Stefan-George-Gymnasium

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Stefan-George-Gymnasium
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type of school high school
founding February 27, 1839
place Bingen am Rhein
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 57 '50 "  N , 7 ° 53' 53"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '50 "  N , 7 ° 53' 53"  E
carrier Mainz-Bingen district
student ~ 1150
Teachers ~ 100
management Renate Seipel
Website sgg-bingen.de

The Stefan-George-Gymnasium (SGG) is a high school in Bingen am Rhein .

General

Building plan

Around 100 teachers teach at this school and around 1150 pupils are taught (as of the 2016/2017 school year). The school consists of five buildings: a listed old building, a main wing, a science wing, a sports hall and an art wing.

The high school is named after the German poet Stefan George , who was born on July 12, 1868 in Büdesheim , a district of Bingen am Rhein.

The school has significantly more male than female students. That may be because the Hildegardisschule Bingen is not far from the Stefan-George-Gymnasium.

history

The school celebrated its 150th anniversary on February 1, 1989, when the Herzogliche Realschule Bingen was opened on February 27, 1839. Lessons began with 22 students at that time, and 30 more students were added in the course of the first year. They were taught in two subsequent classes. The Stefan-George-Gymnasium, which is one of the successor schools to this establishment, began the 1995/96 school year with 988 students in five entry-level classes. The high school tradition in Bingen goes back to the year 1006 beyond this date of foundation. During the Napoleonic period , the Stefan-George-Gymnasium was converted into a college with Latin and French as foreign languages, which however did not last long. After serious disputes, the Hesse high school authorities opened their own institution on February 27, 1839 . After moving to a new building, today's old building, the school was converted into a full-time high school and a secondary school leading up to 11th grade. The first Abitur was taken there in March 1922. After the school was renamed from Großherzogliche Hessische Realschule and Progymnasium zu Bingen am Rhein to Staatliches Stefan-George-Gymnasium Bingen am Rhein in 1945 , it was finally renamed Stefan-George-Gymnasium.

The Nazi period brought about the conversion of the humanistic grammar school with secondary school into an eight-class high school for boys in the course of the harmonization of the entire school system in the spring of 1937 . Here too, English was learned as the first compulsory foreign language

The listed old building after the renovation in 2008

Latin as the second compulsory foreign language . From the 6th grade (now grade 9), there was a division into a linguistic branch with French as the third foreign language and a mathematical and scientific branch . The number of students was around 300. After the war damage had been repaired, the school soon ran into space problems due to the growing number of students. The new building, which was inaugurated in the 1972/73 school year, was built with great difficulty. In the 1975/76 school year the school achieved its highest number of pupils to date with 1241 pupils, which was only exceeded again in the 2008/09 school year. With the number of 7 entry-level classes, a new record was again set in the 2008/2009 school year.

Partnerships

Since the 2002/03 school year there has been a partnership with the Collège Descartes on the outskirts of the center of Antony in France, with which a student exchange is also carried out. There is also a partnership with a school in Rwanda and a student exchange to Ganzhou in China.

Focus

The school has three main focuses: the scientific, the musical and the ancient language.

A musical focus means that there is an instrument group in the fifth and sixth grades in which all students of the respective grade level who play an instrument can participate. From the seventh grade onwards there is a music class. It is made up of students in the Latin Plus class, students in a class who have chosen Latin as their second foreign language, and students in a class who have chosen French as their second foreign language. These classes have a total of three hours of music a week, two of which should be practical and one theoretical.

Ancient languages: From the fifth grade onwards, you can choose Latin in conjunction with English, then you don't get a second foreign language in the sixth grade, but you have to choose a third foreign language in the eighth grade. You can then choose ancient Greek or French. The other classes that started with English as their first foreign language can choose Latin or French as their second or third foreign language.

The Stefan-George-Gymnasium has been offering all-day school since the 2012/13 school year; As a rule, there is a rhythmic all-day class in grades 5 and 6 as well as an additive all-day group made up of students from grades 5–7. The all-day offer is taken up by a good 70 students. The newly built cafeteria was put into operation in January 2017.

Others

In the fifth and sixth grades there is a math competition called “Knobelix”.

There is a big band at the school called the Losin 'Groove Orchestra. It is under the direction of Hans-Michael Barth.

There is a school newspaper called "Read me".

The Stefan-George-Gymnasium also has a cafeteria, which was founded in 1993 by parents and teachers. It is managed by the "Förderkreis des Stefan-George-Gymnasium Bingen eV"

Graduates of the SGG

Have your Abitur at SGG u. a. the following public figures:

Web link and source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ People today. In: sgg-bingen.de. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .