Reuchlin high school (Ingolstadt)

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Reuchlin High School
Old building of Reuchlin Gymnasium Ingolstadt, on the left the newly built school hall, taken from the school yard 2014-06-05 17-13.jpg
Old building of Reuchlin Gymnasium Ingolstadt, on the left the newly built break hall
type of school high school
address

Gymnasiumstrasse 15

place Ingolstadt
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 46 '3 "  N , 11 ° 25' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '3 "  N , 11 ° 25' 17"  E
student 760 (status: 2006/2007)
management Edith Philipp-Rasch
Website www.reuchlin-in.de

The Reuchlin-Gymnasium is the oldest grammar school in Ingolstadt . It was named after the humanist and Hebraist Johannes Reuchlin , who taught in Ingolstadt from 1519 to 1521. The school building is a listed building.

history

After the former Jesuit grammar school was closed for the first time in 1799 and the Bavarian State University was relocated from Ingolstadt to Landshut the following year, the city was without any higher educational institutions. With meager financial means, however, the establishment of two Latin preparatory classes was achieved in 1832, which were supposed to train the pupils for the transfer to a grammar school. Teachers were clergymen who were waiting for a job as pastors and who immediately disappeared from teaching in the event of an appointment. An inspection by the rector of the State Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1857 uncovered the miserable conditions and led to the school being closed. In 1858 the reopening took place immediately, albeit with better omens, since the school was now taken over by the Bavarian state as the “Royal Bavarian Latin School”. Four classes could be set up, mathematics and sports lessons were also taken over by external teachers or garrison officers.

There was generally great satisfaction with this new school, but the call for a conversion to a full high school grew louder, especially since the population of Ingolstadt had increased considerably and a new class of civil servants wanted the possibility of a high school education for their children. In particular, it turned out to be a deficiency that the pupils had to take an entrance examination for a full high school after completing the 5th grade and the Ingolstadt Latin School was not authorized to issue the certificate of secondary school leaving certificate, which, however, was necessary for the career of a reserve officer - a penalty, which hurt the strongly militarily shaped Ingolstadt society of that time. They turned to the government of Upper Bavaria with relevant petitions . This was initially unwilling and referred in particular to the high costs that the construction of a new school building would entail. The proponents referred in particular to the relocation of Ingolstadt University and thus to the historical debt of the Bavarian state towards Ingolstadt as well as to the establishment of high schools in smaller cities such as Rosenheim . The government, however, continued to refuse to give way. However, the negative decisions no longer sounded as irrefutable as at the beginning, so that - in the hope of an imminent permit - one quickly set about finding a suitable school building. The old building of the Reuchlin-Gymnasium, which is now a listed building, was built on a site in the extended Neubaustraße that was not used by the “military treasury”.

In 1894, the school received the authorization of a Progymnasium , the successful attendance of which allowed admission to the corresponding classes of a humanistic grammar school without a trial period. The only thing missing was the last step, the expansion of the school into a nine-grade high school. The arguments of the Ingolstadt residents could no longer be ignored and so the Prince Regent Luitpold approved the construction of a full grammar school in Ingolstadt on June 24, 1898, and in 1901 the first Abitur could take place. With the establishment of two boarding houses (Canisiuskonvikt 1920 and Steyler Missionsseminar 1924), numerous new external students were brought to the school, which drove the falling number of students back to harmless heights. From 1919/1920 girls were also admitted to the school. After the Second World War , the school did not reopen until December 3, 1945. The increasing lack of space necessitated an extension in 1965, the so-called west wing with music and chemistry halls was built, and in 1974 another extension was added, in which two gyms are housed. Since autumn 2010, the school has moved into the extension building on a part of the schoolyard towards Gymnasiumstrasse. In 1962 a new language branch was added to the grammar school, and in 1977 the college level was introduced. From 1965 on, the school, which had previously been known simply as the “Humanistic Gymnasium”, operates as the Reuchlin Gymnasium.

Todays situation

Modern extension and playground

In the 2015/2016 school year, 743 students attended Reuchlin-Gymnasium, 93 high school graduates left the school in this school year. There is still a humanistic branch of education, the only one at the five Ingolstadt high schools. In addition, there is the modern language branch with French as the third foreign language (instead of ancient Greek) and, for some years now, a scientific and technological training course that has been aimed at for a long time, which includes chemistry from year 8 and computer science from year 9. In all branches there is the option of taking Italian as a foreign language that starts late.

Rectors

  • 1897–1898: Ignaz Rummelsberger, head of the “Kgl. Progymnasium "
  • 1901–1909: Georg Gött
  • 1909–1919: Josef Flierle
  • 1919–1922: Gebhard Himmler (the father of Heinrich Himmler , see also The father of a murderer by Alfred Andersch )
  • 1922–1931: Oswald Silverio
  • 1931–1948: Jakob Berger
  • 1948–1949: Albert Zink
  • 1949–1952: Anton Findl
  • 1952–1958: Georg Weber
  • 1958–1973: Hans Luibl
  • 1973–1983: Otto Müller
  • 1983–1994: Rudolf Ullrich
  • 1994-2005: Reinhold Koller
  • since 2005: Edith Philipp-Rasch

Former students

Worth mentioning

There is also a Reuchlin grammar school in Pforzheim , Reuchlin's birthplace.

literature

  • Reinhold Koller (Ed.): The Reuchlin turns 100 . A commemorative publication. (In particular the article The history of the Reuchlin-Gymnasium , written by Maximilian Bechstädt).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reuchlin-Gymnasium on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation.