School on the powder lawn
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| type of school | State primary and mainstream school |
| founding | 1911 |
| address |
On the powder lawn 1 |
| place | Meiningen |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '52 " N , 10 ° 24' 43" E |
| carrier | Schmalkalden-Meiningen district |
| student | Primary school: 266 (2018/19) Regular school: 289 (2018/19) |
| Teachers | Primary school: 17 (2018/19) Regular school: 20 (2018/19) |
| management | Primary school: Mrs. Ammon Mainstream school: Kornelia Genßler |
| Website | www.schule-am-pulverrasen.de |
The Schule am Pulverrasen is a state primary and regular school in the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen . In its more than 100-year history, the listed school building has housed several types of school. The school is named after the adjacent small Pulverrasen park , whose name is derived from the “Powder Tower” on the edge of the former city fortifications. The school grounds are located on the southwest edge of the historic old town on a river island directly on the Werra .
school-building
The school consists of a five-storey main building with a clock and bell tower and a sports hall with galleries that can also be used as a theater and auditorium . Both buildings are connected by an atrium-like main entrance hall. In the basement of the main building, a teaching swimming pool used to be housed, but has now given way to the school kitchen and dining room. In the outdoor areas there is a children's playground and a sports field with a basketball court. The building ensemble is a listed building.
history
On June 19, 1906, the Meiningen city council decided to build a new school according to the most modern aspects. Senior building officer and architect Eduard Fritze and master builder Otto Schubert designed the large castle-like school building with 24 classrooms and a sports hall. Construction began in the spring of 1910. The school was opened on October 9, 1911 under the name Neue Bürgererschule . The construction costs amounted to 562,000 marks. Until 1949 the school authority was the city of Meiningen. It started with 22 school classes in grades 5 to 8, which were attended exclusively by boys.
In August 1914, part of the Meiningen Realgymnasium , whose school building was used as a military hospital during the First World War , moved into the school building as a second educational institution . On October 7, 1914, the new citizen school was renamed the Prinz-Friedrich-Schule . The namesake was Prince Friedrich von Sachsen-Meiningen , who died in the first weeks of the First World War on August 23, 1914 near Namur (Belgium).
From the end of 1914, the city's commercial school used the spacious building as the third educational institution. From November 1918 to March 1919, lessons at the Prinz-Friedrich-Schule had to be interrupted, as the building initially served as an emergency barracks for 350 men from the local Infantry Regiment No. 32 and from the end of December the 471st Regiment. School operations were resumed on March 31, 1919. In the 1920s, shower rooms and a school dental clinic were set up in the school. In 1930 330 students were taught at the commercial building school. In 1932 the Prinz Friedrich School had 848 students in 19 classes. Classes were temporarily suspended at the end of 1941, as the building was used as accommodation for the Meiningen Reserve Hospital from January 24, 1942 . From then on, the students received their lessons in several alternative quarters.
On October 1, 1945, school operations at the Prinz Friedrich School were resumed. On October 9, 1945 the school was renamed Theodor-Neubauer-Schule . Theodor Neubauer was a teacher and communist member of the Reichstag who was executed on February 5, 1945. In the post-war years the school had around 1,400 students. In 1949 the elementary school was converted into an eight-grade elementary school. After a briefly housed children's and youth sports school moved out in 1960, the Theodor Neubauer School became a ten-class polytechnic high school . With the school year 1991/92, the school began operating in a united Germany, divided into elementary and regular schools with the new name Schule am Pulverrasen .
In the 2014/15 school year, 482 primary and regular school students were taught in 23 classes by 36 teachers, in the 2018/19 school year there were 555 primary and regular school students in 25 classes with 37 teachers. A day care center is attached to the elementary school, where around 190 children are looked after by ten teachers. The school work is supported by the association "Grund- und Regelschule Am Pulverrasen eV".
School types
In its history, up to three school types were established at the same time in the school on the powder lawn.
- 1911–1949 elementary school
- 1914–1918 secondary school
- 1914–1946 Municipal Business School
- 1923–1937 Higher commercial school, commercial building school (from 1925), girls' vocational school
- 1937–1958 Commercial college in Meiningen
- 1949–1960 eight-grade elementary school, temporarily with a high school branch up to the 12th grade
- 1958–1960 children's and youth sports school
- 1960–1991 ten-class polytechnic high school (POS)
- 1991 until today: elementary and regular school
Partnerships
Partnerships exist with the company August Winkhaus GmbH / Meiningen location, the Meiningen theater , the “Anna Seghers” city library, the Meiningen museums and the “Max Inn” youth center.
literature
- Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d SIS Statistical Information System Education Thuringia
- ↑ a b Kuratorium Meiningen (ed.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, page 198.
- ^ Thränhardt / Pfannschmidt: Architecture in Meiningen . Publishing house Resch, Meiningen, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Peter Schmidt-Raßmann: Meininger Heimatklänge . FW Meininger Tageblatt, October 7th 2011 edition.
- ↑ a b Peter Schmidt-Raßmann: Meininger Heimatklänge . FW Meininger Tageblatt, October 10th 2011 edition.