Oberschule at Leibnizplatz

Oberschule at Leibnizplatz
type of school	Oberschule with upper school level as an all-day school
founding	1909
address	Leibnizplatz / Schulstrasse 24 ; 28199 Bremen
place	Bremen - Neustadt
country	Bremen
Country	Germany
Coordinates	53 ° 4 '12 " N , 8 ° 47' 54" E Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '12 " N , 8 ° 47' 54" E
student	839 (as of 2008)
Teachers	84 (as of 2008)
management	Karsten Lüpke
Website	www.leibnizplatz.de

The Oberschule am Leibnizplatz is a high school in Bremen in the Bremen Neustadt . It was Realschule , Oberrealschule , Oberschule , Gymnasium and school center of the secondary level II and integrated district school and is now again an Oberschule in Bremen with an upper level as an all-day school. The building has been a listed building since April 4, 1984. The Bremer Shakespeare Company has played in the school since 1988 .

Surname

The school got its name after Leibnizplatz . This square is named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), the universal German philosopher , scientist , mathematician , diplomat , physicist , historian and librarian .

From 1938 to 1945 the school was called Kapitän-König-Schule , named after Paul König (1867–1933), captain of the North German Lloyd in Bremen and naval officer of a merchant submarine.

School description

The integrated district school at Leibnizplatz (506), 28199 Bremen, Alte Neustadt, Schulstraße 24 is an all-day school. In 2008 the school had 839 pupils, 504 of whom are attending the 24 classes in school years 5 to 10 and 337 are in the upper grades of the 11th to 13th school year. The proportion of migration was 14.2%. 84 teachers taught in 2008.

An integrated district school is understood to be an urban comprehensive school that teaches all children in its district together and in its work relates to the living environment, the living environment of its students in the broadest sense. The school goes into the district and takes advantage of the learning opportunities available there and lets the district in, makes offers to participate. The neighborhood reference is to be developed in corresponding projects in the elective area.

The school - initially planned as a conventional school center - developed the pedagogical concept of an integrated district school, i.e. a comprehensive school.

Small classes were formed and open lessons with project work were initiated, and approaches to changing the educational work were undertaken. Work was intensified on new teaching concepts and on numerous offers that open up the school. With the restructuring of the Bremen school system, the school will be a high school from grades 5 to 13. As before, it will be integrated from grades 5 to 10 and will lead pupils with the appropriate qualifications to the Abitur after completing secondary school in year 10.

She has had a school partnership with the Augustineum in Namibia since 2018 .

School history

Real and secondary school until 1945

On November 8, 1905, the Bremen citizenship decided that a new secondary school should also be built on Neustadtswall in the Neustadt in Bremen, after two secondary schools already existed in the old town of Bremen. The St. Pauli School in Neustadt was closed at the same time. Construction on a site at Hohentor was abandoned in favor of an area on the filled-in Neustadtsgraben on Neustadtswall as part of the old Bremen city fortifications . The master builder Fritzsche from the Hochbauinspektion II (later building authority in Bremen) created the design for the new building, which was built in the style of the turn of the century with Art Nouveau elements until 1909. The school building, with Rathenower hand stroke stones blinded, with the architectural elements of Ibbenbürener sandstones and the inner timber from pitch pine , Carolinapine and oak had been consuming but also create appropriate, the main entrance was rather out to be modest. On April 22, 1909, the Neustadt secondary school was opened for a capacity of 400 to 500 students on Brückenstraße / Neustadtswall and 186 students started school. Every year a grade was added, so that in 1914 the school had 419 students. The first headmaster until 1926 was Friedrich Fricke (1868–1926), who came from the old grammar school .

Since 1912, after attending the lower secondary school (10th grade) , the pupils have been able to take a shooting test , which corresponds to today's secondary school leaving certificate and enabled entry into an upper secondary school (11th grade) of a secondary school . With the passing of a discharge test , the lower prima (12th grade) of an upper secondary school could be reached directly. The transfer customs were strict. In 1910, 36 out of 192 pupils remained seated and in 1911 58 out of 259 pupils failed to make the transfer. Around 1911 the Wandervogel association was established at the secondary school in Neustadt . The Wandervogel movement was a youth movement for reform pedagogy .

A green area was built around the school until 1912 (today: Leibnizplatz and CentaurenPark) and from 1912 on Leibniz-Straße in front of the school, as a connection breakthrough between Brückenstraße and Osterstraße / Buntentorsteinweg . In 1914 tram line 5 went in the direction of Pappelstrasse and line 4 in the direction of Arsterdamm or Horn.

In 1919 the school building was damaged in the suppression of the Bremen Soviet Republic ; the city armed forces established themselves in the house and the demobilization committee met in the gym . Classes continued uninterrupted despite the close skirmishes . In 1918/19 there were 400 students at the school. Headmaster (1929 director) succeeded Friedrich Fricke, who died in 1926, from Heinrich Bierbaum (1872–1957) from 1926 to 1938 .

