School at the town hall

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School at the Cecilien-Lyzeum Lichtenberg town hall
View from the south in 2011

View from the south in 2011

Data
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 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 .

Main portal

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.

Three female figures on the east side of the entrance portal

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 new wooden roof structure for the spire, fully assembled on August 8, 2010 on Rathausstrasse.
Stair tower at the southeast corner of the school building with a renewed tail hood

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

Commons : Cecilien-Lyzeum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 189 .
  2. ^ Grieme, Wilhelm, architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, I, p. 835. “Frankfurter Allee 184”.
  3. ^ Uhlig, Johannes, Stadtbaurat . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, I, p. 2927. “Möllendorffstrasse 10”.
  4. ^ Lichtenberg> Rathausstrasse 8 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1913, V, p. 123 (in the previous address books only “Höhere Mädchenschule”).
  5. ↑ Brief information archive database of the library for research on the history of education (bbf-dipf), accessed May 16, 2012.
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ^ Website of the school at the town hall accessed on February 6, 2012
  8. ↑ The dimensions of the base area are a rough calculation from the top view at google-earth.
  9. ↑ Tower construction placed on the roof. The school building is exactly 100 years old . berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg, accessed on May 16, 2012.