Myconius School
| State regular school "Friedrich Myconius" | |
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| type of school | Regular school |
| founding | 1865 |
| address |
Bürgeraue 23 |
| place | Gotha |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '50 " N , 10 ° 41' 54" E |
| carrier | City of Gotha |
| student | 386 (1998) |
| Teachers | 29 (1998) |
The state regular school "Friedrich Myconius" was a regular school in Gotha . The listed school building was built in 1865 as a community school for boys and girls and was one of the first buildings in Gotha built purely for school purposes. In its eventful history, the building bore the name of the Gotha reformer Friedrich Myconius early on , even though the schools it housed did not bear his name. The school has been called "Myconiusschule" since 1992. In June 2016, the state regular school "Friedrich Myconius" was closed. The building was handed over to the district of Gotha by the city of Gotha. Since then, the premises have served as a branch of the district adult education center and as an extension of the Ernestinum grammar school .
history
The school was built at the end of Jüdenstraße on the site of the former Sundhäuser Wall from 1862 as one of the first buildings in the city built solely for school purposes according to plans by the Gotha building officer Bruno Eberhard and moved into in 1865. The school was designed for 1000 students. The design highlight of the school was the auditorium with ceiling paintings and busts of Goethe, Schiller, Luther, Petermann and Gotha princes, as well as allegorical wall paintings that were designed by the Gotha court painter Paul Emil Jacobs and most of which were only executed by Ludwig Bohnstedt after his death .
The school was initially a community school for boys and girls for around 20 years, before the northern part of the building was added to the secondary school for girls when the Gotha school system was reorganized in 1884, while the community school was combined with other schools and other school buildings in addition to the southern part City took advantage. In 1910, the secondary school for girls became the municipal secondary school for girls. From 1876 to 1880 the classes of the Arnoldischule were taught in the rooms of the Myconiusschule.
The name Myconiusschule (probably after the former home of the reformer Friedrich Myconius, which was almost directly adjacent to the school ) developed for the school quite early and appeared in municipal documents by 1910 at the latest. The term initially only referred to the building over which the city had the naming sovereignty, while the schools housed in it, which were named by the state, had simple names without namesake.
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In 1910 part of the adjoining Augustinian monastery was torn down to make room for a gymnasium. In the same year, a northern schoolhouse extension was started, which included the specialist cabinets. In 1913 the girls' school was renamed the Municipal Lyceum , and in 1913/14 work on the extension buildings was continued. During the First World War , the school was temporarily used as a military hospital in 1914 , and the extension buildings were then completed in 1915/16.
From 1917 until after the end of the First World War there were frequent cancellations of classes due to a lack of coal, paper shortages, flu epidemics, the accommodation of returning soldiers or because of the general strike in spring 1919. In late 1919 a school strike temporarily paralyzed classes, in spring 1920 the street fighting of the Kapp putschs . In April 1920, 65% of the female students were malnourished, making the Lyceum the worst of all Gotha schools.
In 1923 the municipal lyceum became a state lyceum. From 1926 you could also take your Abitur there, whereupon the school for the Oberlyzeum i. E. and in 1929 was finally raised to the upper secondary school level. In the education reform of 1938 was from the Oberlyzeum then State high school for girls , with the Arnoldi School , d. H. the high school for boys, jointly headed by senior director Kinttof. In 1939 a military hospital was set up in the Arnoldischule, so that the pupils were taught in the Myconius School as they had been between 1876 and 1880.
The school survived the Second World War relatively unscathed. At the end of the war, American troops attended the school. School operations were resumed in October 1945. On October 1, 1945, the city school authority also ordered the school to be renamed Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule , but the ancestral name Myconiusschule was retained and was used again in official documents from 1947 onwards.
In 1962 the school was transformed into a ten-class polytechnic high school . Until the construction of a new school in Gotha-West in 1971, the school was overcrowded with around 1200 students. After the lack of space had been alleviated, a long overdue renovation of the school could begin. At the same time, the books that had hitherto been kept separately for boys and girls were merged, and there were considerations to name the school after Hans Beimler in the future , but again the traditional name prevailed. In 1980 a small dining room was set up in the basement, which was the only dining room in the school after the neighboring monastery hermitage was closed. The renovation of the 1970s was not comprehensive, so that there were repeated problems in the school operation in the period that followed. In the 1980s, the heating could only be operated with special permits and in 1986 it was completely damaged. It was planned to connect the school to the district heating network, but the project could not be implemented.
After the political change in the GDR, in September 1990 a municipal contract was given to an engineering office in Gotha for the complete renovation of the school. The renovation work dragged on in several stages until 1995.
In the meantime, the school had been transformed into the state regular school Bürgeraue 23 with grades 5 to 10 in the 1991 school reform . In March 1992 the city council decided to give the school in the Bürgeraue back the traditional name of Friedrich Myconius. Since the school was not fully used, the state regular school "Peter Andreas Hansen" could be included in the building in 1992/93, despite the renovation that had started . Soon it became too tight because of the renovation work, but the school was not relocated to another building due to parents' protests. School operations could only be maintained with many makeshift arrangements. In the school year 1993/94 the mainstream part of the Hanseschule was integrated into the Myconius School.
building
The school building is a symmetrical three-storey plastered building on a sandstone base in the classicism style . In the middle of the 13-axis facade, a three-axis risalit protrudes over the eaves and crowned by a flat triangular gable . The extension wing, completed in 1916, connects to the north.
Known students
- Hannah Höch attended the secondary school for girls in the Myconius School from 1896 to 1904.
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. 107-134.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Myconius students say goodbye . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).