Municipal Meerbusch High School

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Municipal Meerbusch High School
Municipal Meerbusch High School
type of school high school
School number 165750
founding 1968
address

Mönkesweg 58
40670 Meerbusch

place Meerbusch
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 16 '44 "  N , 6 ° 39' 1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '44 "  N , 6 ° 39' 1"  E
carrier City of Meerbusch
student 1018 (as of 2018)
Teachers 81
management Dorothee Schiebler
Website www.meerbusch-gymnasium.de

The Städtische Meerbusch-Gymnasium , in the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss , was decided in its present form in 1970 by the Meerbusch city council. The grammar school was built as part of a school center in the Strümp district , which was also approved in 1970.

School Chronicle

Planning and construction

Pavilion on Görresstrasse

The first plans for a grammar school in the Osterath - Lank - Büderich area go back to 1965 and '66. At that time, the city of Meerbusch did not yet exist as it was only founded in 1970. Therefore, the first plans were made by the Osterath municipal council and its school committee, which, however, also allowed representatives from the Lank office and the Strümp municipality to participate in the planning. Since the Grevenbroich district had a grammar school set up in Kaarst in 1966, the decision to build the grammar school in Osterath was not made until 1968. Lessons began on August 1, 1968 in a building on Görrestrasse. At the beginning of school, a total of 127 students registered and three 6th grades were formed. Franz-Josef Nicola, who had temporarily taken over the management of the school in advance, was elected as headmaster. In 1969 the school was named "Gymnasium Osterath". Since the previous school building was too small due to the increasing number of registrations, the municipal council planned a larger building in Osterath- Bovert near the current “Bovert” train station. The council announced, however, that the state of North Rhine-Westphalia could subsidize the construction in 1971 at the earliest. This forced the school management and the council to look for an interim solution. For this reason, part of the school moved to Strümp in the vacant building of the old elementary school.

Old elementary school building

When the city of Meerbusch was finally founded in 1970, the plans of the municipal council and the school committee were handed over to the new city council. In the fourth council meeting, he decided between two different locations for the school. The first choice was the location preferred by the Osterath municipal council, and the other was a plot of land south of the L383 road in Strümp. The council decided in favor of the site in Strümp with 24 votes against 16 and the first important preparations were made. The property was bought and the Society for Communal Affairs (GKA) was commissioned to carry out the further planning and construction. For this reason, the city and the GKA concluded both a planning agreement and an arbitration agreement. The two contracts were negotiated by the then city director Edgar Sonnenschein and the two representatives of the GKA Hans Loy and Wolter Gospos. The next three years were used to plan the high school as part of a school center. The council wanted the school center to include a four-course grammar school, which can be expanded to six, as well as a three-course secondary school and a three-course lower secondary school. The groundbreaking finally took place on August 4, 1973.

Construction of the special school
Planning draft for the first floor of the Meerbusch-Gymnasium in Strümp

Since lessons in the temporary school building in Osterath came to a standstill again in 1972–73, the “Blue Pavilion” was built on Görresstrasse, in which up to four classes could be taught at the same time. The construction in Strümp was progressing and a school name was being considered (see naming ). It was decided to use the name “Städtisches Meerbusch-Gymnasium” in order to set a monument to the city in case it should be incorporated into Düsseldorf. But things turned out differently, and Meerbusch remained independent, thanks to a ruling by the Münster Administrative Court. In autumn 1974 the first classes moved into the already completed classrooms in order to remedy the classroom shortage. The construction was completed in 1975, and so the students were able to move into the building in the 1975/76 school year.

The years 1974 to 2011

Aerial view

After the students moved into the school building in 1974, a school fire brigade was founded, which, like the youth fire brigade today, dealt with the basics of fire fighting and fire prevention. Five years later, the 17-year-old student Klaus Michael Rübsam built an electronic organ for the grammar school in over 700 hours after the headmaster Nicola had previously bought an organ kit.

A year earlier, the plans for a second gym were completed. These were planned by the then town councilor Thomas. In addition, the bicycle parking lot and the school library were planned and built in 1979. The first graduation ball at the school took place in 1982 under the motto “Dance of the Gods”. In the same year the first computer science course was formed under the direction of the teacher Franz Vogel. A year later, the first project week was celebrated at the SMG as the school celebrated its 15th anniversary. In 1989 the first cooperation course with the Mataré-Gymnasium in Büderich came about because not enough students registered for an advanced physics course. In 1993 the school finally celebrated 25 years of school history and held a winter sports festival in February. Furthermore, Saturday classes ended in the same year. In 1999 the school was connected to the Internet. In 2000 a lot was generally done for technical progress, as a result of which a separate PC room was set up for 60,000 DM and the idea of ​​an Internet café emerged. Students and parents donated a total of around 8,000 DM for this café. Nine years later, the science rooms at the SMG were renovated and brought up to the latest technical standards. 16 keyboards were also purchased for music lessons. Two years later, the renovation of the school toilets began for € 300,000. In addition, a school canteen was built, which was planned in advance by students.

Naming

The school has existed since 1968, but at that time it was still called “Osterath Gymnasium in Development”. When the grammar school moved to Meerbusch Strümp in 1974, a new name was needed. Ten proposals were submitted, which were then voted on at a school conference:

The latter was chosen because the name refers directly to the still young city of Meerbusch (founded in 1970). Shortly after its founding, the city was about to be dissolved again. In order to prevent this, the school in the center of Meerbusch was given the symbolic role of the bearer of the name, in order to create a memorial for the city of Meerbusch and everyone who worked for it through the high school, in which many important city decisions were made at the time. to put.

The official naming declaration states:

“The choice of the grammar school as the bearer of this name is due to the fact that this grammar school has gained a remarkable ideal significance as a symbol of the efficiency and self-assertion of the young city. [...] The name "Städtisches Meerbusch Gymnasium" offers in its originality a means of identification [...]. "

In 1993 it was discussed again to rename the school, but the proposal was rejected by 91 students and 17 teachers.

Headmaster since 1968

Franz-Josef Nicola was the first headmaster (1968–1989) and had a decisive influence on the development of the school. His subjects were mathematics, physics and computer science. He passed away in 2011.

Robert Staeck was acting headmaster from Nicolas' retirement in June 1989 to January 1990. He passed away in 2016.

Wolf-Werner Pickhardt was deputy headmaster until January 1990 and was appointed acting headmaster until Heidi Kranz was appointed headmaster in April 1990.

Heidi Kranz came from the municipal Mataré-Gymnasium Meerbusch and was headmaster from April 1990 to 2002. She taught German and French. She increasingly advocated school exchanges with the French twin town Fouesnant and established French as the first foreign language at the SMG. In 2002 she finally retired.

Ulrich Keusen was the school principal from 2002 to 2012 and taught mathematics and physics. Before that he was deputy headmaster at the Mataré-Gymnasium Meerbusch. He was responsible for many modernization measures.

Stefan Holtschneider was the headmaster from 2012 to 2015 and taught art and biology. In 2015 he got a job in the district government.

After Dorothee Schiebler became the deputy headmistress in 2008, she took over the provisional management in the 2015/16 school year and was finally appointed headmistress in 2017. She teaches biology and chemistry.

Student numbers since 1968

Number of students at the Städtisches Meerbusch-Gymnasium from 1968 to 2018

Former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint / data protection. Städtisches Meerbusch-Gymnasium, accessed on May 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑
    • StA Meerbusch, stock SMG, No. 32
    • StA Meerbusch, inventory Meerbusch, East 2248
    • StA Meerbusch, inventory of Meerbusch, East 1746
    • StA Meerbusch, inventory SMG, No. 58
    • StA Meerbusch, inventory of Meerbusch, minutes of the City Council of Meerbusch 1970 (1)
    • StA Meerbusch, inventory of Meerbusch, minutes of the City Council of Meerbusch 1970 (2)
    • StA Meerbusch, inventory Meerbusch, MB 1354
  3. ↑ SMG news 28
  4. ↑ Deposit of Meerbusch Gymnasium StA Meerbusch, inventory SMG, No. 31