Wilhelm Raabe School (Hanover)

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Wilhelm Raabe School
The so-called "teacher entrance"
type of school high school
founding 1790
place Hanover
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 21 '52 "  N , 9 ° 44' 34"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '52 "  N , 9 ° 44' 34"  E
student 899 (as of 2008)
management Martin Thunich
Website www.wrs-gym.de

The Wilhelm Raabe School is a high school in Hanover . Its history goes back to the year 1790.

Profile of the school today

Today, the Wilhelm Raabe School is a coeducational high school for grades 5 to 13. Bilingual classes are possible; the school “is recognized as a CertiLingua school in accordance with the regulations of the CertiLingua label of excellence”. Students at the school regularly have their French language skills officially certified by the state association of adult education centers in Lower Saxony via the DELF program , which "also gives them direct access to French universities".

A modern laboratory is available to the students for experiments with molecular biology and biotechnology as the HannoverGEN “support school” .

As part of uniKIK , the school has signed a “ cooperation agreement with Leibniz University Hannover for the recognition of working groups ” for the students.

In keeping with the “ World Zoo Nature Conservation Strategy ”, we have been working with the Hanover Zoo School , which is affiliated with the Hanover School Biology Center , since 1965 .

In addition to a parents' council, there is a support association , chaired by Dietrich Meyer-Ravenstein .

There is also a cafeteria for students . The number of students is 899 (as of 2008).

history

Prehistory (s) from 1787

After the electorate of Hanover "of the school system hired Johann Christoph Salfeld 1787 without authorization a farm school for sons Royal Guard" had in Hanover, established three years later he asked his ruler and elector , the in London resident King George III. for permission to run the “Hofsöhneschule”. Obviously, in 1790 , the sovereign of the British Empire also approved the funds for the other children of the members of the court , so that a “court daughters school” could also be opened.

The boys and girls were taught in the same building, but next to each other, in a building on the corner of Burgstrasse and Marstallstrasse .

In the Kingdom of Hanover , both schools were taken over by the City of Hanover in 1853 and continued as the “Higher Citizens School” for boys and the “Higher Daughter School” for girls. Just like the “Higher Girls' School” founded in 1854 (today: Sophia School ) in Linden , the schools still had the character of a middle school .

A year later, in 1854, the Höhere Töchterschule moved from the “poor spatial conditions” at the Marstall to a new school building “at the new Aegidientor , [...] approximately at the southern exit of the current Prinzenstrasse”.

In November 1856 a “teacher seminar” (later called “Oberlyzeum”) was “connected to the school, to which a“ further training institute for adult young girls ”was affiliated”; 16 to 25-year-old graduates from the school who were then trained there to become teachers and educators.

Also in 1856, Auguste Metz (see below) received permission from the City of Hanover to “give private gymnastics lessons” to the schoolgirls there.

The “Höhere Töchterschule” around 1898
postcard no. “325” from Karl F. Wunder

Due to the increasing number of schoolchildren and due to insufficient premises, a new school building was built again in 1865/66 in the neo-Romanesque design language on the street " Am Graben 9 (later called" Friedrichstraße 1 C ", for example today's Friedrichswall )". The building was inaugurated on October 15, 1867, but had to be expanded considerably as early as 1872 by adding two side wings. But soon the constantly increasing number of registrations threatened again overcrowding, and so the "Höhere Töchterschule II" (today's high school Schillerschule ) was founded in the Nordstadt around Easter 1879, followed by the third of its kind in 1897 (in the Oststadt , today's Sophia School ).

From 1879 (until 1898) the choirmaster and composer Wilhelm Bünte (see below) taught at the educational institution, which is now known as the “Higher Töchterschule I”.

In the meantime, the oldest of the three schools, later also called "Lyzeum I", was completed with the addition of a double gym in 1895/96.

The school from 1908

Around 1905: View over the Leine towards the Provincial Museum with its still undamaged dome. To the right of this is the still unobstructed view of the Wilhelm Raabe School building site.
Postcard number “990” from Karl F. Wunder
The building symbolized Bienenfleiß with which one stages finally reaches "to the top" to the sun [nblume]

In 1908 the Prussian girls 'school reform brought "the equality of the higher girls' schools" with those of the boys and thus the permission to also issue school- leaving certificates . In the same year the new school building on Langensalzastraße was completed as the “Higher Daughter School I, Teacher Training Institute and Elisabeth School” by the architects Carl Wolff and Otto Ruprecht . Now the users could move into the new building not far from the Provincial Museum (today: Lower Saxony State Museum ). The client was the city of Hanover, which had this feature symbolized with the clover leaf on the facade , carved in stone above the so-called "teacher entrance". In contrast to the historicizing administration buildings of its time, the architecture of the listed building is expressed in the formal language of Art Nouveau . The vestibules and staircases inside are still preserved in their original design.

