Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden

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Vitzthum high school
Vitzthum.jpg
Vitzthum-Gymnasium in the Dresden district of Zschertnitz since 2010
type of school General education high school
founding 1828
address

Paradiesstrasse 35

place Dresden
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 1 '25 "  N , 13 ° 44' 42"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '25 "  N , 13 ° 44' 42"  E
carrier City of Dresden
student 1011 (2019/2020)
Teachers 83 (2019/2020)
management Arnhild Göllner
Website www.vitzthum-gymnasium.de

The Vitzthum-Gymnasium is a school in Saxony's state capital Dresden.

history

When Rudolph Vitzthum von Apolda died in Dresden in 1639, his estate also contained a sum of 86,000 guilders , which was to be used to found a grammar school.

First building

However, it was not until 1828 that a grammar school (Vitzthum'sches Familien Gymnasium) was founded, which was attached to the "Blochmann Education Institute" founded four years earlier by Karl Justus Blochmann . This institute was located in Grosse Plauische Gasse in Dresden's Seevorstadt district . With the dissolution of the "Blochmannschen Erziehungsanstalt" in 1861, the grammar school with the first rector Karl Friedrich Scheibe became an independent school and was named "Vitzthumsches Gymnasium". In 1897 the school became the property of the city of Dresden.

In 1903, the collotype company Römmler & Jonas reproduced eight pencil drawings of the building by Martin Gebhardt.

Second building

Seal mark

This boys' school moved into a new building in 1904 at Dippoldiswalder Gasse 9 in downtown Dresden. At the beginning of the autumn vacation in 1944 ( Michaelmas vacation ), the school had to be vacated within three days and move to the Wettin School. The building was converted into a hospital. But before classes began there, the Wettiner Gymnasium was badly damaged in a bombing raid on October 7, 1944, the last day of vacation. Three administrative rooms remained, so that another move to the 9th elementary school on Georgplatz was necessary. During the air raids on Dresden on 13./14. In February 1945, both this building and the original schoolhouse in Dippoldiswalder Gasse were destroyed.

The last director of the old Vitzthum grammar school was Gustav Johannes Kleinstück (1884–1958). In Victor Klemperer's diaries , both the school and Kleinstück are mentioned in connection with an Abitur examination in March 1928, which Klemperer was supposed to observe as a state-appointed commissioner. Klemperer, who on the one hand disparagingly describes the school as a "feudal [s], aristocratic [s], Jew-pure [s] grammar school", however, also expresses his appreciation. After taking the Abitur exam, he noted on March 5, 1928: “I was amazed at the boys' knowledge of history. They knew about the Socialist Law, they knew the Weimar Constitution. Everything anti-republican was strictly avoided (at least in the exam). "

Renaming of the name

The 110th and 111th polytechnic high schools in Dresden-Zschertnitz, built in 1973/74, were the location of the Vitzthum grammar school from 1994–2007.

In the 1973/74 school year, two neighboring schools of the Dresden Atrium type were opened in Paradiesstrasse in Dresden- Zschertnitz as part of the construction of a new residential area , the 110th and 111th Polytechnic Oberschule . These were later given the honorary names " Theodor Körner " and " Gottfried Semper ". From 1991 these buildings were used by the newly founded Saxon secondary school Dresden-Süd .

On April 11, 1994, this state high school in Paradiesstrasse was given the name “Vitzthum-Gymnasium” in memory of the earlier institution, after there had been no higher school with such a name in Dresden for almost 50 years. The name was given at the suggestion of the Quondam vitzthumiani , a group of former students from the school that went under in 1945.

Fourth building and new construction

In 2007 the Vitzthum-Gymnasium moved behind the main train station into the building of the previously closed Fritz-Löffler-Gymnasium in Bernhardstraße 18. The buildings in Paradiesstraße were demolished in favor of a new building and a new school building was erected there from September 2008 to August 2010, whose investment total was around 19 million euros. With a week of festivities on the occasion of the reopening of the Vitzthum-Gymnasium in Zschertnitz , the "Entry into Paradise" (allusion to the new / old location of the school on Paradiesstrasse) was celebrated from August 16 to 20, 2010.

School profile

The school offers an artistic, a natural science and, since 2015/2016, a social science profile.

Personalities

principal

Teacher

student

The following personalities can be found among the Quondam vitzthumiani :

literature

Web links

Commons : Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden, number of pupils. In: Saxon school database. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  2. ^ Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden, number of teachers. In: Saxon school database. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Martin Gebhardt: From the old Vitzthum grammar school. Reduced collotype reproductions based on original pencil drawings. Leipzig 1903 ( catalog reference in the German National Library ).
  4. ↑ Victor Klemperer: Collect life, don't ask why and why. Diaries 1925–1932 . Edited by Walter Nowojski. Berlin 1996, p. 413, p. 418.
  5. ↑ a b History and background information of the Vitzthum-Gymnasium ( Memento from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )