Melanchthon School Steinatal

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The Melanchthon School Steinatal is a private, state-approved grammar school , whose school sponsor is the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW). It is located just under 2 km east of Steina , a district of the Willingshausen community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . It is named after Philipp Melanchthon .

location

The school is located about 7 km southeast of Ziegenhain on a campus site, on the north bank of the Steina , on the edge of the forest on the site of a former forester's house and the presumed medieval settlement of Obersteina . A few hundred meters to the west, the federal highway 454 runs from Ziegenhain to Neukirchen .

history

The former forester's house of the von Ditfurth family was sold in 1925 with the associated forestry to what was then the district of Ziegenhain and initially used as a restaurant (called "Kurhaus") and then as an agricultural school. From the mid-1930s, then there is a realm of the seminar were National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) for the training of kindergarten teachers and nursery nerinnen as well as a kindergarten and a children's convalescent home. After the end of the Second World War , when the DP camp 95-443 Ziegenhain for displaced persons (DP) was set up in August 1946 in the prisoner of war established by the Nazi regime in the area of ​​today's Trutzhain - StaLag IX A main camp , the facility was located until 1947 a connected to the DP camp TBC - sanatorium under the administration of the UNRRA .

After the camp was closed, the buildings were moved into in 1950 by the "branch of the Wilhelmgymnasium" set up in Neukirchen in 1947 - the Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel had been bombed out in 1943 and had made a provisional new start in Neukirchen - and was soon taken over by EKKW, who set up the Melanchthon School with a boarding school there. The main building of the school with administration was furnished in the former Reichskindergärtner's seminar, the model kindergarten became the boys' home of the boarding school and the girls of the boarding school were accommodated in the former Ditfurth house (demolished in 1976). In 1953/1954 a multi-purpose hall belonging to the building stock was converted into a gymnasium. In 1956/1957 a building for the natural sciences with a connection to the main building was built. The boarding school was expanded in 1965 with an extension with an integrated drawing room and work room. New classrooms and a music hall were built in 1966 with a connection to the main building, and in 1972 a new gym with swimming pool. The scientific wing was relocated to a new building in 1978. In the 1970s, the demand for boarding school places decreased significantly and the boarding school eventually closed. From 2008 the school was run with a cafeteria.

The school

On the extensive school grounds with spacious school sports facilities (sports field, indoor swimming pool, two sports halls, beach volleyball court) around 700 students are taught all day by around 70 teachers. Every year, three or four new classes, each with 25-28 girls and boys from primary schools, are admitted to grade 5. In recent years only the popularity of the Carl-Banzer has decreased. The Melanchthon School has organic certified food from the region. Since 2013, the school has been working partly on a full-day basis according to the G9 model. The Melanchthon lessons change school lessons by 2 hours per week. The school is only partially handicapped accessible.

The school's educational concept is Christian and weekly devotions and regular church services on Mondays are part of school life. The curriculum of the grammar school comprises three fields of activity: the linguistic-artistic with the subjects German, English, French, Russian, Latin, Greek, music, art and works; the social science with Protestant and Catholic religious doctrine, history, politics and economics as well as geography; and the mathematical-scientific with the subjects mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry and biology.

Former students

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 34"  E

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Steinatal (Forsthaus Ditfurth), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ "Steinatal, Reich seminar of the National Socialist People's Welfare e. V. (NSV) ". Topography of National Socialism in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Bernd Lindenthal: The old people were no longer there. In: http://www.hna.de . July 10, 2013, accessed June 10, 2016 .
  4. ↑ The school program of the Melanchthon School 2012 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

literature

  • Steinataler Hefte , annually, Melanchthon School Steinatal, Willingshausen-Steinatal