Stadtgymnasium Halle

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Former city high school in Halle
Courtyard facade

The city high school on the Lucke was built in the years 1867/1868 in Halle (Saale) as a city high school in the neo-Renaissance style and was the first large school building in the city. The integrated comprehensive school in Halle has been located in the school building since 1998 . The school is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle with registration number 094 04538.

Location

The grammar school with the address at that time Sophienstraße 11 (today Adam-Kuckhoff-Straße 37) is located in the northern inner city district within the street district Adam-Kuckhoff-Straße, Luisenstraße, Ludwig-Stur-Straße and Johann-Andreas-Segner-Straße. The Sophienstraße was essentially only built after the construction of the city high school in the years 1870 to 1885 and has largely preserved late Classicist to Neo-Baroque residential developments. In the immediate vicinity of the grammar school is the Villa Heine , which was built shortly before in Luisenstrasse in 1863/1864 .

Building history

Until it was dissolved in 1808, there were two municipal grammar schools in Halle: the Lutheran grammar school founded in 1565 and the Reformed grammar school opened in 1711, whose students were referred to the higher education institutions of the Francke Foundations .

After the city of Halle had expanded further and further north, the Francke Foundations were completely overburdened due to the exploding population and the growing educational needs of the Halle residents and could no longer cope with the increased number of students. The way to school from the more upscale residential areas in the north of the city to the Francke Foundations in the south was too far for the potential students.

After a preschool had been founded in 1861, which was expanded over the next few years to include a Progymnasium and also located on Sophienstrasse, in 1865 the plan was made to convert the preschool and Progymnasium into a fully-fledged high school that was still to be built.

The location of the school was chosen in the still undeveloped and partly swampy Luckenfeld northeast of the old town. The banker Ludwig Lehmann , the richest man in the city, bought a large area in this area in the 1840s with wise foresight for future urban development. He made half of his property with an area of ​​approx. 7500 m² available to the city for the construction of a new school, but not entirely free of charge, as is often shown. According to the contract of January 9, 1865, the city had to meet various conditions in addition to raising a purchase price of 1360 thalers: for example, the construction of a road, the paving of the sidewalks, the installation of street lighting. The city was thus obliged to take over the entire development costs of the building site.

The architects were Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Driesemann, from 1869 Halle's first city building officer and later provincial building inspector in Merseburg, who was also responsible for the western part of the current Leopoldina building, which was built at the same time as a lodge house for the three swords , and the subsequent Halle city building officer Otto Karl Lohausen.

The first stone was laid on June 17, 1867, and the exterior was completed in the summer of 1868. The interior work had progressed so far in September that the director and the caretaker could move into their official apartments.

Gym with side wings

Architecture and equipment

Built in the style of Italian Renaissance palaces, the monumental U-shaped building consists of three wings with an inner courtyard and a corresponding building on the opposite side of the courtyard, which was added 20 years later and houses the gym.

In the side wings or “pavilions” added to the gymnasium in 1890, two director's apartments were accommodated on the upper floor and classrooms on the ground floor. The schoolyard was thus enclosed on four sides and the building complex was given its current form. The built-up area is 1632 m².

The three-storey facade on the western entrance side is divided into three parts; a seven-axis central building is flanked by four-axis side panels. A wide flight of stairs leads to the three-arched entrance. The central building has a particular wealth of ornamentation through pilasters , ornamented parapets, pilaster strips and round arch friezes . The courtyard facade is emphasized by a polygonal protruding staircase that is reminiscent of a Wendelstein .

In addition to 37 classrooms, the building received a drawing room, an auditorium with an organ and initially one and later two director's apartments. The drawing room occupies the central seven axes of the central building on the first floor, while the assembly hall is hidden behind the seven large arched windows on the second floor.

The toilet building was originally free in the courtyard. In 1890 new toilets were added to the side wings on the courtyard side. Finally, in 1903, under city planning director Carl Rehorst , a water flush was installed.

The landscaped forecourt facing Adam-Kuckhoff-Strasse, to which the outside staircase leads, is also part of the school.

Usage history

The school was inaugurated with a solemn act on April 24, 1868 by the director Otto Nasemann (1821–1895). The celebration still had to take place in the auditorium of the elementary school building on Waisenhausring, because the building of the new school had not yet been finally completed. It was not until Easter 1869 that the students were able to take possession of their new school. In 1872 the first class of high school graduates left the grammar school. All candidates received the grade "good", among them the later Prussian Minister of Commerce Clemens von Delbrück .

In the first decades of its existence, a secondary school and a reform grammar school were temporarily housed in the north wing - until their own schools were built in 1908 and 1913 .

After the National Socialists came to power, the grammar school was continued as a high school for boys under the name “Christian-Thomasius-Schule” from 1937 . The last students passed the Abitur in 1943.

During the Second World War, the buildings also served as a hospital and after the war the children of the Soviet garrison as a teaching facility called "Friedrich List School". After the garrison children were able to move into a new school on the Heide in 1969 , two schools were housed here, namely POS I “Fritz Weineck” and POS II “Adam Kuckhoff”.

After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , the old school tradition was resumed in 1991 and the “Christian-Thomasius-Gymnasium” was set up in the buildings. In 1998 the grammar school had to close again due to a lack of students. The rooms were made available to the integrated comprehensive school , which still uses them today.

Teacher

student

In alphabetic order

literature

  • Dieter Dolgner : The city high school. In: Dieter Dolgner in collaboration with Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Historic school buildings of the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the architectural and art monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 2003, ISBN 3-931919-10-2 , pp. 73–84.
  • Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verl., Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 79.

Web links

Commons : Integrated comprehensive school Halle  - collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 24 ″  E