School on Kornstrasse
The school on Kornstrasse in Bremen in the Neustadt district , Kornstrasse 167–169 / corner Claudiusstrasse 2-6, was housed in a listed building from 1916 until 2005.
history
From 1889 to 1905, the number of residents in Neustadt increased sharply from around 28,000 to around 41,000, especially in the Buntentor district . An expansion of the school was urgently required. The school on Kornstrasse was therefore built from 1914 to 1916 as a 32-class double school with special classes and gyms. The architects were building director Wilhelm Knop and building officer Max Fritsche from the Building Inspectorate II (later Building Department Bremen ). With the new streets Claudiusstrasse and Hagedornstrasse between Kornstrasse and Gastfeldstrasse, the school formed the center of a new residential area in the Buntentor.
Until around 1910, the principle applied in Bremen that if possible no more than 16 classes should be combined in one elementary school . This school is one of four conceptually new dual elementary schools in Bremen in the period before the First World War . What was new was that a large elementary school was created here by combining a two-tier boys 'and girls' school. The lavish equipment with special rooms such as a drawing room, a physics room, two gyms each, rooms for household lessons, a shower room and a caretaker's and stoker's apartment was also new. All new large schools were so-called free schools with a free education.
The three-storey building is oriented towards Claudiusstrasse. The L-shaped floor plan framed the schoolyard from two sides. A new objectivity characterizes the facade with its simple stone cornice and the hipped roof and the risalit-like structure. High-quality materials such as bricks were used. The four-arched entrance loggia on the corner of Claudiusstrasse gives the school a special touch. The two gyms are arranged one above the other to accentuate the design, between the two classroom wings for boys and girls. Two further risalits on Kornstrasse and Claudiusstrasse give the building a varied rhythm. One wing of the building is located directly on Claudiusstrasse. The wing is set back on Kornstrasse. According to the project draft, the small front garden should serve as the school's "botanical garden".
From 1914, 17 classes with around 800 students were able to use the new building. The wing on Claudiusstrasse was initially occupied by the Bremen Technical Center and in 1918/19 by soldiers. The secondary school in Neustadt was then housed in the wing on Kornstrasse . In January 1921 the entire building was available as a school. In 1922 the boys 'department had 17 classes with 605 students and the girls' school had 13 classes with 410 students. After the Second World War , there was the school on Claudiusstrasse as a primary school and the school on Kornstrasse as a secondary and secondary school . Both schools then became the school center for the lower secondary level , with secondary school, secondary school, orientation level and grammar school . In 2003 the school was combined with the school on Gottfried-Menken-Straße to form a secondary school center called Wilhelm-Kaisen-Schule (today Wilhelm-Kaisen-Oberschule ).
Todays use
After the school was given up in 2005, Immobilien Bremen sold the building and the schoolyard to two investors and project developers in 2010. After the successful renovation, around 80 condominiums and three commercial units, including a medical practice, are now (2015) included. The preserved gyms were acquired by a sports club - the ATS Buntentor .
Monument protection
In 2010 the school on Kornstrasse was listed as a historical monument .
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Meyer: Trio takes over old school Kornstrasse. In: Weser-Kurier of July 8, 2010.
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 18.9 ″ E