Wartberg School Elementary and Werkrealschule Heilbronn
| Wartberg School Elementary and Werkrealschule Heilbronn | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Elementary and secondary school |
| founding | 1846 |
| address |
Stielerstrasse 20 |
| place | Heilbronn |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 9 '9 " N , 9 ° 13' 38" E |
| carrier | City of Heilbronn |
| student | 450 (2013) |
| Teachers | 38 (2013) |
| Website | www.wartbergschule.de |
The Wartbergschule Primary and Werkrealschule Heilbronn is a primary and Werkrealschule in Heilbronn . The school was named after the Wartberg in Heilbronn and is located at Stielerstraße 20. The building was designed by Heinrich Röhm and inaugurated on September 1, 1959. The school authority is the city of Heilbronn. Up until the 1970s, the school was still a model school in terms of vocational orientation , but then degenerated into a focus school, the problems of which were addressed with separate support classes, a cultural program and various structural and social measures. The school has been an all-day school since 2000/01. In 2013, 450 students were taught by 38 teachers.
history
The school goes back to the former Karlsschule , which was set up in 1846/47 as a primary school in the rectorate building of the Karlsgymnasium , but then lost its school building in the air raid on December 4, 1944 . In October 1945, lessons began again in the rooms of the Heilbronn main post office on the Allee , where in 1947 over 800 pupils were taught in 20 classes in a shift system. In 1949, most of the school moved to the Dammschule , where nine rooms were available for 12 classes with 550 students. Most of the classes then moved to the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium in 1952 , while some students were also taught at the Pestalozzi School , the Agricultural School and in the municipal fruit farm building on Kübelstrasse. In 1956, the municipal building department planned a new building for the school in the east of the city, which was approved by the local council in 1957 and built in 1958/59. After the Silcherschule and the Albrecht Dürer School , it was the third new primary school building in the city after the Second World War. The first headmaster of the school, now known as the Wartberg School, was Wilhelm Kuhnle, who had directed the Karlsschule since 1939 but died in a car accident in January 1960. He was succeeded by Erich Obermüller, who had previously been vice principal of the Rosenau School . The school's gymnasium was inaugurated in 1962. From 1970 pupils at the Wartberg School completed internships, later interdisciplinary work teaching projects were added. In 1978 the school received new specialist rooms. The school was seen as a model school and a pioneer in school career orientation .
In 1981 the retired Rector Obermüller was succeeded as headmaster Manfred Keller. During his tenure, the proportion of students with a migration background rose to around 70%, as did the proportion of students from broken families. The catchment area of the school includes the areas of Nordstadt and Unterer Wartberg for primary school students, and the residential area in the industrial area, known as Hawaii , for secondary school students , with a high rate of foreigners, unemployed and homeless. Supplementary preparatory classes for the language acquisition required for attending the regular classes have been set up. The teaching of the entire school was massively affected by students from unfavorable social structures. The lack of space also hindered lessons. In 1991, Rector Keller accepted the offer to set up a private Protestant elementary school in Stuttgart. His successor in 1992 was Hans-Georg Werner, who had been the school's vice-principal since 1979. During his term of office in 1996, the support association Wartbergschule Heilbronn was founded . The school social workers were able to move into their own rooms in the former caretaker's apartment. In cooperation with the Johann Jakob Widmann School , a meeting pavilion was built by students. Mr. Werner campaigned for the construction of a wooden walkway over the train tracks, which made the way to school to the gym in the industrial area safer and shorter. In 2001 the wooden walkway was realized. Before Mr Werner retired in 1999, a two-storey extension was built in order to meet the great lack of space, which made it possible to organize school life individually.
From 1999 Ludwig Müller was the head of the school. He succeeded in the structural, social and cultural changes with which the school took on a positive development again. From the 1999/2000 school year onwards, interferers were encountered among the students with interdisciplinary special classes ( PRO classes ) in a spatially separate branch in Stielerstrasse. Such a PRO class at the Wartberg School was also the point of contact for Katharina Saalfrank in the (failed) attempt to accommodate a 15-year-old unwilling to go to school as part of the TV series Die Super Nanny . The school's social work has also been upgraded by creating its own external office outside the school premises. In the school year 2000/01 the school was converted to an all-day school. Since 2001 there has been social training for students in the first and second grades, which is supplemented by many social offers for older students as well.
