Saint Lioba School

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Santa Lioba School
Santa Lioba School - 3.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1927
address

Eleanor ring 2

place Bad Nauheim
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 21 '46 "  N , 8 ° 44' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '46 "  N , 8 ° 44' 37"  E
student about 1000
management Bernhard Marohn
Website www.lioba.de

The Sankt-Lioba-Schule (proper spelling: Sankt Lioba Schule) is a state-recognized grammar school in the independent sponsorship of the diocese of Mainz with around 1000 students. The school is located between the graduation buildings I and II at the intersection of Zanderstraße / Eleonorenring near the city center of Bad Nauheim .

History of the St. Lioba School

Founding years

The school was opened by Sisters of Notre Dame (SND) on March 29, 1927 . They bought a villa at Goethestrasse 20 (today 16-18) and called it Haus Lioba . With the purchase, the congregation undertook to build a Catholic secondary school for girls for the Catholic parish of Bad Nauheim . This school was initiated by the pastor Josef Nikolaus Hemmes (1873–1942). The opening of the house on April 1st, 1929 was planned as a short-term goal. In the Holy Week of 1927, the two sisters (Sr.) M. Luzilla and M. Eginalda took over the house and began their educational activities with their own kindergarten and a youth care center. While the youth home was able to open at the beginning of May 1927, the girls' school initially remained a wish for the future. In the after-school care center and kindergarten, the number of children to be looked after rose significantly after Easter 1928, and the sisters also gave private lessons in handicrafts, music and English. The then Mainz bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo visited the Lioba house in July 1928, and on October 18, 1928 also allowed the admission and instruction of " older boys ."

At this point in time (June 19, 1928) the parent company had given permission to set up a sixth grade at Easter 1929 .

Opening in 1929

The approval of the Hessian Minister for Culture and Education in what was then the People's State of Hesse with its seat in the former state capital Darmstadt in autumn 1928 read succinctly: “ I approve the establishment of a Catholic. Higher girls' school from the beginning of the school year 1929 on under the conditions contained in Art. 28 of the elementary school law of October 25, 1921. "" Ministerialrat Hoffmann from Darmstadt, who visited the sisters in autumn 1928, became the head of the school department.

Sr. M. Elfriede started the lesson with 32 sextans. That in the Protestant Bad Nauheim a Catholic. high school for girls caused a stir, was to be expected. In addition, it was seen as a dangerous competition to the city high school. But the city fathers also felt that they were being left out, because the approval had been obtained directly in Darmstadt. Even a leaflet campaign to all households in Nauheim was started, in which the Protestant Federation spoke out against a denominational school . The Kettler Sisters , who had been living in Bad Nauheim for a long time, were also annoyed, because they had been running a spa pension and a children's home in Bad Nauheim for years . The Lioba house in Goethestrasse had quickly become too small and so the sisters started looking for a new, much larger domicile. “ After many and great difficulties, we succeeded in purchasing the Zander Institute. "

The school

Weimar Republic

The school opened on April 15, but it was still on Goethestrasse. Sr. M. Elfriede started the lesson with 32 sextans. The pupils wore blue hats with a yellow and white ribbon as a mark of their school. There were also three evangelical girls among them . The witness date was the Lioba day (September 28).

The move to the former Zander Institute for Medico-Mechanical Therapy , an Art Nouveau villa , took place on November 5th. The new sexta began after Easter 1930 with 21 students. The head of school, Ministerialrat Hoffmann, visited the school again in September 1930, sat in on the French and Arithmetic Quinta, and German, Arithmetic and French in the Sixth. " Mr. Ministerialrat was very satisfied ."

For the first time in 1931 a teacher, Margarete Burghard, who was not a religious, was hired on Easter. Since another class was accepted at Easter 1931, a conversion was necessary. At that time a total of 72 students went to " the Lioba ", 26 to the sixth, 19 in the quinta and 27 in the quarta , who were taught by three sisters.

Due to the constant increase in the number of students, due to illness and the arrival of the first boarding school students, the number of teachers increased to nine in 1931, with all but one being religious. Because of the global economic crisis , only 19 students could be accepted in 1932. New students had to pass an entrance exam. In the pedagogical balance sheet it says: " The youth feel comfortable under the loving care of the sisters and a strict discipline from the first day ."

