Wichern School

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Wichern School
Wichern School Hamburg main entrance 2005.jpg
Main entrance to the Wichern School on Horner Weg (2005)
type of school Private school , elementary school , district school , high school
founding 1874
address

Horner Way 164

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 33 '18 "  N , 10 ° 4' 11"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '18 "  N , 10 ° 4' 11"  E
carrier Rauhen Haus Foundation , North Church
student around 1400
Teachers around 130
management Christoph Pallmeier
Website www.wichern-schule.de

The Wichern School was founded in 1874 by Johann Hinrich Wichern and is the oldest Protestant private school in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg .

history

The "Paulinum" around 1910
Teaching College of the Paulinum, 1889

The Wichern School has its historical origins in 1833, when the eponym Johann Hinrich Wichern brought the Rauhe Haus into being. From this facility, Wichern founded his own school in 1874, which was initially called "Paulinum". In the Christmas days he decorated his facilities with the advent wreath he had invented .

The Wichern School received its current name in 1927, when it was also officially recognized as a church, Protestant private school. In 1939, during the Second World War , the Wichern School was forcibly nationalized by the National Socialists. In the course of the war-related bombing of Hamburg, the school buildings were badly damaged and closed in 1943. It was not until fourteen years later that the Wichern School was inaugurated in 1957.

Today, under the roof of the Wichern School, there is a primary school , a district school and a grammar school with a total of around 1400 students. As a state-recognized, Protestant private school, the school is supported by the Rauhen Haus Foundation and the North Church .

School specifics

The "Paulinum" is the cornerstone of an integrative school model that still exists today: children and young people from the residential facilities of the Rauhen Haus and students from Hamburg and the Hamburg area are taught together at this evangelical private school. The old school building "Paulinum" was rebuilt and expanded and is now used to accommodate the upper school level and the upper level library.

On the grounds of the Rauhen Haus, the Wichern School is connected to a nursing home, various diaconal institutions, the administration of the foundation, the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for social pedagogy, youth care apartments and the restored Rauhen Haus. In addition to an internship, schoolchildren also complete a diaconal internship, for example in an asylum seeker home, hospital, kindergarten, retirement home or a residential facility for the disabled. It is not necessary for the family to belong to the Evangelical Church in order to attend school. Only participation in school devotions and church services is expected. Those in need have the option of reducing the tuition fee upon request.

In the 2007/2008 school year, the Hauptschule and Realschule set up the fifth grade in three classes as a reform school . In the same year, the first laptop class was set up in the grammar school . In this pilot project, 7th grade students were equipped with personal laptops. Conceptually, teaching in this class was increasingly geared towards projects and individualized learning. The positive experience with this four-year pilot project has led to the fact that since the 2014/2015 school year all pupils in the 7th grade have been equipped with a personal iPad as part of the “digital and networked learning” profile. The equipment is growing up to the upper level, so that from the 2019/20 school year all students at the grammar school will be working with digital devices in normal lessons. The upper level high school students have the opportunity to attend courses. As part of the upper profile level started in August 2009 there are five profiles: “Justice as a human challenge” (religion, biology, history), “Earth-human system” (geography, chemistry, religion), “Human-nature research” (biology , Physics, PGW), “Culture and History” (history, theater, German) and “Moving World” (sport, geography, biology). The languages ​​offered are English, French, Latin, Spanish and, in working groups, Japanese, Russian and ancient Greek.

Since mid-2008, students in “student companies” have had the opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge practically. You learn how companies work and are confronted with taxes and laws.

Personalities

Known teachers

  • Friedrich Mie (1865–1911), ancient historian
  • Bernhard Pein (1891–1970), teacher and principal at the Wichern School during the Nazi era
  • Albrecht Jobst (1902–1945), pastor and folklorist
  • Carl Budich (1904–1982), educator and Low German writer
  • Wolfgang Fricke (1933–2005), music teacher, composed several musicals as a music teacher at the Wichern School

Known students

literature

  • Renate Billig (Ed.): 125 years of the Wichern School in the Rauhen Haus: 1874 - 1999 . Clausen and Bosse, Leck 1999. (Festschrift)
  • Claus-Heinrich Janssen (Ed.): The Wichern School of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg: 1874 - 1974 . Wichern School, Hamburg 1974.

Web links

Commons : Wichern-Schule (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wichern School as a department of the rough house
  2. ↑ learning digitally and networked
  3. ↑ Profiles