Rosenau School Elementary and Werkrealschule Heilbronn

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Rosenau School Elementary and Werkrealschule Heilbronn
type of school Elementary and secondary school with Werkrealschule
founding 1900
address

Bergstrasse 40

place Heilbronn
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 8 '9 "  N , 9 ° 12' 57"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '9 "  N , 9 ° 12' 57"  E
student about 650
Teachers about 45
Website www.rosenauschule-heilbronn.de
Rose school in Heilbronn

The Rosenau School Primary and Werkrealschule Heilbronn is a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule in Heilbronn . The school was established in 1900 as a Catholic elementary school. The building burned down completely during the air raid on Heilbronn in December 1944, but was restored by 1950. In the post-war period, three schools with a total of around 1,600 students were housed in the school building.

Surname

After the inauguration in 1900, it was initially called the Catholic elementary school Rosenau - Heilbronn . The school was named after the area that is located in the southeast of the Rosenberg and is known as Rosenau. The Rosenau was a clay pit in the 19th century that stretched between the Neckarhalde in the west, the Neckarhaldenflüsschen in the south, the Rosenberg in the north and the later Wilhelmstrasse in the east. The area was released for development around 1860. Originally a workers' settlement was supposed to be built there, but with the extension of Südstrasse to the Neckar, this settlement plan was abandoned in favor of other development.

School history

Rose school in Heilbronn around 1904

The first Catholic elementary school in Heilbronn was established in 1810 and had a classroom in the former Clarakloster . In the course of the 19th century, a few more Catholic elementary schools were added, all of which were very small, as the city had been largely Protestant since the Reformation and Catholics only made up a fraction of the population. When the population of the city and with it the number of Catholics grew rapidly in the course of industrialization , it became necessary to build a new Catholic elementary school. In 1896 there were already 493 Catholic students, and the existing Catholic school facilities were all overcrowded. In 1898 the city decided to build a new, predominantly Catholic elementary school on the city's rose grounds. Since the urban area (the former clay pit) was filled meters high with garbage and no suitable building site could be found there, the city acquired an adjacent area from the Heilbronn sugar factory, on which the school was then based on plans by the building authorities and the Heilbronn city architect Gustav Wenzel (1839–1923), who also built the Stadtbad on Wollhausplatz and inaugurated it on May 14, 1900. In the years 1902/03 the building was expanded to include two wings and a shower bath. In 1904/05 a gym was added.

Since Protestant students also attended the school, there were separate trains at the school according to denominations. Until the Wuerttemberg curriculum reform of 1907, religious instruction still made up around a third of the lessons, but was then limited to three to five hours per week. At the time of National Socialism, the division into denominations was abolished.

The building was hit by fire bombs during the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944 and burned down completely. After that, lessons were only given provisionally at alternative quarters such as the General Wever Tower or a shed in Gemmingstal, before the lessons came to a complete standstill in the spring of 1945. After the war ended, classes began again in autumn 1945. However, since no emergency roof could be built over the Rosenau School due to a lack of wood, the lessons did not take place in the burned-out ruins, but in Post Office No. 2 at the train station and in the Post Office on Allee .

In 1946, the then mayor Emil Beutinger approved the application to reconstruct the south and north wings of the school, despite the general building ban. But due to a lack of building materials and skilled workers, the reconstruction was delayed for several years, so that in 1947 three makeshift barracks with three classrooms each were set up for teaching purposes in the school courtyard. In September 1948 the north wing and in June 1949 the south wing of the building were restored. The topping-out ceremony was held on January 12, 1950. At the inauguration of the school on September 16, 1950, Federal President Theodor Heuss was present. In the post-war years, a total of three schools with around 1,600 students were housed in the building. These were the boys 'rose school , girls' rose school and a middle school. The later Wilhelm-Hauff-Schule (Heilbronn) on Charlottenstrasse, whose school building was completed on June 25, 1962, emerged from the Girls ' Rose School . For this reason, the Wilhelm Hauff School is also called the “daughter school” of the Rosenau School. The Heilbronn trade school was also housed in the makeshift barracks from 1947 for several years .

In 1965 the Rosenau School was transformed from the previous elementary school into a primary and secondary school. For the 1994/95 school year, the school was expanded by a voluntary tenth school year to become a Werkrealschule.

In 1955 a new gym was built in place of the one that had been destroyed in the war. The post-war gymnasium was expanded again in 1974, but gave way to a new building in 1985/86. The first comprehensive renovation of the Rosenau School took place in 1976. Further major renovations took place with the relocation of the technical rooms in the 1980s, through the installation of leisure rooms at the beginning of the 1990s, as well as the renovation of the sanitary facilities and the conversion of the former caretaker's apartment into work- and group rooms took place in 1994/95. The school celebrated its 100th anniversary on May 13, 2000.

architecture

Portal of the rose school

school

The building originally comprised 27 classrooms, which were separated according to boys and girls, as well as a drawing and industrial hall, a music room and two teachers' rooms . The three-story building was mostly built from sandstone reed . The facade of the building is Classical and is in the middle by a projections divided. The central risalit has two portals, which are flanked by pillars standing on pedestals and which carry an entablature with the inscription boys and girls . The second floor of the central risalit is structured by windows in the arched style. The whole building is covered with a hipped roof. During the reconstruction around 1950, the roof landscape , which was originally structured with ridge turrets and dormers, was greatly simplified.

Gym

The plans were signed in 1904 by the then mayor Paul Göbel . The interior of the sports hall was to be vaulted with a " Rappitz vault in Monnier construction" at a height of 7 m. The new gym was inaugurated on May 20, 1905. Destroyed in the air raid, there were plans to rebuild the gym as early as 1949. In 1955 the gymnasium with reinforced concrete foundations, brick masonry and glass blocks between the reinforced concrete supports was completed. In 1985 the one-part gymnasium built after the war was demolished so that the new three-part gymnasium could be built on the same site. The new gym was inaugurated in 1987.

structure

The Rosenau School is a primary school (grades 1 to 4) with an attached secondary school (grades 5 to 9). Since 1994/95 high-performance secondary school students have been able to take additional classes at the Werkrealschule in grades 8 and 9 in the subjects of German, English and mathematics and, after having passed an additional 10th school year, obtain the secondary school certificate.

The grades are usually run in three classes. The school houses around 650 students in 27 classes. On average, 45 teachers teach the students, who come from up to 26 nations. They are supported by two school social workers .

Known teachers

  • Wilhelm Mattes , Rector at the Rosenau School 1944–1945, became known as a local researcher and museum director
  • Alfred Finkbeiner , Rector at the Rosenau School in 1962, then at the Wilhelm Hauff School, became known as a sports functionary
  • Friedrich Hanser , rector of the boys' school 1949–1956, became known as a local politician

literature

  • Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 .
  • One hundred years of rose school Heilbronn. 1900-2000 . Rose School, Heilbronn 2000.

Web links

Commons : Rosenauschule (Heilbronn)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website of the rose school

Sources and Notes

  1. Festschrift, p. 19
  2. Festschrift, p. 70
  3. Lattner / Hennze, p. 45
  4. Festschrift, p. 88
  5. Festschrift, p. 102
  6. Festschrift, p. 101
  7. Festschrift, p. 72
  8. Festschrift, p. 79