On May 12, the school community was allowed to help shape the visit of Bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo in Bad Nauheim, Superior General M. Antonie arrived from the congregation, “ ... to draft a plan for the renovation, as space had to be created to accommodate the classes . "

In October 1931, the lease of the former owner of the Zander Institute, who until then still used the Zander room for orthopedic treatments, expired. The space gained was considerable, but also necessary, because in the meantime there were 87 students, including 10 interns, who were also referred to as pensioners. The lower tiers were attended by 24 female students. The Caritas put the playground to the Gradierbauten school for physical education available.

The household school

Since January 1933 preparations have been made for the establishment of a household school. This had already been applied for in August 1932. The Ministry of Culture exempted all female school pupils who entered the household school of the St. Lioba Institute from compulsory two-year vocational school . In May 1933, the first eight students were accepted for this school, four of them in the boarding school.

Zeit- und demgeist of the Nazi era

According to the entries in the school chronicle, after the so-called seizure of power, the sisters tended to be preoccupied with their own affairs. Another classroom was separated from the pikeperch hall. Now you had an upper secondary school, 13 students passed the entrance exam for the new sexta. From now on, the Lioba school was also obliged to attend the NS mass events. It was the first time that pupils appeared in public. The sisters did not participate, only "our secular teachers" accompanied the students. At the beginning of the new school year 1933/34, a man taught at the school for the first time, the student trainee Albert Dienst from Ockstadt . It quickly became apparent that an upbringing based on religious values ​​contradicted the regime's objectives. The headline of a newspaper report read: Before the dissolution of the St. Lioba private school . The sisters had already learned in early February that the school was threatened with closure. In the city council the then rector of the city school had made the request: “ In the interest of a uniform education of the German youth for the German national community, the mayor is instructed to take appropriate steps at the ministry that the private school Lioba is closed, and the pupils of this institution Ernst -Ludwig school will be paid . "substance was the request on the fact." .. that the Lioba School is a private school with a denominational character. Both properties are the aspirations of the III. Repulsive to riches. ... The dissolution of all private and denominational schools is only a matter of time. “The school sent protests against the city council's decision to the mayor and the Hess. Ministry of State, referred to constitutional and legal bases. The decisive help came from the Osnabrück bishop, Hermann Wilhelm Berning , who was brought in by the SND sisters to urge the Reich Interior Minister and the Hessian State Ministry to comply with the Concordat provisions. Before it was officially announced on April 15 that the application of the Bad Nauheim city council had been rejected, the sisters had already learned this news privately on Palm Sunday (March 25) . The state requirements, which mainly concerned the redesign of the rooms, had to be met quickly. The kindergarten, which the sisters had also set up, was now separated from the school. During the construction phase, lessons were moved to the Caritas home. At the end of 1934, 90 girls were in high school and 4 in housekeeping. A year later, there was a clear decline in the number of high school students: 83 attended classes from Sexta to Untersekunda , 10 attended household school, 10 female pupils lived in boarding school, and 30 boys and 20 girls went to kindergarten. After an “ advertising trip to the surrounding towns ” in February 1936, 29 new students registered. In these years, the pupils had to leave school after grade 10 to take the Abitur at another school. The closure of the school on Easter 1938 came as a complete surprise. The Bishop of Mainz, Albert Stohr , encouraged the sisters. Except for Sr. Elfriede, the headmistress, and Sr. M. Adalbertis, all were recalled from Bad Nauheim. In the largely orphaned school, the sisters gave private lessons, music lessons and religious instruction. Only the kindergarten remained. " The St. Lioba Lyceum was abolished at Easter 1938 by state violence ."

War years (1939-1945)

The school rooms for refugees from the Saar were already cleared at the end of August 1939 . 28 Borromean women came to Bad Nauheim with a full hospital occupancy, as did twelve Franciscan women . In November, some workers from " Hoch-Tief " moved in, who built the so-called Führerbunker and the other military installations in Langenhain-Ziegenberg . In January 1940 the gymnasium was rebuilt for additional workers, including members of the Todt Organization . Finally the first soldiers were billeted. Then an air raid shelter was set up. At Easter 1941, the National Socialist Women's Association took over the kindergarten. The horrors of the war reached the civilian population of Bad Nauheim on June 20, 1944, when bombs fell on the city; only the lawn at Haus Lioba was hit several times. On the other hand, there was some damage to the building from the high-explosive bombs, which hit the Catholic Church on December 11th of the year. Church of St. Boniface and the Eleonorenring were thrown. The Wehrmacht seized the Lioba house on September 18, 1944. A military hospital was set up in which 14 sisters were employed. In addition, evacuees from Frankfurt am Main were accommodated in the house.

New beginning 1945–1952

Maundy Thursday 1945, March 30th, troops of the US Army occupied Bad Nauheim. The hospital inmates in Haus Lioba were declared prisoners of war. Despite the total defeat, there were very quick signs of a new beginning. The kindergarten was reopened on April 17th. Former school rooms served as quarters for people passing through who were looking for their relatives. There were increasing inquiries from the population as to whether the school would be reopened, and the former head of the school, Hoffmann, pushed for a new opening. Sr. Aquinata went to Mühlhausen to speak to the Provincial Superior M. Seraphin. Sr. M. Valeria has been appointed to lead the St. Lioba School . Now even in 1945 no school could be opened with enthusiasm alone. The auditorium , gymnasium and all previous classrooms were still hospital rooms for prisoners of war. The school furniture was partly sold, partly used up in the hospital, the inventory of the library and the map collection were scattered to the wind and all physics and chemistry teaching aids had disappeared. After the rumor arose that the Nauheim schools were to reopen on October 3rd, the sisters looked for remaining school books in the basement and dusted them off. The number of enrollments was 110, a figure never reached before the school closed. The American city commanders called in to clear the hospital so that the necessary classrooms could be moved back into. At a first headmaster's meeting at the end of September, the headmaster of the city school and the representative of the ELS agreed to provide premises. However, the magazines for the military hospitals were still housed in the rooms provided by the ELS. Two days after this head teacher conference, a large parents' meeting of all Nauheim schools was held in the large hall of the Kerkhoff Institute. But then the US military authorities postponed the opening of the schools. In this way the sisters from Bonn were able to procure even larger quantities of teaching material. But it was only the visit of the head of the department for private schools in Hesse, Ministerialrat Hoffmann, and the district administrator Hermann Josef Bach of the Friedberg district and the Friedberg mayor Anton Heinstadt that brought movement to the school situation. A first school conference was held on November 4, 1945. The military authorities only allowed school-age children to be admitted to all Hessian schools; at the St. Lioba School, that was grades 4 - 8, a total of 80 students out of 110 registered. For the first time now, 26 Protestant students also attended the school. The teachers had all been checked and approved by the military government before the class . The first day of class began on November 5th at 7 a.m. with a solemn high mass .

Everyday school life 1945/46

The sixth moved into the chapter house of the Bonifatiuskirche, the quinta in the drawing room of the city school, the quarta got a classroom on the 1st floor of the ELS and the lower tertia stayed in the music hall of the same school, but moved to the city school just 14 days later. For the subject teachers, this meant constant back and forth. In May 1946, physics and chemistry classes were held in the ELS. By decree of the military government and the school authorities, all textbooks from the Nazi era were delivered and crushed. Because all the gyms were occupied by the hospitals, physical education was canceled. However, the staff of the St. Lioba School were allowed to use the teaching collections of the host schools. At the same time, it was necessary to compensate for the frequent and prolonged absence of lessons in the last years of the war through intensive learning. Teachers had to develop their own curriculum if no textbooks approved by the military authorities were available. There were no approved school books. Even arranging the breaks was difficult. Since the morning service was held in German and English, the sextans in the chapter house of St. Bonifatius Church were obliged to keep still during some breaks. In March 1946, the new sexta from the chapter house was the first class to return to the old school. The gym became the first classroom. At the beginning of the school year 1946/47, more than 100 pupils attended the St. Lioba School for the first time. Because the release of the school rooms was delayed again and again, the sisters also put political pressure on all levels. In addition, the opening of the boarding school was urgently required. For many children, due to the disastrous traffic and housing conditions, this was the only way to go to secondary school. The boarding school opened on July 1, 1946. During the 1946 summer vacation, the former classrooms of the St. Lioba School were disinfected and renovated, and on August 6th classes were held in the school's own classrooms again. The number of female students grew by 40% this school year. At the same time permission was given to set up an upper second . This was the beginning of the establishment of a separate upper school. Because the start of the school year in Hesse was moved from Easter to autumn at the same time, it was possible to achieve the class goal in particularly short short school years. Some Nauheim schoolgirls were also admitted, and their parents' apartments and houses had been confiscated by the military. The first boarding school students, called internals, also lived cramped in their rooms. In 1959 the move to the top floor of the then newly built part of the school took place. In 1965 the school had 49 interns and 45 places. When Sr. M. Magdalena, the last boarding school director, died in 1976, the boarding school was closed.

