Lower Saxony boarding school in Bad Bederkesa
| Lower Saxony boarding school in Bad Bederkesa | |
|---|---|
|
|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1874-1876 |
| address |
Seminarstrasse 8 |
| place | Bad Bederkesa |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 37 '35 " N , 8 ° 50' 1" E |
| carrier | State of Lower Saxony |
| student | approx. 768 (2017) |
| Teachers | approx. 70 (2017) |
| management | Matthias Krapp |
| Website | www.nig-bederkesa.net |
The Lower Saxony boarding school Bad Bederkesa (short NIG) is a high school in sponsorship of the State of Lower Saxony with the financial participation of the district Cuxhaven .
history
The building originally housed the Royal Prussian Teachers' Training Seminar , a training facility for prospective primary school teachers. When the seminars in Prussia were closed in the early 1920s, the teacher training institute was converted into a secondary school between 1923 and 1925 . Until 1942 the school was the state German secondary school and led to the Abitur in six years from the 8th grade. The school fee was RM 240 per year, the students from outside lived in private quarters, for which additional payments had to be made. In 1928 the first ten candidates passed their first Abitur at the school.
In 1931 a boarding school for 50 boys was opened because of the small number of students , and in 1933 a boarding school for girls was also set up. During World War II , the school had fewer and fewer students as the boys increasingly went to war. The secondary school was therefore closed in 1942 and the building was used again as the Bederkesa teacher training institute until 1945 .
In 1945 the building was as a reserve military hospital used from 1945 to 1947 then as a collection point for foreign forced laborers who were waiting for their return home. In 1947/48 the building briefly housed a pedagogical college for the short training of elementary school teachers, until the Lower Saxony home school Bederkesa was founded in 1948 - as a state home school for war-damaged children from economically disadvantaged families, for half- orphans and orphans , children of refugees and persecuted people. The first headmaster until 1956 was Alfred Franz, the director of the previous college of education. Between 1963 and 1967 it was expanded as a boarding school; separate boarding school buildings were built for boys and girls. From then on, the main building was only used for teaching.
In 1971 the upper level was expanded to include a scientific and mathematical branch , and in 1977 the reformed upper level was introduced . When the state government wanted to give up the boarding school as part of its austerity decisions in 1994, there were numerous protests that led to the NIG's continued existence. The financing was split between the state of Lower Saxony, the district of Cuxhaven and the now dissolved municipality of Bederkesa .
architecture
The brick building was built between 1874 and 1876 and consists of a three-storey central wing with two-storey side wings. The architectural style is Prussian. The gym and the seminar building are under monument protection, see the list of architectural monuments in Geestland .
particularities
The school participated in the European Comenius program from 2011 to 2013 . In addition, the school was awarded a “ Sport-friendly School” in 2013, a European School and a “MINT-Friendly School” in 2015. The NIG participating successfully in youth research and since 2015 Youth Debate in part.
Every year there are student exchanges with the English partner schools Wymondham College and St. Mary's School.
Prominent alumni
- David McAllister (* 1971), former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
- Alligatoah (* 1989), rapper and producer
- Eckhard Schaefer (* 1936), Baptist pastor
Web links
- School website.
- Image film of the school. In: vimeo.com.
- Ceremonial speech on the NIG school anniversary. (No longer available online.) In: nibis.ni.schule.de. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014 ; accessed on March 19, 2020 .
- School newspaper.