New Aarau Cantonal School

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New Aarau Cantonal School
New Aarau Cantonal School, September 2010
type of school Cantonal school ( grammar school )
founding 1979
address

Schanzmättelistrasse 32

place Aarau
Canton Aargau
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 645737  /  248584 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '11 "  N , 8 ° 2' 40"  O ; CH1903:  645737  /  248584
student 900
Teachers 143
Website www.nksa.ch
New building of the NKSA (1989), photo January 2012

The Neue Kantonsschule Aarau (NKSA) is a public secondary school in Aarau . It consists of a high school and a technical secondary school . The NKSA is currently attended by over 900 students.

After the introduction of grammar school structures in the 1970s, it was called Kantonsschule Zelgli from 1978 . After the then existing grammar school on the Aarau square was renamed Old Cantonal School Aarau in the 1980s, the Zelgli Cantonal School changed its name to New Cantonal School Aarau (NKSA) in 1989 for reasons of symmetry.

history

The history of the school can be traced back to the 18th century. In 1787 a private subsidiary was set up in Aarau . The first teacher was Dorothea Ziegler. After a few years the school must have gone under. In any case, it was formally re-established in 1822. In 1935 it was renamed the daughter school , in 1989 it was converted into a (two-year) diploma middle school (DMS), which was finally expanded into a (three-year) specialist middle school (FMS) at the beginning of the 21st century. After completing the FMS, there has recently been the option of acquiring the specialist baccalaureate, which opens up access to the technical college.

The history of the grammar school course dates back to 1873. The seminar for teachers was opened at that time . Nationalization did not take place until 1911. From 1919 to 1978 a training school (1st to 6th grade) was attached to the teachers' seminar. Since 1902, "female advanced training courses" have also been introduced under the auspices of the Aarau District Cultural Society. This resulted in the home economics teacher seminar , which was transferred to Brugg in the early 1960s .

The 1960s brought two big changes: on the one hand, co-education was introduced, and on the other hand, due to the lack of teachers at the time, a branch school was opened in Zofingen in 1965 , which became independent after just a few years. From 1976 the transfer of seminar teacher training to the newly founded HPL (Higher Pedagogical Training Institute) in Zofingen. The canton school, which was set up at the same time, initially comprised types D (modern language) and PSG (pedagogical-social high school), which since 2002 have been completely replaced by Matura classes according to MAR (Swiss Matura Recognition Regulations ). In 2010 the New Cantonal School Aarau received the School Prize of the Science Olympiad . In 2017, the Swiss Youth Research Foundation presented the New Aarau Cantonal School with an award for the school with the most award winners in 2006-2016.

Architecture, artistic equipment

The old building in the quiet Zelgliquartier, inaugurated in 1955, is the work of the Oeschger brothers , whose names are also associated with the National Library in Bern (1927/1931), the City High-rise in Zurich (1953/1958) and several airport buildings (including Kloten 1947/1962) is.

The old building soon became too small for the growing number of students. In 1966 and 1970, provisional buildings were therefore erected to counteract the lack of space. The new building was inaugurated in 1989, a compact, simple and transparent work by the architects Alfons Barth and Hans Zaugg .

Art in the old building: The majolica (wall ceramics) by Wilhelm Schmid (1892–1971) and a glass wall by Max Hunziker (1901–1976) are worth mentioning .

people

Class photo of the teachers' college from 1905

Former teachers (selection):

Former students (selection):

literature

  • Beat Hodler: Young school, long history. The new canton school Aarau. Here and now, Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-03919-329-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://nksa.ch/nksa/zahlen/
  2. ↑ Ibid.
  3. ↑ See Heinrich Staehelin: The old canton school Aarau 1802-2002. Aarau 2002.
  4. ↑ See the minutes of the teachers' conference from 1988 in the archives of the Neue Kantonsschule Aarau.
  5. ^ Franz Kretz: Steps out of the house. Beginnings and youth of teacher education in Aarau. Aarau 1994.
  6. ↑ cf. Archive of the New Cantonal School Aarau, minutes of the commission for home economics education courses
  7. ↑ See Christian Lerch, Patrick Zehnder, Manuel Pörtner (eds.), In 200 Years from 1 to 7. The Aargauer Kantonsschulen, Aarau 2002.
  8. ↑ Swiss Youth Research. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ See: Stadtmuseum Schlössli Aarau (ed.): House stories from the Zelgli. Aarau 2009.
  10. ↑ Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (ed.): Architectural dictionary of Switzerland. 19./20. Century. Basel 1998.
  11. ↑ See the Oeschger estate in the gta archive at ETHZ
  12. ↑ Building Department of the Canton of Aargau (ed.): Neue Kantonsschule Aarau. Extension. Aarau 1989.
  13. ↑ See: Beat Wismer, Paul-André Jaccard: Works of the 20th Century from Cuno Amiet to Today. Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau. Collection catalog volume 2. Aarau 1983.