Continuous rebuilding and expansion of the school

The children's nutritional situation was devastating. Long hikes could not be undertaken, it was expressly pointed out by decree of the minister of education that this had to be taken into account during the monthly hiking days. But the sisters cultivated their special relationships. The US military provided vehicles for school trips. In 1946 the truck drove through the Taunus to Wiesbaden , where a painting exhibition was visited. In 1947 the military authorities provided three buses to enable the school to make a pilgrimage to the Rhine . At Christmas 1946, the American officers distributed care packages to all Nauheim children and the Lioba schoolgirls . Finally, in May 1947, general school meals were introduced. In 1949/50 entire classes were canceled due to illnesses, and regular school medical examinations confirmed that many children were undernourished.

Reeducation

The new teachers were systematically prepared for their tasks in a democratic society. Further training events for all Hessian educators were compulsory. Teachers and students visited a large number of additional cultural offerings, which, in addition to traditional educational areas, were also devoted to modern trends. After the barbarism of the Nazi era, the regained freedom of thought seemed like a redemption. The reports in the school chronicle reflect how ecclesiastical and secular teachers enjoyed these new opportunities and the enthusiasm with which they were used. The learning objectives of the new subject of social studies were partly set by the Prime Minister himself. The continuing education of the history teachers was aimed at the "up-to- date history lesson ." Visiting art exhibitions was compulsory, the art lessons were largely oriented towards art history. In the subject of German “ poetry lessons ” were held. There were readings by contemporary authors, such as Wichert, by “ Lecturer. For our Hessen children, hearing and Speaking good German very necessary educational tasks. “ Thomas Mann's speech on Germany and the Germans on June 6, 1945 was distributed to the schools by the district president with one copy each (there was still an extreme lack of paper) and had to be dealt with in the German class at the upper level. The teachers of all schools in the city were obliged to attend a “ great general teachers day” on April 15, 1948 because this speech was included in the classroom . In the school, the performance of a critical drama about the Jesuits led to a very controversial discussion. A long tradition of school theater groups began in the first few years after the reopening. Since there was no suitable room in the St. Lioba School, the performances took place in the spa theater. To complement the musical education, the spa orchestra gave " school concerts ." The instruments were presented, professors explained the pieces of music, etc. Later the number of school concerts was increased to two per month. Shorthand lessons became compulsory for pupils who had a good command of spelling . Christmas 1949, the two Bad Nauheim high schools organized a Christmas party in the Kurhaus for the American soldiers in English, which at the same time represented a thank you for the Christmas gifts from previous years. The third foreign language was introduced as compulsory from Untersekunda. In the sixth one began with English as the first foreign language, in the fourth Latin or French followed and the language selection proceeded accordingly in the lower second. Winter sports have been practiced as school sports since 1950. If the sports lessons were canceled, class tests were written instead. The entrance exams for grade 5 at grammar schools were quickly standardized in Hesse. Standardized tests were written across the district on the same day. In September 1947, 72 pupils registered for the entrance exam at St. Lioba School. For the first time, applicants had to be canceled due to lack of space. 225 schoolgirls attended school in autumn 1947. The practice of holding parents' evenings and school celebrations in Haus Lioba for the entire school could no longer be maintained. The American military authorities therefore gave permission to hold the 1948 Christmas party in the large Kursaal. In March 1949, a parents 'council was founded and informed about parental participation rights at a large, general parents' day. Because of the complaints from the cultural authorities about the lack of and further declining level of students in Hessen, a “ sharp selection ” was carried out at the promotion conferences . Schoolgirls in grades 9 and 10 often switched to an uncertain professional future. As a consequence of the supposedly low level of education of the students, the central high school diploma was introduced. In 1949 for the first time ten senior women graduated from the St. Lioba School. For the subjects German, mathematics, Latin and English, there were central examination tasks for the written Abitur. The oral Abitur took place a week later. Because the Abitur fell in the week of Goethe's 200th birthday, the first topic was: What does Goethe mean to me? All subjects were examined, and group lessons were discussed under the direction of the examination chairman. The topic was: “ What do we women have to demand from the new Basic Law? “It was checked by the headmistress Sr. M. Valeria. All students had to be present during the exams. Inge Wehde-Textor, a direct descendant of Goethe, was the only student who passed her Abitur with distinction. To complete the excess of Goethe in the jubilee year, she was also allowed to give the graduation speech. In 1949 there were the first school books in all subjects. Private schools were also included in the freedom to learn aids guaranteed in Hessen . The first free books were allocated to schoolchildren according to social criteria, especially since only limited funds were available for private schools. However, a monthly school fee of 20 DM had to be charged to cover the remaining costs. This did not apply to schoolgirls whose fathers were unemployed or refugees. In 1950, 51 out of 250 female pupils came from refugee families. Many families were extremely poor and financially tight.

