Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden

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Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden
December 2011
type of school high school
founding 1915
address

Weintraubenstrasse 3

place Dresden
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '38 "  N , 13 ° 45' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '38 "  N , 13 ° 45' 16"  E
carrier State capital Dresden
student 750
Teachers 70
management Alfred Hoffmann
Website romain-rolland-gymnasium.de
Rear view of the school building in July 2009

The Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden , RoRo for short , is a grammar school in Dresden with a bilingual branch that enables in- depth training in French . The high school is named after the French writer Romain Rolland .

school-building

The Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium is a listed building in the Inner New Town of Dresden. The school building at Weintraubenstraße 3 was originally designed as a municipal college for girls in the years 1913–1915 by Hans Erlwein . The neo-classical plastered building with strict pillars is determined by the color scheme of gray and green plaster with gilded reliefs. The exterior of the auditorium is emphasized by a wide central projectile with arbor, on whose parapet there are sculptures by Oskar Döll . The flat hipped roof was replaced by today's mansard roof in 1928/29. The school building has been renovated since July 2009 and has extensions and a new sports hall. The school is now on a high technical standard and has interactive and digital blackboards, gas and electronic lifts for the specialist cabinets. It has been a pilot school for the Windows 7 operating system since the Erlwein complex was reopened . During the renovation, the school was located in an alternative quarter, the former Erich-Wustmann-Gymnasium in the Prohlis district . Up to and including the 2008/09 school year, the school had a branch at Untere Kreuzweg .

history

The school's own building was completed on April 14, 1915 and the municipal college began operating as a secondary school with a mathematical and natural science branch with 119 students . Mainly girls from the upper middle class were accepted on request. In 1919 a humanistic branch with ancient language subjects was added.

After the school building was increased to four floors in 1928/29, the school, now known as the “Städtisches Mädchengymnasium”, was able to accept around 350 pupils and was the only grammar school in Saxony with such a diverse range of educational opportunities. Among other things, handicraft and swimming lessons, shorthand , choir, orchestral exercises, music history, needlework, performing geometry and chemical-biological exercises were offered as electives.

Due to a lack of influx, however, in March 1930, on the instructions of the Saxon Ministry of Education, the merger with the “Municipal Higher Girls' School” at Weintraubenstrasse 1 to form the “Neustädter Higher Girls' School with Girls' High School”. In 1937 the school was renamed “Oberschule für Mädchen Dresden-Neustadt”. After the end of the Second World War , classes were resumed on October 1, 1945. Even before the official founding of the German Democratic Republic , the girls 'grammar school was merged with the Dresden boys' grammar school as the Dresden North secondary school . At Easter 1948 she accepted teachers and students from the dissolved Fletcherschule .

Since the school year 1962/63, the pupils of the Extended Oberschule Dresden-Nord were obliged to complete vocational training alongside the school. During their four years of schooling, the students at EOS simultaneously acquired a high school diploma and a skilled worker certificate . The training took place according to the scheme: three weeks of school and one week of work. During the summer holidays, there were also a few weeks of practical work to be done in the training company . From the 1969/70 school year, vocational training was abolished again during the EOS school years.

Political pressure on the school increased in the second half of the 1960s. This was followed by a wave of purges that fell victim to teachers and students in the period 1967/68 who had to leave school involuntarily after politically motivated legal proceedings.

In 1967, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Romain Rolland, the name was changed to " Romain Rolland Extended High School ".

After the mathematical and natural science branch was dropped, it could be won back at short notice, but it fell away again with the start of the new school system. It was thanks to director Manfred Walter that the high school was later able to offer the bilingual branch (German-French) as a special feature. On October 21, 1993 the school was given the current name "Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium". Numerous protests prevented the high school from closing in 1997.

Today the proportion of girls among schoolchildren is around three times as high as the proportion of boys.

Part of the facade in May 2017

profile

At the Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium, all students receive lessons in French and English from the 5th grade onwards. In the 8th grade, Spanish or Latin is added as a compulsory subject, depending on your choice. The high school offers a linguistic profile and geography lessons in French for students in the bilingual classes from the 7th grade onwards . In the secondary education also is history offered in French. After graduating from high school, the student in the bilingual branch receives a corresponding certification.

AbiBac

The so-called AbiBac is a bilingual Abitur in French and German , which is recognized in both countries as a university entrance qualification . Since the 2010/2011 school year, AbiBac has been offered as the third educational path at the Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden, which the students of the bilingual branch can complete from grade 10. In 2013, the first AbiBac high school graduates successfully passed the exams.

School exchange programs

In addition to individual student exchange programs, the grammar school also runs student exchanges

Support association

There is a support association at the school, which aims to improve and create variety in school life. He supports projects and events but also class trips or individual students in special situations. The association awards an endowed sponsorship award every year, for which students, teachers and parents can be nominated for special social commitment or particularly good school projects.

Well-known former students (alphabetically)

School newspapers

Web links

Commons : Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School network planning of the state capital Dresden, p. 117, accessed on September 16, 2017
  2. ^ Saxon school database, Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden, number of teachers. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag 2005, p. 117.
  4. ↑ Dr. Verena Böll and Evelyn Harz: School chronicle for the 100th anniversary 1915 - 2015 , Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium Dresden, report of the former teacher Prof. Schleinitz p. 60/61
  5. ^ Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium: History