Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium

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Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz
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type of school high school
founding 1561
address

117er Ehrenhof 2
55118 Mainz

place Mainz
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 0 '27 "  N , 8 ° 15' 55"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '27 "  N , 8 ° 15' 55"  E
student about. 1200 (as of Jan. 2019)
management Ingo Schnell
Website www.rama-mainz.de
Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium at the 117er Ehrenhof

The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium (short: RaMa or RMG) is a state, old-language high school in Mainz .

Pedagogical principles

The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is an ancient language educational institution , which means that Latin as the first foreign language is taught at the same time as English as the second foreign language. From lower secondary level , three languages ​​are required. In its training, the grammar school focuses on the linguistic, musical and mathematical-scientific areas. The linguistic focus is not limited to the ancient languages ​​- there are e.g. B. Long-term exchange contacts to France , Italy , the Netherlands , England , China and Poland .

history

Domus Universitatis

On December 9, 1561, today's Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium was founded under the name of the Electoral College of the Society of Jesus in Mainz. Between 1618 and 1782 the grammar school was together with the university in the Domus Universitatis . In the years 1773/74 the Jesuit school under Bishop Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim was reformed in the spirit of the Enlightenment and was given the name Electoral Mainzisches Emmerizianisches Gymnasium . In the following nearly two centuries the school changed its location and name several times. In 1859 Heinrich Bone became director of the grammar school at the request of the Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler . In the course of the Kulturkampf , he was prematurely relieved of his office in 1873.

During the Nazi era , the school was named Adam-Karrillon-Gymnasium from 1933 to 1945, after the writer Adam Karrillon . In 1942 the building of the high school became the food office, the students were taught in the Gutenberg school . The school building burned down during the air raid on Mainz on February 27, 1945.

In the next few years, lessons took place in what is now the Willigis Gymnasium . The director was August Mayer (1945–1958). On June 14, 1953, the rebuilt school building at the 117er Ehrenhof on Kaiserstraße in Mainz Neustadt was inaugurated and was given its current name after the Carolingian scholar and Bishop Rabanus Maurus . During his tenure as director from 1958 to 1977, which included the 400th anniversary in 1962, structural extensions and the introduction of the Mainz study level , Peter Fehl advocated the promotion of ancient languages ​​and the preservation of ancient Greek lessons . Ten years later, the director Kurt Roeske (term of office 1986–1997) was able to overcome the then threatening decline in the number of pupils. B. by promoting science, bringing English lessons forward, reversing increased musical activities. He was followed in 1997 by Wolfgang Bietz. During his tenure in 2005, the all-day school was set up as an offer. From 2006 to 2019 Marieluise Noll-Ziegler was director of the school. Ingo Schnell has been running the school since November 26, 2019.

Awards and Achievements

Partner schools

Known teachers

Known students

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Jung: The headmistress of the RaMa will retire in 2019. In: www.allgemeine-zeitung.de. August 18, 2018, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Petra Jung: Mainz Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium has a new headmaster. In: www.allgemeine-zeitung.de. November 29, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is “Federal Best School” in the history competition of the Federal President. In: bm.rlp.de. November 21, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ Michaela Veith: 10 more schools will be the European School of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. In: bildung-rp.de. February 23, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ DSM WK IV May 18-21, 2017 in Bad Homburg. In: deutsche-schachjugend.de. German Chess Youth, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ DSM WK IV 03.-06.05.2018 in Bad Homburg. In: deutsche-schachjugend.de. German Chess Youth, accessed on May 6, 2018 .

literature

School programs
  • Program of the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Mainz . Prickarts, Mainz 1854–1900 ( digitized version ) (born 1884–1900)
  • Report of the Grand Duke. Easter high school in Mainz for the half-year autumn ... until Easter ... as a supplement to the program of the overall high school published in autumn 1900 . Mainz 1901 ( digitized version )
  • Annual report of the Grossherzoglichen Ostergymnasium in Mainz for the school year. Mainz 1902–1908 ( digitized version )
  • Annual report of the Grand Ducal Easter High School (with pre-school) in Mainz . Mainz 1909–1912 ( digitized version )
  • Annual report of the Grand Ducal New High School (with pre-school) in Mainz . Mainz 1913–1917 ( digitized version )
  • Moguntinum high school. Sheets of the Association of Friends and Former Students of the Humanistic Gymnasium Mainz , later Gymnasium Moguntinum. Sheets of the Circle of Friends and Sponsors of the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz , ISSN 2192-3191, since 1953
On the history of the school
  • Hermann Schmitt : The Mainz high school. Building blocks for its 375 year history (1561–1936). Mainz publishing house, Mainz 1937.
  • Ferdinand Scherf , Meike Hensel-Grobe, Franz Dumont (eds.): Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz. The history of the school. Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding and Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938646-10-6 (list of high school graduates on CD).
  • Wolfgang Elz , Ralph Erbar : You are the Germany of the future. School in early National Socialism (1934–1936) using the example of the Mainz high school. Edition of a class diary and suggestions for practical teaching implementation (= PZ-Information Heft 7/2008). Pedagogical Center of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bad Kreuznach 2008.

Web links

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