Caring severity

The sisters supervised the pupils carefully, but also strictly. A special warning was given against the “ frequent u. indiscriminate visit of cinema "and the" Read some of illustrated magazines . "About" tails "of their daughters were informed the parents, a criminal Silentium imposed and doubted the displacement of the pupil. Even the question of clothing was handled strictly: " Wearing men's trousers or trousers in a men's cut is not permitted in the Lioba School because wearing male clothing is a degradation of womanly nature ." That was the notice on the bulletin board that even turned into a gloss led in the Hessischer Rundfunk . The chronicler's comment proves self-confidence and pedagogical principles: “ That doesn't move us and it doesn't disturb us. We are proud of our principles . "

In general, all Hessian schools since 1950 were obliged to issue so-called certificates of good conduct before the Christmas holidays. The educational reputation of the school had grown so that every year more female students registered for the entrance exams than could be accepted. In 1951 it was already a third of the applicants. Because of the lack of space, the education authority forbade the admission of further students. How strict the entrance exams were at the time can be seen in the exam procedure from 1951. Over six days, the children had to hand in two written assignments, two dictations, an essay, two retellings and a grammar assignment, as well as six arithmetic assignments. There were also oral exams in arithmetic, German and local history . 56 students took these exams. “ 50 were accepted into the Lioba School. "

Rapid expansion 1953–1992

In 1953 the school situation was still suffering from the aftermath of the war. The physics room was still occupied by a refugee family. In the meantime, however, the number of pupils had risen to over 300, although the school had no Abitur class in the school year 1954/55. At that time, the sisters had in mind to give up the spa business and to rebuild the spa pension. However, the administration of the Hessian state baths rejected the application. Now a new building had to solve the space shortage for the 353 students. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on December 16, 1956, the foundation stone was laid on July 13, 1957, and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 5. “ The foundation is charity and trust in God ” was the headline in the Wetterauer Zeitung . A total of 15 classrooms in addition to various housekeeping rooms were created in the first wing (today C-part), the second wing (today: D-part) accommodated the science and other specialist rooms. The management, administration and the teachers' room as well as common rooms for the students were located here. The boarding school was built on the roof. This also made the old building available again for the spa, only the gymnasium remained there. The financing came from own funds and donations, as the Friedberg district refused a grant.

The new building in 1960

A change in the school management took place during the construction period. Sr. M. Grata, who later became the headmistress, came as a substitute for Sr. M. Caritas. Shortly before the inauguration of the new building, the city leased a large area on Solgraben, which was used for physical education. The site had to be abandoned later and the school got part of the apple orchard as a replacement. On August 29, 1960, the new building was inaugurated by the Mainz Bishop Albert Stohr . After moving into the new building, the partition walls in the Zandersaal were removed and this mutated into a multifunctional room: gym, ballroom and auditorium in one. A lack of teachers and lack of money was a constant companion in everyday school life until 1966. In June 1964, an association of former pupils and sponsors of the school was founded. The report on the two short school years 1966/67 is by no means positive. In 1967 Sr. M. Grata moved to Rheinbach and Sr. M. Mathild Koppers became headmistress, the last religious in this position at the St. Lioba School.

coeducation

In the year the school was founded in 1929, Pope Pius XI. rejected in an encyclical on education co- education . After more than forty years, external and internal constraints, but also rethinking, introduced a change in pedagogical course. In 1970, during the Ludwig von Friedeburg era, the Hessian Ministry of Culture began to plan comprehensive schools with support levels. For “the Lioba” this would have meant the loss of grades 5 and 6, the number of students had only just risen to 480 at that time. The considerations to open the St. Lioba School to boys too had been brought up in the discussion by parents in part, but encountered very real problems. In 1971, 478 schoolgirls attended the grammar school, and the premises were no longer sufficient even without boys. There was no space, there was no money. In addition, the passing of the Private School Financing Act threatened new financial problems. Sr. M. Mathild pushed the expansion of the school. In 1965 392 pupils had attended the school, by 1976 the number of pupils had grown to 859. The then bishop and later Cardinal Hermann Volk raised the question: “ Should the pupils in the Upper Hesse region never have the opportunity to attend a Catholic school? “And he answered her. The diocese financed the extension. In 1972 the first eight boys were admitted to class 5. The ratio of girls to boys stabilized at 3: 1 until well into the 1980s. Within two years the number of students had risen from 505 to 700. That is why the pavilions were built in 1974, which were demolished in 1990 and had to give way to today's building. In 1976 it was decided to give up the sisters' guest house in order to gain space for a new school building. For one year, the monument authorities fought to demolish the Zander Institute, because 959 pupils have now attended the grammar school.

Demolition of the pikeperch hall and new building

In the same year the boarding school was demolished to make room for ten new classes, and a year later there was also no longer the Zandersaal. A fundamental change was made during the construction phase. The diocese of Mainz became the new school authority in April 1978. There were now over 1,000 students. When the shell was completed on November 1, 1979, the number had risen to exactly 1,100. In 1980 the remaining four boys in the first group passed their Abitur. At the end of the year, the classrooms in the extension were moved into. The new building was presented to the many interested parties at " Open House Days ". The date for the inauguration ceremony and the celebration of the 50th school anniversary were set for May 8, 1981. The celebrations began with a mass, which Hermann Cardinal Volk celebrated together with the school clerk of the diocese, cathedral dean Hermann Berg , and other priests. In his address, the cardinal made a clear commitment to the schools of the diocese.

On March 25, 1982 the chapel in the Lioba House was consecrated. It was the patronage festival of Our Lady . A year later, the headmistress received the bishopric's 65th birthday from the new bishop of Mainz, Karl Lehmann, with the diocese's silver Martinus medal for her services to the internal and external structure of the school. In 1984 it was possible to acquire the remaining part of the apple orchard in long lease and to redesign it as a sports field. Then the long-planned expansion of the specialist rooms could be tackled. The first IT room was set up in the former school kitchen.

In the following years more and more women religious left the college or celebrated religious anniversaries due to their age. In 1986 Sr. M. Alberta celebrated her iron jubilee and Sr. M. Willibaldis retired. After the art teacher Sr. M. Canisa left school in 1986 after 32 years at the St. Lioba School, only the tireless Sr. M. Bernardis remained in the college. With her school choir, the German and music teacher organized school celebrations and church services for many years. She started and directed the after-school group work.

Two years before her retirement, Sr. M. Mathild tackled one last major construction project. The catwalk that led to the former main entrance had to disappear and at the same time a replacement for the “ temporarily approved wooden pavilions ” was necessary. The wooden buildings were demolished during the 1990 summer vacation. The inauguration of the new pavilion took place on St. Martin's Day in 1991. In 1992, Sr. M. Mathild passed the management of the school on to Gisela Opp. Sr. M. Mathild had been a teacher at the school for 35 years and as headmistress for 25 years. Prelate Ernst Kalb , the diocese's head of school at the time, praised her as "the right woman at the right time in the right place ."

In 1994 the last four nuns were called back to the Provincial House of Order in Mulhouse . In her greeting to the second annual publication, the new headmistress praised the work of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Bad Nauheim in “ ... the thankful retrospective, with special respect for the tireless development work in 65 years ”.

Optimizations (1992-2006)

The rapid external growth of the school had reached its limits, now it was necessary to further develop an existing, clear pedagogical concept on the basis of the basic church order, to profile the holistic educational mission of the school even more sharply. At the beginning of 1986 Gisela Opp took over the deputy school management at the St. Lioba School, in 1992 she became the headmaster. In 1992/93 the first annual report was published, which clearly showed the good cooperation between school and home. Almost at the same time, new school regulations were adopted, in which the then chairman of the school parents' council, Hermann J. Schmidt u. a. praised the "orientation towards the educational understanding of our school ". The later school contract was already in draft at this point. The cooperation between school and home, which has always been cultivated, has been intensified on the basis of the basic order for Catholic schools. A sign of the solidarity with the school was the founding of the “Friends of St. Lioba-Gymnasium”, which was reorganized in January 1994 from the association of former students that had existed for 30 years and since then has been inviting every year to Lioba brunch in summer.