From 1926 the secondary school was expanded to become a secondary school in Bremen, Neustadt department. At Easter 1929 the first Abitur exams were taken at the grammar school.

In 1933 the former Rathenaustraße was named Richthofenstraße . In 1934, the otherwise undeveloped space in front of the school was renamed the Platz der SA (a paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP ). The school did not initially have a National Socialist as director. It was not until 1938 that Wilhelm Westphal (killed in 1942) became a staunch Nazi graduate of NAPOLA ( National Political Education Institute ) - director of the school; but it is said to have had a compensatory effect. In 1938, the school in Brückenstrasse / Neustadtswall became a secondary school and, on the instructions of the school senator, was given the additional name of the Captain King School ( Paul König , Captain of the North German Lloyd).

During the Second World War , many pupils were in the Kinderlandverschickung or flak helpers. In 1943 the earth bunker was built in the park on Leibnizplatz. The school was damaged in bombing attacks, while various houses in the area suffered serious damage.

Gymnasium or high school after 1945

Centaurs fountain on Leibnizplatz

In December 1945 the secondary school was used again and the square in front of the school was given the current name Leibnizplatz . From 1945 to 1964 the director of the secondary school was Hans Koch (1898–1989), who previously taught temporarily at the secondary school on Dechanatstrasse and before that at the Kleine Helle girls' secondary school . From January to March 1947, classes were canceled due to excessive cold. From 1948 a school newspaper - the Pennäler , then Blinkfeuer - could be published. Rowing (via the Hansa rowing club ), amateur games (at times under the direction of Wolfgang Nestriepke) and hiking were also part of the school program from 1948 onwards.

In 1950 the Lyceum - the former Anna Waetge girls' school on Mainstrasse - was integrated into the Leibniz School. The so-called co - education , the common teaching of girls and boys, began. In 1951 the school had 866 students. From 1951 it was called Oberschule am Leibnizplatz and from 1957 Gymnasium am Leibnizplatz . In 1958 the grammar school was expanded by 12 new rooms and in 1959 an extension with a new auditorium was added. The Centauren fountain in the park was built in 1958. From 1959 to 1961 the traffic and light rail systems up to the Great Weser Bridge were rebuilt. Another extension was built in 1966.

In 1988 the Bremen shakespeare company moved into the grammar school on Leibnizplatz and used the auditorium as a theater hall. Since 1988 the school has been part of the Neustadt secondary school center with grades 10 to 13. There are only 436 students in 24 classes who are relocated to the school building on Delmestrasse in 1988/89 . From 1989 areas of the adult school were housed in the buildings. After German reunification, emigrants also lived in a part of the building from 1989 to 1991.

School center and district school from 1991

The juggler in front of the school

In 1990, with the increasing number of students in Bremen, it became clear that the Leibnizplatz location was once again needed as a school. In 1991 the school center at Leibnizplatz was reopened with four fifth grades. After 2 years of preparation, this school was converted into an Integrated District School Neustadt and from 1994 into the Integrated District School on Leibnizplatz . Small classes were formed and open lessons with project work were initiated, and approaches to changing the educational work were undertaken. But the bremer shakespeare company shouldn't give up its location either, according to the motto “ theater in school, school with theater ”. A special, all-day theater week was set up as project lessons in the school. Until the construction of a new building from 1994 to 1999, teaching containers were used to accommodate students.

In 1999 the IS received an extension with classrooms and a teaching kitchen at Leibnizplatz . Since 2004 the school has had a gymnasium upper level (LGO - Leibnizplatz Gesamtschuloberstufe), which was housed in the school building on Delmestrasse until February 2012. The upper level was set up in cooperation with the Mitte comprehensive school and the Hermannsburg Integrated District School in Huchting .

The IS at Leibnizplatz has also received secondary school from grades 5 to 13 from 2009 and kept the previous grades 5 to 10. The upper level has been using the renovated rooms of the neighboring former police building on Schulstrasse since February 2012. In 2012, a three-storey building for the administration and a cafeteria was also moved into. The theater on Leibnizplatz is being renovated and converted.

High school

Since 2010, the school name has been Oberschule am Leibnizplatz again .

In 2012, the former Barracks IV of the Bremen Infantry Regiment from 1890 was converted into classrooms for the secondary school. The school received a new building for the cafeteria, workrooms and administration.

Known school members

Well-known teachers

(Sorted alphabetically by surname)

Irmela Abramzik (* 1922), director of studies, wife of Günter Abramzik
Heinrich Bierbaum (1872–1957), teacher from 1910 and director from 1926 to 1938 (Heinrich-Bierbaum-Straße in the Neustadt)
Friedrich Fricke (1868–1926), director from 1909 to 1926
Hans Koch (1898–1989), director from 1945 to 1964
Erika Opelt-Stoevesandt (1919–2013), deputy director until 1964
Norbert Rüppell (* 1945), headmaster from 1991 to 2013
Herbert Schwarzwälder (1919–2011), historian, teacher
Wilhelm Westphal, director from 1938 to 1942.

Known students