Siebold High School

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Siebold high school in Würzburg
Siebold-Gymnasium without tarpaulin.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1864
address

Rennweger Ring 11

place Wurzburg
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 47 '47 "  N , 9 ° 56' 34"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '47 "  N , 9 ° 56' 34"  E
carrier state
student approx. 740
Teachers approx. 70
management Hansgeorg Binsteiner
Website Siebold-gymnasium.de
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The Siebold-Gymnasium is a focus on language and economics- oriented school in the Würzburg old town. It emerged from a royal, later state secondary school founded in 1864 , which in 1907 moved into the school building that is still in use today.

The school has been named after the Würzburg-born doctor and naturalist Philipp Franz von Siebold and other famous members of the Siebold family, who lived in Würzburg in the 18th and 19th centuries , since 1961 . The last namesake was the former mayor of Geislingen an der Steige , Friedrich Karl von Siebold (1897–1984).

The Siebold-Gymnasium is located in the immediate vicinity of the Riemenschneider-Gymnasium and has shared a cafeteria with it since 2008 . Furthermore, the Siebold-Gymnasium is a seminar school for the subjects German, English, French, Latin, history, social studies and sport (female).

building

The school building shortly after its completion

The building, erected between 1906 and 1907 according to a design by the Munich architect Franz Rank , is a multi-part three or four-story structure, the structure is bent twice to match the course of Rennweger Straße and its location at the confluence with Kapuzinerstraße. The plastered facade with limestone structure and ornamental and figurative decorative elements is accentuated by risalits , bay windows , gables and a tower . Built around 1907 enclosure is made of sandstone - pillars with stone sphere essays and a metal fence.

The school building suffered severe damage in the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 and was initially unusable. From 1948 to 1950 it was repaired with considerably simplified roofs: the tower was given a simple pyramid helmet , and the mighty gable of the corner wing replaced a hipped roof surface.

Stylistically, the architecture shows many traditional elements, but also clear influences of Art Nouveau . Despite the significant changes after 1945, the building is a listed building .

history

The school was founded in 1864 as a result of a “Very Highest Ordinance” by Ludwig II (Bavaria) with the name “Königliches Realgymnasium” as the second grammar school in Würzburg, next to the so-called old grammar school. Unlike the A Classics orientation were secondary school modern foreign languages as well as the realities of physics and chemistry taught. The training focus on modern foreign languages ​​has been retained to this day. For the establishment of a secondary school in Würzburg (instead of Regensburg), the pathologist and former member of the state parliament Johann Nepomuk Narr (1802-1869) had campaigned for the Bavarian member Anton Ruland from 1861 . As the founding rector, Johann Baptist Bayer headed the school in the rooms of the Maxschule from 1864 to 1878. In 1864, Philipp Franz von Siebold exhibited the ethnological collection of his second trip to Japan (1859–1862) in the auditorium of the Maxschule.

In 1895 the first football club in Würzburg was founded at the secondary school.

The pediatrician Klara Oppenheimer , who also fought for the rights of girls and women, passed her Abitur as an external student in 1905, after women were now accepted as regular students at the three Bavarian state universities.

In 1902 a study seminar was set up. After the law and medicine courses had also been opened to high school graduates, the number of students increased sharply. In order to counter the resulting lack of space, a new school building in neo-style with two wings and the characteristic castle-like tower as a central wing was built on the present site from 1906–1907. Until 1907 this remained the preferred school of the Würzburg Jews .

New building with cafeteria

In 1914 the Realgymnasium became a modern language with the two modern foreign languages ​​English and French.

During the Nazi era, the school was renamed "Oberschule am Gardistenplatz". In 1938 the last Jewish pupils, who in 1921/22 still made up 10% of the pupil population, had to leave school. A memorial book was created in 2009 to commemorate the Jewish students who were driven to suicide and murdered during the time of the National Socialist tyranny and the Jewish teacher Siegmund Rindskopf .

