Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Biberach
| Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Biberach | |
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 Main entrance of the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium. |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1860 |
| address |
Breslaustraße 8 |
| place | Biberach an der Riss |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 5 '51 " N , 9 ° 47' 41" E |
| carrier | City of Biberach |
| student | about 800 |
| Teachers | about 75 |
| management | Peter Junginger |
| Website | www.pg-biberach.de |
The Pestalozzi-Gymnasium is a gymnasium in Biberach an der Riss . The grammar school, founded in 1860 and named after the pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi since 1959, has around 850 pupils who are taught by around 90 teachers. It was an all- girls high school until 1970 .
Educational offer
The general educational Pestalozzi-Gymnasium offers trains with different profiles. So there is a train with increased music lessons. From the fifth grade onwards, the students of this train then have more music lessons and from grade eight music as their main subject. In the natural sciences, two profiles are offered from grade 8: natural sciences and technology and computer science-math-physics. While the former further promotes knowledge in the three natural sciences of biology, physics and chemistry, the latter focuses on the challenges of the new Industry 4.0 and offers access to the complex field of digitization. The profiles are each taken as a separate major NWT / IMP. In the linguistic train it is possible to learn Spanish as a third foreign language from grade eight. Spanish is then also a major. There is also a bilingual train, in which English is initially taught increasingly in grade 5 and later, from grade 6, a subject (mostly biology, history or geography) in English.
There are also numerous working groups , among other things for film and singing, the school newspaper , the yearbook , chess, computer science and a bio-technology group, although the offer varies annually.
The Pestalozzi-Gymnasium has a student council that collects donations annually for Piela, a small village in Burkina Faso , and discusses the plans for the coming school year on a two-day course .
School Chronicle
The school was founded in 1860 by Pestalozzi's pupil Fortunée Niederer as a shared private daughter school . In 1901 it was officially recognized as a private higher girls' school , and in 1907 a new building in Wielandstrasse (“plow school”) was moved into. Seven years later, the school was renamed Girls' Realschule . From 1937 it was called Oberschule für Mädchen , from 1953 "Progymnasium für Mädchen" and from 1960 "Pestalozzi-Progymnasium für Mädchen". In 1969 the expansion to a full high school began. In 1970 co-education was introduced, i.e. H. boys were admitted for the first time. In 1971 the school moved to a new building at 8 Breslaustraße. With the first school leaving examination in 1972, the school was given its current name, Pestalozzi-Gymnasium . Between 2001 and 2006 the school building was expanded to include 15 classrooms, a biochemistry room, an elevator and new gyms. A new part of the playground for the lower grades with a climbing wall was also added. A hut for smaller celebrations is to be built there. In 2008 the school opened a new cafeteria and a media library that is run together with the Wieland grammar school . Federal Minister of Finance Peer Steinbrück visited the school for the summer party , who, among other things , visited the new buildings built as part of the IZBB (Investment Program Future Education and Care).
Well-known graduates
- 1988 Gregor Simon , church musician
- 1989 Inge Steiner , news anchor
- 1991 Martin Gerster , member of the Bundestag
- 2000 Cornelia Lanz , mezzo-soprano
- 2002 Philipp Käßbohrer , producer and director
- 2007 Steffen Deibler , swimming athlete and Olympic participant
- 2009 Markus Deibler , swimming athlete and Olympic participant
- 2009 Loris Karius , soccer goalkeeper of the junior national team