Lohfeld school center

The Lohfeld school center is a center of secondary schools opened in 1974 in Bad Salzuflen in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany .

history

Inauguration ceremony in December 1974

Originally planned and designed as the East School Center , the foundation stone for the new school center in the Schötmar district was laid on November 30, 1972 .

After completion of the first construction phase, in the 1974/75 school year, 700 high school students and 600 high school students moved into the new premises; the high school students had to wait until the second phase of construction was finished. The official inauguration, combined with the naming of the Lohfeld School Center , took place on December 14th of the same year.

The total construction and furnishing costs amounted to DM 40.5 million .

Facilities

schools

The school center is home to one each primary and secondary school and a high school , a total of about 2,500 students spread across the:

Rudolph Brandes High School
Eduard Hoffmann Realschule
Municipal secondary school

Another secondary school and a comprehensive school are located in the Aspe school center , the second school center in the city of Bad Salzuflen.

kindergarten

The municipal kindergarten of PariSozial gGmbH is also located on the premises of the school center.

Sports facilities

The following sports facilities on the premises of the educational facility are part of the building complex:

Indoor swimming pool with a 25 m competition pool (five lanes, as well as 1, 3 m board and 5 m diving tower) and a teaching pool and a toddler pool.
Two triple sports halls the size of a handball field, one of which has a grandstand for around 900 spectators.
Stadium with grass soccer field, tartan running track , ash soccer field and various artificial turf fields for tennis and handball as well as athletics competition tracks for long and high jump .

Observatory

The center has the school's own Walter Baade observatory , named after the German astronomer and astrophysicist Walter Baade .

A Coudé refractor with an aperture of 225 mm and a focal length of 3000 mm is available as the main telescope under a 4-meter dome for teaching purposes in schools and the adult education center .

literature

Franz Meyer (Ed.): 500 years of the city of Salzuflen 1488–1988 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1989, ISBN 3-927085-15-4 .
Franz Meyer (Ed.): Bad Salzuflen - Epochs of City History . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-606-4 .

Web links

Commons : Lohfeld school center - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Franz Meyer: 500 years city of Salzuflen 1488–1988 . Page 127

52.076563888889 8.7642361111111Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 35.6 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 51.3" E

[1] Franz Meyer: 500 years city of Salzuflen 1488–1988 . Page 127