St. Ursula School Hanover
| St. Ursula School Hanover | |
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| type of school | Gymnasium - private school |
| founding | 1851 |
| address |
Simrockstrasse 20 |
| place | Hanover |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 21 '45 " N , 9 ° 45' 27" E |
| carrier | Catholic School Foundation in the Diocese of Hildesheim |
| student | around 1000 (as of Sept. 10, 2015) |
| Teachers | 100 (as of March 5, 2014) |
| management | Norbert Junker |
| Website | www.st-ursula-schule-hannover.de |
The St. Ursula School in Hanover is a state-recognized, general education grammar school in the Hanover district of Südstadt . As a private school, the school is sponsored by the Catholic School Foundation in the Diocese of Hildesheim . With around 1,000 students, the school is one of the largest grammar schools in Hanover. The namesake is Saint Ursula .
history
Postcard No. 210 , collotype , anonymous
The school follows the tradition of the Catholic Ursuline Order. It existed from 1851 to 1860 as a secondary school for girls in Hanover. It was a Catholic private school under the direction of the only teacher Klara Theodora von der Forst. The two chaplains of St. Clemens Church gave lessons in religion, arithmetic, geography and languages. From 1859 to 1860 the school was directed by Maria Cortain from Rheda .
On October 9, 1860, five sisters of the Ursuline Order came to Hanover and took over the school management and teaching: mother Augustina Wiedemann, mother Antonia Seppler and three religious teachers, M. Xaveria Graen and M. Walburga Aue from Duderstadt and M. Bernwarde Thele from Hildesheim . The school building was next to the St. Clemens Basilica in Calenberger Neustadt . The nuns lived in the school building. The building quickly became too small, and in the mid-1860s, 1238 Reichsthaler raised an appeal for donations for a new building.
With financial support from the Ursulines' mother house , a new building was built in Clemensstrasse and they could move into on October 2, 1865. With the victory of the Prussian army in the German War near Langensalza on June 27, 1866, the Kingdom of Hanover and thus the school supervision fell to Prussia . In order to continue running the school, the teachers had to swear an oath on the Prussian constitution .
Due to the culture war between Prussia and the Catholic Church , the Ursulines had to withdraw at the end of the school year on September 15, 1875. From 1875 to 1917 the only Catholic secondary school for girls in Hanover was under the secular direction of the Lyzealdirektor Katharina Philipps.
In the summer of 1917 Ursulines followed the call of the Bishop of Hildesheim Joseph Ernst and took over the school management again. The systematic weakening of the school by the National Socialist dictatorship began in 1937, with no more female pupils being allowed to be admitted to the lower and upper secondary schools for the new school year . In the following year no more sexta was permitted. In 1939 the last Abitur took place and the remaining school was closed. The school building on Clemensstrasse was destroyed in a bombing raid on October 9, 1943 during World War II.
Almost exactly two years later, on October 2, 1945, the St. Ursula High School was reopened on Spitzwegstrasse in the List with the approval of the British Military Government by order of the Chief President of Hanover . For a short time, boys and girls were given lessons there with official permission. It was not until the 1970s that boys returned to school with the introduction of co- education. There is a fee to attend school, but the tuition fee is very low compared to other private schools and waived if you are in need. The school's work is funded by the St. Ursula School Foundation. Due to the diverse international contacts and projects as well as a comprehensive range of language courses, the St. Ursula School is one of the European schools .
In the 1990s it became apparent that the order of the Ursulines, which had become smaller, could no longer bear the financial expenses that the school sponsorship meant by itself. With effect from August 1, 1996, the sponsorship of the school was transferred to the "Catholic School Foundation" of the Diocese of Hildesheim , which was established in the same year by Bishop Josef Homeyer . On August 1, 2003, the Ursulines left Hanover.
The abolition of the orientation level in Lower Saxony increased the school to include grades 5 and 6. In order to accept the new students, a branch of the St. Ursula School was set up in the Ludwig Windthorst School on Altenbekener Damm . At the beginning of the 2009 school year, a new building was added on Sallstrasse, so that no branch office was needed.
The school is also the seat of the Goethe Society Hanover .
Student Council
The student council (SV) of the St. Ursula School consists of ten students from different years. There are also three closer advisors and the student council. The head of school is occupied by a female and a male person (as of October 2008). The student council is a member of the state student council for free schools in Lower Saxony (FSN) and is represented there by two representatives.
School service
Once a week there is a Catholic school service for the students in the adjoining St. Heinrich Church . Participation in this service is compulsory up to the 10th grade. At the same time, there will be a separate service for the Protestant students in the neighboring Nazareth Church . For high school pupils there has been a school service since 2009 in the so-called “early shift” in a small chapel within the school building.
Well-known students and teachers
- Siegfried Strohbach (* 1929), music teacher, composer and conductor
- Joachim Albrecht (* 1950), teacher and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 2003 to 2008
- Peter Hofmann (* 1958), theologian
- Simon Benne (* 1970), journalist
- Markus Zimmermann (* 1978), sculptor
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bärbel Hilbig: School with the blessing of the bishop , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 10, 2009, page 17
- ↑ Imprint of the Goethe Society Hanover
- ↑ School in Faith - School Service ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the St. Ursula School Hanover
- ↑ Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Simon Benne: 25 years after graduating from high school, Mr. Junker and I: Reunion with a teacher ... , on the page Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 5, 2015, updated on September 8, 2015, last accessed on December 5, 2017
