Spoonbill School

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State primary school "Josias Friedrich Löffler"
Gotha-Löfflerschule-CTH.JPG
type of school primary school
founding 1892
address

At Tivoli 18

place Gotha
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 56 '39 "  N , 10 ° 42' 2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '39 "  N , 10 ° 42' 2"  E
carrier City of Gotha
student 300 (2018)
management Mrs. A. Friedrich
Website www.loeffler-schule.de [1]

The state primary school "Josias Friedrich Löffler" is a primary school in Gotha . The listed school building was built in 1892 and a gymnasium was added in 1894. The school initially bore the name of Josias Friedrich Löffler and then served as a vocational school from 1959, then named after Käthe Kollwitz . In 1991 the building became a primary school again, which has been named Löffler since 1992.

history

New elementary school for the growing suburbs

The Gotha city council decided in 1889, at a time of steadily growing student numbers, to build an 18 to 20-class school for boys and girls from the southern and western suburbs. The plans were provided by the architect and town builder Julius Bertuch , who was later awarded the Knight's Cross of the Ernestine House Order. In 1891 the plan for the school was completed and the city council approved RM 264,000 for the new building. The ducal chamber acquired a garden plot from the court master Scheliha for the school building. Bertuch created a school for 1400 children in 23 classes and the very first with bathing facilities, namely a shower bath in the basement, which was then built in 1891/92. The majority of the school commission suggested the pedagogue Andreas Reyher as the namesake of the school, but the city council agreed on the Gotha pastor Josias Friedrich Löffler (1752-1816), who had co-founded the school system in Gotha. The school was inaugurated on October 10, 1892; At the same time, the previous free school founded by Löffler in 1800 and the suburban school on the Hohen Sand , whose students switched to the Löffler school, closed. The former director of the free school, Carl Jakob, became the first director. The gymnasium built in 1893/94 was only the second in Gotha; In addition to gymnastics lessons in the hall and in the open air, swimming lessons were also given in the Paul Sauerbrey Bad.

At the beginning of the First World War , the school was briefly subordinated to the army administration, as the city's barracks were no longer sufficient and rooms were required to set up a battalion for the western front. During the Second World War the school also served as military accommodation for a time, while the spoonbill pupils went to other schools in Gotha. In the summer of 1943 there were 501 boys in 11 classes and 466 girls in 12 classes. The west wing of the school was probably destroyed in the air raid on November 15, 1944. The school archive housed in this wing has surprisingly survived the destruction.

New beginning after the Second World War

After the Second World War, the spoonbill school resumed school operations; because the building was badly damaged, however, rooms were initially moved to other schools - in October 1945 in the Lyceum in Bürgeraue and in April 1947 in the former grammar school in Bergallee. In 1948 work began on rebuilding the spoonbill school, which was handed over to the school authorities in September 1949. The restored schoolhouse shows in many ways the shortage economy of the post-war years, but the Löfflerschule was the first in Gotha to receive a science classroom for physics and chemistry. Boys and girls were taught mixed for the first time.

Commercial vocational school from 1959

At the beginning of the 1959/60 school year, the secondary school branch of the Löfflerschule moved into the premises of the trade school in Schäferstrasse, while the trade students switched to the spoonbill school building. The Käthe Kollwitz industrial vocational school united the three previous Gotha trade schools under one roof.

Necessary repairs and improvements were not carried out on the school building, which was only poorly restored after the war, so that the school fell into serious disrepair until the early 1970s with continued school operation. Some of the load-bearing construction parts had collapsed, the stairwells were dilapidated and the floor slabs threatened to fall. From 1973 the stairwells and some ceilings were renewed and the roof repaired. The reconstruction of the school's sanitary facilities was also planned, but for the time being it was a makeshift flat-roof building outside the school building until, in 1984, funds were finally available for the toilets in the school building. In January 1986, a storm caused major damage to the school, which remained a dilapidated roof that could only be repaired a few years later.

Elementary school since 1991

According to the school location concept of the city of Gotha, which was drawn up after the political change in the GDR, the vocational school should move out and the school house should be converted into a primary school. After the vocational school moved away in 1991, the school was renamed the State Primary School Am Tivoli , and in April 1992 they returned to the old namesake Löffler. Up to the year 2000 it was renovated and rebuilt several times. The brickwork of the school was drained and the gymnasium was completely renovated. In 1994 the outdoor facilities were redesigned and a new school garden was put into service. In 1995 the school received a new natural gas heating system. In 1996 the spoonbill monument was moved from the Augustinian monastery to the schoolyard. In 2000 the school received a new multifunctional dining room and new workrooms.

building

The school building is a three-story brick building on a sandstone base.

literature

  • City administration Gotha (ed.): From the school and structural history of the state primary and mainstream schools of the city of Gotha . Gotha 2000, pp. 92-106.

Web links

Commons : Löfflerschule  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files