Eschweiler municipal high school

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Eschweiler municipal high school
Gymnasium Peter Paul View at the corner of Peter Paul Str., Parkstr.
Gymnasium Eschweiler main building
type of school high school
School number 167435
founding 1848
address

Peter-Paul-Strasse 13

place Eschweiler
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 49 '15 "  N , 6 ° 16' 22"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '15 "  N , 6 ° 16' 22"  E
carrier City of Eschweiler
student 760 (2015/16)
Teachers 53 (Jan 13, 2018)
management Winfried Grunewald
Website www.gymnasiumeschweiler.de

The municipal high school Eschweiler is a high school in Eschweiler ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) with a bilingual English branch .

Founded in 1848 as a rectorate school, it developed into a Progymnasium in 1879 . In 1902 it finally became a full-fledged grammar school, where the first Abitur exams were taken in 1905 .

In 1986 the building was included in the list of monuments of the city of Eschweiler as No. 29.

history

Starts as a rectorate school

In the revolutionary year of 1848, Dechant Deckers founded a school for boys in Eschweiler. However, the local council initially showed a negative attitude towards the new school, which was only recognized by the Prussian administration as a higher rectorate school in 1853 . Before it was sponsored by the city of Eschweiler in 1858, the school was only financed by school fees and donations. During this time, the 40 to 45 students were taught in two rooms in a rented house. In 1859 the school moved to the outbuilding of Eschweiler Castle, which had previously served as a wagon shed. A year later, the 23-year-old Peter Liesen took over the office of school principal .

The way to the full high school

The move in 1878 brought the now over 200 students to a new school building with 21 rooms, an auditorium and a bell tower in Eschweiler Grabenstrasse. In 1879 the school was officially recognized as a Progymnasium. From now on, the pupils were able to obtain the qualification for the prima of a full high school through a final examination . With 199 students, the Eschweiler Progymnasium was the largest in the Prussian Rhine Province in 1885 . The school building was expanded to include a gymnasium in 1891. In 1900 the city council decided to convert the Progymnasium into a full grammar school. In 1902 an era came to an end when Peter Liesen was released into retirement after 42 years as the school principal after a three-day celebration. In 1905, the first 15 high school graduates completed their first high school diploma in what was then the Aachen district at the Eschweiler municipal high school.

Realgymnasium and First World War

At the same time, a secondary school without Latin was attached to the humanistic grammar school , which means that the school now enables 3 branches:

  • Progymnasium
  • high school
  • secondary school

This increased the number of students to over 400. However, by the resolution of the Eschweiler City Council in 1908, the grammar school and secondary school were separated again. The secondary school then moved in 1912 to the newly built building on Peter-Paul-Strasse, which is now the main building of the grammar school. The economic situation during the First World War led to the merging of the two schools on Peter-Paul-Strasse in 1916. The so-called Realgymnasium was created . The old school building on Grabenstrasse was now used as the town hall of Eschweiler.

Weimar Republic and National Socialism

In 1922 the Realgymnasium housed four school branches, the

  • Humanistic high school
  • Reform-Realgymnasium (with French as the starting language)
  • Realgymnasium (with Latin as the starting language)
  • Realschule (without Latin).

According to statistics from 1936, 97% of all students belonged to a National Socialist association. In 1937 the Realgymnasium became the "German High School" with a linguistic and scientific branch. At the same time the upper prima (now 13th grade) was abolished.

The school in the Federal Republic of Germany

The time of National Socialism and the Second World War had left the school with a trace. Due to air raids, only five rooms were still usable and the majority of the teachers were also deemed unsuitable for teaching by the military government due to their National Socialist past . Nevertheless, classes were resumed in 1946. However, it was not until 1949 that he was able to continue the full number of hours at the mathematics and natural science grammar school with Latin as the starting foreign language. In 1957 the grammar school and secondary school were separated. The secondary school moved across to the Kolpinghaus, later a new building was built at Patternhof (today the Patternhof municipal secondary school). At the grammar school, which was the smallest in the Rhineland at the end of the 1950s , English was introduced as an initial foreign language. In 1968 an annex was added to the school building and the old building was rebuilt. From 1975 girls are also allowed to attend the municipal high school. In 1977 the first Abitur in the new course system of the reformed upper secondary school was passed. Due to the increasing number of pupils, some of the lessons were moved to the building of the former secondary school on Eichendorffstrasse in Eschweiler. From 1990 onwards, students were offered a bilingual English course (additional English lessons, as well as geography , politics and history in English). Since then there have also been regular musical events. In 1996 the former barracks building on Gartenstrasse was renovated due to the steadily increasing number of students and used as an auxiliary building with additional classrooms. At the same time the main building was renovated. The building on Eichendorffstrasse was given up. 2001 was the beginning of a collaboration with the Episcopal Liebfrauenschule (grammar school in Eschweiler). The extension built in 1968 was supplemented in the same year by an additional floor with five rooms and an additional staircase.

statistics

Number of students

Development of the number of students at the municipal high school in Eschweiler
year Number of students
1850 40-45
1865 118
1873 over 100
1875 210
1878 over 200
1885 199
1895 173
1902 252
1905 over 400
1925 315
1955 334
1975 over 500
2001 994
2005 over 1000
2010 1152
2011 1147
2013/14 888
2014/15 814
2015/16 760 including approx. 20 international students
2016/17 716 including 67 international students

Number of teachers

Development of the number of teachers at the municipal high school in Eschweiler

principal

Term of office Surname
1848-1860 Dean Deckers
1860-1902 Peter Liesen
1929-1933 Franz Ewald
1933-1945 Ludwig Klostermann
1962-1975 Bernhard Mönnighoff
1976-1997 Hermann Venzky
1998-2010 Ulrich Reinartz
2010-2014 Friedhelm Mersch
since Nov. 2014 Winfried Grunewald

Culture

Musical performances

Since 1990 musicals have been performed at the municipal grammar school at regular intervals .

Previous performances
year performance
1990 " Starlight Express "
1994 " Phantom of the Opera "
1996 " Today we're going to Maxim "
2002 " Much Ado About Nothing "
2003 " Saturday Nightfever "
2010 "High School Musical Revue"
2013 " Life in Space "
2014 "Wacky"
2014 " There and Away "

Persons connected to this school

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