Melk Abbey High School

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Melk Abbey High School
Melk Abbey at night
type of school Gymnasium and upper secondary school
founding 1707 or 12th century (Monastery school)
place Melk
state Lower Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 13 ′ 41 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 2 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 41 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 2 ″  E
carrier Melk Abbey
student 916 (2012/13)
Teachers 86 (2012/13)
management Anton Eder
Website www.stiftsgymnasium-melk.org

The Stiftsgymnasium Melk (official long form Public Stiftsgymnasium and Oberstufenrealgymnasium Benedictine in Melk ) is a humanistic oriented school and Oberstufenrealgymnasium with public status , which is sponsored by the Benediktinerabtei of Melk is and is also housed in the pen. The collegiate high school in its current form has existed since 1707, but originally goes back to a monastery school founded in the Middle Ages . It is one of the oldest schools in the German-speaking area .

history

The monastery school in the Middle Ages

The earliest evidence of the medieval monastery school can be found in a book of the dead from 1140 and on fragments of parchment from 1160. It is assumed that they were built as early as the 12th century. Founded. At the time of the Melk monastery reform in the 15th century. the school was in a flourishing condition, the monk Simon wrote an education book for the six-year-old King Ladislaus Postumus of Hungary around 1446 . From around 1530, admissions to the monastery decreased rapidly under the influence of the Reformation movement (which also began in the Habsburg Empire ) ; for 1566, there is evidence of only three clergymen and three clergymen.

This crisis lasted until the end of the 16th century when, as a result of the Counter Reformation, increasing numbers of students from southern German Jesuit schools entered. These students, among them the poeta laureatus Laurentius Flenheintius, had a very good education. In 1596 the school was redesigned based on the model of these (six-class) Jesuit schools. However, only the lower four classes were actually in Melk, the last two had to be completed by the students with Jesuits in Vienna . In 1707 Abbot Berthold Dietmayr converted the school into a complete, actually six-class grammar school, which can be seen as the beginning of the history of the collegiate grammar school (in its current form).

Modern high school

Main wing of the collegiate high school around 1890

As a result of the education policy of Maria Theresa , the school from the beginning of the school year 1781/82, ie from 3 November 1781, when was school publicum (a partly public school form) out. In 1787, however, Joseph II moved the grammar school to St. Pölten , which, as the bishopric of the diocese of St. Pölten , which had been newly founded three years earlier (at his endeavors) , should also have an "appropriate" school. It was not moved back to Melk until 1804. In 1811 Abbot Anton Reyberger built the "Convikt zu Melk" , which opened on November 7th. In that year a preparatory class ( praeparanda ) was introduced, which was supposed to facilitate the transition to the grammar school for the students and existed until 1927. In 1850 the number of classes was increased to eight, and the first Matura could take place in Melk the following year . From now on, special attention was also paid to the natural science collections.

The annual report 1861 speaks of a total of 208 students, including 51 Konviktisten. From 1873 secular teachers also taught secondary subjects, and then from 1879/80 in all subjects. Under Abbot Alexander Karl , the school was expanded structurally in 1877/78, including a new physics and dining room. The Melk Episcopal Seminary was opened in 1905 and housed boarding school students from the collegiate high school until it was closed in 2006. They were also called "seminarians" to distinguish them from the Konvictists who lived directly in the monastery.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, director P. Wilhelm Schier was removed from his office on March 13, 1938 and replaced by P. Coelestin Schoiko, who was close to the National Socialists. From autumn 1938 the school was no longer allowed to continue anyway and was closed or later converted into a national political educational institution ("Napola").

Since 1945

Students at the portal of the pen

After clearing and repair work, school operations could already be resumed in September 1945. In 1966 there was the first student exchange with St. John's Preparatory School (also run by Benedictines) in Collegeville, Minnesota , which is still carried out annually to this day. Due to the strong decline in student enrollment and girls were from the school year 1967/68 at the school was added , there was also the first time - in addition to the humanistic - even a modern language branch in high school, Latin , however, to this day for all duty. In 1972 Abbot Reginald Zupancic appointed Ernst Wegscheider for the first time as a layman as director. Since 1973 the teachers at the school have been paid by the federal government, which represents a considerable financial relief for the collegiate high school.

