Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium

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Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium
Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium
The old school building on Johannisberg
type of school high school
School number 165438
founding 1592
address

Johannisberg 20, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany

place Wuppertal
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 15 '15 "  N , 7 ° 8' 38"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '15 "  N , 7 ° 8' 38"  E
carrier City of Wuppertal
student approx. 700 (2019)
Teachers 65 (2019)
management Claudia Schweizer-Motte,
Nicole Napiwotzki (deputy)
Website www.wdg.de

The Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium is an old-language oriented high school in Wuppertal on Johannisberg below the town hall . It emerged from the Elberfeld Latin School established in 1592 , which was recognized in 1824 as an "Evangelical Gymnasium". Since 1936 the high school has been named after the archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld , who went to school here.

history

Beginnings

A school existed in Elberfeld even before the Reformation . A certain Johan Sinschet was not documented as a "scholmester" until 1519. However, this school was only a so-called "German school" without foreign language instruction, comparable to an elementary school . The old Elberfeld gymnasium leads its origin, therefore, only to the year 1592 back, where the reformed church in Elberfeld the German School, a Latin class joined under its own rector stood in the teaching of Latin , Greek and Hebrew was granted. This was the beginning of a school lesson with a high school character in what is now Wuppertal .

The Latin class was financed from the reallocated foundation assets of the former Catherine Altar . Its purpose was to prepare future scholars for attending a high school (mostly Herborn in the 17th century ) or university (often Duisburg ).

school-building

Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium

The German school and Latin school existed under one roof until the Realschule was spun off in 1830. The original school building in the churchyard of the former Laurentiuskirche fell victim to the Elberfeld city fire in 1687 . The German and Latin schools found emergency accommodation in the “hospital” (poor house) on the little wall until they could move into a new building on the Reformed Church Square in 1718. In 1821 the school moved into the former club house of the reading society on Grünstraße (today at this place: the Kaufhof), and in 1876 into the building of the industrial school on Döppersberg . In 1893 she moved into a new building at today's location (at that time "Kölner Straße 41/45"), which was destroyed in 1943 during World War II. The school was outsourced and some of the students were evacuated to Gera in Thuringia . After the war, at the beginning of October 1945, some teachers and students continued school operations in the Sparkasse building on the Mäuerchen (today the location of the City Center). The current new building at the last regular location (now "Johannisberg 20") was built in the 1950s.

development

In the turmoil of the Spanish-Dutch and the Thirty Years' War and the Counter-Reformation , schools in Elberfeld also came to a temporary standstill.

In 1824 the Prussian government recognized the Latin School as an "evangelical grammar school". The banker Daniel von der Heydt, in his capacity as the scholarch at the time, personally supported the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1833 for the independent continuation of the grammar school . a.

The school programs published annually in Elberfeld from 1831 to at least 1929 testify to the formerly high academic standards at Prussian grammar schools , which up to the turn of the century always contained a scientific essay by a member of the teaching staff , in addition to the curriculum and examination questions. Something like this:

In 1931, two years after the unification of Barmen and Elberfeld to form the city ​​of Wuppertal , the Elberfelder Gymnasium was merged with the Barmer Gymnasium under the compromise name "Barmer Gymnasium zu Elberfeld". Since the old Barmer grammar school went back to the “Amtsschule” founded in 1579, the Wilhelm Dörpfeld grammar school celebrated its 425th anniversary in 2004. However, it was not until 1600 that the Barmer “Amtsschule” became a Latin school.

The statue of Pallas Athene in front of the school entrance

In order to forestall a propagandistic renaming by the National Socialists to " Langemarck-Schule ", the foundation's board of trustees chose a well-deserved former student, the classical philologist and Troy excavator Wilhelm Dörpfeld , to give its name.

In 1953 the sponsorship for the Liegnitz City Gymnasium, which existed from 1308 to 1945, was taken over.

In 1957, a statue of the Greek patron goddess of science Pallas Athene , created by the controversial sculptor Arno Breker , was placed in the entrance area to the schoolyard . After the sculpture was overturned and damaged in 2003, a plaque now indicates the critical examination of Breker's problem. Even today (December 2019) the list is controversial.

After the largest room in the school only held 130 people, in 2007 it was given its own auditorium for the first time since its destruction in World War II . The building was designed by the Wuppertal architect Christoph Goedeking, and the construction was largely financed by sponsorship projects as part of the 425th anniversary celebration in 2005. Alumni and sponsors of the school raised more than one million euros.

