Theresien-Gymnasium Ansbach
| Theresien-Gymnasium Ansbach | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Economics and social science high school |
| School number | 0012 |
| founding | 1812 |
| address |
Schreibmüllerstrasse 10 |
| place | Ansbach |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 18 '53 " N , 10 ° 33' 37" E |
| carrier | City of Ansbach |
| student | 974 (as of: 2018/19) |
| Teachers | 75 (as of: 2018/19) |
| management | Ralph Frisch |
| Website | www.thg-ansbach.de |
The Theresien-Gymnasium Ansbach (ThG) is the largest state high school in Ansbach in Central Franconia .
history
After Johann Gottlieb Reuter (1764–1831) founded the first school as a “teaching institution for daughters” on June 1, 1795 , it took a good ten years before a certain stability (especially in financial terms) was achieved. But by the Treaty of Schönbrunn in 1806 Ansbach fell from Prussia to Bavaria ; Reuter's financial and personal problems worsened, so that in 1811 he resigned.
On June 1, 1812, the school was ceremoniously reopened under the direction of Heinrich Stephani ; this date is considered to be the official founding of the school, even if this re-establishment was closely based on the work of Reuter. For a long time the school suffered from financial problems; only when King Ludwig I declared the "higher school for girls" to be a "public royal teaching and training institution for higher female education" was a certain degree of security achieved.
On May 24, 1837, the school's 25th birthday , it was named after Queen Therese of Bavaria (1792–1854, wife of King Ludwig I, after whom Munich's Theresienwiese is also named). Therese von Bayern later visited “her school” several times.
On January 9, 1906, the city of Ansbach decided to take over the “Theresien Institute”; the school was now called "Municipal Higher Girls' School in Ansbach - Theresien Institute". The city built a new building for the school on Karolinenstrasse. The number of female pupils in the school year 1918/19 was 176 girls.
From the school year 1924/25, Orth took over the management of the Theresien Institute, which was converted into a lyceum , since now female pupils were also allowed access to grammar schools. The school was now called "Städtisches Mädchenlyzeum Ansbach". In 1939, Klee took over the management of the school, which suffered from the increasing influence of National Socialist ideas and from problems caused by the war (cold vacation due to the lack of coal, evacuation of the school building and shift lessons together with other schools). With the school year 1941/42, the school was transformed into a full-fledged secondary school, so that the general university entrance qualification could now also be passed. The number of female students rose to 500 girls in 1944, the year of the first year of their own Abitur class.
After the reopening in the spring of 1946, the shortage of teachers and the lack of space could only gradually be alleviated by an extension in 1956. For financial reasons, the city of Ansbach, as the sponsor of the school, thought about merging with the boys ' high school , today's Platen grammar school . Due to parental protests, nationalization as a "state Theresien-Gymnasium" was approved for the school year 1965/66. As a result, the mathematical and natural science branch was discontinued and a social science orientation was pursued instead, in addition to the existing modern language branch.
In the 1977/78 school year, the school moved to the new building of the North School Center, which is located in the northern part of Ansbach in the immediate vicinity of the Realschule. In the color scheme of the new building, the green school color (the pupils' hats were traditionally burgundy with green ribbons) was used. After a first attempt in 1973, the year 1978 began to take in boys. They remained in the minority for a long time; it was only around 25 years later that the gender proportions in the entry class were roughly balanced.
Due to the increasing number of pupils, the school building was expanded in 1995 by adding four additional classrooms. Several additional storeys followed (including a new physics wing, new teachers' room) and an expansion of the sports hall. The introduction of the G8 in 2006 required another extension. In addition to specialist rooms, classrooms and several common rooms, this latest addition includes lunch provision with its own school kitchen. In the school years 2008/09 to 2011/12, however, container classrooms were needed again to alleviate the shortage of space. Another new building with a total of eight additional classrooms has been in use since September 2012, and another gymnasium for the Theresien-Gymnasium was integrated into the new building of the neighboring secondary school gym.
With around 1,000 students, the grammar school is one of the largest schools in the Ansbach district.
Educational work
One focus of the Theresien-Gymnasium lies in the economic and social science education of the students and thus joins a diverse high school education offer of the city. The Platen-Gymnasium has a scientific, technological and linguistic orientation, while the Carolinum Gymnasium is humanistically, musically and linguistically positioned.
