Thomas Alumnate

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The Thomasalumnat , called Kasten , is the alumnat (formerly Alumneum and boarding school ) and the training center of the Leipzig Thomanerchor . The Alumnat is an institution of the City of Leipzig, which reports to the Department of Culture. The listed old building from the Wilhelminian era and the new building from 2013 are part of the artistic education center Forum Thomanum in the Bachviertel . Opposite is the St. Thomas School ( Hillerstraße ), also part of the campus, which is visited by the St. Thomas School .

history

Thomas Alumnat and the Thomas School behind it (Schreberstraße), around 1900
Ground floor plan of the alumnate, around 1892

The original alumni of the Thomas School was financed for a long time through foundations and donations. The feeding of the Thomaner in particular was a great item. After the Thomas School moved to Leipzig's Bachviertel (Schreberstraße) in the 1870s, the alumni initially stayed at the Old Thomas School at Thomaskirchhof. The city council debated controversially about a new alumni building or, alternatively, the accommodation of the Thomaner with host families or pensions. A report commissioned by Mayor Carl Bruno Tröndlin , which was ultimately supported by the responsible local politicians, pleaded for an alumni to be retained. In 1902 the old building was demolished.

From 1877 to 1881, the new four-storey building with a basement was built according to plans by August Friedrich Viehweger , who was already responsible for the New Thomas School , in Hillerstraße as a plastered building with sandstone structures in late classical forms. The roof was covered with slate and zinc. The sgraffito paintings on the third floor were carried out by Ferdinand Laufberger . The construction area comprised 874 m² (the entire area 1,928 m²) and the set-up costs amounted to 260,000 marks.

The floor plan , which is partly documented in Leipzig and its buildings , shows the following functional division: On the ground floor are a singing room and two sick rooms as well as the apartments of the economist and the guardian. The principal's apartment (with its own stairway access) and the school library follow on the first floor . On the second floor there are a total of six heatable living rooms and work rooms with cupboards (Köten), so that at the time there was space for 60 students. The three apartments of the adjuncts can also be seen. On the third floor, there is another adjunct room, a laundry room and the dormitories. An extension between the alumni and the school gymnasium serves as an institution kitchen and dining room. There are toilets with disinfection and pit ventilation on every floor. In addition, a playground was built outside .

The construction of the building meant that the Thomaskantor no longer lived with the alumni; the Thomaskirche and the Alumnat were separated from each other. The rector of the St. Thomas School , who was also head of the St. Thomas Choir until the 1970s, and three other teachers - one of them each as the “duty inspector” - moved into the alumnate building. Today the former inspectors are supplemented by qualified educators. The Thomaner have a housemother and live mixed ages, with the elderly looking after the younger ones in the form of a prefectural system to this day. The Nazis tried the facilities " equal switch " ( Musisches School Leipzig from 1941), the GDR tried ultimately unsuccessful, to destroy the structures of the Alumnat (such as renaming in boarding school and the relocation of the St. Thomas School).

During the Second World War in 1943, parts of the alumni were damaged in the Allied air raids on Leipzig : the dining room with kitchen burned down, the roof and the dormitory were hit. The choir was then evacuated to the Saxon Princely School in Grimma . Only at the end of the war in 1945 did the choir return to the partially restored alumni. Then three dormitories were built in the 1980s. In 1992 the alumnate was completely renovated. In 1999/2000 there was a renovation and extension (classrooms, lounges, fitness room, sanitary area), as around 90 boys were already living here.

In 2008 the city council of Leipzig decided to renovate and expand the alumnate to 120 places, which began in 2011. In 2013, the architecture office Essmann, Gärtner, Nieper Architekten GbR, on behalf of the City of Leipzig, Office for Building Management, completed a new extension for around 11.4 million euros. An acoustically adapted large rehearsal hall, several rehearsal and classrooms as well as a cafeteria with kitchen were implemented there. In addition, the upper floors of the old apartment wing were converted so that there are now separate sanitary areas (bathroom and toilet) everywhere. There are also several living rooms with piano and desks , bedrooms and tea kitchens. Der Spiegel once had three organs , two grand pianos and 40 pianos. The Alumnat also houses the teachers' (historical library) and pupils' libraries (musical teaching library) of the St. Thomas' Choir. The former grammar school teacher Thoralf Schulze has been the alumnate director since 2005/06.

The protected natural monument of walnut hybrids is located at the Alumnat .

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomasalumnat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 132.
  2. ↑ Roland Weise / Thoralf Schulze: Das Alumnat - Leben in der Chorgemeinschaft , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 380–392, contents of page 392.
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulze : Nervus rerum - to finance the alumnate of the Schola pauperum , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, Pp. 208–217, content from page 210.
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schulze : Nervus rerum - to finance the alumnate of the Schola pauperum , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, Pp. 208–217, content from page 211.
  5. ↑ a b Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 111.
  6. ↑ a b c Roland Weise / Thoralf Schulze: Das Alumnat - Leben in der Chorgemeinschaft , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012 , Pp. 380-393, content from page 381.
  7. ^ Stefan Altner : The Thomaskantorat in the 19th century. Applicants and candidates for the Leipzig Thomaskantorat in the years 1842 to 1918. Source studies on the development of the Thomaskantorat and the St. Thomas Choir from the discontinuation of public singing in 1837 to the first trip abroad in 1920 , Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, p. 149 ff.
  8. ^ A b Hugo Licht : Alumnate of the Thomasschule , in: The city of Leipzig in a hygienic relationship. Festschrift for the participants of the XVII. Assembly of the German Association for Public Health Care . Compiled by E. Hasse, F. Hoffmann, H. Siegel and R. Thiem, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 196 on behalf of the City Council of Leipzig.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Hocquél : Die Alte Thomasschule am Thomaskirchhof , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, pp. 192–207, content from page 206.
  10. ^ Annette Menting : Leipzig, Reclams Universal Library No. 19259, Leipzig 2015, p. 134 f.
  11. ↑ a b c d Association of Leipzig Architects and Engineers (Ed.): Leipzig and its buildings: for the 10th walking meeting of the Association of German Architects and Engineers in Leipzig from August 28 to 31, 1892 . Gebhardt, Leipzig 1892, p. 326.
  12. ^ Association of Leipzig Architects and Engineers (Ed.): Leipzig and its buildings: for the 10th walking meeting of the Association of German Architects and Engineers in Leipzig from August 28 to 31, 1892 . Gebhardt, Leipzig 1892, p. 324.
  13. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas School and St. Thomas Choir, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 112.
  14. ↑ a b c Roland Weise / Thoralf Schulze: Das Alumnat - Leben in der Chorgemeinschaft , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012 , Pp. 380-393, content from page 382.
  15. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 149.
  16. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 146.
  17. ↑ Roland Weise / Thoralf Schulze: Das Alumnat - Leben in der Chorgemeinschaft , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 380–393, content from page 383.
  18. ↑ Roland Weise / Thoralf Schulze: Das Alumnat - Leben in der Chorgemeinschaft , in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 380–393, content from page 384.
  19. ↑ Doris Mundus : 800 years of Thomana: Pictures on the history of Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor, Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, p. 159.
  20. ↑ Emanuel Eckardt : Smash for the honor . Spiegel Online , June 24, 2006.
  21. ↑ Felicitas Kirsten: The teacher and student libraries of the Thomanerchor - current holdings, in: Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 374-379.
  22. ↑ Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, commemorative publication for the anniversary of St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas School , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 474.
  23. ^ Overview of the architecture prizes since 1999 , www.leipzig.de, accessed on November 11, 2016.

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