Sophien-Gymnasium (Weimar)
| Sophien-Gymnasium | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1888 |
| closure | 2006 |
| place | Weimar |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '13 " N , 11 ° 19' 37" E |
The Sophien-Gymnasium in Weimar was a state high school in Thuringia that had existed independently since 1991. In 2006 it was merged with the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben -Gymnasium - the Humboldt-Gymnasium Weimar emerged from this merger . From autumn 2020, the two-tier Park-Regelschule Weimar will start work in the historic and then completely renovated building .
The grammar school was named in honor of Grand Duchess Sophie - whose historically most significant act is the establishment of the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar.
history
The tradition of the school goes back to 1888: from 1902 it was called Sophienschule in honor of Sophie von Oranien-Nassau , who died in 1897 , from 1945 Karl-Marx-Schule , from 1961 Karl-Marx-Oberschule I (the Roman numeral I was used to differentiate between the then Karl-Marx-Oberschule II - the former Realgymnasium - on the other side of the street) and from 1990 again Sophia School .
- 1890s to 1902
Before 1886, children in Weimar whose parents could not pay their school fees were sent to the second citizen school behind the Herder Church , the so-called “school for the poor”. The number of pupils increased - therefore, in 1886, construction of a new school began at the southern end of Sophienstrasse opposite the Realgymnasium. The inauguration of this school took place on October 2, 1888. This completed the triangular ensemble Sophienschule - Realgymnasium - Museum .
The new school was the most modern in Weimar at the time. The trapezoidal school building had 24 classrooms, cellars, shower baths, a small inner courtyard and corridors on the inner courtyard side. Thanks to large windows, the classrooms were provided with sufficient daylight. The shower baths in the basement provided washing facilities for children from poor homes. A service was held in the ballroom on Sundays. The number of students continued to grow, so that a new building was necessary. The Luisenschule (later the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule ) was built on the Ochsenwiese . In 1902 it was opened as an all-girls school.
- 1902-1945
The school was named after the Grand Duchess Sophie in 1902 . The Sophie school was from 1902 to 1939 an all-boys school with only male teachers.
In the last days of 1939 the Sophia School was set up as a barracks . During the war, all teachers were drafted and the school was temporarily closed. The Sophia School was later set up as a hospital . At the end of the war in 1945, the east wing was badly damaged and no longer usable.
- 1945-1990
After the end of the Second World War until the mid-1950s, the building was rebuilt - the school was named Karl-Marx-Schule (later: Karl-Marx-Oberschule I ). This had the first school stage in Weimar, which was founded by Richard Elsner and continued by Paul Hemmann.
About 800 students attended this school in the late 1950s. Extended Russian lessons were offered from grade 3, so that students in these special classes passed their Abitur in Russian after completing the 10th grade. From 1961 to 1987 Karl-Heinz Thauer was director of this school.
In 1990 the school management changed, and after a vote between teachers and students, the previous Karl Marx Oberschule I was given its former name Sophienschule again .
- 1991 - 2006
With the school development plan of the city of Weimar, the Sophienschule became a free state Sophiengymnasium in 1991 . Since, after the initial specialization in the linguistic area, there was a tendency to become an all-girls high school, science classes were also set up.
In 1999 around 520 students attended the grammar school; they were taught by 42 teachers. At that time, the Sophien-Gymnasium was the only one in Thuringia to offer blind and visually impaired students the opportunity to attend integrative lessons with the aim of obtaining a university entrance qualification. The Sophiengymnasium was involved in the Thuringian school development project and thus embarked on new ways of imparting knowledge. From 1992 until the merger in 2006, Dietrich Lindauer was the headmaster of the Sophiengymnasium Weimar .
- 2006-2017
As of August 14, 2006, the schoolhouse belonged - as one of several - to the vocational school called the State Vocational School for Economics, Administration and Nutrition " Friedrich Justin Bertuch " Weimar . The institution moved out of the building in the summer of 2017.
- present
Since the beginning of 2019, the building has been extensively renovated for a planned 7.6 million euros, in order to go into operation from autumn 2020 as a two-class regular school called "Park-Regelschule".
See also
literature
- Project group history (chronicle) under the direction of Elke Deparade: On the history of the Sophiengymnasium and its namesake. Part I. Weimar, May 1992, without ISBN.
- Project group history (chronicle) under the direction of Elke Deparade: On the history of the Sophiengymnasium. From the history of the Sophienschule from 1902 to 1945. Part II. Weimar, May 1993, without ISBN.
- Festschrift working group: Festschrift 111 Years - From the 2nd Citizens' School to the Sophiengymnasium 1888-1999. 111 years of school history, II. Citizens' School, Sophienschule, Karl-Marx-Oberschule, Sophien-Gymnasium. Festschrift on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the Sophiengymnasium Weimar in October 1999. Weimar 1999, without ISBN.
Web links
- Tobias Alexander Winter, graduate restorer (FH): Investigation report: preliminary restoration examinations, frame investigations, school building Rathenaustraße 4, 99423 Weimar - Level 1: exploratory frame examinations on designated parts of the building. www.winter-restaurierungen.de, company homepage, III. Quarter 2016, pdf with 135 pages. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
- Homepage of the state vocational school for economics, administration and nutrition "Friedrich Justin Bertuch" - accessed on June 25, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ The way from the II. Citizen School to the Sophiengymnasium. P. 11 in: Festschrift working group: Festschrift 111 years - From the 2nd citizen school to the Sophiengymnasium 1888-1999. 111 years of school history, II. Citizens' School, Sophienschule, Karl-Marx-Oberschule, Sophien-Gymnasium. Festschrift on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the Sophiengymnasium in October 1999. Weimar 1999, without ISBN.
- ↑ Trivia: The two students of this school, Karl-Heinz Thauer and Dietrich Lindauer, later became the headmaster of this school.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.sbbs-bertuch.de/tab_gesch.htm - accessed on July 6, 2017
- ↑ https://stadt.weimar.de/aktuell/aktuelle-bauvorhaben/sanierung-des-schulgebaeudes-am-rathenauplatz-4/ - accessed on June 25, 2019
