Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand

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Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand
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type of school high school
founding 1946
address

At Kuhlbrook

place Timmendorfer beach
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 54 ° 0 '27 "  N , 10 ° 46' 11"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '27 "  N , 10 ° 46' 11"  E
carrier Timmendorfer Strand community
student 544 (as of September 13, 2019)
Teachers 59
management Cordula brown
Website ostsee-gymnasium.de

The Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand (OGT) is a state high school in Timmendorfer Strand in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .

View of the north courtyard from the roof terrace

The school is located at the northern end of the Baltic resort of Timmendorfer Strand, not far from the Baltic Sea . In the 2018/2019 school year 586 students were taught by a total of 59 teachers.

history

Founding time

After the end of the war and the resulting collapse of the school system, a high school with boarding school for refugee children was set up in Timmendorfer Strand . In contrast to the state school, the boarding school was run by the Evangelical Relief Organization Schleswig-Holstein and later by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein itself. With the approval of the British Military Government , classes could begin on November 26, 1946; accordingly, this can be seen as the high school's birth date. Located in the dune house, which previously housed the regional church office, as well as in the rented Hotel Waldesruh and the former Hotel zur Kammer, the lessons could begin under simple conditions.

The number of students grew rapidly until 1953. The secondary school was meanwhile a place of education for 620 pupils, 195 of whom were accommodated in the Bugenhagen boarding school. This large number of students led to a shortage of space, not least due to the loss of a building. When in 1951 the dune house had to be returned to the regional church, the lessons could only be continued with great difficulty. The accommodations for girls and boys, completed in 1950, could be used as classrooms in the basement and some classes could also be taught in the afternoons. With the support of American associations, a five-class schoolhouse with bell towers was built in front of the Hotel zur Kammer, which still exists today. The purchase of the beach hotel in 1953 made it possible to forego afternoon classes.

The first building of the Ostsee-Gymnasium

Even in the 1950s, many things were still provisional. In a speech by the school's founder, Dr. They quickly say: “Our school has no proud building, it also has no tradition, it is a creation of the moment and in its forms something completely abnormal. But the essentials should not be the external form, the building and the complete completeness of the teaching materials , but the spirit that animates them. Duty and responsible work will always be crucial. Our thanks should always go to those who created something out of nothing that has now taken on a new shape as the Baltic Sea High School. "

In 1954 a pupil parliament was introduced, which was able to dispose of the funds from the subsidies ("Kulturmark"). In the meantime, efforts to run the high school as a denominational school did not materialize. On January 6, 1956, the school and boarding school were renamed and separated. The school has since been called the Ostsee-Gymnasium. The following year the school got its first own building, the gymnasium and festival hall. The first school exchange to Great Britain took place in the same year.

In the mid-1950s, the school's spatial capacity was again exhausted, so that the construction of a new school building was initiated. In August 1961, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education, Edo Osterloh, laid the foundation stone for the new Ostsee-Gymnasium. The school building designed by the architect Wilhelm Neveling was erected on a hill above the town, around 200 meters from the coast. Directed on August 31, 1962, however, it took another six months before the rooms of the building complex in the immediate vicinity of the boarding school were ready for occupancy. When the school was rebuilt, the worn-out Hotel zur Kammer had become obsolete and was demolished. After 17 years, the shift lessons in the hotel ended. The separation of school and boarding school was also legally substantiated in 1964. Almost all of the students at the boarding school continued to attend the Ostsee-Gymnasium, where around a third of the students were.

Pavilions and south courtyard

In 1967 the new sports field at Kuhlbrook was completed. In 1971, forced by a lack of space, four pavilions were built adjacent to the south courtyard . In the same year the Ostsee-Gymnasium took on a pioneering role in the introduction of the orientation level and the five-day week.

View of the main building from the south courtyard

The Bugenhagen boarding school closed in 1978 because the business had become uneconomical, thus ending a special section for the school. What could not be completed at the time of the new building for cost reasons, the state made up for before it was handed over to the district: in 1979 the school received an auditorium and a language laboratory .

In the run-up to the change in ownership to the municipality of Timmendorfer Strand in 2009, the school's facade was fundamentally revised and provided with new insulation material. The new shade is lighter than the previous red of the bricks. The school's lightning rods were also replaced. In the same year, after the handover, the premises were expanded by three container classrooms on the south courtyard.

Since 2011, instead of the 45-minute lessons that were customary up until then, lessons have only been taught in 90-minute blocks. The new learning laboratory was also built. The school library and the office of the school social worker are now located there. In November 2012, the new, modern atrium was inaugurated, in which experiments can be carried out. Courses and the AnNA (applied natural sciences) can now be taught in the room.

In the spring of 2015, the Südhof pavilions were dismantled, the lifespan of which was originally intended to be limited to ten years. These were replaced by modern container classrooms and a kiosk. During the same period, the north courtyard was equipped with two new play frames. Cordula Braun has headed the Ostsee-Gymnasium since the beginning of the 2018/19 school year.

The Bugenhagen Vocational Training Center is located in the former boarding school next to the school. The students of the Ostsee-Gymnasium can get a warm meal in this facility during their lunch break.

Compartments and profiles

At the Ostsee-Gymnasium different profiles are offered for the upper level. The linguistic, social and scientific profiles are offered on a regular basis. The “double year” resulting from the changeover from G9 to G8 could choose from a total of five different profiles. The profile classification is made when entering the upper level.

  • The linguistic profile offers students the opportunity to focus on the languages. The students then have three languages ​​and not just two, as in the other profiles. Since 2014, students have been able to choose between French, English, Latin and Spanish.
  • The social sciences profile focuses on history, WiPo and geography, whereby at least one language and one natural science must be included in the Abitur in each profile .
  • The natural science profile relies on the natural sciences. All three natural sciences must be taken as courses ( chemistry , physics and biology ).
  • Two new profiles were also introduced in the course of the double year (see above), the sports profile and the aesthetic profile. In the sports profile, the emphasis is placed on physical education and theoretical lessons on this subject. In the aesthetic / musical profile, the focus is on music, art and philosophy or religion.
Atrium of the natural sciences

However, there are also new subjects in the intermediate level. In the applied natural sciences (AnNa) and social sciences (AnGe), the students are practically brought closer to the respective subjects. These subjects are taught for the first time in eighth grade. Students can choose between these two subjects and a third language (Latin / French).

School-related activities

Student of the sailing guild of the Baltic Sea High School

Working groups

There are numerous working groups , for example the computer group, an athletics group, the school band "Big Band", the school library and a sailing guild.

The big band is trained and directed by a music teacher and, in addition to regional appearances, also plays abroad. The sailing guild is led by a sports instructor, who teaches the students the basics of sailing and takes care of the boats with the students. The boat types used are laser, catamaran, 420 dinghy and Team8 boat.

Trips abroad

There is an annual student exchange with an Italian and a French school. There is also a trip to Kaliningrad in Russia.

social commitment

The Ostsee-Gymnasium has been supporting the financing of an orphanage in Sri Lanka since 1994 . The project founded by a teacher at the school to support the Good Shepherd Convent there is financed through a sponsored run and the annual Christmas bazaar.

Known students

Web links

Commons : Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Directory of general education schools in Schleswig-Holstein . School year 2019/2020. May 2020, ISSN  0586-5646 , p. 47 ( statistik-nord.de [PDF; accessed on July 7, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b joh: "Moin, Moin" Dr. Brown. In: ln-online.de. Lübecker Nachrichten , August 31, 2018, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Heiner Herde: Timmendorfer Strand (=  archive images ). Sutton, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-89702-985-5 , p. 107 ( online [accessed July 13, 2014]).
  4. ↑ a b Building of the Bugenhagen boarding school was judged . $ 12,000 Donated - Five Classrooms, Bell Tower, and Fountain. In: Eutiner Kreis-Anzeiger . No. 211 , September 10, 1951, pp. 4 .
  5. ↑ Heiner Herde: Timmendorfer Strand (=  archive images ). Sutton, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-89702-985-5 , p. 116 ( online [accessed July 15, 2014]).
  6. ^ Ulrich Stenzel: History of the Regional Church Office 1924-1976 . In: Nordelbisches Kirchenarchiv (Hrsg.): Announcements on the archives in the Nordelbische Evangelical Lutheran Church . No. 29 . Kiel December 2003 ( online [PDF; accessed on July 13, 2014]). online ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Johannes Schröder: Diakonie in the land between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea . A contribution to their history from 1918 to the formation of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Ed .: Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1986, ISBN 3-529-02835-5 , pp. 48 .
  8. ↑ Oberschule becomes Ostsee-Gymnasium . Exemplary educational facility - no denominational school - expansion planned. In: Eutiner Kreis-Anzeiger . No. 215 , September 15, 1955, pp. 4 .
  9. ↑ Exemplary hall for the Baltic Sea High School . Also suitable for theater performances - where can elementary school students do gymnastics? In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger . No. 193 , August 21, 1957, DNB  024434213 , p. 4 .
  10. ↑ Expansion of the Ostsee-Gymnasium . 2.5 million marks - starting next spring. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger . No. 119 , May 24, 1958, DNB  024434213 , p. 4 .
  11. ↑ Those who build have confidence in the future . Minister of Education Osterloh laid the foundation stone for the new Baltic Sea high school. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger . No. 196 , August 24, 1961, DNB  024434213 , p. 4 .
  12. ↑ a b Ostsee-Gymnasium addressed yesterday . The 18th new high school building in Schleswig-Holstein - no more shift lessons. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger . No. 204 , September 1, 1962, DNB  024434213 , p. 4 .
  13. ↑ “Vocational training center is indispensable” . Big ceremony for the 40th anniversary. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger . No. 131 , June 9, 1986, DNB  024434213 , p. 2 .