Realschule in the old town (Bremen)
| Realschule in the old town | |
|---|---|
| type of school | secondary school |
| founding | 1855 |
| closure | 1945 |
| place | Bremen |
| country | Bremen |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 '40 " N , 8 ° 48' 31" E |
The secondary school in the old town had been a community school since 1855, a secondary school since 1868 and a middle school in the old town of Bremen from 1937 to 1945 .
history
Headmaster Heinrich Graefe opened a citizens' school in the old town of Bremen in the Katharinenkloster in 1855 . Up until 1820 the building housed the gymnasium and then the state library. Building director Alexander Schröder had the building extended from 1853 to 1855 according to his plans. The school was always very cramped with initially seven rooms, then a few more. It initially had 5 grades, i.e. 5th to 9th grade. The 10th grade was formed in 1857. Each year had two classes.
In 1868, after Graefe's death, the Senate decided that the school was renamed by the state and, following the Prussian model, as Realschule , which designated such schools as Second Order Realschule . In 1868 the botanist Professor Dr. Franz Buchenau as the new head of the school. The first foreign language was now English; French was taught from the tertiary, i.e. from the 8th grade. Important subjects were German, arithmetic (from upper level mathematics), natural sciences and geography. In 1870 French became the first foreign language and English began in the fourth grade (7th grade).
In 1896/97 the library moved to its new library building on Breitenweg and the space problems could be eliminated through the subsequent renovations. In 1898/99 the Debbesche School , which had been private until then , Christoffer Wessel Debbe's secondary school, was incorporated into the state secondary school in the old town. From 1937, the secondary schools in Bremen were generally referred to as secondary schools.
The school building was destroyed in World War II and the school ceased to exist.
See also
literature
- To the parents: messages from the Realschule in Bremen . Gunckel, Bremen 1869–1876 ( digitized version )
- Karl Kippenberg: Catalog of the teachers' library of the secondary school in the old town of Bremen . Guthe, Bremen 1893 ( digitized version )
- Armin Reiche: The development of the secondary school system in Bremen, especially the secondary school in the old town: a historical review . Guthe, Bremen 1905 ( digitized version )
- Program of the secondary school in the old town (seven-year course) in Bremen . Bremen, 1879–1913 ( digitized version )
- Report: about d. School year ... Bremen, 1914–1915 ( digitized version )
- Armin Reiche: Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the secondary school in the old town . Bremen 1905.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .