Engelberg Abbey School
| Engelberg Abbey School | |
|---|---|
| School types | Long-term and short-term high school, IOS, internat |
| graduation | Bilingual Matura (D / E) and International Baccalaureate (IB) |
| principal | Matthias Nüssli |
| high school | 130 students |
| IOS / secondary school | 15 students |
| Boarding school | 70 students |
The Engelberg Abbey School is a Swiss private school in Engelberg in the central Swiss canton of Obwalden . It goes back to a writing school from the 12th century in the Benedictine monastery Engelberg and is still supported by the monastery today. A good half of the total of 130 students attend the boarding school, which is an integral part of the collegiate school.
The school offers a long-term and a short-term grammar school, which leads to the bilingual Matura (German / English) and the International Baccalaureate (IB). In addition, the Engelberg community operates an integrative orientation school (IOS / secondary school) on the premises of the collegiate school, whose students can also use the boarding school.
School operation
high school
The Engelberg Abbey School has a long-term and a short-term grammar school that leads to the bilingual Matura (German / English) and the International Baccalaureate (IB). The school is an IB World School.
The IB subjects taught by the Engelberg Abbey School fit into the canon of subjects for the bilingual federal Matura. The syllabus in the subjects, which are IB subjects and Matura subjects at the same time, are designed in such a way that the requirements of the IB curriculum and the federal framework curriculum for the Matura are met in the same course.
The school program includes time for religious, social and cultural activities. Days of reflection, jointly organized holidays and church services complement the educational offer, as the collegiate school as a monastery school aims to convey Christian and Catholic values in the Benedictine tradition. School pastoral play an important role in this. The collegiate school is open to all students, regardless of their religious affiliation or nationality.
Integrative orientation school
The integrative orientation school (IOS) is run by the Engelberg community on the premises of the Engelberg Abbey School and connects to the 6th primary class. It lasts three years and prepares students for an apprenticeship, for a secondary school or for attending the upper secondary school of the Engelberg Abbey School. The IOS can also be attended by internal students.
Boarding school
In addition to supervised studies, the boarding school also includes life in the community and shared leisure activities of a religious, sporting and musical nature. The internal students are looked after by prefects.
Engelberg Abbey Choir
The Engelberg Abbey Choir has existed since polyphonic chants have been sung in the services of the monastery church. Originally the choir consisted exclusively of monks and students from the monastery school. Since the 1970s, the monastery choir has been shaped by Father Roman Hofer, who also opened it up to singers from the village. The monastery choir has been led by Ruth Mory-Wigger since summer 2012.
College theater
The Kollegitheater looks back on a long tradition; plays were staged as early as the 17th century. Annual performances have been recorded since the 19th century. The college building has its own theater hall, in which the theater troupe puts on a play every year. The last monk to direct was Father Robert Bürcher, who could look back on more than 30 years of directing. Since the 2012/2013 school year, Ms. Franziska Bachmann has been responsible for directing with a permanent theater troupe.
Angelomontana
The Angelomontana is a student union founded in 1907 at the Engelberg Abbey School. It is one of the largest sections of the Swiss Student Association. In addition to the Swiss Student Association, Angelomontana has also been a member of the Gymnasia since 1970.
Alumni
Old Engelberger Association
The Alt-Engelberger-Verein (AEV) forms a permanent link with the monastery and the school. The aim of the Alt-Engelberger-Verein is to actively support the Engelberg Abbey School and to promote lively contact between the different generations of alumni, friends of the monastery and school, and the parents of students. In accordance with the purpose of the association, the AEV sponsored or supported projects such as the renovation and conversion of the college (1983–1987), the renovation of the theater hall, the conversion of the west wing of the college into a boarding school for girls (2003), the conversion of the eastern risalit of the new monastery for additional classrooms, the expansion of the former monastery printing shop into an examination hall (2003/04), the restoration of the monastery and parish church (2005–2007), the renovation of the old gym (2010) and the furnishing of the newly renovated boarding school for boys in the east wing of the college (2014).
Old Angelomontana
In the old Angelomontana friendship and camaraderie from school days are cultivated. Former men of the student association take part in events organized by the Angelomontana Aktivitas and maintain contact with the Engelberg Abbey School.
Matura meeting
Many alumni remain connected to the Engelberg Abbey School after completing their schooling. Engelberg Abbey invites them to a class reunion in Engelberg every 10, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 55, 60 years after graduating from high school.
Titlis greetings
The magazine Titlisgrusses , published twice a year by the Benedictine monastery and the Engelberg Abbey School, maintains and deepens contact with alumni and friends of the monastery and school.
