Public high school of the Theresian Academy Foundation

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Public high school of the Theresian Academy Foundation
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The Neue Favorita seen from Favoritenstrasse; today it houses the Theresianum
type of school AHS
founding 1746
place Vienna
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 11 '35 "  N , 16 ° 22' 16"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '35 "  N , 16 ° 22' 16"  E
carrier "Theresian Academy" Foundation
student 831 Status: 2013
Teachers about 130
management Andreas Schatzl
Website www.theresianum.ac.at

The state complex called Theresianum with buildings from several centuries in Vienna , 4th district , Favoritenstraße 15, serves as the seat of the public high school of the Theresian Academy Foundation , as the building is called Theresianum for short, and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna . Both educational institutions have a tradition spanning several centuries. Since 2011, the foundation also offers kindergarten and elementary school.

View of the gable with the coat of arms of the Austrian Empire under Franz I.
The Theresianum as seen from the park
The school park
Nazi era: library stamp of the "NPEA Vienna-Theresianum"

history

In 1288 there was evidence of an estate on this area. In 1614 the estate with fields, meadows and vineyards was acquired by the imperial family, was first referred to as the Favoritenhof in 1623 and served as the widow's seat of the empresses Anna of Austria-Tyrol , Eleonora Gonzaga and Eleonora Magdalena Gonzaga of Mantua-Nevers . For this purpose, the manor was redesigned from 1642 to plans by Giovanni Battista Carlone into a pleasure palace with pleasure garden called Favorita .

The emperors Leopold I , Joseph I and Karl VI. the Favorita served as a preferred summer residence. During this time, extensions were built that repaired the devastation caused by the second Turkish siege in 1683 and some of the fields were sold.

Charles VI Daughter Maria Theresa , heir to the throne in the Austrian hereditary lands, in the Kingdom of Bohemia and in the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1745, when her husband became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire , dubbed Empress, preferred Schönbrunn Palace as the summer residence and had it expanded. This decision may have been due to the fact that Favorita, in terms of location and architecture, could not compete with Belvedere Palace , which the Habsburg victorious general Eugen von Savoyen , from Charles VI. richly donated, had erected about 800 meters further east using a prominent hillside location.

The baroque Favorita (it has meanwhile been called Neue Favorita; the Alte Favorita was in the Augarten , but this distinction was not consistently maintained and sometimes this building was also called the Alte Favorita .) In the suburb of Wieden , Maria Theresa handed over to the Jesuits - with the condition to set up an educational institution, a knight academy for the benefit of the general public, but especially the noble youth . The main task should be to attract educated and loyal civil servants and diplomats . In the 18th and 19th centuries, various extensions and heights of the buildings followed.

In 1783 the reformer Joseph II dissolved all knight academies in the Austrian hereditary lands, including the Theresianum. In 1797, Emperor Franz II, as sovereign, approved the reopening under the direction of the Piarists . The facade was rebuilt in the classical style. After the revolution of 1848 decreed Emperor Franz Joseph I , the approval of the sons of the middle class as a student.

The Oriental Academy , founded by Maria Theresa in 1754, had been in the Theresianum since the 19th century. Renamed around 1900, the Consular Academy moved to its own newly constructed building in 1904 (9th, Boltzmanngasse 16, since 1947 the US Embassy). It was repealed by the Nazi regime in 1938. Her function was resumed in 1964 by the Diplomatic Academy Vienna (see below).

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to Nazi Germany in 1938, the National Socialists dissolved the Theresian Academy and on March 13, 1939, exactly one year after the "Anschluss", set up a National Political Educational Institution (Napola) in the buildings . In 1944/45 the facility was badly damaged by aerial bombs and grenades. In 1945 the buildings in occupied post-war Austria were seized by the Soviet occupying forces, which controlled the 4th district in the four-sector city of Vienna. She handed the Theresianum over to the USIA , the administration of Soviet property in Austria.

According to the State Treaty of 1955, the Austrian state and the Theresianum Foundation received the property back on September 20, 1955, and in September 1957 the private school could be resumed under public law. The restoration of the buildings damaged in the war was carried out by the state in 1956–1964. In 1964, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, set up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , started operations in part of the building , so that the Vienna educational institution for this subject area returned to the Theresianum after 60 years.

Since 1989, female students have also been accepted into the grammar school.

The high school in the present

In addition to general education , the focus of the school is on foreign language training - in addition to German, the compulsory subjects include English, French, Latin, Russian and mathematics - and on international education . Particular emphasis is placed on politeness and good demeanor. There are additional offers in the areas of sport , art , creativity , information and communication technology and music as well as business projects . The school is run as a half and full boarding school.

The school grounds are 50,000 m² and include a soccer field and a fun court , two further soccer fields, a swimming pool , a tennis court, a running track , two beach volleyball courts, a basketball court, a large, divisible gymnasium and a smaller, older hall, both of which have climbing walls as well as other sports equipment available.

Currently, almost 800 students attend the Theresian Academy. Many come from more distant federal states or from abroad and in this case have the opportunity to live in a boarding school.

The choice of professors is made by the respective school management in cooperation with the City School Council for Vienna. The boarding school and some activities are shared with the Lycée Français de Vienne .

First rectors of the Theresianum

The rectors appointed during Maria Theria's lifetime were:

Well-known graduates

literature

  • Erich Schlöss, Franz Ögg, Heinz Kröll: Keep the driveway free day and night ... or the Theresianum on the Wieden. A picture report . Verlag Schendl, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85268-081-6 .
  • Eugen Guglia : The Theresianum in Vienna. Past and present. Edited and supplemented by Rudolf Taschner . With illustrations by Heinz Kröll. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1996, ISBN 3-205-98510-9 .

Web links

Commons : New Favorita  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schulprofil_2012_13.pdf, website of the school, 145 KB ( Memento from August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 443 f.
  3. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 261.
  4. ^ Eugen Guglia : The Theresianum in Vienna. Past and present. Schroll, Vienna 1912, p. 187 ( archive.org ).