Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium

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Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium
Worms- RSG- main entrance- from BIZ teacher parking lot from 27.9.2009.jpg
Main entrance of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium (2009)
type of school high school
founding 1527
address

Von-Steuben-Strasse 31

place Worms
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 38 '28 "  N , 8 ° 20' 39"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '28 "  N , 8 ° 20' 39"  E
student 767 (2019/2020)
Teachers 61 (2019/2020)
management Markus Wallenborn
Website Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium

The Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium ( RSG for short ) is one of three high schools in the Rhine-Hessian city ​​of Worms . With its almost 500-year history, it is the city's oldest grammar school and, after the Kurfürst-Salentin grammar school in Andernach , the Herzog Johann grammar school in Simmern and the grammar school in the Alfred Grosser school center in Bad Bergzabern, the fourth oldest school in Rhineland - Palatinate . The grammar school has been certified as a European school since April 2018 .

history

16th to 18th century

The school was founded in 1527 as a municipal Latin school near today's market square in a Franciscan monastery . Only children of the Lutheran denomination were admitted as pupils. Almost forty years later, in 1565, the municipal Latin school in Neuhausen was opened by the Palatinate Elector Friedrich III. newly founded as an illustrious grammar school for students of the Reformed faith. In 1613 a Jesuit grammar school was founded in exchange for the students of the Catholic faith , which from 1773 was called the Prince-Bishop's grammar school .

In 1689, as a result of the War of the Palatinate Succession, both buildings of the municipal Latin school and the Jesuit grammar school were destroyed. The Jesuit grammar school was rebuilt in the years 1704 to 1713 in Worms Seminariumsgasse, and the municipal Latin school was rebuilt near the market square from 1729.

19th century

In 1804 the municipal Latin school and the Jesuit grammar school were merged. Its new name was Worms Secondary School . Now the school was open to all denominations . The first joint headmaster was Gottlob Lorenz Schneidler. In 1815, the secondary school in Worms was renamed the grammar school again. One year later, in 1816, the new Hessian ruler gave it the official name of the Grand Ducal Gymnasium . In 1819 the school lost the right to train students to enter university. In 1832 the school received the right to hold high school exams .

Twenty years later, in 1852, the grammar school was divided into two sub-schools: a grammar school with four two-year classes and a secondary school with three two-year classes. Nevertheless, both schools remained under joint management. Almost 25 years later, in 1876, an additional preschool for children between the ages of six and ten was opened.

In 1897 Käte Kehr was the first girl to graduate from high school after external preparation.

20th century

The building of today's Ernst-Ludwig-Schule was home to the old-language grammar school in Worms from 1905 to 1977 (from 1976: Rudi-Stephan grammar school).

In the years 1900 to 1903 the secondary school was expanded into a nine-class upper secondary school with a high school diploma. Two years later, in 1905, the high school part of the school moved into a new building opposite the Nibelungen Bridge. In the same year, Rudi Stephan , who later gave the school its name, left the lower prima of the grammar school. Four years later, in 1907, Dora Selig, a girl, entered the grammar school for the first time.

In the First World War, two teachers, who arrived from 1914 to 1918 heater school and twelve disciples around. A memorial plaque was put up for them in the school building at that time, today's Ernst Ludwig School .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 which had Jewish educators Rabbi Holzer and Kantor Agulnik of the teaching staff retire. During the Second World War , the school building was badly damaged in an air raid in 1940 . When German troops left the school building in March 1945 towards the end of the Second World War, American troops advancing there set up a hospital . After they too had left the school building, it was looted by the population. After numerous clearing and security work and the use of the school building as an internment camp , regular school operations were resumed in October 1945.

After an organizational reform by the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1950 , the school remained an old-language grammar school. Its name was now the Staatliches Altsprachliches Gymnasium . In 1973 the student exchange began with the partner school Music School St Albans in St Albans . A year later, in 1974, the Mainz study level was officially introduced for the upper secondary school . In 1976 the school officially got its new name Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium after its former student, the former composer Rudi Stephan .

A year later, in 1977, the company finally moved into a new building in the Worms education center. About ten years later, in 1987, school partnerships were established with the Hasselager Skole in Aarhus in Denmark and the Amal school in Tiberias in Israel .

The school today

All day school

The refectory building of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium

Since 2005 the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium has been offering all-day care for its fifth to tenth grade students from Monday to Thursday. There is a separate gym and a separate cafeteria for all-day students .

Lessons offered

As an old-language grammar school , the Rudi-Stephan- Gymnasium offers Latin and English as the first compulsory foreign languages from the fifth grade onwards. In the eighth grade you then have to choose between ancient Greek and French as the third compulsory foreign language. The Mainz study level begins from the eleventh grade . It takes just under three years before you can leave school with the Abitur after a total of just under nine years.

Infrastructure

school-building

The school building of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium has a total of five floors : In the basement there are numerous classrooms as well as rooms for handicraft lessons , which are also used by the students of the Mainz study level. On the ground floor there are mainly administrative rooms as well as some rooms for art education , which are also used by the students of the neighboring Gauß-Gymnasium . On the first floor there are mainly the subject rooms for biology , chemistry and physics classes . All these rooms are also used by the students from the neighboring Gauß-Gymnasium. A school library is also available on this floor. On the second floor there are almost exclusively class and course rooms. On the third and top floor there are almost only class and course rooms as well as some rooms for music lessons . There are also toilet facilities for students and teachers on all floors .

Outdoor area

The school yard of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium and the neighboring Gauß-Gymnasium

The students of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium use a school yard together with the students of the neighboring Gauß-Gymnasium . Immediately adjacent to the school yard are two gyms , one of which is used by all the students at the Worms Education Center. Another gymnasium is used exclusively by the students of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium, whereby the students of the all-day school are given the privilege to use the gym in the afternoon. There is also a large parking lot near the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium , which is used by all the students at the education center. There is also another parking lot nearby, which is exclusively for the teachers' cars. A bicycle parking facility is also installed near this parking lot , which is intended exclusively for use by students and teachers of the Rudi-Stephan- and Gauß-Gymnasium.

Transport links

The Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium in Worms and the education center can be easily reached from Von-Steuben-Straße , one of the main streets in Worms. The education center has its own entrance at the intersection with Von-Steuben-Straße and Kurfürstenstraße .

The main entrance to the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium in Worms and the education center

There is also a heavily frequented bus stop on Von-Steuben-Straße , which is designed for all students at the Worms Education Center. All lines in the direction of the city center, northern and southern catchment area of ​​Worms go via the Worms bus station at Worms main station .

  • The gym of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium and its all-day school

  • The student parking lot of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium and the education center

  • The parking lot of the teachers of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium and the education center

  • Mercedes-Benz bus 0 407 in the bus stop of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium and the education center in the direction of Worms main station

Famous people

Gerhard Geldenhauer, former teacher at today's Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium
Rudi Stephan, today's namesake of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium

Teacher

student

See also

literature

  • Burkard Keilmann (Ed.): 475 years Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms. Festschrift for the school anniversary (= Humanitas. Vol. 47, ZDB -ID 548409-1 ). Self-published by the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms, Worms 2002.

Web links

Commons : Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Homepage of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium, accessed on October 29, 2017
  2. ^ Homepage of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium, accessed on August 5, 2018
  3. ↑ Susanne Müller: Memory in stone and bronze. (No longer available online.) In: Wormser Zeitung . May 17, 2014, archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; Retrieved November 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wormser-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ a b c 475 years of Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms. Festschrift for the school anniversary. P. 47.