St. Ursula School (Geisenheim)
| St. Ursula School Geisenheim | |
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| type of school |
Gymnasium with secondary school branch |
| founding | 1894 |
| address |
Rüdesheimer Strasse 30 |
| place | Geisenheim |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 58 '55 " N , 7 ° 57' 43" E |
| carrier | St. Hildegard School Society of the Diocese of Limburg |
| student | 813 |
| Teachers | 88 |
| management | Brigitte Lorenz |
| Website | www.st-ursula-schule.de |
The St. Ursula School in Geisenheim is a private, state-approved high school with a secondary school branch in the university town of Geisenheim in the Rheingau in Hesse . It currently has four parallel classes from the 5th to the 9th grade, including a real class since 2012. Including the upper level (E1-Q4), a total of around 800 pupils attend the St. Ursula School. All together are taught by around 80 teachers. The school sponsor has been the St. Hildegard School Society of the Limburg diocese since 1992 . The school fee for the first child is 60 euros per month.
history
The school was founded in 1894 as a branch of the Frankfurt Ursulines under the direction of Mater Angela Lehner as an all-girls boarding school with an emancipatory approach to education. School and boarding school gave girls access to an intermediate level of education. The Kronberger Hof initially served as the school building . 1903-04 was the construction of the Ursuline Institute St. Josef (later the old building , then St. Josef again ) with a neo-Gothic chapel. The west wing of the Palais Ostein was acquired in 1925.
At the time of National Socialism, the denominational school was closed and the schoolhouse was used as a hospital during the war. After the war, the school reopened its doors as a grammar school in November 1945. In 1948 18 students successfully passed their Abitur.
With the great support of the parents, a new one (the former assembly hall) was built in 1954 on the site of an old gym that was destroyed in 1944. Up until 1960, classes were held exclusively by women, mainly nuns.
With the acquisition of the east wing of the Ostein'schen Palais in 1964, the western part of the Kronberger Hof and the old chapel were demolished at the same time. In the same year the foundation stone was laid for a new building (today St. Ursula ). This was inaugurated in 1966 together with a teaching pool, new cloister rooms for the sisters and a new chapel. The chapel and cloister rooms are designed by the Wiesbaden architect Paul Johannbroer . Johannbroer's preferred glass artist, Johannes Beeck , not only created the windows for the new chapel, but also designed the only choir wall design known to him. The plans were made in concrete by the sculptor Erika Vonhoff from Aachen, and both portals are from her. The current area of the school premises was achieved in 1969 with the acquisition of the Eberbacher Hof .
In 1986 a far-reaching change began: the management of the school was placed in secular hands. Under the new rector Bodo Siegwart, the school also accepted boys in response to the generally falling number of pupils from 1987 onwards and, in cooperation with the neighboring Rheingau School, offered upper-level courses in which pupils from both grammar schools were taught together.
A new gymnasium was inaugurated in 1995 according to plans by the architect Hans Waechter from Mühltal. The listed garden pavilion of the Kronberger Hof was integrated into the new hall as the entrance building. This was awarded the Johann Wilhelm Lehr plaque for good architecture by the Association of German Architects .
The last religious sister said goodbye to active school service in 2002. In 2013, all of the sisters still living in the cloister moved to the Geisenheim multi-generation house. The auditorium and the adjoining building with swimming pool and exam rooms were demolished in the summer of 2014 to make room for a new school building ( St. Angela ), which has been available for school operations since the 2017/18 school year.
School management of the St. Ursula School
- 1894–1915 Mater Angela Lehner
- 1915–1923 Mater Gonzaga Schippers
- 1923–1930 Mater Margarete Eumes
- 1930–1970 Mater Ignatia Kaiser
- 1970–1986 sister Angela Behr
- 1986-2004 Bodo Siegwart
- 2004–2017 Hermann-Josef Schlicht
- since 2017 Brigitte Lorenz
gallery
Old St. Josef building
New gym from 1995 with garden pavilion at Kronberger Hof
Palais Ostein , former boarding school
Eberbacher Hof
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse II: The Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173
- Manfred Laufs u. a .: 100 years of the Ursulines in Geisenheim 1894-1994 , publisher: Ursulinenkloster St. Joseph and St. Ursula-Schulgesellschaft mbH, Geisenheim 1994
- Mechthild Klöppner: Ursuline Monastery St. Joseph St. Ursula School in Geisenheim / Rh - works of art and architecture - , Geisenheim 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Gazette annual report of the school authority St. Hildegard-Schulgesellschaft mbH 2017
- ^ The artistic work of Johannes Beeck Dissertation Nicole Alexandra Leyk, Bonn 2012
- ↑ School chronicle of the St. Ursula School
- ^ Johann Wilhelm Lehr badge 1993-1998 ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Association of German Architects