Waller Ring school center

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The school center Waller Ring , today Oberschule am Waller Ring , in Bremen - Walle , Bremerhavener Straße 83 and the corner of Waller Ring , has existed since 1913/14 and has been a high school in Bremen since 2010 .

Use today

The Oberschule am Waller Ring is a half-day school + with a bilingual profile. With its four-tier secondary level I structured according to year, the Oberschule am Waller Ring with the upper secondary level of the Walle school center offers a comprehensive range of education through which all general school qualifications can be achieved. Under certain conditions, the approx. 600 schoolchildren have the opportunity to choose bilingual educational programs from the seventh year onwards. In preparation for this, pupils in grades five and six can attend the English Club in addition to the extended English lessons.

In the elective area, the languages ​​Latin and French as well as Spanish can be selected as a third foreign language.

The school has a MINT focus. Pupils from the Oberschule am Waller Ring regularly take part in the Jugend forscht competition in the “ Pupils experiment ” category . In the creative field, the pupils are active “on stage” in theater and music projects.

The Oberschule am Waller Ring also offers numerous career guidance options.

The school director has been Renate Riebeling since 2010.

history

Waller Ring school center

In the central west of Bremen, the population doubled at the beginning of the 20th century. New schools such as the free school Elisabethstraße (1896), elementary school on Steffensweg (1905), school on Vegesacker Straße (1911), elementary and secondary school on Waller Ring and elementary school Helgolander Straße (1916) emerged in quick succession in the central area of ​​Walle.

founding

From 1912 to 1913, a secondary school was built on Waller Ring in the Bremen Building Inspection (later the Bremen Building Authority ) according to plans by State Building Councilor Hugo Weber and State Building Master Hans Ohnesorge . The secondary school in the new town from 1909 served as a model. The clinker-brick building in the neoclassical style had a three-story main wing and two wings with hipped roofs . Above the middle main portal made of sandstone there is a large Bremen coat of arms in a segmental arched gable . There is a clock on the front of the roof ridge above. The sculptor Ernst von Wachold designed the ornamental plastic jewelry in the parapet fields and on the heads of the pillars of the central risalit. The sculptor Rudolf Gangloff created the wood carving work.

Schools began in 1914. The first headmaster was the senior teacher Dr. Hermann Maas from the Oberrealschule on Dechanatstraße in Bremen, who was then appointed professor and soon afterwards served as a soldier in the First World War . Until 1918, Professor Rabba was therefore the deputy headmaster in a school which, due to the war, lacked teachers.

From 1918 to 1945

In 1922, the nationally-minded secondary school became a German secondary school with high school diploma. The transition to National Socialism went smoothly. Director Maas, during the Weimar period with the German National People's Party and Freemasonry , retired in 1937. He was followed by the Nazi cultural politician appointed by the National Socialist Bremen Senate and previously active member of the Combat League for German Culture, Dr. Adolf Seidler . In 1938, on the instructions of the school senator, the institution was given the name of the Horst Wessel School . In the Second World War , many teachers were again missing and, since 1941/42, many pupils were in the Kinderlandverschickung or anti-aircraft helper in the Air Force. In November 1943, the middle wing and the side wing of the school on Bremerhavener Str., Which also housed a branch of the Bremen public library , were badly damaged.

After 1945

In 1945, lessons could be resumed in the parts of the building that were not or only slightly destroyed. The number of students grew increasingly. Vocational school classes also had to be temporarily admitted. The headmaster was again Maas until his death (1946), followed by Dr. Walter noon. Many Nazi-minded teachers had to be fired; the shortage of teachers continued to make teaching difficult in the post-war years. In the 1950s, the destroyed parts of the building were rebuilt. From 1953 the headmaster was Dr. Heinrich Klüglein; after leaving the school in 1965, Hans-Rudolf Mumme took over the management of the school.

In 1974 the upper level of the Gymnasium am Waller Ring was relocated to the building of the former Pädagogische Hochschule Bremen , formerly Lyceum des Westens , which was built between 1927 and 1929 . In 1976/77 the orientation level was introduced as part of the reforms in the Bremen school system and by 1978 the school center for the lower secondary level with an orientation level, secondary school and secondary school was created. The school received a modern extension in 2007.

After 2010/11, the school center was now divided into the gymnasium and secondary school branches. Today there is a high school in the old brick building and in the new buildings around it.

Monument protection

In 1984 the Waller Ring school center building was listed as a historical monument .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!1617307/
  2. ↑ Festival edition for the 50th anniversary of the Gymnasium am Waller Ring, Bremen 1964, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 57.9 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 44.6 ″  E