Stiftisches Gymnasium Düren
| Collegiate high school | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 167514 |
| founding | 1513 |
| address |
Altenteich 14 |
| place | Düren |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '0 " N , 6 ° 28' 52" E |
| carrier | City of Düren |
| student | 875 |
| Teachers | 62 |
| management | Jens Hildebrand |
| Website | www.stiftisches.de |
The Stiftisches Gymnasium Düren (colloquially also Stift ) is a grammar school in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia and is currently attended by 875 students.
history
As the earliest possible reference to a Latin school in Düren, only the note in a waiter's invoice from 1513 can be interpreted so far. There it is said that the Duke of Jülich, when visiting Düren, accompanied by the Duke of Mecklenburg, gave students a mark of "play money" as a reward (probably for the performance of a play or the like). A master Konrad Tigemann, probably from Minden, is mentioned several times in the sources as a schoolmaster in the first half of the 16th century.
In 1543 a fire almost completely destroyed the city of Düren and with it almost all available documents about the Stiftische Gymnasium. The old school building on the corner of Annaplatz and Höfchen was also affected, but was immediately restored or rebuilt in the following two years. In 1552, Paulus Winter called Chimarrhaeus (1513–1563), a friend of the Düsseldorf rector Johannes Monheim (1509–1564), worked at the school. A profound turning point took place in 1636 when the school passed into the possession of the Jesuits . Nothing more is known about this time. In 1773 the Jesuit order was banned by Pope Clement XIV , a year later the Jesuit college in Düren was dissolved. The friars continued to run the school as “ex-Jesuits”.
After the French Revolution , the French conquered the western Rhineland , and the Cologne-Aachen region was first in the French Republic and then in the French Empire under Napoleon I incorporated.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the western Rhineland was added to the Prussians . This also changed the Stiftisches Gymnasium. On November 13, 1826, the college was granted the title of "to be released from university". In 1827 the school moved from the building on Annaplatz to the monastery building on Altenteich, which was built by the Capuchins in 1721 .
In 1866 the notary Alexander Theodor Ahrweiler bequeathed 230,000 thalers from his property to the school as a purpose-related donation. This “Ahrweiler Foundation” should then cover the entire school budget; Initially, the foundation probably also ensured that plans could finally be forged for a new school building, since the old monastery building on the Altenteich had too many defects (there was no auditorium, gym, art and music hall). At the corner of Schenkelstrasse and Zehnthofstrasse (where the Sparkasse building is today), a 40 acre plot of land was acquired in 1883 for 70,000 marks , on which the new schoolhouse was built from 1888–1891.
Only a fraction of the Ahrweiler fortune has survived to this day. Because due to the inflation after the First World War , only the assets invested in real estate could be saved. Today the foundation serves to support schoolchildren on study trips if the costs cannot be covered by the parents.
Between 1933 and 1945 the Stiftisches Gymnasium could not escape the influence of National Socialism . The role of the then headmaster Alfons Keus was particularly controversial.
On November 16, 1944 , Düren was almost completely wiped out by Allied bomber squadrons: Düren was the most destroyed city in Germany with 96%. The relatively new school building on Zehnthofstrasse was also completely destroyed.
In 1946, the Stiftisches Gymnasium resumed school operations with a special course to obtain the university entrance qualification, but still in makeshift buildings. The headmaster at that time was Wilhelm Kaspers . In 1952, the school moved to its current location, the new school building on Altenteich (construction 1950–52), i.e. back to a historical site in a certain sense.
The then mayor of the city of Düren, Heinz Kotthaus , was director of the Stiftisches Gymnasium until 1972. During his tenure, the upper school building was inaugurated in 1965. Due to the growing number of pupils (up to 1250 at the top), a total of 12 so-called school pavilions were temporarily built between 1976 and 1980 under the headmaster Helmut Katernberg (term of office 1974–1998). At the same time, the premises of the neighboring Peschschule were used for teaching purposes. After tough political struggle, the construction of an extension building in parts of Hoesch Park was finally implemented. The new building was inaugurated in 1996 and comprises a large sports hall, three art rooms, the school library and ten scientific subject and collection rooms.
In 1999 there was another change of headmaster: Jürgen Pfaff was in charge of the “Stiftische” until July 31, 2014. During his tenure, he changed from nine to eight years of schooling at the grammar school, which entailed the introduction of open all-day care with lunch. It was necessary u. a. the construction of a cafeteria building , which was inaugurated in 2012 in the area of the upper school yard and which was given the name "Stifteria" by the students. Jens Hildebrand took over the management of the Stiftisches Gymnasium on August 1, 2014.
Due to the discontinuation of grade 13 as part of the G8 , the school had a total of 875 students in March 2015, who are taught by 62 teachers and eight trainee teachers. The pen table stands out u. a. through a distinctive cultural profile (musical branch, theater and literary performances), the offer of the subject Latin as the starting language and a special commitment in the MINT subjects ; In 2014 the school was certified as a “MINT-friendly school”.
Personalities
- Martin Bojowald (* 1973), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 1992, physicist
- Victor H. Elbern (1918–2016), art historian
- Simon Ernst (* 1994), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 2013, handball professional and European champion
- Otto Esser (1917–2004), BDA President from 1978 to 1986
- Wilhelm Esser (1798–1854), philosopher and university professor, pupil until 1814
- Yannick Gerhardt (* 1994), Abitur at Stiftisches Gymnasium 2013, professional footballer
- Hermann Gottfried (1929–2015), glass painter
- Ansgar Graw (* 1961), German journalist and publicist
- Rudolf Henke (* 1954), internist, politician (CDU) and President of the North Rhine Medical Association
- Marcel Keller (* 1960), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium, stage designer and director
- Ernst Kleinert (* 1952), mathematician
- Waldemar Kobus (* 1966), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 1986, actor
- Heinz Kotthaus (1917–1972), head of the school from 1963 to 1972 and Lord Mayor of Düren from 1961 to 1972
- Dieter Kühn (1935–2015), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium (1955), writer
- Michael Lentz (* 1964), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 1983, writer, sound poet, literary scholar and musician
- Leonhard Meurer (1916–1991), Catholic priest and art collector
- Dietrich Meyer (* 1939), manager
- Christoph Moritz (* 1990), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 2009, professional footballer
- Ralf Nolten (* 1964), member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Florian Peil (* 1979), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 1999, singer in the bands Peilomat and Kasalla and songwriter
- Roland Peil (* 1967), Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium 1986, musician
- Hans Salentin (1925–2009), artist
- Hubertus Schoeller (* 1942), art collector and gallery owner
- Karl Schwering (1846–1925), director from 1892 to 1898
- Jost Stollmann (* 1955), entrepreneur
- Franz Anton Vaßen (1799–1891), dean and honorary citizen
Individual evidence
- ^ The Stiftisches Gymnasium Düren - A traditional school in the 21st century, Schrott / Jaeger, ISBN 978-3-927312-91-3
- ^ Anton J. Gail: Magister Konrad Tigemann von Minden and the Düren Latin School . In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter 65 (1976), pp. 89-98.
- ↑ Also Chimorraeus (= "torrent"); from Beek (= "Bach"), rector of the Latin schools in Düren, Heinsberg and Roermond, 1553 Protestant pastor in Sittard .
- ↑ Paulus Chimarrhaeus, Hermannus Heinsbergius: Epistolae dominicales, carmine elegiaco redditae, ad vsum scholae Marcodurẽsis , per Paulum Chimarrhaeum, ejusdem scholae moderatorem. Jaspar von Gennep, Cologne 1552.