In 1994, further decisive approaches to the school's educational concept were initiated and put on the road, which are now an integral part of the school profile. The religious-social engagement was further developed and a school psychological service was set up. The new school library was set up in the same year. The school library and the freedom to learn aids (LMF) became part of today's hess. Schools equipped with standard software. At that time, the Sankt-Lioba-Schule was the second school in Hesse to use this software. School prevention work was also introduced in 1994. School groups have been taking part in the business @ school competition organized by the Boston Consulting Group on a regular basis since 1999. At the beginning of the 2005/06 school year, the Mainzer 8 was introduced, the gymnasium school period shortened to eight years. In 2006 the headmaster Gisela Opp was retired by the general director Gertrud Pollak and Cardinal Lehmann.

The school authority Dr. Tobias Angert appointed. The longstanding promotion of gifted students was awarded the seal of approval. In 2008 the school won the "Schools in Trialog" competition of the Herbert Quandt Foundation based in Bad Homburg. The headmaster was transferred to the BO Mainz on April 1, 2014. His deputy Gabi Kurtscheidt took over the management of the school on a temporary basis. In 2014 it was decided to return to Mainzer 9, the nine-year high school time.

Bernhard Marohn has been the new headmaster since March 1, 2015.

profile

  • Educational entry level concept
  • House curricula in all departments with binding standards
  • School contract and educational community
  • School foundation
  • international exchange relations (France, USA, Poland)
A long-term student exchange exists with the Liceum Prezentek Krakow .
Nawi classes
  • pronounced music profile
The numerous choirs also include a parents & friends choir, as well as a teachers choir.
Since the mid-1990s there have been support measures for gifted students, but these are also open to interested and high-performing students. The school received the seal of approval in 2007.
School prevention work first started in 1992 with projects in individual subjects and for individual grades and quickly became an integral part of the school profile.
The work with parents and students is carried out by trained prevention teachers. The cooperation with the state education authority is also one of the pillars of school prevention. For about 10 years, school prevention measures have expanded significantly.
In 1993 a job exchange was held for the first time for high school students. A team of parents and two teachers has been organizing an information event since then, which offers students orientation for future studies or career aspirations.
At first the job exchange was on the school program every year; it now takes place every two years, but has also been expanded to include an education fair. The offer is now also aimed at middle school students.
  • Sister Willibaldis Foundation
Sr. M. Willibaldis came to Bad Nauheim in 1945 from Mühlheim, where she had worked “ as a needlework and home economics teacher ”. From 1950 onwards, Sr. M. Willibaldis held ski holidays in the Bavarian Forest. In 1986, one year before her golden jubilee, she retired. Sr. M. Mathild thanked her " for the uniqueness of her being, for her humor and understanding, for the sacrifices she made and the joys she made ."
In memory of their decades of selfless work for the poor in Brazil, the Sister Willibaldis Foundation has been committed to this task ever since.
From the tradition of the UL sisters, close ties to Brazil and the Taquara religious school grew. Since 2001, the Sister Willibaldis Foundation has also supported the Primary School and the Secondary School in Buseesa in Uganda with a project.
In 1992/93 the planning for the introduction of a social internship began. This was included in the school contract right from the start and formed an essential part of the community of parents and school in the sense of the “ Projet éducatif ”. The headmistress at the time wrote: “ In the social internship of the St. Lioba School, which was anchored in the school contract for our 11th year class before the Compassion project in 1993, in the GCL group work ... in the school pastoral care, which was carried out with great participation by the teaching staff school life outside of the classroom experiences an impact on social learning in many dimensions . ”The practice and teaching project Compassion was published in 1994. In 1994, a 14-day social internship was carried out for the first time for grades 11, which has taken place annually since then. The goals of the social internship were defined as: “ Recognizing one's own possibilities and skills, assuming social responsibility, building and reflecting on social relationships with people being looked after, skills to act in socially difficult situations, appreciation of service to others, development of social sensitivity and competence, promotion of Willingness to social engagement. “The social internship is divided into three phases. In the preparatory phase, the students choose themselves. During the entire internship they are supervised by teachers and observed during the actual internship phase. The internship is reflected in the final phase. a. in the form of an internship report.
