Pestalozzi School Bremerhaven
The Pestalozzi School in Bremerhaven at Leher Tor was inaugurated in 1910 as a double elementary school for boys and girls. It later became a high school or business school and is now a primary school. It is named after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi .
Building
After a rapid increase in the number of inhabitants in Bremerhaven, a new elementary school was urgently needed. After a lengthy discussion, the city found a building site on the old embankment of the connecting railway and between the then municipal hospital and the St. Joseph Hospital. The Pestalozzi School was built from 1909 to 1910 according to plans by city planner Julius Hagedorn right on the city limits of Lehe . This area in the north of Bremerhaven, on the other side of Lloydstrasse , was opened up around that time.
Tuff stone and clinker were chosen as materials for the representative three-wing system. This corresponded to the design of the neighboring hospital. However, Hagedorn chose the neo-renaissance as the architectural style for the decorations of the portals and the gables corresponding to the pre-existing dwelling houses . The facade with the architectural ornamentation is artistically high quality. The foundation stone was laid on May 15, 1909, and construction was completed on October 1, 1910. The school was damaged in World War II . The building was confiscated. The reconstruction, initially to an auxiliary school with eight classes, took place in 1951. During the various renovations, the roofs were simplified. The monumentality and the power of the design of the school are still impressive today. In 1981 the administration took over the land of the demolished Central Hospital for Pestalozzi School II. In 2010 the building was listed as a historical monument .
School use
The double school was an elementary school for boys and one for girls under one roof. On the first floor of the east wing there was also the Froebel School from 1911, an auxiliary school for "poorly qualified" children who received targeted support in small class groups.
At that time, the Pestalozzi School was a very large school with 16 classes each with up to 50 students per class for the boys 'and girls' schools. Initially 550 girls and 600 boys were taught. Two gyms, also used as an auditorium, separated the two schools in the building. There was a common, not separate schoolyard, although separate schoolyards were still the rule, because of the "supposed moral dangers" for the children. The new building was completed shortly after the Körnerschule in Lehe. The Pestalozzi School, however, was “more richly equipped and more generously furnished” (Körtge) than the Körnerschule. In 1927 an extension was built for the Froebel School.
After the Second World War, the school was briefly an auxiliary school. As Pestalozzi School II, it became an additive comprehensive school , which in the 1950s was divided into the branches A = Hauptschule , B = Mittelschule (later Realschule), C = Business High School and D = Gymnasium . The grammar school started with the 5th grade and required an entrance examination in the first few years. The elementary school as Pestalozzi School I was also housed in a wing. Those who couldn't cope with the grammar school branch of the Wilhelm Raabe School went to the Pestalozzi School of Economics.
At the beginning of the 1974/75 school year, the upper levels of five of the six Bremerhaven high schools were merged into three schools. The Pestalozzi School was now a school in the lower secondary level as a level school and in the upper secondary level as an upper level school with a course system . In 1998 the Pestalozzi School had the grammar school section as a continuous grammar school. In 2004, the upper levels of the Mayor Smidt School Center (once the old Bremerhaven high school) were merged with the Pestalozzischule high school . The school was named Lloyd Gymnasium Bremerhaven . This school retained the bilingual profile of the Pestalozzi School. (Attention: The Mayor Smidt School Center is the former commercial training institute (KLA) from 1911 at Max-Eyth-Platz 3/4.)
Current
primary school
The Pestalozzi School (Am Leher Tor 21) is now the name of the primary school , which is an all-day school . The school with around 200 students and around 23 employees (as of 2011) describes itself in the school profile as a music-making, natural and reading school with a children's choir, music cooperation, instrument training, reading competitions, geotages, etc. It was located in one of the side wings of the old building, until around 1980 a three-storey new building with a gym, clad with red bricks, was built.
high school
The Lloyd Gymnasium Bremerhaven is located in the building of the old Pestalozzi School. Grades 5 to 9 with around 700 students are located in the building at Wiener Straße 3. The grammar school has another house for the upper school on Grazer Straße with 1000 students. With both houses it is the only continuous high school in the city with a total of around 1700 students.
Teacher
- Sybille Böschen (* 1954), Member of the Bremen Citizenship (SPD), 1979 to 1996, teacher at the Pestalozzi School II
- Uwe Meiring, 1975–1999 headmaster of the Pestalozzi School
- Heinrich Rahmeyer (1872–1952), teacher, director and director of the Low German stage “Waterkant” from 1920
- Manfred Richter (* 1948), Mayor of Bremerhaven (FDP) from 1995 to 1999, Member of the Bremen Parliament and the Bundestag, Rector of the Pestalozzi School I from 1985 to 1987
- Walter Zimmermann (1892–1968), Bremerhaven City School Board, 1944 provisional headmaster
student
- Uwe Beckmeyer (* 1949), teacher and politician (SPD) and Bremen Senator, member of the citizenship and the German Bundestag, until 1968 at the business school
- Daniela Behrens (* 1968), journalist and politician (SPD), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Norbert Konegen (* 1939), political scientist and professor for economic and financial policy, 1959–1962 at the business school
- Ulrich Reinhardt (* 1970), futurologist
- Manfred Richter (* 1948), teacher and politician (FDP), 1965 to 1967 at the business school
- Dieter Tiedemann (* 1935), chief tax officer and politician (SPD), Bremen senator, was at the business school until 1954
- Wolfgang Wippermann (* 1945), modern historian
literature
- o. V .: The Pestalozzi School in Bremerhaven. In: Bauwelt , 1st year 1910, No. 1, p. 58.
- Julius Hagedorn: Bremerhaven and its buildings. In: Julius Hagedorn (ed.): Bremerhaven, Geestemünde, Lehe. (= Germany's urban development . ) German architecture and industry publishing house , Berlin-Halensee 1922.
- Herbert Körtge: The school system in old Bremerhaven. From the founding of the first school in 1831 to the incorporation of the city in Wesermünde in 1939 . Bremerhaven 1999.
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries ; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 7.3 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 38.7" E