Furthermore, there has been a school library since 2009. The new building of the auditorium has freed up the corresponding space and currently houses almost 4,000 media, including over 3,500 books. In addition to a few computers for Internet research, there are also numerous individual work tables in the room. The former historical library of the old Elberfeld high school with around 12,000 volumes was handed over to the Wuppertal City Library in the 1920s and 1930s . Remnants of "around 60 books from the years 1495 to 1903" remaining in the school were transferred to the library of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in 2017 .

Claudia Schweizer-Motte has been the school director since the 2011/2012 school year.

A three-year renovation phase began in the summer of 2015, during which the school buildings were brought up to modern technical and energetic standards. In the course of preparing for this renovation, asbestos was found in the wall plaster in 2012 , but was not declared as hazardous to health. For the duration of the renovation, the former building of the penal school North Rhine-Westphalia on Hardt was rented. The necessary renovation costs to enable the school to run there amounted to around 650,000 euros.

Classes began on January 9, 2019 after two special holidays due to the move to the newly renovated school building on Johannisberg. The new school building, including the completed schoolyard, was opened on July 10, 2019 with an inauguration ceremony. The total planning and construction costs amounted to around 23 million euros.

profile

As in only a few other high schools in North Rhine-Westphalia , foreign language lessons for all fifth grade students begin with Latin and English . In the differentiation courses from the eighth grade onwards, you can choose between French , Ancient Greek , Biology - Physics and Politics - Computer Science . From the tenth grade onwards, there are optional courses in Hebrew , Italian , philosophy , literature and social sciences .

Before that, German , art , music , history , geography , mathematics , biology, physics, chemistry and sport as well as either Protestant or Catholic religion are part of the compulsory program, although you can deregister from the latter depending on your denomination.

Advanced courses in German, English, French, history, geography, social sciences, mathematics, biology and physics are offered.

Didactics of the natural sciences, English , elementary particles and art philosophy are currently offered as project courses in the upper level .

Former students

Former teachers

Former directors

Support association

In June 1912 the Association of Friends of the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium zu Wuppertal eV was founded.

literature

  • KW Bouterwek : History of the Latin School in Elberfeld and the high school that grew out of it. Two lectures . Langenwiesche, Elberfeld 1865.
  • Ludwig Scheibe: Timeline of the history of the Latin School and the grammar school in Elberfeld that evolved from it. Lucas, Elberfeld 1893.
  • Fritz Jorde : History of the schools in Elberfeld with special consideration of the oldest school system. Baedeker, Elberfeld 1903.
  • Commemorative letter for the centenary of the state recognition of the grammar school on February 24, 1824. Self-published Gymnasium with Realgymnasium Elberfeld, Elberfeld 1924.
  • Elke Brychta (Ed.): History (s) from the WDG. 1579-2004. Published for the 425th anniversary. Association of Friends of Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium eV, Wuppertal 2004
  • Green leaves (newsletter of the Association of Friends of Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorde, History, 4
  2. ↑ School program 1833 online
  3. ↑ School program 1845 online
  4. ↑ School program 1871 online
  5. ^ Story (s) from the WDG, 97
  6. ↑ Liegnitz school town. In: liegnitz.de. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Does the Nazi artist's sculpture have to be removed from the pedestal?
  8. ^ An auditorium for the 425th birthday on the homepage of the Association of Friends of the WDG , article from September 19, 2005, accessed on September 29, 2012
  9. ^ Hans-Gerd Happel: Stadtbibliothek (Wuppertal), there in particular sections 1.6, 2.2, 2.29-34; 2.35: Archives (February 1991). In: Handbook of the historical book collections in Germany, Austria and Europe . Edited by Bernhard Fabian. Digitized by Günter Kükenshöner. Hildesheim: Olms New Media 2003. ( online )
  10. ↑ Bergische Universität Wuppertal researches the old school library of the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium . Bergische Universität Wuppertal, media information on December 13, 2017 (accessed October 9, 2019).
  11. ↑ From 2014, the Dörpfeld-Gymnasium will become a major construction site on wz-newsline.de, accessed on March 4, 2014
  12. ↑ WDG: Alternative quarters must be ready on August 12 , in: Westdeutsche Zeitung of July 28, 2015
  13. ↑ Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium back home on wuppertal.de from July 10, 2019
  14. ↑ The upper level of the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium on wdg.de, accessed on September 29, 2012
  15. ↑ Brose. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Calendar & appointments. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .