Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen

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Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen
Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen
type of school high school
founding probably before 1274
address

Uhlandstrasse 24
72072 Tübingen

place Tübingen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 31 '4 "  N , 9 ° 3' 14"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '4 "  N , 9 ° 3' 14"  E
student about 700
Teachers about 70
management Andrei Petrovsky
Website www.uhland-gymnasium.de

The Uhland-Gymnasium is a humanistic high school in Tübingen , Baden-Württemberg , where around 700 students from the 5th to the 12th grade are taught in mostly three parallel classes. The college comprises around 70 teachers. The Uhland-Gymnasium was named after the Tübingen poet and politician Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) and is one of the oldest schools in Germany.

history

The history of the Uhland-Gymnasium can be traced back to a medieval Latin school . However, an exact date of foundation can no longer be determined. The oldest document, which with a relatively high degree of probability suggests the existence of a Latin school in Tübingen, dates from 1274 . This document reports in connection with a tax collection by a scolaris from Tübingen. Since the term scolaris ('belonging to the school') in medieval Latin does not only mean 'pupil', it cannot be said with absolute certainty whether the document actually attests to the existence of a Tübingen school. However, if the most likely translation, namely 'pupil', is correct, one can assume that the mentioned pupil attended the Tübingen Latin School, i.e. the forerunner of the Uhland grammar school, as none existed for the existence of a German-language school in Tübingen before the Reformation Evidence is available.

This Tübingen Latin school was de facto elevated to a state school in 1535 when Duke Ulrich granted it permanent state funding. At that time the school was located on the Schulberg, which owes its name, which is still in use today, to this fact. The school was named Schola anatolica, which means something like eastern school ( old Gr . Ἀνατολή / anatolē: east) after the school location, which was in the east of Tübingen in relation to the city limits at that time . The students of the Schola anatolica included Ludwig Uhland (attended school from 1793 to 1801), Wilhelm Hauff (attended school from 1809 to 1816), Carlo Steeb , who was beatified in 1975, and the philosopher and theological critic Immanuel Carl Diez .

Memorial plaque for the Schola Anatolica
Former school house of the Schola anatolica

According to the school law of 1559, the Schola anatolica was expanded into a Latin school with four classes in the following years. However, since most of the students attended school for six to eight years, the result was that a class was always made up of students with different levels of knowledge. All four classes were taught in a single hall, which was only divided into individual "classrooms" by wooden walls. Little changed in these Spartan conditions over several centuries. The division into four classes was also retained for a long time. It was not until 1811 that a fifth grade was introduced and in 1818 the Latin school was converted into a lyceum, which dropped the name Schola anatolica . In the years that followed, the Lyceum served as a model school for the practical training of candidate teachers and was upgraded to Tübingen's first grammar school in 1855 with the introduction of a sixth grade. The grammar school left Schulberg in 1861 in favor of a new location in Wilhelmstrasse. The move to the building on Uhlandstrasse, which is still in use today, took place in 1901.

The political upheavals of the first half of the 20th century did not leave the Tübingen grammar school unaffected. In the First World War were 116 former pupils, the school building was confiscated for military purposes and the teaching in other schools outsourced. During the Weimar Republic , the first female teacher was employed (the first female student was admitted as early as 1906) and a parents' council was introduced . During the Nazi era, the grammar school, like all schools, was subject to National Socialist conformity. Course content and lessons were gradually adapted to National Socialist ideas. The Second World War claimed even more victims than the first. 198 dead are to be mourned among the former students. The only Jewish student at the grammar school, Arnold Wochenmark, was able to escape anti-Semitic persecution in the summer of 1933 by traveling to Switzerland . Only one school event from this time is completely apolitical. The previously unnamed grammar school was named Uhland grammar school in 1937 on the occasion of Ludwig Uhland's 150th birthday.

After the French army marched into Tübingen on April 19, 1945 , the school building was once again used for other purposes and declared a "center d´accueil des prisonniers et des déportés", i.e. a reception center for liberated prisoners of war and civilian prisoners as well as for people who were had been deported under the Nazi dictatorship . Lessons initially took place only sporadically until the building was reopened for school operations on August 30, 1945. However, the Uhland-Gymnasium had to share the building with the neighboring Wildermuth-Gymnasium until 1953 , as its building was confiscated for several years. The following decades at the Uhland-Gymnasium were mainly characterized by a development away from the purely ancient philological orientation of the school. In 1971, the "neusprachlich I" feature was introduced, which, with the language sequence Latin - English - French, made it possible for the first time to graduate from high school without ancient Greek.

The Uhland-Gymnasium today

Extension from 2014

The Uhland-Gymnasium is today the smallest of the five Tübingen high schools, where the language sequence Latin - English - Ancient Greek can still be chosen as an ancient language-oriented train. However, the majority of students have been opting for the modern language train with the language sequence Latin - English - French for years . Since the 2007/2008 school year, the Uhland-Gymnasium has been offering a train for gifted students . In addition, since 2008 there has been the opportunity to attend the school voluntarily in the form of an open all-day school. There are regular student exchanges with two French partner schools in Beauvais and Besançon as well as with the US partner school in Ann Arbor .

Due to the increasing number of pupils, the Tübingen municipal council approved an extension in 2011 with additional classrooms to the west of the old building in Uhlandstrasse. The additional school building integrates the sports hall of the Uhland grammar school and was opened on July 30, 2014. The old building was renovated from 2017 to 2019.

principal

View from the plant lake

The headmasters of the Uhland-Gymnasium were or are:

  • 1855–1864: Wilhelm Matthäus Pahl
  • 1864–1874: Karl Hirzel
  • 1874–1885: Ferdinand Baur
  • 1885–1898: Ludwig Majer
  • 1898–1902: Oskar Treuber
  • 1902–1922: Theodor Knapp
  • 1922–1945: Otto Binder (provisional from 1942; official headmaster 1942–1945: Erich Keller)
  • 1946–1948: Eugen Bückle
  • 1948–1966: Erich Haag
  • 1966–1989: Hermann Steinthal
  • 1989-2004: Eberhard Bansbach
  • 2004–2014: Ute Leube-Dürr
  • since 2014: Andrejs Petrowski

Well-known alumni

Postcard from 1906 : The Uhland high school graduates symbolically float between the Uhland grammar school and the New Aula , the main building of the University of Tübingen

Former teachers

Former trainee lawyers

Former students

The Uhland-Gymnasium in literature

Lothar Müller-Güldemeister published the novel Uhland-Gymnasium in 2013 . A series of burglaries actually committed by students at Uhland grammar school in the early 1960s served as a template for part of the plot . The protagonist of the novel and numerous other characters are students or teachers of the "Uhlands". In some cases, fictional characters can even be assigned to real people from the faculty of the 1960s. For example, the curriculum vitae of a teacher sketched out in the novel is partly identical to that of the former UG trainee Hartmut von Hentig. In several places the novel clearly criticizes the teaching methods used at the Uhland Gymnasium at the time .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FOCUS Schulkompass  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schulkompass.de  
  2. ↑ a b website of the school
  3. ^ Hinz, Ottmar: Hauff, Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek 1989, p. 146, ISBN 3-499504-03-0
  4. ^ The life and work of Carlo Steeb
  5. ↑ Announcements 2002/03 Issue 13 ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.ug.tue.bw.schule.de
  6. ^ Hauer, Wolfram: Local school development and urban living environment, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, p. 122, ISBN 978-3-515-07777-4
  7. ↑ Schwemer, Gottfried: On the history of the Uhland Gymnasium, in this pdf pp. 28–60
  8. ^ Urban building projects of the city of Tübingen , accessed on August 12, 2013.
  9. ↑ Anniversary book of the Uhland-Gymnasium (PDF; 2.0 MB), p. 380
  10. ↑ Expedition into the animal kingdom: Perikles Simon had become a little nervous, as he admitted when he was in the Tübinger Uhla on Thursday ... Schwäbisches Tagblatt, November 21, 2015.
  11. ↑ Neckar Chronicle

literature

  • College and Association of Friends of the Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen (Ed.): Schola Anatolica, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-926326-05-0
  • Steinthal, Hermann: From my life, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 3-928011-63-4
  • Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen (Ed.): Anniversary book of the Uhland-Gymnasium, Tübingen 2001, as PDF
  • Lothar Müller-Güldemeister: Uhlandgymnasium. Roman, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3863510527

Web links

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