Paul Schneider High School (Meisenheim)
| Paul Schneider High School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | High school with sports train |
| founding | 1948 |
| address |
Preses-Held-Strasse 1 |
| place | Meisenheim |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 42 '32 " N , 7 ° 39' 54" E |
| carrier | Evangelical Church in the Rhineland |
| management | Karin Hofmann |
| Website | www.paul-schneider-gymnasium.de |
The Paul-Schneider-Gymnasium is a private school founded in 1948 by the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland with a sports train in the city of Meisenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . The grammar school bears its name after the Hunsrück pastor Paul Schneider , who was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Nazi era and murdered there in 1939 because of his religiously motivated opposition to National Socialism . The school festival at the end of each school year is called Paul Schneider Day after this patron saint .
One focus of the grammar school is sport: from the ninth grade onwards, sport can be chosen as a major ("Sportzug") ; In grades 5–8 there is a compulsory daily sports lesson for all students. There is a partnership with a Catholic school in Sablé , France. A boarding school was attached to the school until 2015 .
history
The Paul-Schneider-Gymnasium was created through the takeover of the Latin school in Meisenheim, which was previously under municipal sponsorship and threatened with closure, by the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, in whose border area Meisenheim lies. However, since the takeover, in addition to the change of name and sponsorship, led to a profound restructuring that transformed a small Progymnasium with a local catchment area into a complete grammar school with boarding school and students from the entire Rhenish regional church and beyond Date of establishment of a new school.
The old Latin school was probably founded between 1523 and 1535. The character of a Progymnasium was laid out in the school structure from the beginning: The school system of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken provided that several Latin schools, which were located in the upper administrative cities of the duchy, which was territorially very fragmented (and thus also in the Meisenheim residence), were to attend prepared for the visit to the duchy 's gymnasium illustrious , which was initially housed in the former Hornbach monastery , later mostly in Zweibrücken (in times of crisis twice in Meisenheim). The Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken, which existed until 1987, was based on this state school .
This educational system, which lasted until the end of the duchy, was set up under the government of the Reformation- minded Count Palatine Wolfgang , following suggestions from a visitation report from 1558. It was initially based on theories of the Strasbourg humanist Johannes Sturm . The main idea of the new schools was to combine humanistic education with Reformation (first Lutheran , later Reformed ) doctrine of faith. Although this orientation was fundamentally questioned while both the ancient language orientation and the church participation in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Latin school Meisenheim, which was now separated from the previous system - one experimented with real grammar school content, as well as the role of the Protestant church was not without controversy - in this Christian-humanistic double profile of the early years of the Latin school, however, the Church of the post-war period, which was looking for support in history, saw the tradition worth connecting with.
The ideal of a Christian upbringing on the basis of ancient language education shaped the objective of the first years of the new grammar school, as can be seen from the school seal (a cross in front of a classical temple). In 1968, the third focus, as shown in the introduction, was sport, which should help to achieve a “holistic upbringing” and, above all, was able to achieve competitive sporting successes in the first decades. The sequence of foreign languages changed and the ancient languages became less important. For the ecclesiastical side of the profile, one can speak of a change in the sense of a stronger focus on diaconal aspects; School devotions, which were initially liturgical celebrations, are now more like lectures on social issues, “Diakonia and social affairs” was introduced as an optional subject and in grade 12 the students complete a four-week social internship.
As the proportion of boarding school students gradually fell and the boarding school was finally closed in 2015, the composition of the student body has also changed decisively: the immediate vicinity has again become the main catchment area. Due to the changed structure of the German education system, despite this narrowing of the catchment area, a significantly larger number of students attend the grammar school than was the case at the time of the Latin school, which is also local, and also in the first years of the Paul Schneider grammar school.
Known students
- Bernd Jaspert (* 1944), theologian and book author
- Fritz Rudolf Körper (* 1954), theologian and politician (SPD)
- Eike Emrich (* 1957), sports sociologist and sports economist
- Ralph Spiegler (* 1961), politician (SPD)
- Christian Held (* 1961), German lawyer and honorary professor at the TH Bingen
- Fabian Schönheim (* 1987), professional soccer player
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ as does the school website (see web links)
- ^ Frank Konersmann, The high school illustrious in Hornbach , in: The cradle of the kings. 600 years of the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken , catalog for the regional exhibition in Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 9783000316586 , pp. 92–95 - In 2008 the school celebrated the anniversary of the founding of a school in 1558; a work by Karlheinz Drescher that was partially reprinted in the accompanying Festschrift names a visitation report from 1558 as the oldest source.