Martin Niemöller School
| Martin Niemöller School | |
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| The Martin-Niemöller-School after the fire and the new building | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1974 |
| address |
Bierstadter Str. 47 |
| place | Wiesbaden |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '53 " N , 8 ° 15' 41" E |
| carrier | State capital Wiesbaden |
| student | approx. 670 |
| Teachers | approx. 50 |
| management | Elisabeth Waldorff |
| Website | www.niemoellerschule.net |
The Martin-Niemöller-Schule is a grammar school in Wiesbaden . It is named after the Protestant pastor Martin Niemöller . The school hit the headlines in December 2007 when the building was largely a victim of the flames following a student's arson .
history
In 1847 the Schloßplatzschule was the first school that preceded the later Martin-Niemöller-Schule. The Schloßplatzschule was the first secondary school for girls in the city of Wiesbaden and was located between Schloßplatz and City Hall from 1898 . The school suffered severe damage in the Second World War ; it was then reopened after 1945 as a secondary school and was named Helene-Lange-Schule .
In 1974 the upper school was spun off as the “Upper School High School at Moltkering” and moved to a new building on Bierstadter Straße. As a result, the school was characterized by a striving for educational reform , which was supported by politically active teachers and students who were part of the 1968 movement . In the 1980s there was an increasing emphasis on the principle of achievement, which, however, led to some fierce controversy within the school. In 1987, on the initiative of the students, the school was renamed Martin-Niemöller-Schule, in memory of the Protestant resistance fighter and honorary citizen of Wiesbaden; the institution has since cooperated with the Niemöller Foundation. The school was included in the private nationwide funding program for the subjects of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology ( MINT-EC ). The increased performance requirements meant that in 2007 around a third of the 11th grade students no longer passed the exams.
On October 20, 2007, at the request of the rector, the teaching staff decided with a narrow majority to convert the upper school high school into a regular high school from the 5th grade. The application, which was then made to the city of Wiesbaden, was rejected. However, Minister of Culture Ralph Alexander Lorz decided in September 2014 that the Martin-Niemöller-Schule should be allowed to convert into a G9 grammar school. The conversion into a full high school took place in the 2015/16 school year.
fire
On the night of December 24, 2007, an 18-year-old high school student broke into the building together with a 16-year-old classmate. In the secretariat he then set fire to the filing cabinet there. The student was caught and stated during interrogation that he had only wanted to destroy his school files that documented his bad grades. However, the fire spread to the entire building and caused property damage amounting to several million euros. The explosion of smoke gases during the extinguishing work meant that the building was temporarily in danger of collapsing.
At the beginning of 2008 it was decided to use the former Rotaprint building on Homburger Strasse near the artists 'quarter , a former asylum seekers' home , as an alternative location for the school. Previously, after the Christmas break, they had been provisionally distributed to other upper classes in Wiesbaden.
After 16 months of construction, the new building at the old location in Bierstadter Strasse was moved into at the beginning of the 2011/12 school year.
profile
The school currently has around 560 students in grades five to nine (the grades are not marked with “a”, “b” or “c”, but with “1”, “2”, “3” etc.) and eleven to thirteen and around 35 teachers . Since the school year 2018/19 there are 5 classes per year. The proportion of foreign students is 16 percent. It offers student exchanges with the Lycée René Cassin in Montfort-sur-Meu . The institution is also participating in the IMMIS pilot project for media education and in the Schools Online Initiative .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiesbaden Courier of December 28, 2004.
- ^ Clear the way for the G9 full high school ( memento from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Rundschau from September 24, 2014
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier of October 28, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
