St. Ursula High School Freiburg im Breisgau
| St. Ursula High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1696 |
| address |
Eisenbahnstrasse 45 |
| place | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 59 '51 " N , 7 ° 50' 40" E |
| carrier | School foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg |
| student | 1171 |
| Teachers | 98 |
| management | Thomas Hummel |
| Website | www.st-ursula-freiburg.de |
The St. Ursula Gymnasium in Freiburg im Breisgau is a private, state-recognized, general education Catholic girls ' high school , which is run by the school foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . With over 1,100 students, it is the largest grammar school in Freiburg. The school was founded in 1696 by Sisters of the Society of Saint Ursula of Anne de Xainctonge . The St. Ursula-Gymnasium is not to be confused with the St. Ursula-Schools of the same school authority in the Freiburg Hildastraße, which, however, also go back to the school's foundation in 1696 and two vocational high schools (nutritional sciences and social education), a vocational school for care for the elderly and Combine geriatric care assistant and a girls' secondary school.
location
The school building is located between the historic old town of Freiburg and the Freiburg main station , unlike other schools in Freiburg without large open spaces within a nearly closed block development. Due to lack of space, the gym is not located on the premises of the school building, but is in an adjacent street.
Profiles
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Linguistic profile
Pupils in this profile choose one of the foreign languages English, Latin, French and Spanish in grades 5, 6 and 8, although grade 5 can begin with English or French. If you have started with English, you can choose either Latin or French in grade 6, if you have started with French, you will definitely continue with English. Spanish and Latin (if not already chosen) can be chosen in grade 8.
Scientific profile
Students in this profile choose English or French in grade 5, another foreign language is added in grade 6, and science subjects are increasingly taught in grade 8.
Music profile
In the music profile, the sequence of languages corresponds to the scientific profile, from grade 8 onwards the focus is on music.
history
On September 6, 1696 four sisters of the Society of St. Ursula received from Anne de Xainctonge from Lucerne from the city council, and on October 11, 1696 from the responsible Bishop of Constance, the approval "that a college of the Society of St. Ursula in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau established and founded and the female youth can be instructed according to the rules of the same society in the morals as in the Christian and civil teaching ". The Lucerne branch of the company came from an older branch in Porrentruy (Pruntrut), hence the mistake that the sisters came from Porrentruy. The occasional statement that the school was founded by the “ Ursulines ” is also incorrect. The Society of Saint Ursula by Anne de Xainctonge is a different congregation from the Ursulines donated by Angela Merici . In 1710 the sisters and their school moved into a new building on the western edge of the old town. Because of its black religious costume, it was called the Black Monastery by the population , which is still true today for the building, in which the school is no longer housed.
With the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1803, the number of pupils increased. Unlike other monasteries, the Grand Duke Karl Friedrich as a result of the French Revolution and the transition from Freiburg to the Protestant Grand Duchy of Baden picked up, the two were teaching order of Dominican nuns from the monastery Adelhausen and the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin converted while in secular institutions but not resolved; In this way, continuity was maintained despite the new structure in the training system. The rules of the order were replaced in 1811 by a “regulatory” applicable to all female teaching and educational institutions.
The Baden school dispute in the second half of the 19th century led to the abolition and expropriation of the Black Monastery in 1877 . However, the business continued in secular clothing in a new building on Fahnenbergplatz. In 1889 the "Catholic Institute St. Ursula" was founded by the later auxiliary bishop Dr. Justus Knecht taken over. In 1893 the convent consisted of five sisters and three novices, and in the same year the school was relocated to its current location on Eisenbahnstrasse. A culinary school was opened in St. Ursula in 1896 after a Baden law in 1891 allowed girls to attend a household school instead of the compulsory advanced training school. 36 girls were taught in two rooms with three cookers each, out of a total of 240 female students. From 1922 the sisters were allowed to wear their old costumes again, and in 1923 the convent regained all rights of a congregation. In 1928 the school became a full gymnasium, and in 1931 the first female pupils took the Abitur examination.
From 1933 St. Ursula also had to adapt to the Third Reich , for example with the introduction of the " Hitler salute " instead of the " curtsey " as a greeting. In 1934 the school's Abitur examination was banned, and grants from the city were reduced. Eventually the school was closed on April 1, 1940 and expropriated in 1941. The sisters moved to Hildastrasse. On December 6, 1945, by a resolution of the city council, they received the "Catholic Institute" back, and on January 14, 1946, by order of the French military government , they resumed teaching.
School fees
Because it is a private school , the school authority has been charging school fees for the oldest pupil in a family since the 2005/06 school year . For the second child, a school fee reduced by half must be paid. From the third child onwards, school attendance is free of charge. In the 2005/06 school year the annual school fee was 300 euros, from the 2009/2010 school year it was 320 euros. Since the school year 2010/11, 360 euros had to be paid before the school fee was increased to 480 euros per year from the school year 2013/14.
Art at school
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Personalities
Well-known former students
- May Bellinghausen (1896–1985), teacher and local politician
- Carmen Fuggiss (* 1963), soprano
- Jasmin Siri (* 1980), sociologist
See also
List of existing girls' schools in German-speaking countries
literature
- Patrick Braun (Ed.): The Congregations in Switzerland, 16. – 18. Century. In: Helvetica sacra Department VIII Volume 1. Basel and Frankfurt am Main, Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1994. ISBN 3-7190-1367-7
- Wolfgang Hug: 300 years of Ursulines in Freiburg im Breisgau. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive 1996; 116: 123-134. ( Digital version ; PDF; 22.1 MB)
- Community of Friends of St. Ursula High School (Ed.): 1696–1996 - 300 years of St. Ursula Girls High School in Freiburg.
- Leonard Korth: The former monastery churches Adelhausen and St. Ursula . In: Baden Architects and Engineers Association, Upper Rhine District (Ed.): Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings . HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 379-380 ( Scan - Wikisource ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Opening of the household cooking school in: Freiburger Zeitung of October 7, 1896 , accessed on June 23, 2011