After the destruction of the bombing on March 16, 1945 , the school was continued from 1946 under the name "Realgymnasium Würzburg - Oberschule in dismantling" in the Mozart School until 1950 both wings of the old building were rebuilt in the historicizing style.

In 1957, the existing school building was supplemented by extensions and two modern-style gyms. In 1958, the facade picture about the creation of Curd Lessig was created.

In 1961 the grammar school took on the name of the von Siebold family of Würzburg scholars . Philipp Franz von Siebold in particular embodied the tradition of the school as a high school with modern language characteristics on the one hand as a researcher, doctor and on the other hand as a scientist interested in foreign culture and language.

In the same year the sports field at the Gardistenplatz was inaugurated.

Philipp Franz von Siebold

In 1968 the grammar school grew by 44% to over 900 students.

The school for girls was opened in 1973 after they were allowed to enter the Realgymnasium once, but only for two years, in 1920/21. Today, at 71%, significantly more girls than boys study at Siebold Gymnasium.

Further construction phases are an extension in Kapuzinerstraße and gyms up to 1959, two pavilions in 1967/69, which were demolished again in 2006/08, as well as a new building with nine classrooms, the cafeteria and an open all-day school in 2006/08.

From 2008 to 2019, due to the lack of space, the classrooms of the former Maxschule, today's Mozart area, were also used.

An economics branch has been offered since the beginning of the 2008/09 school year.

In December 2015, the school received the award of the initiative School without Racism - School with Courage , after trying to do so in previous years without success. The sponsorship for the award was taken over by Josef Schuster (President of the Central Council) . In the same month the school was also recognized as an Environment School in Europe / International Agenda 21 School .

Since the beginning of the 2019/20 school year, the classrooms of the Hauger School in Wallgasse have also been used due to the lack of space.

School partnerships

principal

  • Johann Baptist Bayer, 1864–1878
  • Michael Krück , 1878–1912
  • Georg Heeger 1912–1915
  • Theodor Link 1915-1923
  • Bruno Herlet 1923–1928
  • Richard Schiedermair 1928–1945
  • Wilhelm Bauer 1945 and 1946–1949
  • Otto Werb 1949-1062
  • Franz Pietsch 1962–1968
  • Friedrich Lindner, 1968–76
  • Otto Schönberger , 1976–1984
  • Heribert Lange, 1984-1995
  • Hartmut Dieckhoff, 1995-2006
  • Hermann Rapps, 2006–2019
  • Hansgeorg Binsteiner, since September 2019

Known students

Known teachers

literature

Web links

Commons : Siebold-Gymnasium (Würzburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directorate. In: www.siebold-gymnasium.de. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e school chronicle at www.siebold-gymnasium.de , last accessed on January 12, 2014
  3. ↑ See also Christoph von Lindeiner, called von Wildau: Siebold. Contributions to family history. Edited on behalf of Friedrich Karl von Siebold with the assistance of Hans Körner. In: German Family Archives. Volume 48, 1972.
  4. ↑ www.dfgmuenchen.de .
  5. ^ History.
  6. ↑ Würzburg today, magazine for culture and economy , issues 55–58, p. 49 [1]
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Würzburg , p. 82, No. D-6-63-000-451
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Head of the Siebold-Gymnasium Würzburg (ed.): Honoring the name Siebold ... Festschrift and annual report on the 150th anniversary .
  9. ↑ Thomas Sauer, Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg Medical Faculty in the estate of Anton Ruland. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 135-206; here: p. 165 f.
  10. ^ Roland Flade: Jewish family stories from Lower Franconia . Ed .: Main-Post.
  11. ^ School without Racism - School with Courage: Siebold Gymnasium Würzburg. (No longer available online.) Aktion Courage e. V., December 22, 2015, archived from the original on February 14, 2018 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 .
  12. ^ School without Racism - School with Courage. Siebold-Gymnasium Würzburg, November 10, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2018 : "[...] already tried twice to get the title, but without success."
  13. ↑ "Environmental School in Europe" | Siebold high school in Würzburg. Retrieved September 28, 2018 (German).