Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium Greiz

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Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium - State Gymnasium Greiz
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type of school high school
founding 1872
place Greiz
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 39 '6 "  N , 12 ° 11' 43"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '6 "  N , 12 ° 11' 43"  E
carrier District of Greiz
student about 650
Teachers about 60
management Jens Dietzsch
Website www.ulf-merbold-gymnasium.de

The Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium - Staatliches Gymnasium Greiz is a state, general high school in the East Thuringian district town of Greiz . The grammar school is the largest school sponsored by the district of Greiz . Since 2010 the facility has been named after the former graduate and science astronaut Ulf Merbold and is located in the former Lessing School building in Greiz Neustadt.

history

High school education has its origins in the former capital of the Principality of Reuss older line in 1735. Until 1802, young people were taught in the Lyceum up to university entrance qualification. After the city fire of 1802, the status of the facility was downgraded. Today the Greiz City and District Library is located in the Lyceum. From 1862 the affluent population of Greiz wanted a new secondary school. A private school association was founded which, after the Principality joined the North German Confederation , was unable to compete with the high schools in Gera or Plauen . In 1869 a high school based on the Prussian model was required for the first time, the establishment of which was approved in 1872. Lessons took place temporarily in the Red House , today's Lessing elementary school next to the Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium. Until 1875 the grammar school was built on the former site of a cemetery of the town church of St. Marien and inaugurated on April 10, 1875.

The grammar school experienced major turning points in the curriculum and student body during the two world wars. Thus, towards the end of the First World War, high school classes were completely suspended. The United Higher Schools , founded after the end of the Second World War , became the " Dr. Theo Neubauer " high school as early as 1946 . It was not until 1948 that lessons could be held again in the original grammar school. The following years were marked by the socialist and polytechnical content of the GDR education system . Between 1982 and 1990, only grades 11 and 12 were taught at the Extended Oberschule .

After the Peaceful Revolution , the grammar school was reintroduced from grade 5 in Thuringia in 1991. Classes now took place next to the main building on Dr.-Scheube-Strasse, also in the former Hans-Beimler-Oberschule . From the beginning of the 1990s until 2002 there were two independent grammar schools in Greiz, the 1st state grammar school and the Pestalozzig grammar school .

In 2009, the Lessing regular school in Greiz moved into the building on Dr.-Scheube-Straße, the former regular school building opposite the Greiz train station was extensively converted and handed over to the grammar school at the beginning of the 2010/2011 school year. On September 9, 2010, the name of the "Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium" was consecrated with a ceremony in the sports hall . The physicist, who was present on that day, left the GDR after graduating from high school in 1960 and became the first German in space aboard the Spacelab space laboratory .

School profile

Infrastructure

At the location in Greizer Neustadt, which was modernized in 2009-2010, there is a 3-field sports hall, the auditorium (in a former gym) and an artificial turf sports field next to the main building. As the first grammar school in Thuringia, all classrooms were equipped with interactive whiteboards .

School youth work

In addition to the elective and compulsory subjects of the Thuringian secondary level, various working groups and projects for school youth work have emerged in recent years. This includes:

  • the student company "Service & Marketing SAG" as a provider of office services
  • a school choir
  • artistic working groups (pottery, fine arts, theater)
  • sporting working groups (lifeguarding, climbing, badminton, geocaching)
  • Scientific-mathematical working groups (model making / physics, mathematics)

School development

Since 2007 the school has been participating in the Thuringian development project "Independent School" , as well as in competitions for pupils such as the natural science "Olympics", the Adam Ries competition , the federal foreign language competition and the youth research competition . In the latter, three tenth grade students achieved first place in the regional and third place in the state competition last school year.

School partnerships

Since 1990 various temporary collaborations with schools around the world have emerged. The networks of the media education institute IZOP , the project "Youth and Environment" and the German American Partnership Program were used in particular .

There is currently an active partnership with the Studentska high school in Havířov in the Czech Republic and the Liceo Statale high school in Ischia (Campania) , an island community in the Gulf of Naples.

Known students

The following personalities passed their Abitur at one of the historic high school schools in Greiz:

Historical development of the school name

  • 1914 - 1927: Municipal or Thuringian high school with secondary school
  • 1927 - 1939: Thuringian high school with upper secondary school
  • 1939 - 1945: Bismarck School - State high school for boys
  • 1945 - 1946: United High Schools of the City of Greiz
  • 1946 - 1959: "Dr. Theo Neubauer" high school
  • 1959 - 1990: Extended secondary school "Dr. Theo Neubauer"
  • 1990 - 2002: State Gymnasium or First State Gymnasium and Pestalozzigymnasium
  • 2002 - 2010: State high school
  • since 2010: Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium

literature

  • Söllner, Rudolf / Friends of the 1st State Gymnasium Greiz eV: 125 years of Greiz Gymnasien 1972 - 1997. Greiz 1997.
  • Söllner, Rudolf: The development of the Greizer public and higher school system. In: 800 years of Greiz. 1209 - 2009. Greiz 2008, pp. 46-55.