The shocks of the First World War had little effect on the school, and so another upward trend began in 1919. In 1923 a kindergarten and after- school seminar was added to train women after secondary school . However, after the " Pedagogical Academies (in Prussia 1926)" were founded for the training of teachers at elementary and secondary schools , the "Teachers' Educational Institute" was separated from the school building in terms of organization and space.

It was not until the Third Reich in 1936 that the school was given its current name: the then director Dr. Hans Roeder (see below), a Raabe researcher and lover, had suggested that the school be named after the writer Wilhelm Raabe , which in 1937 became the “ secondary school for girls”. As was the case at all higher schools in Germany, the Abitur was planned after 12 years of schooling.

Second World War and Reconstruction

During the Second World War , the air raids on Hanover in the night of October 8th to 9th, 1943, delivered a devastating blow to the city of Hanover, with which the school building was also considerably destroyed: “The third floor burned out completely, as did the beautiful auditorium with the organ became a victim of the flames ”.

"After the invasion of the Americans and the advancement of the British city military government" in 1945, the military government initially ordered all schools to be closed indefinitely for the purpose of denazification , but then allowed school lessons on October 1, 1945 for the lower and intermediate levels of high schools and on October 22nd. November also for the upper grades. Due to the only partially destroyed school building of the Wilhelm Raabe School, there were only three school buildings left in Hanover , along with those of the Sophien and Humboldt Schools, "in which four higher schools each had to be divided". Everyday school life therefore included "reduced number of hours and shift lessons until the second half of the [19] 1950s", although 13 years of schooling had to be completed before the Abitur.

In 1946 the director of the Wilhelm Raabe School, Dr. Hans Roeder (see below), entrusted with the office of "City School Council" by the City Director Gustav Bratke .

In the years of reconstruction and the economic miracle , all classrooms were again available to the school from 1953, including the newly designed auditorium. In addition, a " teaching kindergarten " on Hohen Strasse was opened in 1956 , and the school on Langensalzastrasse was finally given its present-day appearance in 1966.

Through the renovation of the school building and the shift lessons, the number of pupils has increased continuously. Now the Elsa Brändström School has been separated and the “seminar” has been relocated to the Hedwig Heyl School . The reform of the upper school marked the beginning of the course system in the 1976/77 school year . Finally, with the introduction of the orientation level independent of the school type in Lower Saxony in 1978 (until 2003), grades 5 and 6 were separated.

But there was one point where the (school) reform-loving 1970s failed because of the walls of the Wilhelm Raabe School: The parents and teachers at the time, along with the director Anz, were committed to the gender segregation . It was not until 1985 that boys were admitted to the school.

Since the school year 1990/91, bilingual classes have been offered in which the subjects of sport, geography, biology and social studies are taught in German and English.

In 2012, the Wilhelm Raabe School entered into a cooperation agreement with the Hanover City Library , through which "from the 8th grade onwards, all high school students systematically get to know what the library has to offer".

principal

1967–1985: Ursula Anz

1993–2007: Brigitte Schneider-Pachaly (wife of the prominent constitutional lawyer Hans-Peter Schneider ).

Since 2007: Martin Thunich

See also

School personalities

Former students

Teacher

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c N.N. : Südstadt / city library and grammar school cooperate , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 16, 2012
  2. ↑ see website of the grammar school
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hans Kammel: Wilhelm Raabe School. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 679.
  4. ↑ Home of the school
  5. ↑ Very positive results in the last DELF exam.
  6. ↑ Project schools
  7. ↑ Cooperation agreement with the Leibniz University Hannover for the recognition of working groups.
  8. ↑ Cooperation with the Hanover Zoo School.
  9. ^ School parents' council
  10. ^ Friends of the Wilhelm Raabe School eV
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Chronicle of the Wilhelm Raabe School.
  12. ↑ Dieter Brosius: Wilhelm Raabe School ...
  13. ↑ a b c d Dirk Böttcher , Hugo Thielen : Higher daughter school. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . Pp. 77, 251.
  14. ↑ a b Dieter Brosius: 1908. In: Hannover Chronik . P. 146f., And: 1956. P. 247. (online)
  15. ↑ Note: In other literature the date “1907” is mentioned and as an architect exclusively “Ruprecht”; Monument topography ...
  16. ^ Photo of the entrance to the Wilhelm Raabe School.
  17. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: Monument topography ...
  18. ^ A b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Reconstruction of Democracy ..., In the city of Hanover. In: History of the City of Hanover. P. 653.
  19. ↑ Thomas Hollmann, Reimar Hollmann a. a .: Living under the cloud of death ... Hanover in World War II. Hamburg 1983, p. 95; Waldemar R. Röhrbein : School: More restoration than reform. In: History of the City of Hanover. , P. 653.
  20. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 1985 p. 308.
  21. ↑ Biography of Martina Krogmann on the website of the German Bundestag ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de