St. Ursula High School (Düsseldorf)

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St. Ursula High School
Portal St. Ursula High School, Ritterstrasse 16, Düsseldorf-Altstadt (01) .jpg
type of school high school
School number 164380
founding 1677
address

Ritterstrasse 16

place Dusseldorf
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 13 '48 "  N , 6 ° 46' 23"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '48 "  N , 6 ° 46' 23"  E
carrier Archdiocese of Cologne
student around 1200
Teachers about 90
management Anne tribe
Website www.st-ursula-gymnasium.de
St. Ursula High School in Ritterstrasse
School yard with a view of the former monastery (complete renovation 1998/99) and new building on Ursulinengasse (2018)
Facade of the former Ursuline monastery (2018)

The St. Ursula High School in Düsseldorf's old town was founded by the Ursulines , who have been in Düsseldorf since 1677. It was a girls' school until 1985. Today the St. Ursula Gymnasium is a state-approved private school for boys and girls run by the Archdiocese of Cologne .

The school type of the St. Ursula-Gymnasium is that of a "state-approved substitute school ", i. H. the high school replaces a state or municipal high school at this location. Today it is one of the largest coeducational high schools with around 1200 students and 90 teachers.

The high school is located on the edge of the old town next to the Düsseldorf Art Academy, not far from the Düsseldorf Rhine promenade.

history

The beginnings of an independent education for girls in the city of Düsseldorf hardly go back to the middle of the 17th century. The activities of Ursulines cannot be traced before 1677. The first statement about the implementation of school instruction is dated July 1679. The initiative had already come from the sovereign Philipp Wilhelm , who had been pushing for an increase in the level of education in his royal seat since 1666. Up to the arrival of the Ursulines, the approx. 400 school-age girls living in the city were in some cases only cared for by 6 devotees (teaching sisters who worked closely with the Jesuits ).

In 1684, Elector Johann Wilhelm gave the Ursulines a piece of land in the area of ​​today's Ritterstraße No. 14, which was then newly laid out for a city expansion. After that, by October 1686, the provisional reference date for the new building, the Ursulines erected a monastery building on this site , which also had to serve as a residence, chapel and school. The monastery building was completed in 1688. The monastery church, which is locally separated from the building, was not built until 1702. The monastery building had its own classroom for the first time. Before that, lessons were held in rented rooms. In 1707 a "newe by heart" school was established and lessons were carried out in this school.

Since the middle of the 18th century, the school and monastery of the Düsseldorf Ursulines began to decline due to the poor financial situation. The sisters financed the new school building, which became necessary in 1779, only through collections. The last sister left school in 2014 to take on new tasks as superior in the motherhouse in Kaarst.

The greatest threats to the existence of the Ursuline schools came from the state school policy, which was part of a nationwide financial and reorganization policy, and from the secularization efforts that began as so-called "pre-secularizations" in the 18th century and only at the beginning of the Prussian period in Rhineland came to an end.

After that, their existence was endangered again by the Kulturkampf between Prussia and the Catholic Church. Due to new Prussian laws that were only valid for a short time in the context of this culture war for orders and congregations , activities for Catholic orders and religious schools in Prussia from May 31, 1875 to October 1, 1875 were severely restricted. This also applied to the Order of the Ursulines and their school. The members of the order were expelled from Düsseldorf and Prussia and the school closed in 1875. The Ursulines left the city on October 1st, 1875 and the monastery buildings and school were sold by the order. The buyer was a forward-looking group of Düsseldorf citizens who acquired the property and held it until the order returned. In 1888 the order returned and the school of the "Higher Girls' School of the Ursulines" was resumed.

Large parts of the school buildings were destroyed during the Second World War . After the schools were allowed to resume their work in autumn 1945, St. Ursula began with 45 pupils. Only then was French replaced by English as the first foreign language .

Since 1986 boys as well as girls have been able to attend grammar school. Although the grammar school is based on the educational policy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the school uses the freedom given by the school law to maintain a Christian identity. The wide range of linguistic, social and scientific subjects, the exchange with other foreign schools, the connections to universities and regional industry and commerce as well as the good equipment of the school give the St. Ursula-Gymnasium a good reputation far beyond the city limits .

school-building

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Entrance to the St. Ursula Vocational College on Eiskellerstraße

Major renovations took place at the school. The rectorate and some class and course rooms are located in the historic and recently renovated school building on Ritterstrasse. In addition, with the new building, the St. Ursula vocational college on Eiskellerstraße and the Kreuzherrenkirche, the school has additional class and course rooms. Sports lessons take place in the two large sports halls or the smaller gym, which are also used for theater or music performances. For sporting competitions or athletics, the school often switches to the training area around the Merkur Spiel-Arena, about 5 km away .

One of the sports halls or the Kreuzherrenkirche is also used as the auditorium .

Graduates

  • Petra Vieten , entrepreneur, presenter, actress, model (Abitur 1984)
  • Maria Radner (1981-2015), opera singer (Abitur 2000)
  • Benjamin Kleibrink , first German individual Olympic champion in the men's floret weapon

literature

  • Community devotional exercises for the Ursuline monastery in Düsseldorf . Wolf, Düsseldorf 1841 ( digitized version )
  • Annual report of the Ursuline Girls' School in Düsseldorf Ritterstrasse 14: School year ... Düsseldorf, 1909–1910 ( digitized version )
  • Annual report for the school year ... Düsseldorf, 1912–1937 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf ; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part I, p. 8.
  2. ↑ a b c d e In: Website of the St. Ursula-Gymnasium Düsseldorf ; under chapter: History.
  3. ^ Archives of the City of Düsseldorf; in: Geschichtendatei Volume K – M , p. 126.
  4. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf ; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part I, p. 9.