Mariengymnasium Jever

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Mariengymnasium Jever
Mariengymnasium Jever.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1573
address

Terrace 3

place Jever
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '17 "  N , 7 ° 54' 15"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '17 "  N , 7 ° 54' 15"  E
student about 950 (August 22, 2019)
management Jürgen Ploeger-Lobeck
Website mariengymnasium-jever.de

The Mariengymnasium in Jever ( Lower Saxony ) was founded in 1573 by Maria von Jever as a Latin school and today has around 940 students (school year 2018/19).

Today the school is the only general high school in the northern part of the district of Friesland and the catchment area extends over the municipality of Wangerland and the towns of Jever and Schortens . Students from the district of Wittmund (especially from Friedeburg ) and Wilhelmshaven also attend the Mariengymnasium.

building

The school building with the school playground in the late 1970s years

At its main location in Jever, the school consists of several buildings from different eras. The old building dates from 1900. An extension followed in 1957, and in 1969 a building with a different style was built, which is primarily intended for the natural sciences. For reasons of space, the so-called lightweight pavilion was built in the schoolyard around 1980. Originally, this building was only intended to be a temporary solution for a maximum of five years, but it was used until autumn 2005 and the demolition was carried out in early 2006. Most of the lessons for the upper level take place in a converted, previously listed Anhalt-Zerbster barracks , which is a few meters away from the rest of the building complex and has been part of the school since 1978.

The restructuring within the framework of the Lower Saxony school reform has led to a sudden increase in the number of pupils from 855 in the 2003/04 school year to around 1,300 in the 2004/05 school year.

In November 2005 it was announced that the pavilion, which had been a temporary facility for decades, would be demolished and replaced by a new building with seven additional classrooms. This was completed at the beginning of the 2007/2008 school year. In parallel to the new building, the previous cafeteria was converted into a cafeteria , which represents a further step on the way to an all-day school . The von-der-Vring-Haus ("B-building") was demolished in the summer and is currently being rebuilt under the supervision of the Enno Schneider architectural office. The new building will house parts of the administration wing (school management, deputy and secretariat), two art rooms and ten classrooms.

Library

The library of the grammar school with a stock of around 30,000 books is very rich in works compared to other school libraries, especially in the old stock . For example, it houses many valuable and historical works from the 16th to 19th centuries as well as original prints, handwritten books and sheet music. In the year 2000, the entire library was opened in one part of the building, in which all materials that were previously distributed across different locations in different buildings are centralized in one place. The library is not only accessible to teachers and students, but also to the public. Involved in financing is a development association .

School newspaper

The current school newspaper since 2019 is the online magazine "Bloody Mary".

School partnerships

Former listed Anhalt-Zerbster barracks

As part of the partnerships with the following schools, student exchanges and other joint projects are carried out:

Former students and teachers

Students who later worked as teachers at the school:

The teachers included:

particularities

View from the roof of the sports hall to the school yard. In the background the tower of Jever Castle
  • On the roof of the science building there is a special room for astronomical observations, which can be reached from the top floor via a spiral staircase. It is thanks to him that astronomy is not only an informal study group , but is offered as an optional subject (with grading) for the upper level. For special events (such as the transit of Venus in 2004) a telescope is set up in the schoolyard.
  • The music lessons at the main location do not take place in the school building itself, but in the rooms of the Kreis Musikschule Friesland, which is about 300 meters from the grammar school. In return, the music school is allowed to use certain rooms in the grammar school.
  • The space between the upper level building and the rest of the complex serves as a schoolyard for the upper level students, but is officially part of a public road (and is also regularly used by pedestrians and cyclists). Smoking is also prohibited there by the school rules, but upper-level students are permitted to move away from the school premises at any time. Thus it is hardly possible for the school to properly enforce the smoking ban in schools in Lower Saxony .

literature

  • Mariengymnasium Jever (Ed.): 425 years Mariengymnasium Jever 1573 - 1998; Contributions to the past and present of the school. Publisher Mettcker & Sons, Jever 1998.

Web links

Commons : Mariengymnasium Jever  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friesland.de: Start of construction for upper level building in Jever on July 2, 2012, accessed on September 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 183.