Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn

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Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn
Robert Mayer High School (2007)
type of school high school
founding 1827
address

Bismarckstrasse 10

place Heilbronn
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 8 '24 "  N , 9 ° 13' 37"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '24 "  N , 9 ° 13' 37"  E
carrier City of Heilbronn
student 859 (as of September 2014)
Teachers 58 (+ 9 trainee lawyers) (as of April 2019)
management Antje Kerdels
Website www.rmg-heilbronn.de/

The Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn (short: RMG ) is a high school in Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg . The school goes back to a Realanstalt, which was spun off from the city's historic Karlsgymnasium in 1827 , and which was later elevated to a secondary school, combined with the spun off trains from the Karlsgymnasium. The secondary school was named in 1938 after the physicist and doctor Robert Mayer , who was born in Heilbronn . In 1956 the high school became a grammar school.

The schoolhouse, which was built in several stages from 1887 to 1914, is considered the most important historical school building in Heilbronn. Since 1914, an observatory, today's Robert Mayer Volks- und Schulsternwarte Heilbronn , has been installed on the roof of the school .

history

Outsourcing of a Realanstalt from the Heilbronn Karlsgymnasium

At Heilbronn's Karlsgymnasium , a royal real institute was built from 1827, the necessity of which was justified in particular with the onset of industrialization and the associated educational needs of the middle class. In 1837 an upper real class with two year courses was set up at the Karlsgymnasium. The number of pupils in the real classes nearly tripled between 1848 and 1870 and finally drew level with the number of pupils in the grammar school. From 1869 the secondary school was relocated to the former boarding school next to the Nikolaikirche . The rector of the grammar school was also the rector of the Realanstalt until it was completely separated from the grammar school in 1873. The first rector of the Realanstalt until 1878 was Johann Georg Kehrer (born October 26, 1810 in Reutlingen; † January 16, 1888 in Stuttgart), who, in addition to his teaching activities, also published on botanical and geological topics. As early as Kehrer's time as rector, there were demands for a functional school building of their own, but with one of these, the Karlsgymnasium came first in 1880 and the higher girls' school (later Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium Heilbronn ).

Moving into his own house in 1889

The building around 1890.
The building around 1910.

On January 21, 1887, the Board of Trustees decided to build a new school building on Jägerstraße (today: Bismarckstraße) for the secondary school and the commercial advanced training school, which was previously spread over several buildings and which has been the municipal drawing and modeling school since 1846, in particular those demanded by the Heilbronn industry Imparted knowledge in artistic drawing. After a call for tenders, 20 plans were received, none of which were suitable for implementation, so that the plans were transferred to the city building department under city architect Gustav Wenzel (1839–1923), whose design was approved on June 10, 1887 and the groundbreaking ceremony on June 20 August 1887 was started.

The school building was laid out as a three-storey central building with a 68-meter-wide main facade facing north to Jägerstrasse and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (today: Friedensplatz) opposite. The two 38.5-meter-long side wings extended along Mönchseestrasse and Keplerstrasse (at that time still a private road). To the south, the three wings formed a courtyard, with the stairwells closing off the side wings and the stairwell of the central building being connected by a covered corridor, which was continued to the south to a toilet block. The plans envisaged options for extending the side wings and a final southern transverse building. The secondary school was housed in the eastern half of the building, the Heilbronn trade school in the western half . Master builder Wenzel described the building, made of reddish sandstone on the plinth and yellowish sandstone on the walls , as simple, but in a style that is in keeping with the building's purpose and well-balanced proportions . The construction costs were around 504,814 marks.

In the basement there were six rooms for the municipal chemical laboratory, two heating and two air chambers, storage for fuel, the detention room, laundry room and staff room as well as two basement rooms. On the ground floor there were nine classrooms, a collection room, a teacher's room for the Realanstalt, a drawing room for the trade school with an adjoining room, a room for the board of directors of the trade school and the servant's apartment. On the first floor there were six classrooms, the rector's room with anteroom, convent room, library, a collection room, a teacher's room and a warehouse for the Realanstalt, four drawing rooms for the trade school, two teacher's rooms for the trade school and a room for cleaning the drawing boards . On the second floor there were four classrooms, a science lecture hall with a laboratory and an adjoining room, a ballroom, a storage room for the Realanstalt, four drawing rooms for the trade school with two teacher's rooms, a room for plaster casts and a room for cleaning the drawing boards.

On November 16, 1889, the new building was inaugurated by Mayor Paul Hegelmaier , and on November 19, the regular relocation of all classes began. The school building was expanded for the first time in 1901.

The Realschule was expanded into a Realgymnasium with a 9th and 10th grade in the new rooms. In 1894, the first four high school graduates completed their final exams at the school. A total of 102 school-leaving certificates had been issued by 1905. From 1907 onwards, religious instruction was offered at the school.

While the building was significantly expanded in 1914/15 by the so-called Mönchseeflügel on Mönchseestrasse with an observatory , the school's gymnasium was used as an auxiliary hospital at the same time. The 17 teachers, who had already been deployed in the first year of the war, were poorly represented by retirees and teacher training candidates. As the First World War progressed, lessons were increasingly canceled due to a lack of coal or flu epidemics. A total of 45 students and four teachers were killed in the war.

From 1908 to 1925 Gottlieb Löffler (1868–1946) worked as a drawing teacher at the Oberrealschule, who was one of the reformers of drawing lessons at the higher schools in Württemberg.

After 1921, the number of pupils declined, and there was a risk that the double institution consisting of the Realgymnasium and Oberrealschule would be dissolved. In 1938, the school trains were combined as the Robert Mayer Oberschule , but continued as separate trains. Jewish students, whose share was limited to 1.5% by the Reich law since 1933, had not existed since 1935.