Graduates
- Gerold Berchtold , ski racer and surgeon
- Bruno Epple , pedagogue, author of Alemannic and German texts, painter
- Klaus Fischer , politician
- Nikolaus von Flüe (1788–1851), Swiss officer in the Spanish service and governor
- Karl Hager , clergyman
- Roman Hofer , church musician
- Christopher grief
- Hallway in Maissen
- Carl Rütti , composer
- Willy player , publicist
- Karl Stadler , Father and Artist
- Urs Martin Strub , psychiatrist and poet
- Franz Wirz , politician
- Eduard Wymann , clergyman
- Claudio Zanetti , politician
history
Medieval writing school
The Engelberg Abbey School goes back to a writing school from the 12th century in Engelberg Monastery. The Engelberg Benedictine Abbey is located in the upper Engelberg Valley in central Switzerland. The monastery was donated by the Zurich nobleman Konrad von Sellenbüren and founded in 1120 by monks from Muri under Abbot Adelhelm. Abbot Frowin (1147–78) founded a writing school which flourished under him and his successors Berchtold (1178–97) and Heinrich (1197–1223).
Since its foundation, the abbey has had a central position in Engelbergertal. Until the French Revolution, the abbot was both a spiritual and a secular lord of the valley. In 1798 the Talmen gained political independence. In the course of time, the monastery was plagued by internal difficulties, external challenges, conflagrations and plague epidemics, but monastery life was able to continue uninterrupted through the centuries.
The modernization of the baroque collegiate school Engelberg
In the context of the liberal founding of Switzerland in 1848, the school, whose structures originated from the Middle Ages and the Baroque period, was modernized. Abbot Plazidus Tanner (1797–1866) feared for the survival of the Catholic educational tradition in the context of the state environment that had become liberal. The abbot wanted to respond to this circumstance with a modern structured and run grammar school, Engelberg was to become a Catholic educational institution of national importance, a Catholic bulwark against the liberal challenge. An important step in the expansion of the school, which led to today's Engelberg Abbey School, dates back to 1851. In order to meet the requirements formulated by Abbot Plazidus, various changes were introduced: more time for learning, more time for teaching and strict separation between students, fathers and brothers to show the intrinsic value of school education and for the benefit of upbringing. Abbot Plazidus Tanner also had a separate school and boarding school built. Engelberg was the first abbey to have the monastery and school in separate buildings. The building of the boarding school and the school could be moved into in 1865. However, the Engelberg Abbey School was not yet a full high school. This means that students who did not want to study theology in the in-house seminar and enter the monastery had to change schools before attending university.
On the basis of a cantonal concordat on the freedom of movement for medical professions from 1868, it was decreed that anyone wishing to take up a medical profession had to attend a grammar school that had its Matura program in line with the concordat. Some schools then offered a humanistic grammar school adapted in line with the federal government. In these schools the old languages were pushed back in favor of the scientific and mathematical subject group. But due to considerations that were shaped by the Kulturkampf , the curricula of the collegiate school and other Catholic schools were not adjusted. The “Schulvogt” initiative showed how negative and suspicious the Catholic population of Switzerland was against the regulations from the liberal Federal Bern. This initiative dealt with the question of introducing a federal primary school supervisory authority. In Engelberg, the initiative was rejected by 415 votes against 1.
In 1906, the Department of the Interior passed a maturity regulation for candidates in the medical professions. The students could now study medicine with the classical Matura, but changes had to be made that mean an upgrading of mathematics and natural sciences. Before this regulation, a good repute was still considered admission to a degree program in other disciplines, other faculties also tightened their admission regulations. In order to meet the stricter admission requirements, the Engelberg Abbey School met the demands of the time. In 1900, physics was introduced at the collegiate school in advance, “in order [...] to facilitate the later course of study and to pay even more attention to the natural sciences that are so important [...]. Therefore, a collection of physical apparatus was started. "
The number of pupils increased - also because of the introduction of the subject physics - so that the college building had to be expanded into a completely expanded school and boarding school building. The expanded building was opened in October 1906. Among other things, it offered enough space for physical and zoological-botanical collections. The grammar school period was increased from six to eight years and the number of hours in physics and chemistry was expanded so that in July 1909 the first Matura exams could be carried out under the supervision of the Federal Matura Commission. This gave Engelberg students access to all fields of study at all universities, just three years after the new federal Matura law came into force.
The Engelberg Abbey School in the 20th century
As the number of students continued to grow, another building had to be built next to the existing school and boarding school building. The newly built lyceum was completed in autumn 1928 and the upper-class students moved in. The new building had single rooms.
