Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium Weißenburg

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Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium Weißenburg
WernerVonSiemensGymWUG.jpg
Main entrance (seen from the north)
type of school High school with a science-technological, linguistic and economic branch
founding 1337/1932
address

At the Hagenau 24

place Weißenburg in Bavaria
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 1 '31 "  N , 10 ° 58' 37"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '31 "  N , 10 ° 58' 37"  E
carrier Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district
student 1003 (school year 2018/19)
Teachers 72
management Wolfgang Vorliczky
Website http://www.wvsgym.de/

The Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium (short wvsgym ) is a secondary school in Weißenburg in Bavaria . It is the only grammar school in the city, the largest of the three grammar schools in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district and the second largest school in the district overall. The school had around 1000 students in the 2018/2019 school year. It emerged from the Weissenburg Latin School and was temporarily a secondary school with a Progymnasium in the 19th century . The upper level of the Senefelder School in Treuchtlingen is organizationally assigned to the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium as part of a cooperation.

location

The school building is located in the school center southeast of Weißenburg's old town and below Ludwigshöhe , not far from Bundesstraße 2 . There are several sports facilities and buildings of other types of schools in the immediate vicinity, including the State Realschule Weissenburg . The postal address is An der Hagenau 24 .

history

Its predecessor was the city's Latin school, first mentioned in 1337 , which flourished after the Reformation . At the beginning of the 19th century it moved to the newly constructed building at Martin-Luther-Platz 7 . Shortly thereafter, the school was downgraded to a supplementary study school , which is why the graduates did not obtain a university entrance qualification with their degree . Later it was combined into a secondary school with a Progymnasium . It was not until 1932 that the school was upgraded to a high school again.

In 1970 the construction of the first construction phase (the middle part) of today's school building began, and in 1972 the move followed. Before that, the school was located in the building of what is now the Fachoberschule Wildbadstrasse 19 , part of it in the Progymnasium at Nordring 33. For reasons of space, however, some of the lessons were still held in the Progymnasium. In the same year the school was named after the electrical engineer Werner von Siemens (1816–1892). At the beginning of the 1977/78 school year, the second construction phase of the new building (east and west annex) was inaugurated, and since then all lessons have taken place there. In 2006 and 2007 a cafeteria building was erected to the south , which is also used for events and recreation. In the 2010s, a further extension to the school building was built in the west, for which part of the playground had to make way.

Personalities

staff

  • Siegmund Günther (1848–1923), geographer, mathematician and from 1872 to 1873 teacher at the school
  • Karl Gareis (1889–1921), USPD politician in the Weimar Republic, from 1918 teacher at the school
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Mangold (1908–2003), painter and home nurse, senior teacher from 1954 to 1970
  • Josef Lidl (1911–1999), local history researcher and teacher at the school from 1947 to 1976
  • Otto Lehovec (1917–1982), author and from 1945 to 1981 teacher at the school, from 1976 its director
  • Sieghard Rost (1921–2017), CSU politician and teacher at the school
  • Friedrich Eigler (* 1940), author and university professor, worked at grammar school from 1968
  • Rainer Messerer (* 1943), politician of the SPD and from 1969 to 1978 teacher at the school

Former students

literature

  • Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium Weißenburg: Annual reports
  • Festschrift from 2012 675 years of high school in Weißenburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district: Education in Altmühlfranken 2014/2015. Education report for the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, as of July 2015 , p. 63 ( Memento from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, 2.7 MB)
  3. ^ Gustav Mödl: schola nostra uuizzinburgi , 1st edition 1977, Prechtel Verlag Weißenburg
  4. ^ Extension West 2010/11 on the school website
  5. ^ Exhibition at KunstSchranne (PDF; 7.8 MB) villa nostra, Weißenburger Blätter, 1/2013 - pages 16–19, PDF file. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ Weißenburger Tagblatt of July 29, 2011