After Heilbronner Nordstadt was included in the federal-state funding program “Socially Integrative City” in 2002, the school grounds were redesigned into a “dream schoolyard” with exercise facilities and quiet zones in 2004. In 2009, a new two-story gym was inaugurated, replacing the old gym.
The school tries to counter the social problems of its students with a top-class cultural program. Lisa Fitz , Arabella Steinbacher , Daniel Müller-Schott and others have already made guest appearances at the school . A collaboration with regional artists has also started.
Headmaster Müller, who did a great job of modernizing the school and improving social conditions, retired in 2011. Bärbel Hetzinger has been running the Wartberg School since 2012.
description
school-building
The Wartberg School was designed by Heinrich Röhm and inaugurated on September 1, 1959. The school is in two parts, the first system is used for the lower and the second system for the upper level. Both facilities have playgrounds. The two-part main building from 1959 has flat gable roofs. Aluminum slats serve as the upper end of the windows. The Wartberg School has a tea room, a bistro, a play area, a MuFu (multifunctional room) and its own internet café.
The school buildings have wall paintings and reliefs by Peter Jakob Schober and Gottfried Gruner . Schober, who was first chairman of the Stuttgart Secession from 1954 to 1964 and later an honorary member of the Stuttgart Artists' Association, designed the mosaics and the murals in silicate paint both in the corridors and in the entrance hall. Various motifs have been attached to the strong ultramarine blue wall in the entrance hall. These motifs partly consist of golden mosaic stones and are supposed to symbolize aquatic animals. They were applied to the wall in a playful way that was very common in Heilbronn in the 1950s. Gruber's sculptures in the Wartberg School were painted in silicate paint by Schober and enriched with ceramic jewelry by the ceramicist Maria Fitzen-Wohnsiedler . Fitzen-Wohnsiedler, a member of the Artists 'Association and the Heilbronn Artists' Guild, also created the fountain in the entrance hall.
gym
A special feature of the school is the two-story gymnasium, which was completed in 2009 based on designs by the architects Ackermann & Raff. For reasons of space, it was decided to use a two-storey variant in order to increase the usable area at the same time and not have to do without the sports field. The gym rests on a red plinth, above which the asymmetrically windowed and paneled main cube protrudes on all sides. The city's building and environment committee judged the design: "The layering of the structure, the arrangement of the lower side room brackets opposite the residential buildings and the recessed hall structure results in a pleasant scale to both Stielerstrasse, Rauchstrasse and the existing building."
Dream school yard
With funding of 150,000 euros from the federal-state program "Districts with Special Development Needs - The Socially Integrative City", the "dream school yard" at the Wartberg School was realized from 2004, which was largely created according to the wishes of the students. The Öhringen construction company Schneider, the municipal green space office with the head stonemason Ralph Krämer and the artist Florian Aigner were involved in the execution . The tree house was created according to Aigner's designs and is supplemented by an amphitheater, a sandstone castle hill , a willow labyrinth, a water area, plant beds and various activities. An old construction trailer has been used as a snack stand on the schoolyard grounds since 2007. In 2009 a group of sculptures by the sculptor Michael Hieronymus was set up.
Known students
- Richard Drautz (1953–2014), master winemaker and State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Thomas Strobl (* 1960), politician, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
literature
- Wartbergschule Heilbronn (publisher): 50 years of the Wartbergschule Heilbronn 1959–2009 , Heilbronn 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heilbronn voice from February 1996 "More common sense"
- ↑ Heilbronn voice of July 22, 1998 "Ice tea and snail noodles for the fitters"
- ↑ Heilbronn voice of November 7, 2001 "Building bridges over railway tracks will be finished soon"
- ↑ Heilbronn voice of July 28, 1998 "No more math lessons in the school kitchen"
- ↑ http://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/nachrichten/stadt/sonstige-Natuerlich-wird-er-sie-alle-vermissen;art1925,2194812
- ↑ http://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/nachrichten/stadt/sonstige-Wartbergschule-muss-nicht-laenger-warten;art1925,2359633
- ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 40.
- ↑ Heilbronn and the art of the 1950s, Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 163.
- ↑ Heilbronn and the art of the 50s, Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 102.
- ↑ Ackermann & Raff (PDF, 12 kB)