Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster

Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster
type of school	high school
founding	1549
address	Pen 1 4550 Kremsmünster
place	Kremsmünster
state	Upper Austria
Country	Austria
Coordinates	48 ° 3 '20 "  N , 14 ° 7' 52"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '20 "  N , 14 ° 7' 52"  E
carrier	School association of the Kremsmünster Benedictine Abbey
student	411 (as of 2018)
Teachers	45 (as of 2018)
management	Wolfgang Leberbauer
Website	www.stiftsgymnasium-kremsmuenster.at

The Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster is a general education higher school in the Kremsmünster Abbey in the market town of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria . The humanistic -neusprachliche Stiftsgymnasium provides general education and as a Catholic school humanistic- Christian attitudes.

history

Public monastery school

The former monastery school of the monastery has been a "school for the public" since 1549, and from 1804 it was also run as an imperial-royal Konvikt. The current high school building was built in 1891 by the architect Hermann Krackowizer . From 1906, a boys' choir institute was integrated into the Konvikt with the museum . From 1938 to 1945, the grammar school and boarding school were run as a Nazi high school and a Nazi student home. Since 1990, girls and external learner drivers have been admitted to the former boarding school for the first time. The Konvikt attached to the school was closed in 2013 after more than 200 years due to insufficient occupancy and has since continued as a day care center. Since 2016, it has also housed special classrooms such as a physics room, biology room or drawing rooms. In the course of this renovation, an underground corridor to the school building and a new gymnasium were built.

Cases of abuse

Memorial plaque for victims of abuse

From 2010 the Kremsmünster Abbey High School was repeatedly the subject of public interest in connection with the processing of cases of abuse in the Kremsmünster Abbey , with the most recent documented cases of sexual violence going back to 2001. A scientific study carried out by the Munich Institute for Practical Research (IPP) under the direction of the social psychologist Heiner Keupp on the subject of "Sexualized, psychological and physical violence in the Konvikt and grammar school of the Benedictine Abbey Kremsmünster" named, among other things, a lack of educational qualification as the reason for one in the collegiate high school up to system of educational abuse practiced in the recent past. Since September 2014, a memorial plaque in the high school aisle has also been commemorating the former high school students affected by the forms of violence mentioned above. In June 2017 a teacher at the Stiftsgymnasium was again charged with “torturing or neglecting underage, younger or defenseless people” and sentenced by the Steyr Regional Court to a fine of EUR 6,400.

New carrier

Since the 2013/14 school year, the grammar school has been supported by the school association of the Kremsmünster Benedictine Abbey. In 2018, 411 students attended the grammar school, of the 45 professors seven are currently also fathers . Since the boarding school was closed, the collegiate high school, which was formerly known throughout Austria as an elite school, has had a predominantly local significance for local pupils or learner drivers from the region. More than half of the pupils change to another school during or after the lower grades, while currently only around a third of the school beginners complete the grammar school with the Matura .

Well-known students and graduates

Memorial plaque for Adalbert Stifter

Some of the graduates of the Stiftsgymnasium are still organized in the Altkremsmünster Association.

• Georg Pasterwiz (1730–1803), composer and Catholic theologian
• Beda Plank (1741–1830), Catholic clergyman, playwright and rainbow choir in Kremsmünster Abbey
• Franz Xaver Süßmayr (1766–1803), composer
• Johann Michael Vogl (1768–1840), singer and friend of Franz Schubert
• Franz Xaver Nippel von Weyerheim (1787–1862), Mayor of Graz and judge at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna
• Anton von Spaun (1790–1849), literary historian, folklorist and musician
• Joseph Mohr (1792–1848), priest and poet a. a. of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night
• Joseph Kenner (1794–1868), kk civil servant, draftsman, poet, district captain of Freistadt and district chairman in Bad Ischl
• Franz von Schober (1796–1882), poet, librettist and lithographer as well as actor in Breslau and counselor in Weimar
• Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), writer, poet, painter and educator
• Franz Xaver Schmid (1819–1883), philosopher, writer and university professor
• Karl Wagner von Inngau (1819–1893) lawyer, 1876–1887 president of the Vienna Commercial Court
• Carl Franz Planck von Planckburg (1833–1880), banker
• Gottfried Edmund Frieß (1836–1904), Benedictine, historian and teacher
• Otto Wagner (1841–1918), architect, architectural theorist and urban planner of Vienna
• Michael Strugl (* 1963), politician, Upper Austrian Provincial Council and Deputy Governor

Web links

• Altkremsmünster Association
• Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ P. Alfons Mandorfer : The high school in the rearview mirror. In: 142nd annual report of the Stiftsgymnasium. Kremsmünster 1999, pp. 43-56.
2. ↑ P. Tassilo Boxleitner: 200 years ago: Founding of the Konvikt in 1804. In: 147th Annual Report of the Stiftsgymnasium. Kremsmünster 2004, pp. 87-93.
3. ↑ Kremsmünster is the last monastery school to close its boarding school. In: Upper Austrian news. February 29, 2012, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Heiner Keupp, Florian Straus, Peter Mosser, Wolfgang Gmür & Gerhard Hackenschmied: Silence - Disclosure - Processing: Sexualized, psychological and physical violence in the Benedictine monastery Kremsmünster. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-14653-5 .
5. ^ The abuse system of Kremsmünster. In: ORF.at. March 27, 2015, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
6. ↑ 6,400 euros fine for professor who insulted students. In: Upper Austrian news. June 8, 2017, accessed January 12, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Annual reports of the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster, 1996-2012.