During the Second World War, classes were canceled again for weeks due to a lack of fuel, and retired retirees who were called up had to replace the teachers who had been drafted into the Wehrmacht. There were high casualties among the school's graduates. In January 1944 it was announced that around 100 high school graduates from 1937 to 1943 had already fallen. In December 1944 the schoolhouse was badly damaged in the air raid on Heilbronn , so that lessons were no longer possible.

Reconstruction after the Second World War

The school building was largely destroyed in the Second World War, only the Mönchsee wing remained. The school building could be rebuilt in 1949/50 while retaining the parts of the facade that had been preserved, and the main wing was increased by one floor. The school was rebuilt as a pure secondary school, the trade school was meanwhile in various makeshift arrangements before the technical school center Heilbronn was built for it from 1953 on Paulinenstraße.

In 1953 the school was renamed the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium in the course of the renaming of all high schools to grammar schools . The Justinus-Kerner -Gymnasium was spun off in 1956 and the Mönchsee-Gymnasium in 1975 . A comprehensive building renovation took place from 1974 to 1977.

  • The central projection of the facade is old, while the rest of the school building had to be rebuilt.

  • The old Mönchsee wing was partially preserved.

Educational offer

Since the 1998/99 school year, the RMG has offered the eight-year course that is common today. The only foreign language in the 5th grade is English, followed by French or Latin as a second foreign language in the 6th grade. In the 8th grade, students can choose between a science course with the subject NWT or a third foreign language, usually Italian. Students with Latin as a second foreign language also have the option of choosing French. In the upper level, the RMG offers advanced courses in the foreign languages ​​English, Latin, French and Italian, in the natural sciences, biology, physics and chemistry, as well as in the subjects of history, fine arts, music and sport. In the latter two subjects, courses are often taken with other grammar schools. In the upper level, as in many Baden-Württemberg high schools, further electives are offered in addition to the usual school subjects, such as literature, psychology, philosophy, astronomy, descriptive geometry and computer science at the RMG.

G8 +

In the 2006/07 school year, the G8 + train for highly gifted students was offered for the first time, and an intelligence test is required to register. As in the normal G8, the students start with English as their first foreign language, Latin in grade 6 and French as the second and third foreign language in grade 7. There is no need to choose a profile subject in grade 8, instead one hour more biology is taught in the 8th grade, one hour more physics in the 9th grade and one hour more chemistry per week in the 10th grade. This additional hour is used to complete more extensive tasks on the respective main topic. In addition, additional Addita are carried out in freely selectable areas in the middle level.Since the school year 2012/2013 there has been a cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Heilbronn (DHBW) on the education campus, which makes it possible to take a course in To make the field of business administration. There is also a Chinese course offering. In the upper level, the separation of the two trains is canceled. Because the number of hours per week in the main subjects is lower than in the G8, the number of hours per week is just as high as in the G8, despite the higher number of subjects.

Cultural offers of the school

The Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium has a large school orchestra and three large school choirs that perform public Christmas concerts and summer concerts at regular intervals.

Large-scale performances take place every two years. In 2009 The armed man was performed in the Kilian's Church, in 2011 in the Harmonie Heilbronn the Carmina Burana , in 2013 the Messa di Gloria by Giacomo Puccini also in the Kilian Church.

Working groups

The following working groups (AGs) take place at the grammar school (status: 2019/2020):

  • Amateur radio group
  • Aquariuen AG . The students learn to maintain the aquariums in the biology and to feed the animals.
  • Moving pause
  • Choir kids and choir teens
  • Courage team
  • Railway AG
  • ELFEn choir . E ltern- L ehrer- F reunde- E hemalige Choir
  • Research and development group: FREAG
  • Girls'Day Academy
  • Homework assistance
  • HipoBi - historical and political education
  • Climb
  • Art studio: design
  • Maths AG
  • Math for non-mathematicians
  • M-kids
  • Natec mentor training
  • orchestra
  • Politics / youth debates
  • RobotiX BOB3
  • RobotiX NIBObee
  • rowing
  • Sanitäts-AG
  • chess
  • School newspaper
  • Language certificate DELF
  • Tennis AG
  • theatre
  • Table tennis club
  • Event technology
  • Yoga AG

Social working groups and actions

  • The school's motto: Strong Students - Strong School . The "motto" at the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium takes care of violence prevention, addiction prevention and the promotion of personal development. You want to strengthen life skills. That is why themed parent evenings are held regularly. Strong pupil-strong school also includes the school team, the mediators and STUPS.
  • The school team is responsible for addiction prevention at the school. So z. B. Themed parents' evenings, events or training opportunities offered.
  • The dispute resolution group . Students, mostly from high school, settle disputes, especially between 5th graders. They take care of violence prevention.
  • STUPS . Serves for the personal development of 5th graders.
  • SMV . S chüler m it V Responsibility

particularities

The school was accepted as a full member of the national Excellence School Network (MINT-EC) in Germany in 2015 thanks to its excellent performance in nationwide competitions in mathematics and natural sciences and the sustainable promotion of natural science talents.

Well-known former teachers and students

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn, school orchestra , accessed on July 31, 2013.
  2. ^ Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn, AGs , accessed on July 31, 2013.
  3. ^ Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn, The armed man , accessed on July 31, 2013.
  4. ↑ Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn, Carmina Burana , accessed on July 31, 2013.
  5. ↑ AG list 2019/2020 . ( rmg-heilbronn.de [PDF]).
  6. ↑ a b c d Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium, Starke Schüler-Starke Schule, accessed on October 26, 2013.
  7. ^ City of Heilbronn, administrative report 1975-1978, p. 33.

literature

  • 100 years of the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn 1889–1989 . Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium, Heilbronn 1989.

Web links

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