From the fifth grade onwards, English is compulsory as the first foreign language, and from the sixth grade onwards, a second language, Latin or French, is added. In the 10th grade, Spanish can be taken as a late-beginning foreign language (instead of English), but must then be continued until the Abitur.
There is also the option of taking a bilingual train from class six. In the intensification hours of the intermediate level, one hour is used for in-depth treatment of topics from geography or economics and law.
In the eighth grade at the Bavarian grammar school you have to decide on a training course, from this a focus of around five hours per week follows, the general subjects are not affected. At the ThG, the social science and the economic branch can currently be selected. The economic branch deepens aspects of the economy and the world of work, e.g. B. through the core subject economics and law as well as business informatics. As part of a study week, business and economic simulation games are carried out in addition to company visits. In addition to the core subject of social studies, the social science branch also includes in-depth health and nutrition studies. A greater practical relevance is created through several internships, some in social institutions.
Since the 2006/2007 school year, a wind class has been offered for grades five and six in cooperation with the Ansbach Municipal Music School . The regular music lessons are partly replaced by an ensemble lesson and an additional weekly lesson is introduced to learn a wind instrument.
The first pupils from so-called introductory classes, who are prepared for the upper level of the grammar school in separate 10th grades after completing a Real or Middle School, obtained their general higher education entrance qualification at the ThG in 2012. Since then, additional introductory classes have been set up every year, again for the 2018/19 school year.
As the first grammar school in Ansbach, it offers an open all-day train, meanwhile in several groups. The ThG was the first school in Ansbach to set up two “tablet classes” in the 2017/18 school year, starting with the 5th grade. Since the introduction, two of the six entry classes have been tablet classes.
Student exchange
The Theresien-Gymnasium runs several student exchanges. Since 1988, eighth and ninth graders who choose French as their second foreign language have had the opportunity to take part in an exchange with the French Collége Endarra in Anglet . The exchange takes place annually in May. For middle school students there is also an exchange with the high school in Kežmarok in Slovakia , since 2013 with three schools in South Africa , since 2017 with Costa Rica and since 2018 with Israel .
Projects
On the occasion of the European Year of Languages 2001 , the grammar school took part in the BMBF- funded project "Languages open doors" . The integration of foreign languages in subjects such as computer science by the students themselves and the awarding of an in-school “European certificate” upon successful participation was explicitly highlighted in the final report as a good example among around 2900 mainly school projects.
The high school maintains a film group called Theresien-Nachwuchs-Television , or TNT for short . This regularly takes part in competitions and film festivals. The group celebrated one of the greatest successes at the SPIELFILM federal film festival in 2005 with a gold medal for the film Anna's answer . This was followed by a report to the German Film Festival for non-commercial films of the Federal Association of German Film Authors as one of around 50 contributions.
The school is regularly used for exhibitions, for example the multimedia traveling exhibition Anne Frank, which was funded by the BMFSFJ in 2007 . A girl from Germany from the Anne Frank Center in Berlin . There are collaborations with the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences , the Physics Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and other educational institutions. The Theresien-Gymnasium sees itself as a school without racism - school with courage .
Web links
- www.thg-ansbach.de
- "Theresien-Gymnasium Ansbach: On the cutting edge for 200 years" , Bayer. Ministry of Culture for the 2012 school anniversary
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Theresien-Gymnasium Ansbach on the pages of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (km.bayern.de, accessed on February 13, 2020)
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (ed.): School directory 2013/14 . July 2014, p. 96–97 ( PDF [accessed August 7, 2014]). PDF ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Robert Hassler: Beloved daughters 1. Bechhofen 1987.
- ↑ Initiation article on the school homepage
- ↑ Wind class info
- ↑ Introductory class
- ↑ Theresien-Gymnasium: Open all-day school (PDF)
- ↑ Information brochure on the tablet class ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Flyer on the tablet classes
- ^ Report on South Africa
- ^ Israel report
- ↑ Information on the school homepage about the school's internal European certificate
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Brochure Languages open doors ( Memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
- ^ Report from the SPIELFILM 2005 Federal Film Festival
- ^ Traveling exhibition: Anne Frank. A girl from Germany ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ University cooperation
