Herder School Wuppertal
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| type of school | State-recognized all-day supplementary school |
| School number | 700721 |
| founding | 1872 |
| address |
Luisenstrasse 134-136 |
| place | Wuppertal |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 15 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 3 ″ E |
| carrier | Free anthropological school support company |
| student | 200 (as of 2016) |
| Teachers | 24 (as of 2016) |
| management | Britta Johanna Norpoth |
| Website | www.herder-schule.de |
The Herder School in Wuppertal is a state-recognized, private full-day supplementary school in Wuppertal , and named after Johann Gottfried Herder . In their educational goals, the school based on the teachings of Herder and Maria Montessori , Georg Kerschensteiner , Hermann Lietz , Peter Petersen and Rudolf Steiner . The school is divided into lower secondary level (grades 5–10) and upper secondary level (grades 11–13). The qualifications that can be achieved are the secondary school leaving certificate and the Abitur . The final exams are carried out centrally by the Düsseldorf district government (see also: Abitur for non-school students ). The headmistress is Britta Norpoth.
history
The Sarres siblings and teachers (father teacher at the Elberfelder Realschule ) founded the private Höhere Töchterschule or Sarress School in Wuppertal in 1872 . The new school's range of courses included religious instruction, math, science, French, English, handicrafts, music lessons and dance. In 1922, Dr. Hans Borgs-Maciejewski founded the girls' school, which is now 50 years old, and at the same time founded the Schiller-Pädagogium , a higher school for boys, named after the poet of Weimar Classics . The girls' school was renamed after the pioneer of humanism Johann Gottfried Herder. Dr. Borgs-Maciejewski ran the school for another 50 years. In 1943 the school was closed by the Nazi dictatorship and almost simultaneously lost a school building due to the Allied bombing of Wuppertal . The lessons for the last 50 or so students, including those with Jewish roots, were ended. After 1945, on the initiative of educators, parents and donors, a day care center was set up where children received a meal. In 1954, the Herder School found its current home in the Schmits'schen Villa with its several thousand square meter park at Luisenstraße 136, after it was partly housed in barracks on Laurentiusplatz .
Heinz Reinecke was the headmaster from 1951 to 1976. Günter Rauch ran the school from 1976 to 1980 . He was succeeded by Dirk Norpoth, who handed over the management of the school to his daughter Britta Johanna Norpoth in 2016.
Villa Schmits
The builder of the late Classicist villa was the Elberfeld- based architect Heinrich Bramesfeld . The builder of the villa was the Elberfeld manufacturer and patron of the Commerce Councilor Julius Adolf Schmits (1825–1899), who lived here with his wife Luise de Landas and with whom he had two children.
His son Julius Schmits (1855–1916) distinguished himself as a patron of today's Von der Heydt Museum after leaving his company . After the namesake, Schmits was the largest private patron of the house. The Schmits were connected to the Von der Heydt family by marriage. Julius Schmits had married Ida Haarhaus (1861–1954), a sister of Selma von der Heydt , and moved with her into the villa above Luisenstrasse. After his death, Ida Schmits continued to live in the villa with brief interruptions until her death. According to an obituary , her villa on Luisenstrasse was an intellectual and social center in Elberfeld . 1943–1945 the Heydt-Kersten & Sons bank temporarily moved into the ground floor after the parent company at today's Kerstenplatz was destroyed in an air raid on Wuppertal . After Ida Schmits' death in 1954, the Herder School moved into the building. In 1987, the villa was under the name Villa Neuhaus than 1,000 architectural monument of the city of Wuppertal under monument protection provided.
Johann Gottfried Herder
around 1785
(1744–1803)
Maria Montessori
(1870–1952)
Julius Schmits
around 1910
(1855–1916)
Ida Schmits
around 1910
(1861–1954)
membership
The school is a member of the Federal Association of German Private Schools, the German Montessori Society and the International Schools Association.
Trivia
In 1987, parts of the film Dr. Robert Schumann, devil romantic filmed with Will Quadflieg in the lead role. In 2006 the villa served as a film set for the German production Schiri im Abseits .
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Herder School website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the commercial register: Britta Johanna Norpoth in Witten has been the managing director of the Free Anthropological School Support Company since August 2016.
- ↑ a b c Michael Hartmann: The villa on Luisenstrasse. In: Look In The City. Wuppertal Elberfeld. born-verlag.de 2016/17. P. 52.
- ↑ Timeline 1951 In: herder-schule.de.
- ↑ Dr. Günter Rauch. "Maitre de Secours 2014" from the IGHA to Dr. Günter Rauch. In: Interest group Hanauer Altstadt eV, 2014.
- ↑ Timeline 1980 In: herder-schule.de.
- ↑ Alexander Wendt: Many parents interested in education look for values and a sheltered environment in private schools. In: Focus from February 20, 2006.
- ^ Antje Hansen: The Villa Schmits in the Elberfelder Luisenstraße. In: Geschichte im Wuppertal 16 (2007), pp. 1–12.
- ↑ Villa Neuhaus is also another name for Villa Amalia . In what connection “Neuhaus” with Luisenstr. 136 is not clear.
- ↑ Valeska von Dolega: Referee scandal takes place in Wuppertal . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of May 5, 2006.