New Thomas School

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New Thomas School, photography by Hermann Walter (around 1900)

The New Thomas School (also called Thomasgymnasium ) is the third school building of the Thomas School in Leipzig . It was located in Leipzig's Bachviertel and was used from the 1870s until it was destroyed during the war in the 1940s. The building housed numerous works of art. Opposite was the surviving Thomas Alumnate .

history

After the death of St. Thomas Cantor Moritz Hauptmann in the 1860s, local politics discussed whether the St. Thomas School should be merged with the St. Nicholas School ; however, the idea was rejected. Instead, the New Thomas School was built in 1876/77 according to plans by Leipzig architect August Friedrich Viehweger at Schreberstraße 9 in Leipzig's Bachviertel for around 600,000 marks as the most expensive new school building in Leipzig at the time. The area had an area of ​​5,760 m². In 1877, the new building with a concert of the Boys Choir in was Thomas Church and a performance of Menaechmi -Komödie of Plautus inaugurated. It served as a three-storey, cellar successor building to the old Thomas School at Thomaskirchhof , which had become too small and was demolished in 1902. Opposite, Viehweger realized the Thomas alumnate for the St. Thomas Choir a few years later . In 1880, operations in the new gym could begin.

During the Allied air raids on Leipzig in 1943, especially in 1944, the Thomas School was damaged or destroyed; the ruins were demolished in 1950, after which the area was used as a football field for the St. Thomas people. Since the end of the Second World War , around 2,500 sheet music manuscripts and prints have been missing from the Schola Thomana sheet music library . Thomaskantor Günther Ramin only managed to get the cimelia , including the chorale cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach (today in the Bach Archive ), out of town.

Initially interim in the Klinger and Lessing School, the grammar school used (s) from 1951 to 1973 and since 2000 the building of the former IVth Citizens School at Hillerstraße 7 (not far from the old location).

Architecture and equipment

The main portal of the school on Hillerstraße consisted of three parts, with a flight of stairs in front of it . Inside there were double stairways and spacious corridors with cloakrooms for the students. In Leipzig and its buildings , which shows a floor plan , sixteen classrooms , each with a physics room, laboratory , natural history room and drawing room, as well as two combination rooms are documented on the front . The rector's office (see list of the rectors of the Thomasschule zu Leipzig ), the homemaker's apartment, the teacher or conference room, the singing room and the ballroom were housed on the back. All rooms could be heated. The toilets in the side wing were equipped with disinfection and pit ventilation.

The auditorium of the Thomas School was 230 m² in size and had space for around 700 people, which was too small at the turn of the century. The teacher's platform and the floorboards were made of oak . The gas-lit room had modern "water-air heating". The decorated room also had display boards for the Monday prayers. In 1937 the auditorium was renovated.

The school desks with inkpots in the classrooms were based on models from the 1873 World's Fair .

Works of art

Johann Sebastian Bach , oil painting by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1746)

The school building was decorated with various sculptures and paintings: For example, the 19th century Bach bust by Melchior zur Strasse was placed in the auditorium . In 1903 Carl Seffner created a bust of Bach that was later saved. A Goethe bronze bust by Christian Friedrich Tieck has adorned the building since the anniversary in 1912. In 1913 the original Bach portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann - which was in the possession of the school from 1809 as a gift from August Eberhard Müller and was transferred to the new school building in 1877 - was given to the Leipzig City History Museum on permanent loan . A copy by Walter Kuhn was hung up in the Thomas School as a replacement.

Cenotaphs

A bronze cenotaph was created in 1923 for the fallen Thomaner of the First World War , bearing the Latin word THOMANIS PRO PATRIA MORTUIS. In 1942 a temporary board was added with the words FÜR DEUTSCHLANDS GRÖSSE FIELEN for the 102 dead (teachers and students) of the Second World War to date.

literature

  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Report on the inauguration of the new St. Thomas School in Leipzig . Edelmann, Leipzig 1878.
  • Association of Leipzig Architects and Engineers (publisher): Leipzig and its buildings: for the 10th walking meeting of the Association of German Architects and Engineers in Leipzig from August 28 to 31, 1892 . Gebhardt, Leipzig 1892, pp. 322–326 (including information on the alumneum).
  • August Friedrich Viehweger : About the building of the new Thomas School in Leipzig . In: Mittheilungen des Sächsischer Ingenieur- und Architekten-Verein 1877, p. 47.

Web links

Commons : Neue Thomasschule  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Altner : The Thomaskantorat in the 19th century. Applicants and candidates for the Leipzig Thomaskantorat from 1842 to 1918.Source studies on the development of the Thomaskantorat and the St. Thomas Choir from the discontinuation of the public singing in 1837 to the first trip abroad in 1920 , Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, p. 142.
  2. ↑ Kerstin Hebestreit u. a. (Red.): 175 years of architecture from Leipzig . Ed .: University of Technology, Economics and Culture Leipzig , Faculty of Construction, Leipzig 2013, p. 46.
  3. ^ Stefan Altner : The Thomaskantorat in the 19th century. Applicants and candidates for the Leipzig Thomaskantorat from 1842 to 1918. Source studies on the development of the Thomaskantorat and the St. Thomas Choir from the discontinuation of public singing in 1837 to the first trip abroad in 1920 , Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, p. 145.
  4. ^ Bernhard Knick (Ed.): St. Thomas zu Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 320.
  5. ^ Annette Menting : Leipzig: Architecture and Art . Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, p. 134 f.
  6. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 131.
  7. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 149.
  8. ^ Bernhard Knick (Ed.): St. Thomas zu Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 387.
  9. ↑ Andreas Glöckner : The music library of the Schola Thomana , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (ed.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, pp. 364–373, content from page 371.
  10. ↑ Andreas Glöckner : The music library of the Schola Thomana , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (ed.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, pp. 364–373, content from page 373.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Hocquél : Die Alte Thomasschule am Thomaskirchhof , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, pp. 192–207, content from page 206.
  12. ^ Association of Leipzig Architects and Engineers (Ed.): Leipzig and its buildings: for the 10th walking meeting of the Association of German Architects and Engineers in Leipzig from August 28 to 31, 1892 . Gebhardt, Leipzig 1892, p. 323.
  13. ↑ a b Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 129.
  14. ^ A b Judith Krasselt: The Thomasschule in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , ed. by the Thomanerbund eV, Leipzig 2000, o. S. (Appendix).
  15. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 130.
  16. ^ Karl-Rudolf Böttger: New Leipzig pocket dictionary for locals and foreigners . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, p. 201.
  17. ^ Bernhard Knick (Ed.): St. Thomas zu Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 365.
  18. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt (arrangement): Stadt Leipzig (= descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , issue 17), Meinhold, Dresden 1895, p. 384.
  19. ↑ Ernst Sigismund : The portrait painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann and his time: the Bach portraits . In: Journal for Art: Quarterly Issues for Art. Design, painting, sculpture, architecture, arts and crafts 4 (1950), pp. 126–135, content of p. 130.
  20. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 147.