The shortening of the grammar school duration from 8 to 7 years was carried out at the Engelberg Abbey School in 1973. This year, for the first time, two Maturae took place: the last 8-year-old and the first 7-year-old. In the same year the construction of a modern schoolhouse was completed. In addition to new classrooms and specialist rooms, the Engelberg Abbey School now had a second gym, a sauna, outdoor soccer fields and an observatory. All classrooms were relocated from the college building to the newly built schoolhouse.
1984–1987 the college building was rebuilt. Now the middle-aged students also had single rooms. The youngest students continued to sleep in a dormitory room, each with a small retreat area.
In order to attract new students, the Engelberg Abbey School accepted internal students from 1995. The boarding school for girls is located in the western part of the boarding school building.
In 2000, with the adoption of the new federal Matura Recognition Ordinance, the duration of the grammar school period was reduced from 7 to 6 years. In order to compensate for the decline in the number of students, a commercial secondary school with vocational baccalaureate (HMS +) was founded.
Engelberg Abbey School in the 21st century
In 2009, after almost 30 years, Father Robert Bürcher resigned from his position as rector. Thomas Ruprecht, the first secular rector, took his place. The five-day boarding school was introduced under his leadership. Since then, the students have had the opportunity to continue to spend the weekends in the boarding school, but can also return to their places of residence. The affiliation of the secondary school run by the Engelberg Abbey School to the Engelberg community also falls during the rector's time of Thomas Ruprecht. The Engelberg community now runs an integrative orientation school (IOS) on the premises of the Engelberg Abbey School. Internal students can attend the collegiate high school or the IOS of the community. The music school founded and run by Father Roman Hofer in 1972 was also handed over to the congregation, but is still open to all internal students.
The commercial secondary school with vocational baccalaureate (HMS +), founded in 2000, could not attract enough students and so the school management decided in 2010 not to accept any more new students. The HMS + was closed in 2012.
Other changes were the introduction of a bilingual Matura (German / English) and the International Baccalaureates (IB). In order to create the best possible learning environment for high school students, the classrooms were renovated.
In 2014, the boarding school for the boys in the east wing of the old college building was rebuilt. Since then, the interns at the collegiate school have all been living under one roof in single or double rooms. The lyceum, which was completed in 1928 and which had previously housed the last two classes, was converted into additional classrooms for the community's integrated orientation school (IOS). The three dining rooms of the Engelberg Abbey School were also rebuilt or renovated. The so-called large dining room was carefully restored under the supervision of the monument authorities, the dining room of the lyceists was converted into a modern food service; the small dining room and the large dining room serve as a place for morning, lunch and dinner together. The 2014 renovation cost 6 million francs and was the first phase of planned renovations totaling around 11 million francs.
In 2015, after an interim period from Father Andri Tuor, Matthias Nüssli, another secular rector, was appointed to the Engelberg Abbey School.
In the summer of 2018, the second stage of the renovation of the boarding school building took place for 4.5 million francs, with the rooms for the girls being converted. After the renovation, the capacity of the boarding school is between 90 and 100 beds.
literature
- R. De Kegel: From a niche offering to a piece of the mosaic in the federal education system. The colleges of Stans and Engelberg on the way to modernity , in: Historischer Verein Nidwalden (Hrsg.): Kapuziner in Nidwalden 1582-2004 . Stans 2004.
- Ignaz Hess: History of the monastery school in Engelberg , in: Annual report of the Stiftsschule Engelberg , 51 (1902) pp. 36–90.
- 50 years Matura at the collegiate school, in: Titlisgrusses 45 (1958/59) pp. 77–121.
- Hansueli Flückiger: The “International Baccalaureate” at the Engelberg Abbey School , in: Titlisgrusses 99/2 (2013) pp. 44–48.
- Andri Tuor, From the monastic Latin school to the IB World School - The Engelberg Abbey School in the field of tension between structure and breadth, in: Integras 49 (2013) pp. 24–31.
- Vera Paulus: Opera in the monastery school. Music and theater in Engelberg Abbey. In: Forum Musiktheater. Volume 7, LIT Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80033-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ website of Angelo Montana. Angelomontana fraternity, accessed June 6, 2016 .
- ↑ U. Hodel, R. De Kegel: Art. "Engelberg (monastery)" . In: HLS . tape 4 , p. 201-213 .
- ^ Annual report of the Engelberg Abbey School: Physics . 1900, p. 5 .
- ^ R. De Kegel: From the niche offer to the mosaic stone in the federal education system. The Stans and Engelberg colleges on their way to the modern age . In: Historischer Verein Nidwalden (Hrsg.): Kapuziner in Nidwalden 1582-2004 . Stans 2004, p. 317-351 .
- ↑ Stiftsschule Engelberg gives up commercial secondary school. January 6, 2010, accessed June 1, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Stiftsschule is experiencing a new boom . In: Central Switzerland on Sunday , April 2, 2017.