Herten municipal high school

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Herten municipal high school
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type of school high school
School number 168269
founding 1897
address

Gartenstrasse 40
45699 Herten, Germany

place Herten
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 35 '46 "  N , 7 ° 8' 21"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '46 "  N , 7 ° 8' 21"  E
carrier City of Herten
student 824 (Oct 15, 2015)
Teachers 67 (April 24, 2020)
management Bärbel Schweers
Website www.gymnasium-stadt-herten.de

The municipal high school in Herten is the only high school in the Westphalian city of Herten .

history

Rector's School

In the 1890s, the town of Herten experienced stronger growth than ever before or afterwards as a result of mining: The population more than tripled from 3,600 in 1890 to 12,186 in 1900. Wilhelm Kempkens, one of the people working in Herten, then founded Priest, a Catholic rectorate school in 1897. Rector's schools were “feeder schools” for grammar schools: They were supposed to prepare talented students in places where there was no grammar school and taught according to the grammar school curriculum, including Latin. Their headmasters, known as “rectors”, were therefore usually theologians.

Since the maintenance of a rectorate school was a great burden for the parish of St. Antonius , they asked the city to take over the school sponsorship. This happened on May 1, 1901 - in this respect, the city of Herten regards the transition from a church to a municipal rectorate school as the day of the founding of today's grammar school. As principal, Wilhelm Kempkens shaped the young school until he became pastor in Kevelaer in 1911 .

Realprogymnasium

In 1912, the school, which initially ran up to the fourth and then to the lower secondary school, was increased by a further, fifth grade, the upper secondary school . For the higher grades, the boys had to switch to grammar schools in Wanne or Gelsenkirchen . In 1921 the next grade, the Untersekunda , was added and the school with now six classes became a Realprogymnasium . This enabled her students to take the secondary school leaving certificate for the first time in 1922 .

Realgymnasium

In 1926, the municipal council decided to expand the Realprogymnasium into a "full institution", d. H. to a high school that until High School led, as a secondary school . For this purpose, a new school building was built in 1927/1928 according to plans by the Dortmund architects Heinrich Strunck and Josef Wentzler in just 14 months of construction. In 1930 the first year graduated from high school. The city did not have enough funds for a separate secondary school for girls. That is why girls have been admitted since 1920.

German high school

The National Socialists clashed with the word "high school". They considered it an expression of elitist awareness and an obstacle to the integration of high school students into the national community . Therefore the Realgymnasium Herten - like many other high schools - was renamed in 1937 to "German Oberschule". School time was shortened from nine to eight years. As in World War II , the bomber attacks on the Ruhr were made at ever shorter intervals, the younger students were (the lower four years) by the Kinderlandverschickung to Glonn , Moosach , Bruck and Forstinning evacuated, later to Berchtesgaden and on the Hintersee .

high school

After the school was closed due to the war, classes could be resumed in February 1946 (for the lower four grades) and at Easter 1946 (for the older students). The renaming to "Deutsche Oberschule" was reversed and the school was henceforth called "Städtisches Gymnasium". It consisted of two parallel “trains” (sequences of classes), a “boys 'train” and a “girls' train”. This separation was abolished for the school year 1969/1970 and the "co-instruction", the common teaching, was gradually introduced.

Until 1973 the grammar school had between 450 and 500 students. After that, the number of students rose sharply.

In 2014 the school received the awards “ School without Racism - School with Courage ” and “Partner School of Football”. Since November 19, 2017, the school has also been part of the " MINT-EC network " and thus received the MINT-EC certificate .

School life and partner schools

1950 won a Oberprimaner, Dieter Nagel, the price of the Ministry of Culture, the student competition composition .

Lego-AG, which has already won awards nationwide with its robots, receives special attention.

The municipal high school Herten has partner schools in the following cities:

Known students

literature

  • Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of high school in Herten, 1901–1976 . Buschhausen, Herten 1976.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Günter Höffken: On the institutionalization and development of the middle school in Prussia from 1872 to 1945 . Diss., University of Potsdam, 2006, p. 26.
  2. ↑ a b Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 11.
  3. ↑ a b c Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 12.
  4. ↑ a b c Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 13.
  5. ↑ a b Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 15.
  6. ↑ a b c Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 16.
  7. ^ Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 17.
  8. ^ Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, p. 18.
  9. ^ Fritz Rudolph, Friedrich-Karl Scheer (Red.): 75 years of the Herten high school, 1901–1976 . Herten 1976, pp. 32 and 34.
  10. ↑ We are MINT-EC! ( gymnasium-stadt-herten.de [accessed on July 11, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Report ROBOCOM2007 at the Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences

  1. ↑ The College. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .