Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering

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Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering
Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering Siegel
type of school high school
founding 1895
address

Linzerstraße 8
4073 Wilhering

place Flag of Austria.svg Wilhering
state Upper Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 19 '26 "  N , 14 ° 11' 25"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '26 "  N , 14 ° 11' 25"  E
carrier Wilhering Abbey
student 516 in 22 classes (2015/16)
Teachers 56 (2015/16)
management Christine Simbrunner
Website www.sgwilhering.at
The school and monastery courtyard with the Wilhering monastery church built in the Rococo style

The Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering is a humanistically oriented private high school with public rights, founded in 1895 . Its roots as a monastery school in Wilhering Abbey go back to the 16th century .

history

At the beginning of modern times , a school tradition developed in the Cistercian order under the influence of the Reformation and the Enlightenment , which continues to this day worldwide. Also Wilhering founded an educational institution, which in 1580 was first mentioned at the time Wilheringer seminary where young Conventual were taught in elementary subjects. At the time of the Baroque , at least before 1787, a boys' choir institute was built in the monastery . Under Abbot Theobald Grasböck this was gradually converted into a collegiate high school with boarding school from 1895 . In 1902 the school was officially recognized as a private educational institution, in 1904, she was the kk Ministry of Culture and Education , the public's right awarded. In 1917, the private school , which had previously only been run as a lower grammar school , was expanded to include an upper level , so that in 1922 the first Matura exams could be taken.

In 1938 the school and boarding school were closed by the National Socialist regime , but school operations could already be resumed in autumn 1945. After a boarding wing had been built in 1956, thus closing off the monastery courtyard, another major expansion took place in 1963 with the construction of the grammar school wing. The continuous increase in the number of students also brought about a change in the teaching staff. Although the peak was reached in 1975 with 15 teaching fathers, the expansion of the teaching staff meant that by 1978 secular teaching staff were in the majority.

At that time, the collegiate high school experienced a heyday in terms of both its growth and its cultural activities. Professors such as Oswald Miedl and Balduin Sulzer , who at that time organized successful concerts with the Wilhering Kantorei , which he directed, in the tradition that Wilhering had held as a choir room since the Baroque , created an artistically fertile environment that produced numerous personalities from art and science. The Wilheringer Boys' Choir , the lower school choir of the Stiftsgymnasium, participated in a total of 16 opera productions at the Linz State Theater during the Sulzer era . In the collegiate church the performance of great oratorios and world premieres of Sulzer's works attracted visitors from all over Upper Austria . Even Fritz Fröhlich lived and was working already in the pen.

In the 1980/81 school year, girls were admitted to the Stiftsgymnasium for the first time. The boarding school operation was discontinued in July 1990 due to the decreasing number of interns due to the free travel for students and improved transport connections. In 2009 the high school wing, built in 1963, and the former boarding wing were connected by a modern gym.

In 2015, in the 120th year of the grammar school's existence, Christine Simbrunner was the first to be entrusted with the management of the school. After her predecessor, Father Wolfgang Haudum, moved to pastoral care, only 3 of the 56 professors are now members of the Wilhering Convention .

Well-known Altwilheringer

Graduates and former students of the Wilhering Abbey High School are known as Altwilheringers . They are organized in the Forum Wilhering, the former association of the Altwilheringer . The association is rooted in the support association of the Wilhering private high school, founded in 1928 and newly constituted in 1952 .

Beppo Mauhart
Peter Huemer
Maria Katharina Moser

Well-known professors

The Wilhering has been in its history several times artists like Fritz Fröhlich or Balduin Sulzer to homeland. Some of them, often Altwilheringer themselves, were involved in classes at the collegiate high school. This apparently stimulating environment led to the fact that not only numerous students but also members of the teaching staff were able to establish themselves in art and science.

  • Karl Pink (1884–1965), numismatist and classical philologist
  • Bernhard Burgstaller (1886–1941), 68th abbot of Wilhering Abbey 1938–41, philosopher and classical philologist
  • Sylvester Birngruber (1914–2006), theologian, Germanist, classical philologist, writer and Cistercian von Wilhering
  • Emmerich Doninger (1914–1964), painter, writer, classical philologist, art educator and Cistercian from Wilhering
  • Balduin Sulzer (* 1932), composer, music teacher and Cistercian from Wilhering
  • Oswald Miedl (* 1940), painter and art teacher

Directors of the Stiftsgymnasium

The extensive abbey park

Until 2015, the directors of the Stiftsgymnasium were exclusively members of the Wilhering Convention , who had often previously taught at the grammar school. Christine Simbrunner is the first to be a layperson in charge of the school.

  • 1895–1902: P. Petrus Schmid (1867–1945)
  • 1902–1916: P. Benno Schwacha (1868–1916)
  • 1916–1928: P. Justinus Wöhrer (1872–1943)
  • 1928–1938: P. Alberich Grasböck (1879–1954)
  • 1945–1950: P. Alberich Grasböck (1879–1954)
  • 1950–1954: P. Maurus Kerner (1887–1954)
  • 1954–1979: P. Ämilian Putschögl (1913–2007)
  • 1979–1991: P. Bernhard Ganglberger (1929–2016)
  • 1991–2002: P. Karl Hofer (* 1938)
  • 2002–2015: P. Wolfgang Haudum (* 1959)
  • since 2015: Christine Simbrunner (* 1964)

Hilaria Student Association

The Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering was from 1923 to 1938 and from 1968 to 2003 the main school of the Catholic student fraternity Hilaria ( Latin Hilaria "Wilhering"). This was founded in 1923 under the patronage of Abbot Gabriel Fazeny . In 2003, Hilaria relocated to Linz . Since 2014, the association, which has since been completely detached from the Stiftsgymnasium, has been holding its meetings in Enns .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Wilhering Abbey High School. Retrieved October 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Wilhering Cistercian Monastery (ed.): Annual report of the Stiftsgymnasium . No. 85 . Wilhering 1995.
  3. ^ Wilhering Abbey High School. In: sgwilhering.eduhi.at. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Association of Altwilheringer (ed.): Address List . 5th edition. Wilhering 1995.
  5. ↑ Our story - K.Ö.St.V. Hilaria - website. In: www.hilaria.eu. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .