Stiftsgymnasium St. Paul

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Public collegiate high school of the Benedictines at St. Paul
The high school from the south
type of school high school
founding 1809
address

Gymnasiumweg 5

place Sankt Paul im Lavanttal
state Carinthia
Country Austria
Coordinates 46 ° 42 '8 "  N , 14 ° 52' 15"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '8 "  N , 14 ° 52' 15"  E
Website www.stiftsgym-stpaul.at

The Stiftsgymnasium St. Paul is a Catholic private school of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Paul in Carinthia . The students are taught by around 50 teachers in 22 classes. The official name of the school is Public Collegiate High School of the Benedictines at St. Paul .

history

Teaching at St. Paul Abbey began in the mid-12th century. The monastery was given manuscripts soon after it was founded, and under its third abbot Wernher (1138–1159) it had such a good reputation among the region's nobles that they sent their sons to the monastery for upbringing and education; at that time the pen was already running a writing school . Even if the sources from the High and Late Middle Ages report little in this regard, it is certain that St. Paul always had a Latin school . In this school the famous doctor and natural scientist Paracelsus , who moved with his family to Villach in 1502, was taught and prepared for his studies.

The school in St. Paul was converted into a grammar school in 1777 under the Austrian Empress Maria Theresia . But just a few years later, their son Joseph II dissolved the monastery and with it the associated grammar school in 1782. After the repopulation of the monastery in 1809, Abbot Berthold Rottler initiated the reopening of the school in the same year; in the foundation document of 1809, the education and maintenance of a school are expressly emphasized as one of the main tasks of the monastery. Rottler also had new statutes for teaching in the monastery in 1812 and founded a Konvikt in 1817 . Rottler's successor was also concerned with the education system, for example his successor Meinrad Amann was appointed examination commissioner of the grammar school in Klagenfurt in 1828 (today's European grammar school , to which teachers from the ranks of the St. Pauler Konvikt had been sent since 1809, such as Ambrosius Eichhorn ) certainly.

After the grammar school in Klagenfurt was nationalized in 1871, St. Paul was able to concentrate his teaching activities on the monastery school. In 1874 the grammar school received public rights . In 1896 the lower grammar school was converted into a full grammar school and in the school year 1897/98 the first fifth grade could be opened. At the same time, the foundation stone for a new school building was laid, the new building could be moved into at the beginning of the school year 1899/1900 and the first students passed their school-leaving exams the following year .

Due to the expansion of the school, the Konvikts building , which was only built in 1889 , the so-called Josephinum , soon became too small, so that it was considerably expanded between 1907 and 1909 and, after its completion, was considered the most modern boarding school in Austria. Prominent residents of the Konvikt at the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy were Hugo Wolf and the orthopedic surgeon Adolf Lorenz (father of Konrad Lorenz), Attila and Paul Hörbiger and, in the 1930s, when theater performances were also taking place in the Konvikt, Gustav Manker .

In the First World War , 126 of the 200 students who went to war died. From 1917/18 girls were also taught at the grammar school. From 1908 the Benedictine monk, painter and wood cutter Switbert Lobisser was an art teacher in St. Paul, who painted the murals in the collegiate chapel. The excursions he went on with his students were described by Paul Hörbiger in his autobiography. From 1914 Lobisser was also the monastery forester. In 1932 Lobisser resigned from the order and gradually approached the Nazi ideology. A complete collection of his 673 woodcuts is in the possession of the St. Paul Abbey. For the school year 1933/34, English became a compulsory subject .

After the “ Anschluss ” to the Third Reich in 1938, the grammar school was first nationalized and all spiritual teachers were expelled from the school. The monastery was abolished in 1940 and the school was converted into a National Socialist Political School (NAPOLA). Soon after the end of the war, the monastery was repopulated by the monks and teaching resumed.

In 1976/77 the boarding school Josephinum was closed and a day care center was opened instead . The first to third grades are now taught in the former boarding school building Josephinum. The fourth to eighth grades are taught in the main building. In the 2008/09 school year, one of the three third grades was moved to the main building due to lack of space. From 1992/93 until his death in 2010, Father Paulus Kaimbacher was director of the school. In 2001 and 2002 the entire school building was renovated both inside and out on the occasion of the centenary.

The Central Matura was successfully carried out in 2014 as the first in all of Austria in St. Paul as a pilot project under the former director Petutschnig. Father Thomas Petutschnig was director of the Stiftsgymnasium from 2011 to 2019, which has now been replaced by the former administrator of the school Simon Leschirnig-Reichel.

Educational offer

  • 1st + 2nd grade : same lessons in all classes, English (1st – 8th grade), IT (compulsory subject).
  • 3rd + 4th grade : Division into Realgymnasium (focus on natural sciences , geometric drawing ) and Gymnasium ( Latin (compulsory subject)). For the 2019/2020 school year, French was also introduced as an elective. In addition, there are options for the optional subjects Italian , French and advanced computer science.
  • 5th-8th Grade : Realgymnasium (Latin, from 7th grade descriptive geometry ), optional second living foreign language - F / I or computer science and grammar school (continuation of Latin, second living foreign language French or Italian ).

Well-known old Saint Pauls

Known teachers

Web links

Commons : Stiftsgymnasium St. Paul  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Paulus Manker : Search for traces. The theater man Gustav Manker. Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0 . (abstract)
  2. ^ History of the Stiftsgymnasium in St. Paul ( Memento from 23 August 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Central Matura-Vorreiter wants "school-type separate central Matura for AHS and BHS" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on March 25, 2017]).
  4. By Bettina Friedl | 4.30 p.m., 22 May 2018: St. Paul: Director of the collegiate high school has to go. May 22, 2018, accessed February 16, 2019 .