mainz

place Mainz
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 59 '50 "  N , 8 ° 16' 12"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '50 "  N , 8 ° 16' 12"  E
carrier Maria Ward School Foundation
student 1267 (high school)
79 (vocational school)
(as of September 2016)
Teachers 104 (as of September 2016)
management Andrea Litzenburger (Head of the Gymnasium)
Irmgard Hanke (Head of the Vocational School)
Website www.mws-mainz.de

The Maria Ward School Mainz is a state-recognized, church-owned private school for girls, consisting of a grammar school and a vocational school . The school or its predecessor institution was founded by the women's order of the English Misses , today the Congregatio Jesu , in 1752 in Mainz, which was then electoral .

Since 1846 the Maria Ward School in Mainz has been located in the buildings of the Alte Dalberger Hof on Ballplatz . Until 1993, the Institutum Beatae Mariae Virginis (IBMV) of the Maria Ward Sisters of the Rhenish Province was responsible for the school. At the beginning of 1994, the “Maria Ward School Foundation” took over the sponsorship of the school as a church foundation under public law. A monastery of the Catholic women's order Congregatio Jesu on the ball court attached to the school was closed in 2017 due to a lack of young people.

The vocational school accompanies interested students in the field of economics and administration.

founding

On December 1, 1752, Sister Aloysia and Sister Magdalena came to Mainz as representatives of their order of the “English Misses” on invitation. The nuns were to take over the Christian education of young women in the capital of the Electorate of Mainz. After changing locations for teaching, the order acquired the Alte Dalberger Hof and the neighboring Fechenbacher-Laudenbacher Hof on Ballplatz in 1846 , where the school is still located today. Curiously, the Maria Ward School in Mainz is an all girls' school in the immediate vicinity of the Episcopal Willigis Gymnasium , one of the last all-boys schools in Germany.

Today's school forms

Today there is a state-recognized denominational G9 grammar school for girls at the Maria Ward School. The ethical foundations of the Catholic school are based in particular on the educational concept of the Jesuit order and are shaped by Ignatian pedagogy . The gymnasium lessons are offered all day. As part of the promotion of gifted students, it is also possible to shorten school time by skipping the 9th grade.

As part of the vocational school I and II economy and administration, interested schoolgirls are given basic vocational training in the areas of economy and administration as an alternative to further schooling. As part of attending vocational school II, it is also possible to obtain a qualified secondary qualification (Mittelreife). To attend the higher vocational school for textiles and fashion design, the qualified secondary qualification (middle school leaving certificate) is required.

Well-known former students

The following well-known public figures have attended the Maria Ward School:

Web pages

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School authorities - "Maria Ward School Foundation" (supporting foundation)