School at the town hall
School at the Cecilien-Lyzeum Lichtenberg town hall |
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View from the south in 2011 |
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place | Berlin-Lichtenberg |
architect | Wilhelm Grieme and Johannes Uhlig |
Construction year | 1908-1910 |
height | 34 m |
Floor space | 1400 m² |
Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '56.1 " N , 13 ° 28' 51.2" E |
The school at the town hall is a school building in the Berlin district of Berlin-Lichtenberg , which is located near the town hall Lichtenberg . It was founded in 1910 as the Cecilien-Lyzeum (also Cäcilienlyzeum ) and was named after the resistance fighter Hans Zoschke in the 1960s . In 1999 the district office gave the school its current name based on the location of the building.
Cecilien Lyceum
At the beginning of the 20th century, the municipality of Lichtenberg in the Niederbarnim district pursued the goal of achieving the status of its own town . In addition to a town hall, court, prison, communal cemetery and the municipal utilities for gas, water and electricity, the necessary prerequisites also included adequate teaching opportunities in their own catchment area, including higher education institutions for boys and girls.
The local council commissioned the local architect Wilhelm Grieme and his town planning officer Johannes Uhlig with designs for a secondary school for girls, in the language of the time a secondary school for girls or a lyceum. The multi-part building was inaugurated in 1910 and was named Cäcilien-Lyzeum in 1912 after the then Prussian Crown Princess Cecilie Auguste Marie Duchess of Mecklenburg , who was very committed to society.
In 1938 the Cecilien-Lyzeum was merged with the public girls' school (since 1907 Pestalozzi-Lyzeum ), also located in Berlin-Lichtenberg, Prinz-Albert-Straße (today Nöldnerstraße) No. 44 .
At the end of the Second World War , parts of the roof and facade were destroyed, which were then rebuilt in simplified forms. So the school lessons could continue.
Hans Zoschke High School
In the 1960s the school was given a new name after Hans Zoschke , and a Zoschke bust was placed in the schoolyard. The lyceum became a general polytechnic high school .
In 1972, a fire destroyed parts of the tower and the roof that were not reconstructed according to the original plans. The school building has been a listed building since the 1980s .
After the German reunification , the high school lost Hans Zoschke's name and served as a secondary and secondary school from 1991 .
Since 1999: School at the town hall
During a ceremony on October 27, 1999, it was given the new name Schule am Rathaus , which the students helped to find. Since the last school reform in Berlin in the 21st century, it has been an integrated secondary school . The classes take place in the following subject areas: German, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, foreign languages, geography, ethics, history / social studies, industrial studies / economics-work-technology, music, fine arts and sport. Leisure activities in various working groups and participation in competitions with other Berlin schools enrich school life. Finally, the members of the school's friends' association , especially parents and teachers of the school, support the numerous activities both financially and through voluntary work.
On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the school, the Lichtenberg district office initiated a partial renovation and renovation of the roof and the outer stair tower, which was returned to its original condition, from the economic stimulus package II 2010/2011.
Building description
Wilhelm Grieme based his design on the neo-renaissance style that was popular at the time . According to his plan, the actual school building, an attached rector's / teachers' house and a building with a gymnasium and auditorium were built from 1908 between Rathausstrasse and Rudolf-Reusch-Strasse in the immediate vicinity of the Lichtenberg Town Hall . The multi-angled ground plan of the property on a slight slope was optimally used with the lively grouped three-storey plastered brick structure . The main facade is the southern front of the building, which has been designed with eye-catching decor and structural features. Coming from the street, the stair tower with an octagonal floor plan (8.5 × 8.5 m) and its four floors and a tower room dominates the building complex. He wore a tail cap until the fire mentioned above . The main entrance , which is connected via an outside staircase , was lavishly designed with ornaments. A three-part decorative gable rises across the width of the portal and a clock with gold-plated Roman numerals and pointers adorns it in the middle, under which a sundial designed as a relief only shows the "sunny hours". On both sides of the portal there are three sculptures at eye level , showing young women doing typical work such as raising children , handicrafts or playing the harp .
The foyer is formed by a ribbed vault supported by several pillars decorated with stucco.
Until it was destroyed in the war , the south side of the gymnasium / auditorium building had a full-width stepped gable that was renewed without any ornamentation.
The restoration work from 2009 onwards led to a replica of the historic tower based on photos, as no original documents have been preserved. The 12 meter high wooden construction weighs 22 tons , was assembled on site by a Leipzig carpenter's company in Rathausstrasse and erected on August 10, 2010 with a special crane. The entire roof was then given a new slate covering .
The sandstone figure decorations on the portal were roughly cleaned, the facade on the funnel-shaped wide entrance portal and the gable above were given fresh colors. Further necessary renovation work such as a complete renewal of the plaster or the replacement of the anodized metal doors cannot be carried out for the time being due to a lack of funding.
literature
- School regulations for the municipal Cecilien-Lyzeum zu Berlin-Lichtenberg, Rathausstrasse 8. published 1913.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Monuments of the month - Former Cecilien Lyceum with director's residence in Rathausstrasse. 8-9 . (PDF; 143 kB) berlin.de. In February 2010, the Lower Monument Protection Authority of Lichtenbergawarded the former Cecilien Lyceumthe title Monument of the Month .
- Document GUT PERS 328 Collection of forms from the Reich Office for Schooling in the archive of the library for research on the history of education (bbf-dipf). Contains reports of changes in staff and income of teachers: entries and exits, changes in professional and private circumstances from the period 1923–1938.
- Personnel file for the student and music teacher Theodor Otto at the Cecilien-Lyzeum in the bbf-dipf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 189 .
- ^ Grieme, Wilhelm, architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, I, p. 835. “Frankfurter Allee 184”.
- ^ Uhlig, Johannes, Stadtbaurat . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, I, p. 2927. “Möllendorffstrasse 10”.
- ^ Lichtenberg> Rathausstrasse 8 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1913, V, p. 123 (in the previous address books only “Höhere Mädchenschule”).
- ↑ Brief information archive database of the library for research on the history of education (bbf-dipf), accessed May 16, 2012.
- ↑ From the school chronicle. ( Memento of January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on May 16, 2012. After my advice to mark the origin of the image and text according to copyright, the website operators removed the photo of the memorial stone from the chronicle in June 2012./44Penguins
- ^ Website of the school at the town hall accessed on February 6, 2012
- ↑ The dimensions of the base area are a rough calculation from the top view at google-earth.
- ↑ Tower construction placed on the roof. The school building is exactly 100 years old . berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg, accessed on May 16, 2012.