St. Johann Abbey School

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St. Johann Abbey School
St. Johann Abbey School 1.jpg
The school yard of the collegiate school, the Bonifatius-Halle (half right) and the Elisabeth-Haus (left)
type of school high school
founding 1885
address

Rentereigasse 2

place Amöneburg
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 47 '47 "  N , 8 ° 55' 21"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '47 "  N , 8 ° 55' 21"  E
carrier Diocese of Fulda
student 800 (as of 2017/2018)
Teachers 72 and 12 trainee lawyers (as of 08/01/2018)
management Bjorn Mayr
Website www.stiftsschule.de

The St. Johann Abbey School in Amöneburg is a state-recognized, general-education grammar school, which is run by the diocese of Fulda .

School profile

As a school sponsored by a Catholic diocese, the school has a decidedly religious profile, taking into account the idea of ecumenism : only about half of the students belong to the Roman Catholic Church. In addition to the Christian orientation, emphasis is placed on humanistic education. Latin is a compulsory first foreign language from grade 5, in which English is now also taught, but to a lesser extent, from two to three hours per week. Ancient Greek or French can be chosen as a third foreign language in grade 8.

In the upper level, the biotechnology course can be attended from Q1. It is an interdisciplinary project in which topics such as electricity from yeast cells, immobilization of enzymes, saving the climate through algae, genetic engineering, bioinformatics and many more are experimentally worked on.

The design of the entrance level in a model that facilitates the transition from elementary school to grammar school, as well as interdisciplinary teaching projects in the upper level as reform-pedagogical work led in 1989 to the recognition of the collegiate school as a "school with a special pedagogical character" by the Hessian state government.

school-building

Ascent to the parish church of St. John the Baptist between Elisabeth-Haus and Bonifatius-Halle

The main complex of the St. Johann Abbey School is located immediately northeast below the parish church of St. John the Baptist near the summit of Mount Amöneburg and connects to the market square to the southwest. Starting in the north, where Rentereigasse leads directly from the market square on the street Am Markt into the school yard, this is framed by the following buildings in a clockwise direction:

  • Thomas-Haus (Headquarters of the school management and the main teacher's room; 2018 under renovation)
  • Benedikt-Haus (classrooms, student council rooms and specialist rooms for biology)
  • St. Martin-Haus (classrooms, specialist rooms for religion and IT specialist room)
  • Domenico Savio -Haus (canteen and media library)
  • Elisabeth House (classrooms, physics, chemistry and art rooms)
  • Bonifatius Hall (auditorium and sports hall)
The Rabanus House ; left the inner courtyard of the castle ruins, right the cemetery

Only separated from the main complex by Burgstrasse is the older building of the Teresa House with the music rooms and the concert hall to the northwest of the Bonifatius Hall. To the southwest of the two last-mentioned buildings and separated from them by a slope and the cemetery, on the southwest edge of the development of the core city and immediately northwest of Amöneburg Castle , lies the Rabanus House with the classrooms of grades 5 and 6 and the chapel in which the Protestant school services take place. Catholic services take place immediately east of the castle in the parish church, from which a staircase between Bonifatius-Halle and Elisabeth-Haus leads from above into the school yard. Also the Johannes-Haus south of the church, the community center and at the same time the meeting place, is z. T. used by the collegiate school.

Overall, the otherwise contiguous area of ​​the Diocese of Fulda , which is divided by Burgstrasse and the southern section of Ritterstrasse , covers an area of ​​around 1.8  hectares , which touches the building boundary of the core city of Amöneburg to the south and west, and to the south-west of the also peripheral area of ​​the castle Amöneburg . Of this, 0.60 hectares, i.e. around 6000 m², are on the main school premises, 0.10 hectares on the Teresa-Haus property on the other side of Burgstrasse and 0.11 hectares on the Rabanus-Haus and the forecourt beyond the cemetery. The cemetery takes up 0.33 hectares, the area around the church and the Johannes House take up 0.50 hectares.

history

The school tradition in Amöneburg goes back to a monastery founded by Bonifatius in 721 . First plans for a Progymnasium were tackled in 1867, but rejected by the state as part of the Kulturkampf . After its end, the collegiate school was founded as a Latin school in 1885. In 1939 it was dissolved by the Nazi regime. In 1946 it was re-established as a Progymnasium, whereby there was also a boarding school until 1978. The expansion into a full-fledged grammar school with an upper level took place in the 1960s, and in 1964 the first Abitur examination took place at the school.

Cases of abuse

In 2010 cases of abuse at the collegiate school became known in the scandal surrounding sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church . According to this, there were sexual assaults by an educator in the schoolhouse, which was closed in 1978, from 1974 to 1976. The educator was dismissed from the service after the incident became known. From 1992 to 1996 there were sexual assaults on two students by two teachers. In autumn 2011, the Marburg public prosecutor ended the proceedings against the accused because the allegations were statute-barred.

Known students

Web links

Commons : Stiftsschule St. Johann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stiftsschule in numbers 2017/18. In: Stiftsschule St. Johann. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hessenviewer (Geoportal Hessen) of the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation with property mapping ( notes )
    The difference between the sum (1.64 ha) and the stated total area is explained by the area of ​​the public roads dividing the area.
  3. ^ Letter to the school community. Stiftsschule St. Johann Amöneburg, March 2010, archived from the original on January 27, 2014 ; accessed on January 27, 2014 .
  4. ↑ After abuse: School should apologize. Frankfurter Neue Presse , February 24, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2014 .