Kirschgarten High School

Kirschgarten High School
type of school	high school
founding	1997
address	Herrmann Kinkelin-Strasse 10 4051 Basel
place	Basel
Canton	Basel city
Country	Switzerland
Coordinates	611 542  /  266.66 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 33 '2 "  N , 7 ° 35' 31"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and forty-two  /  two hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty
student	about 600
Teachers	about 90
management	Jürg Bauer
Website	www.gkgbs.ch

The Gymnasium Kirschgarten (GKG) is a grammar school in the city of Basel .

It was created in 1998 through the merger of the Realgymnasium (RG) and the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gymnasium (MNG). Most of the lessons at the Kirschgarten grammar school take place in the Hermann-Kinkelin-Schulhaus (formerly RG).

The curriculum includes the focus on physics and applications of mathematics , biology and chemistry, and artistic design . One class is taught immersively , in English , in the subjects of biology , geography , history and chemistry .

The school area is located between the SBB train station and Aeschenplatz .

history

In 1835 a Realpädagogium was founded. In 1852 a Realgymnasium without compulsory Latin was separated from the pedagogy on Münsterplatz. The upper level of the Realgymnasium was called the trade school . The aim of this was to prepare students for studying at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic or for higher commercial training. In 1862 the house at Mücke am Schlüsselberg was extended and converted into a school building for the secondary school.

By the school law of 1880 the school was called Untere Realschule and Obere Realschule . In 1887 a new school building was inaugurated for the lower secondary school at Rittergasse 4 (today the building department).

The upper secondary school moved into the De Wette school , which was built from 1901 to 1903 according to plans by Fritz Stehelin and Emanuel La Roche in the neo-baroque style. When it was inaugurated, the building comprised 30 classrooms for around 900 students, two drawing rooms with model chambers, six lecture halls with side rooms and laboratories for teaching physics, chemistry and natural history, the auditorium, teachers' room, rooms for handicrafts, a gym and a small school garden .

With the school reform of 1929/30, in addition to the humanistic grammar school (HG, type A), the girls’s grammar school (Kohlenberg), the real grammar school (RG, type B) and the mathematical and natural science grammar school (MNG, type C). The former Realschule was thus divided into the Realgymnasium (RG) and the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gymnasium (MNG).

The mathematical and natural science high school

The MNG, founded in 1930, pursued the original goals of the Realgymnasium from 1852 in which it upgraded the mathematics and science subjects as well as the mother tongue and completely dispensed with the ancient languages ​​Latin and ancient Greek. It should prepare for a scientific or technical degree.

In 1941 the classrooms of all classes were relocated to the De Wette schoolhouse. Before that there was only the upper level (5th-8th grade) and the other classes were spread over different houses. Coeducation has been used since 1968 . In 1997 the MNG merged with the RG to form the Kirschgarten High School. Well-known graduates of the school are the cardiologist Wilhelm Rutishauser , the historian Rudolf Braun and the cultural and economic scientist Dieter Pfister .

The Realgymnasium

The RG, founded in 1930, made it possible to complete the Matura type B. In 1957 the Herrmann-Kinkelin-Schulhaus, built by Basel architects Hans Bernoulli , Ernst Mummenthaler and Otto Meier, was ready to move into. 33 classrooms, an auditorium, three gyms and a drawing room for 950 students were built in modern construction with a facade made of prefabricated concrete elements. With the construction of the Herrmann-Kinkelin schoolhouse, the schoolhouse in Haus zur Mücke on the Schlüsselberg could be handed over to the humanistic grammar school for use after 95 years. 1997 Merger with the MNG to form the Kirschgarten grammar school.

Well-known rectors were Hermann Kinkelin (1832–1913, rectorate 1866–1869 and 1875–1903), Friedrich Burckhardt , (1830–1913, rectorate 1870–1874) and Robert Flatt (1863–1955, rectorate 1903–1924) and Eduard Sieber bis 1962. Well-known graduates of the school are the writer Urs Widmer , the politician Hans-Rudolf Nebiker and the environmental activist Bruno Manser .

Web links

• Website of the high school Kirschgarten
• Outline of the history of the MNG