Mauritius High School Büren
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 168634 |
| founding | 1925 |
| address |
Burgstrasse 2 |
| place | Büren |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 33 '19 " N , 8 ° 33' 30" E |
| carrier | Mauritius-Gymnasium eV |
| student | 836 (2008/2009) |
| Teachers | 52 |
| management | Franz-Josef Drüppel and Claudia Wilmes (acting) |
| Website | www.mauritius-gymnasium.de |
The Mauritius-Gymnasium is a privately owned Catholic school in Büren in the Paderborn district , which is recognized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
history
The three-wing school building was built between 1719 and 1728 as a Jesuit college by the master builder Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius with the participation of Johann Conrad Schlaun in the Baroque style. The funds for this came from the sale of the painting collection of Baron Moritz von Büren , on whose will and initiative the Jesuit College Büren was founded.
The school is centrally located in the old town next to the former Jesuit church , a baroque church which, according to initial plans, was to be integrated into the college building , but which was eventually built as a separate building on the side of the three-winged college after 1750.
Initially there was a theological seminary in the building. In the period from 1825 to 1925, the state of Prussia used the school building to train teachers. The Büren District Court was also located there. In 1923 a state secondary school with a Christian educational character was founded, which was the only higher school in the Büren district and also accepted girls. It existed until 1945.
In 1945, a Jesuit university from St. Georgen in Frankfurt was relocated to Büren because of the war damage. In 1946, an old-language grammar school for boys was founded under Jesuit sponsorship, which lasted until the sponsoring association, which still exists today, in 1952. The school administration was exercised by Jesuits until 1981. From 1966 to 1970 the school building housed the traditional Mauritius grammar school as well as an independent advanced grammar school that girls could also attend. The Mauritius Gymnasium has also been accepting girls since 1971.
Current
The school is attended by around 800 students from the old district of Büren , but also from Brilon and the surrounding area. Currently (February 2018) the school is provisionally managed by Franz-Josef Drüppel and Claudia Wilmes. The school sponsor is the Mauritius Gymnasium e. V., there is also the Association of Friends and Patrons e. V. and the Association of Former Mauritians e. V. The school building and grounds are owned by the Büren'schen Fonds, a special fund of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , which manages the former property of the noble lords of Büren. Funding for various projects is made possible by the school's own magis foundation .
The European school in North Rhine-Westphalia maintains partnerships with several schools in other European countries, not least in the course of various COMENIUS and ERASMUS + projects, including in Girona in Spain, Krakow and Skwierzyna in Poland and Ignalina in Lithuania. There are also connections to Montevideo in Uruguay . A special focus in the school program is also the choice of study and career, for which the grammar school has already been awarded several times as a 'career choice and training-friendly school'.
Logo and seal
The school's logo contains a schematic representation of the upward-pointing tips of two nibs that frame the downward-pointing tip of a pencil. In this arrangement, it is also reminiscent of the three wings of the school building. In addition, the school has its own seal , which combines the coat of arms of the noble lords of Büren with the Christ monogram IHS of the Jesuit order. The seal has the inscriptions "IMMACVLATA-KOLLEG SJ BÜREN iW" (inner circle) and "Priv. Mauritius-Gymnasium Büren" (outer circle). Without transcription, it is used - in addition to the logo - as a decorative seal on the letterhead and on school publications.
Trivia
The Mauritius high school as a former boys 'school has a special relationship with the nearby Liebfrauengymnasium as a former girls' school. Both schools work together in the area of Protestant religious instruction and general teaching of the upper secondary level, while the students of one school, however, smile at the other in a not very serious way. Despite this apparent rivalry, which has been ironically cultivated by parts of the teaching staff for years, the Abiturientia of the two schools cooperate in the organization of the Abiparties. Traditionally, the Abiturientia of one school tries to disrupt the high school tower of the other with water pistols, water bombs and heckling .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ history. Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
- ↑ a b school management. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ School program of the private Mauritius-Gymnasium Büren , p. 9.
- ^ Schlagheck, Raimund, courthouse in Westphalia-Lippe between 1816 and 1945, Münster 2010, p. 259.
- ↑ School program of private Mauritius-Gymnasium Büren , p. 7.