Wilhelm Busch School (Hanover)
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| type of school | primary school |
| founding | 1957 |
| address |
Munzeler Strasse 23 |
| place | Hanover , Oberricklingen district |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 20 '39 " N , 9 ° 41' 59" E |
| carrier | City of Hanover |
| student | around 330 (as of 02/2015) |
| management | Anke van Laak |
| Website | gs-wilhelm-busch-schule.de |
The Wilhelm Busch School in Hanover is a four- and five-class elementary school and open all-day school on the western outskirts of the Lower Saxony state capital. The building, which was commissioned in the 1950s with great public attention and is now a listed building, was considered a prime example of modern school construction and is also the only school building designed by the architect Dieter Oesterlen in Hanover . It is considered one of his major works and was the precursor to the later in Hildesheim built school Andreanum . The location of the Hanover school building, whose original open space planning in the “ garden city ” and the Oberricklingen district came from the landscape architect and university professor Wilhelm Hübotter , is Munzeler Straße 23 there .
History and offers
After the Second World War and in the economic boom of the early 1950s, Oberricklingen was the fastest growing district in Hanover at the time. The state capital organized an architectural competition for the children from 1954 to 1955 , which architect Dieter Oesterlen was able to win as the first prize winner. According to his design, the school building was built from 1956 to 1957, "spectacular at the time", with particularly high demands in terms of the use of space and the use of natural daylight .
Between 1961 and 1984 the building complex was expanded and rebuilt several times.
Since 2012 the children have been able to have lunch - in addition and if the parents pay part of the costs. Since August 2013 it is also the offer to the children at the school days and to 16.00 care . Also since the school year 2013/2014 the Wilhelm-Busch-Schule became an open all-day school and offers - in cooperation with the youth welfare of the Stephansstift - various afternoon offers , supervision with homework, individually agreed early (from 7:00 a.m.) or late care (until 5 p.m.) as well as childcare for school children of up to three weeks during various holidays. In addition, the school newspaper Buschblatt appears at the Wilhelm-Busch-Schule.
Building description
The original school building, designed by Dieter Osterlen, consists of 1-, 2- and 3-storey elements that are joined together in an unsymmetrical order in the “Schuster System”. The painter and sculptor Klaus Arnold loosened the strict, but at the same time varied architecture inside with two large reliefs called "The Ship of Life" and "The Stilt Walkers". A bronze bust of the school's namesake, Wilhelm Busch , created by Ludwig Manzel decades earlier in 1935 , was also placed inside the school building in the year the school building was completed.
On the comparatively spacious outdoor area with a meadow originally designed by Wilhelm Hübotter, trees invite children to “climb and run around”. A sports field and a sports hall also serve the development of the students.
See also
literature
- Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23), vol. 1, ed. From the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 110f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Strümpel (responsible), Anke van Laak (editor): That's us! on the school side
- ↑ a b c d e f Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Munzeler Straße 33 , in: Hannover Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , 4th, updated and expanded edition, 2007, p. 172
- ↑ Michael Strümpel (Responsible), Anke van Laak (Red.): Welcome to the "full day" of the Wilhelm Busch School ( Memento from August 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )