PORG Volders

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PORG Volders
Servite Monastery Volders.JPG
type of school Realgymnasium
founding 1907
place Volders
state Tyrol
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 16 '56 "  N , 11 ° 33' 13"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '56 "  N , 11 ° 33' 13"  E
carrier Association of religious schools in Austria
student 320
Teachers 48
management Gerhard Waldner
Website www.porg-volders.at

The private upper level secondary school St. Karl Volders for short PORG Volders is an upper level secondary school in the municipality of Volders in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol . The school is run by the Association of Religious Schools in Austria. The school building is the former Servite monastery Volders and is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

In September 1886 the Catholic Association of Children's Friends opened the Josefinum, an institution for poor, abandoned boys to which a private elementary school for up to 120 children was attached, in the open rooms of the Servite Monastery of St. Karl Volders, built between 1692 and 1698 . The school received public rights in 1888 . In 1889 the Servite Order began to set up a novitiate in the Volders Monastery in order to create a place of education for its own young priests. As a result, the neighboring Hauzenheim residence was bought by the association and the Josefinum moved there in autumn 1890. From then on, the Servite Fathers ran their own school for young men in the Josefinum . From this, the private school for high school subjects with Juvenat ( boarding school ) emerged in 1907.

In connection with the annexation of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich and the harmonization of educational institutions, school operations were stopped in 1938. In November 1955, the Servites reopened the school with a humanistic lower level, which was granted public rights in 1961 by the state school board for Tyrol. In the years that followed, the school was converted to upper school classes and, from 1968, it was run as a music-pedagogical secondary school . In 1974 the school was given permanent public rights and its name was changed to the private upper secondary school of the Father Servites St. Karl . Girls were accepted for the first time in the 1983/84 school year.

At the beginning of the school year 1991/92 an ecology branch started at PORG Volders as a school experiment. At around the same time, the Josefinum was rented to run a boarding school. In autumn 1995 the Association of Religious Schools in Austria took over the management of the school from the Servites. In autumn 1999 a kitchen project was started together with Lebenshilfe Austria . Due to the falling number of students, the boarding school management made an empty floor available in the Josefinum to accommodate asylum seekers from 2002 onwards . This created considerable public controversy. After the listed school building was completely renovated in four construction phases between 1999 and summer 2004 and expanded with a modern extension, the boarding school was closed.

School operation

At the private upper level secondary school St. Karl Volders, 320 students are taught by 48 teachers. The school has an ecology branch and an arts branch. In order to facilitate the transition from secondary schools or from an alternative type of school to the 5th grade of the upper level high school, a transition level is available in which the most important content from the lower level of the high school is repeated or continued.

Awards

  • Since May 28, 2004 ÖKOLOG school
  • Since 2005, PORG Volders has been one of only five grammar schools in Austria to carry the Austrian Ecolabel .

building

The main building of the school is the simple two- to three-story building of the former monastery from the 17th century. It is laid out around a rectangular inner courtyard and covered with a hipped roof. The facades are sparingly structured by cornices, embossed corners and window sashes. The rest of the facade is plastered and, unlike the original red-brown, is now painted white. Inside, several rooms with stucco from the time of construction have been preserved and the building is a listed building. Connected via a narrow connecting structure, there is a two-story hall extension with a hipped roof to the west. There is also a closed entrance on an archway to the Karlskirche, which does not belong to the school .

In front of the main building is a two-storey extension with a flat roof built in 2004 by the Innsbruck architect Benedikt Gratl. The narrow extension includes the entrance area and is tapered on one side into the slope. The net floor space of the school is around 4000 m².

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anton Prock: Monastery and School. In: Karlskirche Volders. Retrieved January 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Michaela Ralser, Nora Bischoff, Flavia Guerrini, Christine Jost, Ulrich Leitner, Martina Reiterer: The system of care education, research report for the states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg . 1st edition. Institute for Educational Science Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, 2017, p. 400 ff . ( kija.at [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Michaela Ralser, Nora Bischoff, Flavia Guerrini, and others. A .: Home childhood: History of childcare and home education in Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Studies Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7065-5537-1 , pp. NB ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ PORG Volders. In: ÖKOLOG schools and -PH. Institute for Teaching and School Development, accessed on January 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Tyrolean ecological schools were honored. In: Tirol News. ORF , October 2, 2008, accessed on January 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Frick, Schmid-Pittl: Servitenkonvent, Servitenkloster Volders. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Project for new construction, renovation and extension of the private upper secondary school Volders. In: Architect Benedikt Gratl, Innsbruck. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .