Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium (Waren)

Richard Wossidlo High School
type of school	high school
founding	1869
address	Güstrower Strasse 11
place	Goods (Müritz)
country	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Country	Germany
Coordinates	53 ° 31 '2 " N , 12 ° 41' 13" E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '2 " N , 12 ° 41' 13" E
carrier	District of Mecklenburg Lake District
student	about 600
Teachers	34 (status: school year 2004/2005)
management	Kai Behrns (headmaster)
Website	School homepage

The Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium in Waren (Müritz) is a general high school that leads to the Abitur (general higher education entrance qualification ).

The school authority is the Mecklenburg Lake District . It was named after the Mecklenburg folklore researcher Richard Wossidlo and kept this name even during the times of National Socialism and the GDR .

history

Old high school

After the council and citizens of the city of Waren had decided to build a grammar school in 1867, the Richard Wossidlo grammar school was founded on February 4, 1869 as the "Städtisches Progymnasium der Stadt Waren (Müritz)". The main building was built by the Waren master builder Ludwig Fehmer according to designs by Hofbaurat a. D. Georg Adolf Demmler built in the neo-renaissance style. Under director Eugen Briegleb four classes for a total of 69 boys opened. From 1871 the grammar school also housed a child care facility (after-school care center). At Easter 1872 it became the “municipal high school”. In 1879 there was a school uprising. The reason given by the students was “overload” with tasks.

From 1886 to 1922 Richard Wossidlo was a teacher of Latin and Greek at this school. In 1894, the school was closed for nine days because of an eye infection that affected 103 of 128 students. A school sports club was founded on March 1st, 1911, followed by a school's own boat shed on Lake Tiefwarensee in 1913. In April 1913, the school was given the former girls' room to the Grand Ducal District Command as a detention facility for mobilization.

After the school orchestra was founded in 1928, the school bought a Steinway grand piano - partly financed by donations from students - which is still in the district music school today. On February 28, 1932, the school was officially recognized as a Reform Realgymnasium .

On the occasion of Richard Wossidlo's 80th birthday, the school was renamed Richard Wossidlo Gymnasium on January 26, 1939. In 1945 the use of the main building changed frequently. In January, during the final phase of World War II, it was used as a refugee camp and an army hospital, in March as a barracks for the Russian garrison with a cell in the basement. After the end of the war, the police school of a German-Russian police force moved in in July. On September 10, the school was returned by the military administration to the Department of Culture and National Education of the Soviet Occupation Zone, and on October 1, 1945, regular school operations could be resumed.

A student self-administration was created under the direction of a student council. The initiator and director was Ernst Schmutzer (then a student, until 1993 rector of the University of Jena). A school choir and orchestra, an amateur drama group and a philosophy circle were founded.

In 1961 the grammar school became an extended high school . In 1982, the current and then main building moved into a new GDR standard panel building in Goethestrasse. After the turnaround in the GDR and German reunification, the school was re-established in 1991 as the Richard Wossidlo Gymnasium and was expanded by the former Gustav Sobottka High School in the prefabricated building right next door.

After the foundation stone was laid in 1999, the school moved again in 2001. In addition to the historic main building and the listed gym, the new buildings also include the buildings of the former Goethe School and two new buildings.

gym

In 1908, innkeeper Berbaum sold his property between Denkmalstraße (today Wossidlostraße) and Jungfernsteig (today Am Tiefwarensee) for 29,000 marks to the city. In the same year, construction began on the old gym, which was opened for use in May 1909. The expressive-looking building is the oldest gymnasium in northern Germany that is still in its original use and is a listed building . A new sports hall was added as part of the renovation work. The so-called Jahn Hall, which now consists of two sports halls, is often used for festive events and is used by numerous clubs.

Former Goethe School

In 1898 the building was built in historicizing forms on the area of the former Berbaum restaurant, which the trees in the schoolyard still remind of, under the name of the "Citizens' Boys School". From 1903 to 1937 it was also used as a trade school, and from 1911 to 1932 as a business school. In 1932 an extension was built in the New Building style . The name changed from National Socialist Dietrich Eckart (from 1934) via Käthe Kollwitz (from 1946) to Goethe (from 1950). Around 1970 the extension from 1932 was increased. In 1976 a single-storey extension was built on the north side. In 1997, school operations were stopped for the renovation work to create the new high school building.

Today's campus

Today's campus of the Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium covers almost the entire area between Richard-Wossidlo-Straße, Güstrower Straße, the railway line ( Lloydbahn ) and Lake Tiefwarensee . This corresponds to the original location of the grammar school, which was moved back into 2002 after extensive modernization of the facility. Before that, the lessons took place in two prefabricated buildings from the GDR era .

The complex consists of six buildings. They house math and art classrooms as well as the school management, the auditorium and the old grammar school library (main building / Wossidlohaus). Most of the classrooms, mainly for social science and language lessons, the cafeteria and the new grammar school library are located in the Goethehaus. In the newly built buildings there are specialist cabinets for music and computer science classes ( Konrad-Zuse-Haus ), for physics , biology and chemistry as well as a glass break hall ( Leibniz -Haus).

The stone in front of the main house has pseudo- modern idiot blanks with the inscription "Richard Wossidlo Gymnasium Waren (Müritz)" .

Old high school library

In 1869 the high school library in Waren was founded. At the historical location, it still houses holdings from nationally significant works from all fields of knowledge relevant to the school as well as thousands of school programs from various high schools from all over Europe. Such historical book holdings in Mecklenburg are otherwise only available in the high school library in Bad Doberan . The library room is equipped with a wooden gallery and is the only room in the school that has been preserved in its historical state. After the extended secondary school moved out of the grammar school building in 1982, the library room was used as a work and storage room for the Waren city archive. In this context, extensive stocks of the grammar school library were sold to the Staatliche Antiquariat Neubrandenburg. About 1000 volumes were lost as a result. The rest was saved by employees of the then city and district library Neubrandenburg, who initiated a buyback. The repurchased holdings were stored in what is now the regional library in Neubrandenburg from 1984 to 1991 and then returned to their original location in the grammar school library on loan.

The library was significantly renovated in 2016.

Cultural activities

An exhibition of student works is organized by the art educators in the "Haus des Gastes" in Waren (Müritz).

The “Wossidlo Day” has been held annually from 1955 to the present day, and the Wossidlo prizes are awarded to outstanding students. Fixed components here are the ceremony and the Wossidlo ball, which is designed and carried out by the students themselves.

successes

In the Jugend forscht competition , groups of schoolchildren from the grammar school won the national prize in the geo and spatial sciences category in 2004 and a special prize at the federal level in 2005, as well as several state victories in recent years.

National victories , most recently in Berlin in 2000 , and successes at the state level were achieved at the Mathematics Olympiads.

At the international competition The Paper Ship of the University of Rostock , a new world record was set in 2003 by students from Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium , which was further improved in 2004.

Known students

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ After the entry in the manual of the historical book inventory online

[1] After the entry in the manual of the historical book inventory online