Wilhelm Hausenstein High School

Wilhelm Hausenstein High School
type of school	Scientific , technological and modern language grammar school
founding	1970
address	Elektrastr 61
place	Munich
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 9 '6 "  N , 11 ° 37' 38"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '6 "  N , 11 ° 37' 38"  E
carrier	Free State of Bavaria
student	1340 (school year 2019/20)
Teachers	100
management	Uwe Barfknecht
Website	www.whg.schule

The Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium (WHG), founded in 1970, got its name in 1974 with the completion of the building on Elektrastraße. It is located in the Arabellapark in Munich 's Bogenhausen district and is the only state high school in the Bogenhausen district (13th district). The school was named after the diplomat, journalist and writer Wilhelm Hausenstein . The grammar school enables its 1340 students on the way to the Bavarian high school diploma a well-founded scientific-technological or modern language education. The building was originally designed for 900 students and was expanded with a new building in 2013.

It belongs to the initiative School without Racism - School with Courage , maintains an exchange with schools in England, France and Spain. In addition, the grammar school is an “environmental school in Europe / international sustainability school”. The Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium is geared towards education for sustainable development. It imparts knowledge about global interrelationships and challenges such as climate change, the protection of biodiversity and global justice to its students. The high school is also part of the nationwide network "Learning through Engagement". As part of an open all-day school, the school also offers its pupils high-quality afternoon care.

architecture

Extension building completed in 2013

The building of the Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium was erected in the " Brutalism " architectural style and, for reasons of time and costs, is based exactly on the construction plans of the Michaeli and Thomas Mann Gymnasiums, which were previously built at the same time, and differs from them by a third floor The building was constructed in the same sober exposed concrete architecture . Due to the increasing number of new enrollments, a container building has been erected in the schoolyard since July 2011 , which houses four classrooms and sanitary facilities Seven classrooms, a computer room, a seminar room and two music halls.The completely renovated sports hall, which has also been used for meetings and festive occasions, has been fully operational since the 2013/2014 school year.

As a replacement for the school building complex that is now too small, the city of Munich is planning a futuristic new building in the Klimapark on Salzsenderweg, north of the previous location. After the move of the WHG for the school year 2023/24, the main building in Elektrastraße is to be renovated, in which a new Munich high school is to be set up.

Furnishing

The Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium has a cafeteria and a break kiosk. A beach volleyball field was set up on the sports grounds a few years ago. Since the end of 2013, numerous classrooms, both in the new and in the old building, have been equipped with modern interactive whiteboards . Sculptures made by students are exhibited in the inner courtyard of the old building. For the subjects of physics, biology, computer science, art, music and chemistry, there are specialist classrooms including preparation rooms. On the third floor there is an astronomy collection that is accessible from the roof terrace. Work rooms, a photo laboratory, a kitchen, a meditation room, a library free of learning materials and a reading library accessible to the students are housed in the basement of the school. On request, students can rent lockers on the first floor for a fee.

Advice and support

In addition to school psychology advice at the school, pupils can also take advantage of the help of a school social worker. The school offers afternoon care as part of an open all-day school . There are also advisory services available regarding school career, career choice, change of school, etc. The lower grades are supervised by tutors - mostly students in the ninth and tenth grades. There is also the possibility of contacting level supervisors, boys and girls supervisors, representatives for the severely disabled, equal opportunities representatives, specialist supervisors or liaison teachers.

Support measures

Since the 2012/2013 school year, interested students have been grouped together in choir classes. The students have three instead of two hours of music per week and are given special encouragement to sing. Low-performing students are supported in crash courses, remedial courses, subject teacher lessons, individual coaching by a specialist teacher and the DeutschPlus project. Furthermore, the WHG offers a so-called flexibility year for pupils at risk of transfer. In addition, tutoring can be obtained from a student of a higher grade as part of a help project. Numerous excursion options, foreign exchange programs with France, England and Spain, the possibility of taking out a theater subscription, an extensive range of elective courses, trips to Berlin and study trips for the upper level complete the support program.

During the construction phase

The grammar school on Englschalkinger Straße became public in the planning and construction phase with the start of construction in 1970 and the commencement of teaching in 1973/1974 and received its current name with the completion of the triple gymnasium on the occasion of the official inauguration on December 6, 1974. In order to ensure that the grammar school can be attended quickly after completion, preparatory classes were accommodated in the elementary schools on Ostpreußenstrasse and Regina-Ullmann-Strasse in Bogenhausen.

Spanish lessons

Spanish is taught as a third foreign language from grade 8. In 1989, the WHG was the first grammar school in Germany to offer bilingual classes in German and Spanish.

Other special features

• The grammar school participates in the youth writes project, which has been advertised since 1987 , the FAZ and the IZOP institute . a. with the contributions in 2011 by: Indusha Ramachandran Janina Engelbrecht and Katharina Niewalda received supraregional attention.
• In the sport of golf , the grammar school succeeded in participating in youth training for the Olympics by winning the BGV school team championship in 2009 . and reached the 6th place out of 16 participants.
• In the German subject, elementary school teachers are deployed in grade 5.
• In grade 12, the "Astrophysics" curriculum alternative is regularly offered in the subject of physics.
• The Nazi contemporary witness Max Mannheimer was regularly invited to give lectures at the Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium.
• The school choirs regularly organize international music projects and concert tours.
• The Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium is supported by a committed parents' council and a circle of friends.

Well-known alumni (selection)

• 1971: Peter Böhling , publicist, journalist and caricaturist and creator of the school logo
• 1990: Bernhard Borgeest , journalist, winner of the German Environmental Prize for Journalism

literature

• The European Year of Languages ​​2001 Languages ​​open doors , Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 95 pp. 58
• Karl-Heinz Köhler & Andreas Salz (eds.): Migration as a challenge. Practical examples from the UNESCO project schools German Unesco Commission, (theory and case studies from some countries), Bonn 2007 ISBN 3927907979
• bayern golf , 2009

Web links

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

• Website of the Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. Retrieved March 7, 2018 . 
2. ^ Carmen Ick-Dietl: New School? Curious new building planned in Bogenhausen. In: www.merkur.de. March 12, 2018, accessed April 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Search. Retrieved March 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Lockers at the WHG, accessed on July 31, 2014
5. ↑ Open all-day school at the WHG, accessed on July 31, 2014
6. ^ Advice at the WHG, accessed on July 31, 2014
7. ^ Choir classes at the WHG, accessed on July 31, 2014
8. ↑ Funding measures at the WHG, accessed on July 31, 2014
9. ↑ nordostkultur-münchen.de , accessed on August 12, 2011
10. ^ The subject of Spanish at high school , accessed on January 29, 2016
11. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ingeborg Christ: Bilingual Teaching in Germany - Structures, Status of Development, Perspectives , p. 8 ), accessed on August 18, 2011
12. ^ IZOP Institute Aachen
13. ^ "Hindu Ritual Time to Grow Up." (January 18, 2011) , accessed August 9, 2011
14. ^ "Animal cemetery - the last resting place for Krümelchen and Schnufi." (March 12, 2011) , accessed on August 9, 2011
15. ^ "Viktualienmarkt mit Standesbewusstsein" (April 12, 2011) , accessed on August 9, 2011
16. ↑ Bayerischer Golfverband eV , accessed on August 18, 2011
17. ↑ Gross team rating (PDF; 24 kB), accessed on August 18, 2011
18. ↑ Friends of the WHG
19. ↑ Imprint of the school website
20. ^ The new successful ones , accessed on August 10, 2011
21. ↑ focus.de , accessed on July 12, 2014
22. ↑ Good examples from schools ( Memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 18, 2011
23. ↑ bayern golft, 2009, edition 2, p. 8 (PDF; 1.5 MB), accessed on August 18, 2009