Marienschule (Limburg an der Lahn)

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Marienschule
Marienschule Limburg Altbau.jpg
Old building, seen across the inner courtyard
type of school High school , vocational school
founding 1895
address

Graupfortstrasse 5

place Limburg on the Lahn
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 23 '8 "  N , 8 ° 3' 52"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '8 "  N , 8 ° 3' 52"  E
carrier St. Hildegard School Society of the Diocese of Limburg
student 1,277
Teachers 127
management Henrike Maria Zilling
Website www.marienschule-limburg.de

The Marienschule is a school founded in 1895 in Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse . It belongs to the St. Hildegard-Schulgesellschaft mbH and thus to the diocese of Limburg , which took over the school in 1995 from the poor servants of Jesus Christ . Around 1,300 pupils and students attended the various branches of the Marienschule in the 2016/2017 school year. The grammar school , the largest branch of school with around 1,100 pupils, offers separate girls and boys classes, while the vocational schools offer co-education . The range here is from the vocational school for social education and social care professionals and the Vocational School of Social Work on the technical schools for social education , special education and educational method care to further training as religious education training for educators .

history

First school building on Graupfortstrasse, around 1895
First new building of the Marienschule, around 1896

In 1895, the poor servants were given permission to found a girls' school in Limburg . Sister Leonida Baldus became the first headmistress and house superior. The first year comprised 77 female students who were taught in a house on Graupfortstrasse. In the same year the foundation stone was laid for a new building, which was inaugurated in 1896. While normal school operations were moving to the new building and the first boarding school students were housed there, the training of candidate teachers began in the old schoolhouse. The first expansion of the school building followed in 1899. In 1900 145 students were counted, 67 of them in boarding school. At the instigation of the citizens, the Marienschule also offered a commercial school from 1901 . In 1903 the building was expanded again. At the same time, the school officially took the name Marienschule . In 1908 the third extension was built. In the following year the school was recognized as a secondary school for girls. In 1910, with 368 female students, a women's technical school was founded, and a gymnasium was built in 1911, which served as a hospital during the First World War .

Complete system around 1900

In 1920 a higher commercial school and in 1923 a housekeeping school were established. In 1927, work began on the largest extension to date. In 1934 the school offer was expanded to include a school for child care and domestic help.

After increasing pressure had been exerted on the church school during the National Socialist era, a sister was reported in 1938 for "statements hostile to the state" and her teaching license was revoked. In 1939 the number of female pupils initially fell and was only 515. On April 15, 1939, the Marienschule was closed except for a small branch of the commercial school. The order was forced to sell the buildings except for the boarding school. In the former Marienschule, the Hans Schemm School was established as a state high school for girls. The number of female students fell to 320.

In 1945 the school was returned to the poor servants. Since the building was used as a military hospital at that time, there was initially only a very limited school operation. In 1946 the vocational schools reopened. In 1947, 34 young women graduated from high school. By 1950 the number of female students rose to 838 (109 of them in boarding school). In 1951 a parents' council and a student council were elected for the first time. In the years that followed, partnerships and exchange programs with schools in England, France and Nigeria were launched. The first school festival took place in 1962. In 1963 the top floor was expanded to create 13 new classrooms and in the following year the number of female pupils rose to over 1000 for the first time. In 1969 the skyscraper was completed and housed the sisters' accommodations, the boarding school and the administration.

In 1984 the Association of Friends, Sponsors and Alumni of the Marienschule was formed and the first computer room was set up. Alumni reunions have been celebrated annually since 1988. In 1993 the boarding school was closed and renovated. The diocese of Limburg took over the costs and has been using large parts of the house rent-free since then. School fees were charged for the first time in 1994. In 1996 the poor servants of Jesus Christ gave up the school ownership after 101 years. The sponsoring company St. Hildegard, founded especially for this purpose, became the new school sponsor. In 2002 the so-called "garden house" was built with ten additional rooms, and since 2011 a three-field sports hall has been available on the Lahn . Since the 2011/2012 school year, boys have also been taught in grammar school. According to the model of parallel monoeducation , the lower and middle grades deal with the different development of the sexes in separate girls and boys classes. This makes the Marienschule one of the three schools in Germany that follow the path of the so-called “separate togetherness” of the sexes. The concept is accompanied by specialist knowledge. In June 2019, the first mixed class was adopted, with an average school-leaving certificate of 2.1.

For the canonization of the school's founder, Katharina Kasper, in October 2018, around 130 teachers and students from the Marienschule traveled to Rome .

Focuses and offers

Entire facility with the old building on the left and the former boarding house on the right

The Marienschule is a Catholic school that represents an educational objective based on the Christian understanding of man and the world and a holistic education. It has been awarded the seal of approval for giftedness from the Hessian Ministry of Culture and as a healthy school .

In addition to foreign languages ​​( English , Latin , French and Spanish ), the focus is on the natural sciences with additional practical lessons in biology , chemistry , physics and computer science as well as music . The formerly more than ten choir and orchestra groups have been supplemented by a wind class since the 2005/2006 school year. The choir and orchestra groups have gradually disbanded in the wake of G8.

There is an offer to acquire the Basics in Business certificate. The tradition of the Department of Politics and Economics is to hold public panel discussions with prominent representatives from politics, business and society. Participants have so far included:

In addition to numerous working groups and support groups, the Marienschule also offers a day home school with homework supervision and the opportunity to have lunch in the cafeteria.

Around 125 teachers work at the school.

exchange

The school currently has exchange programs with four American , British and French schools, including in Pont Ste Maxence and Le Havre.

Web links

Commons : Marienschule (Limburg an der Lahn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Gazette annual report of the school authority St. Hildegard-Schulgesellschaft mbH 2017
  2. ^ Marienschule: First mixed year adopted. In: Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung , June 22, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ Katharina: "The ear to God's word". In: Sunday. Church newspaper for the Diocese of Limburg. Special issue of October 14, 2018 (PDF; 4.6 MB), p. 4.