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  1. ↑ s. on this Eugen Rieß Chronicle - 75 Years of St. Lioba School, pp. 14–42 in: St. Lioba Annual Report 2003/2004 = anniversary publication for the 75th anniversary, s. also M. Mathild Koppers, Chronik 1927–1953 . in: St. Lioba 1929–1981. On the inauguration of the extension and the successor to the St. Lioba School 1929–1979, Bad Nauheim 1981, pp. 35–55
  2. ↑ Eugen Riess, The Zander Institute . In: Jubiläumsschrift 1981, pp. 62–64
  3. ↑ Bad Nauheimer Zeitung No. 41, February 17, 1934, p. 3
  4. ↑ Eugen Rieß, History of Lioba
  5. ↑ see also Mathild Koppers, Memoirs of a school principal , Coesfeld, Bad Nauheim, 1993
  6. ↑ Gisela Opp: Farewell Speech for the Sisters of Notre Dame . In: Annual Report 1994, p.
  7. ↑ cf. Sabine Wolf, The role of parents at the St. Lioba School , in: St. Lioba Annual Report 2003/2004, p. 12f.
  8. ↑ Eugen Rieß, Messages from Books and People . in: Annual Report 1994, p.
  9. ^ Gisela Opp, St. Lioba School. Profile as part of the “Mainzer 8” .in: Annual Report 2003/04, pp. 47–52
  10. ^ Gertrud Pollak, Farewell to Fr. Opp . in: Annual Report 2005/2006, pp. 3–8.
  11. ↑ z. E.g .: Wetterauer Zeitung (WZ) from April 15, 2014: St. Lioba school management: fuss about involuntary departure; Frankfurter Neue Presse (FNP) / Bad Vilbeler NP: No desire to work in Mainz from April 24, 2014.
  12. ↑ New headmaster of the St. Lioba School in Bad Nauheim . Santa Lioba School. January 3, 2015. Accessed February 15, 2015.
  13. ↑ cf. Annual report 2005/06, p. 16
  14. ^ Horst Lang, student exchange between the St. Lioba School Bad Nauheim and the Liceum Prezentek Krakau . In: Annual Report 2000/2001, p.; Hans-Wolfgang Steffek, partnership with Krakow . in: Annual Report 2005/06, p. 86f.
  15. ^ Rainer Priemer, Eugen Rieß, business @ school business project . In: Annual Report 2002/2003, p.
  16. ^ Thomas Bailly, Music at the Lioba . in: Annual Report 2005/06, p. 38f
  17. ↑ Annette Hausmanns et al., The Parents & Friends Choir . in: Annual Report 2004/05, pp. 42–44.
  18. ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Steffek, The teacher's choir comes of age . in: Annual Report 2007/08, pp. 48–51.
  19. ↑ Eugen Rieß, giftedness and individual support . in: Annual Report 2010, pp. 17–19
  20. ↑ Andrea König, School Psychological Advice . in: Annual Report 2005/06, p. 34.
  21. ↑ Horst Lang, Eugen Rieß; Measures against violence . in: Annual Report 1992/1993, p. 29ff
  22. ↑ Eugen Rieß, From old addictions and new ways in prevention . in: Annual Report 2010, pp. 20–22.
  23. ^ Sabine Geppert, The Cambridge Certificates . in: Annual Report 2005/06, pp. 76–80.
  24. ↑ cf. the detailed description in the 2008 annual report, pp. 9–30
  25. ↑ Thomas Gölzhäuser, theater group . in: Annual Report 2005/06, pp. 34–37.
  26. ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Steffek, job exchange of the St. Lioba school with education fair . In the annual report 2002/2003, p.
  27. ↑ Ute Ingeborg Koschig, Sister Willibaldis Foundation, in: St. Lioba Annual Report 2003/2004, p. 58 f.
  28. ↑ see e.g. Thomas Korfmann, run for Brazil and Uganda. in: Annual Report 2008, p. 36, Ute Ingeborg Koschig, in: Annual Report 2008, pp. 40–42, also the reports on the Sister Willibaldis Foundation and a mission project in Uganda in: St. Lioba Annual Report 2012.
  29. ↑ Eugen Rieß, See the world with different eyes. Social and ethical learning as part of Compassion , in: Religious Education Today. Information from the Schools and Universities Department in the Episcopal Ordinariate Mainz 03/04/2006, pp. 51–55.
  30. ↑ Gisela Opp, foreword to the annual report 2003/04 = Festschrift 75 years St. Lioba Schule Bad Nauheim, p. 8f.
  31. ^ Adolf Weisbrod; Franz Kuhn (Ed.), Compassion - A practical and teaching project for social learning: Being human for others . For Catholic Free Schools, designed by the “Innovation” working group of the Central Education Office of the German Bishops' Conference in Bonn, special issue of “School Correspondence”, Bonn 1974.
  32. ^ Claudia Busmann, social internship . in: Annual Report 2005/06, pp. 30–33.
  33. ↑ Alexander Grochowski; School medical service. in the annual report 2005/06, pp. 30–33
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