In 1976 the upper secondary school was set up, initially only with a focus on instrumental music , followed by the visual and natural sciences. Improved roads that Schülerfreifahrt and new family situation led to a steady decrease in the number of seminary housed students while the total number of students increased, so that the convict was eventually abandoned. In 1999 Ernst Wegscheider retired, his successor was Anton Eder. In 2005/06, the five-day week was tested for the first time with two first classes, and then introduced for all school levels in the following school year. In the course of a two-year renovation phase from 2006 to 2008, all areas of the collegiate high school were gradually renewed and a new “triple sports hall” was built.

school

The school has a classic eight-year grammar school next to each other, with the option of choosing between the languages ancient Greek and French in the upper level , and a four-year upper-level grammar school with the option of choosing between an artistic , an artistic and a scientific - mathematical branch. From the 6th grade onwards (10th grade) every student has to take an elective subject . This is either “in-depth” (more lessons in a subject that has already been taken) or “expanding” (a new subject). Spanish , French , Italian and Russian , computer science and theory of sport are offered as additional subjects .

In the 2012/13 school year, 916 students in 38 classes attended the Stiftsgymnasium. They are currently taught by 86 teachers, and Anton Eder is the director of the school. The tuition fee per pupil is currently (for the first child) € 86, from 2013/14 it will be € 88 per month. If several children in one family attend school, the tuition fee for the others is reduced. It is billed ten times a year (no school fees are due in the summer months of July and August) and collected quarterly. The collegiate high school has been a UNESCO school since January 2012 .

Student Council

The student representative elections of the Stiftsgymnasium take place once a year on October 13th, the feast day of St. Koloman (patron of the town and monastery of Melk). A school speaker , his two deputies and three possible deputies for the school community committee (SGA) are elected, with the second and third placed in the election as the deputy school speaker and the candidates in places four to six as the deputy for the SGA. All high school students are entitled to vote. The current head boy (2015/16) is Jakob Lechner, his deputies are Julian Weissenböck and Julia Freytag. His deputies in the SGA are Mizgin Sönmez and Bastian Donabauer.

Motto

The school's motto is “ Discimus vitam ” ( learning to live ), based on the well-known Seneca quote “ Non vitae, sed scholae discimus ”.

people

Well-known old milkers

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
Friedrich Halm
Karl Kautsky
Adolf Loos
Hermann Ofner
Albert Paris Gütersloh (Portrait of Egon Schiele )

The graduates or former students of the Stiftsgymnasium are referred to as "old milkers". In 2000, the Association of Graduates and Friends of the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, sponsorship and graduate association of the school, whose chairman is the former director Ernst Wegscheider. Well-known old milkers are u. a .:

Well-known professors

Quotes

“If I lived in Melk: I would send my children to this school immediately. Because the public collegiate high school is not, like some monastery high schools in Vienna, a closed refuge for the bourgeoisie. The children from all walks of life go there, including the workers and farmers' children. "

- Josef Hader

Others

Coat of arms and motto of the Nibelungia Melk

Student connection

The Stiftsgymnasium Melk is the main school of the Catholic school association K.Ö.St.V., founded in 1919. Nibelungia Melk . This is color-bearing , not striking and a member of the middle school cartel association . It is committed to the four principles of the MKV .

fire

Burned area between the monastery and the old town

On June 19, 2007 there was a fire on the southern slope of the Stiftsfelsen above the old town of Melk , apparently due to a burning schoolbook thrown out of the window by students of the Stiftsgymnasium . The fire brigades Melk-Stadt and Spielberg advanced, but the fire did not damage the building.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Emmerich : For example Austria. Cultural power, economic power, identity , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 2006. ISBN 978-3-205-77553-9 , p. 115.
  2. ^ Anton Eder (headmaster): Letter to parents of the Stiftsgymnasium, school year 2012/13, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Information on registering at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk , stiftsgymnasium-melk.org.
  4. ↑ http://www.stiftsgymnasium-melk.org/unesco/UNESCO-Schulen/ .
  5. ↑ The result of the election Boy 2013/14 , stiftsgymnasium-melk.org , October 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ “Without homesickness, the boarding school would be the ideal school” , Der Standard , June 25, 2010. Accessed on January 24, 2011.
  7. ^ Mission report of the Melk-Stadt volunteer fire brigade.