Sophie Barat School

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Sophie Barat School
Logo of the SBS.jpg
Logo of the Sophie Barat School until 2010
type of school high school
founding 1952
address

New Rabenstrasse 1

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 33 '44 "  N , 9 ° 59' 44"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '44 "  N , 9 ° 59' 44"  E
carrier Archdiocese of Hamburg
student 1028
Teachers 78
management Gabriele Roosen
Website www.sophie-barat-schule.de
New building, view from Neue Rabenstrasse (2019)

The Sophie-Barat-Schule is a private, catholic high school in Hamburg-Rotherbaum . Like the other two Catholic high schools in Hamburg ( Sankt-Ansgar-Schule and Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium ), the school has been directly sponsored by the Archdiocese of Hamburg since 2017 .

history

The school was an all- girls high school until 1982 . The forerunner was a Catholic educational institution for girls that had existed since 1895 and was headed by Ursulines since 1900 . In 1903 this girls' school was subordinated to the newly built Ursuline mother house in Osnabrück-Haste . This St. Angela School in Hamburg was recognized as a lyceum in 1912 . In 1940 the school was closed by the National Socialists, but was able to reopen in 1946 in Neue Rabenstrasse. In 1952, sisters from the Sacré Cœur Order took over the school and renamed it after the founder of the order, Sophie Barat (1779–1865), who was looking for a new beginning, especially in the field of school education , during the upheaval of the French Revolution .

Isa Vermehren , who first became known as a cabaret artist and film actress since the 1930s and later as a nun through Das Wort zum Sonntag , led the Sophie Barat School from 1969 until her retirement in 1983.

Since 1982 around 1,050 pupils have been taught co-educational . In 1988 an advanced high school was added, where students with a secondary school leaving certificate can obtain the Abitur after 12 years.

In the 2004/2005 school year there was a dispute between the school management and the editors over the school newspaper Sophies Unterwelt .

On May 10, 2012, the 60th anniversary of the school was celebrated with a pontifical ministry in the Hamburg main church St. Michaelis with Archbishop Werner Thissen .

The school was run by a sister of the Sacré Coeur Order until 2013 .

Until 2016, the grammar school was independently sponsored by the Catholic School Association Hamburg , and since then has been sponsored by the Archdiocese of Hamburg .

School orientation

Since the 2012/2013 school year there has been a new rhythmic school day at the Sophie Barat School. It consists of Fundamentum, normal one and a half hour lessons in the morning per subject, and so-called Addita (from Latin addere = to add), afternoon lessons , which can be chosen according to your own interests, and also include one and a half hours, after a 45 hour lunch break. The changeover to this new school system generated some response in regional / local media, for example in the Hamburger Morgenpost and Hamburger Abendblatt .

There is also a pilot project at the grammar school that trains ninth graders to become so-called media scouts , whose task it is to provide media education to lower school students (5th to 7th grade), for example in social networks such as Facebook .

Following the example of its namesake, the Sophie Barat School emphasizes:

  • a holistic education (head, heart, hand)
  • the concept of promoting and challenging

building

The school grounds are between Mittelweg and Warburgstrasse, not far from the western bank of the Outer Alster . The original building dates back to 1931 and was converted and added to the school in 1955. In 1975 specialist rooms and the gymnasium followed, and in 1988 additions to Warburgstrasse.

In 2006, in view of the limited space, discussions about alternative locations took place between the school authority and the school. Parents and pupils spoke out vehemently in favor of staying at the traditional location. As a result, the school authorities decided to convert the previous location on Warburgstrasse. From 2016 to 2018 a new five-story building was erected on Neue Rabenstrasse, which replaced the existing school building from the 1960s.

Personalities

Former teachers

  • Elli Heesch (1904–1993), mathematician, philosopher, religious and from 1957 to 1969 principal of the Sophie Barat School
  • Isa Vermehren (1918–2009), cabaret artist, actress, nun and from 1969 to 1983 principal of the Sophie Barat School
  • Henry Fischer (1928–1997), theologian and 1959 religion teacher and principal at the Sophie Barat School
  • Rainer Bolle (* 1960), religious educator and former teacher at the Sophie Barat School

Former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boris Meyn: The history of the development of the Hamburg school building . Hamburg 1998, p. 516. (inventory number 159)
  2. ^ Sophie-Barat-Schule on the website of Haslob , Kruse and Partner, Bremen.
  3. ^ Elli Heesch - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. In: historyofwomenphilosophers.org. September 18, 1993, accessed August 9, 2020 .