Normal school in Paderborn

The normal school in Paderborn was a teacher training facility founded in 1790.

history

In 1790, the Paderborn Prince-Bishop Franz Egon von Fürstenberg founded the normal school in Paderborn based on the model of the normal school in Münster , which was founded by his brother Franz von Fürstenberg and directed by Bernhard Heinrich Overberg . In the normal school, candidate teachers were trained and rural school teachers already in office were trained. The Franciscan Father Damasius Himmelhaus (1760-1822) was from 1799 both normal school teacher and school inspector in the Paderborn Monastery . The normal school was maintained during the Prussian occupation and the Kingdom of Westphalia .

The establishment of the normal school was preceded by a prince-bishop's ordinance of August 31, 1788 on school regulations. In it, attention was drawn to the importance of teaching and the statutory compulsory education for students from the 5th or 6th to the 14th year of age was laid down. In addition, the subject of the lesson was determined and a separate commission was set up to check the ability of the teachers and to grant the capable teachers a maintenance allowance from the state treasury. Less able teachers were advised to take 3 to 4 months of further training followed by an examination.

In the reforms of the school system, Prince-Bishop Franz Egon oriented himself partly on the reforms of his brother Franz von Fürstenberg in the monastery of Münster . This reform was recognized as progressive by the pedagogy of the time. The established normal school served for better training of the rural school teachers. In addition, the reform replaced the German language Latin as the general language of instruction in grammar schools. In 1686, school instruction in the Hochstift was mentioned in a church ordinance. As a result, many village schools were founded in the prince-bishopric.

As a successor to the normal school, the teachers 'seminar was founded in Paderborn in 1832 and the teachers' seminar in Büren in 1825. In 1907 the teacher training college was established in Paderborn. In the mid-1920s, the teacher training seminars were merged into a pedagogical academy. In 1965, the Paderborn Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe was founded in Paderborn as its successor, which was merged into the University of Paderborn , which was founded in 1972 and later became the University of Paderborn .

literature

• Georg Josef Bessen: History of the Diocese of Paderborn. Volume 2. Wesener, Paderborn 1820, p. 377 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Dietmar Schmidt: History of the Catholic elementary school Eickhoff. Eickhoff 2004, p. 23ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 57.9 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 0.3"  E