Kirchberg Castle School
| Kirchberg Castle School | |
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 The Kirchberg Castle School with its newly built buildings above the Jagst Valley. |
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| type of school | Boarding school , high school |
| founding | 1914 |
| address |
Schulstrasse 4 |
| place | Kirchberg an der Jagst |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 11 ′ 46 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E |
| carrier | Private |
| student | about 300 |
| Website | www.schloss-schule.de |
The Schloss-Schule Kirchberg in Kirchberg an der Jagst is a state-recognized high school and boarding school in Baden-Württemberg . With its newly built buildings, it is located above the Jagst valley at wind height . The school was founded in 1914.
As a founding member of the boarding school association Die Internate Vereinigung (successor organization to the Association of German Landerziehungsheime), the Schloss-Schule represents an ideologically open pedagogy, the basis of which is the promotion of the individual potential of the students.
The motto of the Schloss-Schule, which can be traced back to the pedagogical reform roots, is “live, learn, work” and describes the requirement that school and extracurricular learning should form a unit.
history
The Schloss-Schule Kirchberg was founded in 1914 by Karl Stracke as the junior level of the reform school Blaubeuren , renovated in 1917 by Rudolf Besser as a reform school and state educational home and further developed in 1926 by Adolf Zoellner and Amalie Pfündel as a Württemberg country school home in the tradition of Hermann Lietz .
The Amalie Pfündel scholarships, which the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg awards, are specifically dedicated to Amalie Pfündel, who has worked as a housemaid and then as headmistress for over 50 years. She played a key role in ensuring that the castle school survived the National Socialist era and was able to reopen immediately after the Second World War .
For the first five decades, the Kirchberg Castle School was housed high above the Jagst in the front wings of the Princely Hohenlohe Castle of Kirchberg.
When the Evangelical Home Foundation acquired the entire castle complex in the 1960s and expanded it into a retirement and nursing home, the Kirchberg Castle School, under the direction of Amalie Pfündel and her son Albrecht, moved into the newly constructed building on the Windshöhe , where it is still located today .
concept
The reform educationally oriented Castle School Kirchberg will recognize potential with its concept for the students and these provide targeted support in school and outside of school. The focus should be on the individuality of each student and support should be based on their personality profiles.
In this sense, the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg describes itself as a school for the person who offers individual paths to a cosmopolitan education.
School profile
As a state-recognized, denominational high school , the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg is scientifically , technically and theater - pedagogically oriented. In addition to the natural sciences and culture, another focus is on foreign languages. In combination with the lessons, there are other school offers, such as homework supervision, remedial courses, basic courses or individual tutoring / support.
The factory"
The “fabrik” is the culture and workshop center of the castle school, which was created in the early 1980s when the former Benner ski factory was acquired in order to gain space for handicraft and art lessons, but also for public performances and events.
In the “fabrik” there are offers for children in the lower grades on the subject of technology and pottery, as well as a cooking and theater group.
Public lectures, concerts and theater performances by the school take place there at irregular intervals.
Composition of the student body
The approx. 300 students at the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg are made up of around 2/3 local students from Kirchberg and the surrounding area and around 1/3 boarding school students. At the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg children and young people from Germany, China, Spain, France, Italy and other countries meet.
Organization & carrier
Castle School Association
The Schloss-Schul-Verein is the association of old school students, parents and friends of the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg. It is supposed to promote the cohesion of the former students and supports the boarding high school in Kirchberg ideally and materially. In addition, the Schloss-Schul-Verein awards prizes, promotes special plans and projects in schools, boarding schools and “factories” and awards several scholarships every year, for which pupils from all over Germany can apply.
Schloss-Schule Kirchberg an der Jagst Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to run the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg in direct or indirect sponsorship. According to its statutes, it should pursue the goal of educating children and young people to become cosmopolitan, independent and democratic people by supporting work in schools and boarding schools, as well as promoting the education of castle students. The foundation, which is managed by the foundation board, pursues charitable purposes and is supervised and advised in its tasks by the board of trustees.
membership
The Schloss-Schule Kirchberg is a founding member of the boarding school association Die Internate Vereinigung (successor organization to the Association of German Landerziehungsheime) and a member of the Association of German Private Schools (VDP).
Known students
- Kurt Lorenz (1914–1987), artist and caricaturist
- Joachim Scholz (* 1962), politician (Abitur)
literature
- Free Schools Manual. An overview of educational positions, providers, types of schools and schools. Special print “The German Landerziehungsheime” . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993
- Alexander Braun u. a .: The Castle School 1926–1986. A documentation. Castle school, Kirchberg an der Jagst 1986 ( On the history of the castle school . H. 1)
- Michael Knoll: From Latin school to rural education home. The Kirchberg Castle School 1913–1933 . In: Württembergisch Franken . Yearbook of the Historical Association for Württembergisch Franken 87 (2003), pp. 225–254.
- Michael Knoll: The school in the castle. History of the Kirchberg Castle School 1914–1964 . Kirchberg / Jagst 2007. ISBN 978-3-9811960-1-6