Wilhelm Raabe School (Lüneburg)

Wilhelm Raabe School Lüneburg
type of school	high school
founding	1830
place	Luneburg
country	Lower Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	53 ° 14 ′ 31 "  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 23"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 31 "  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 23"  E
carrier	City of Lueneburg
student	1121 (11/2012)
Teachers	105 (12/2011)
management	Thomas Wetzel
Website	www.raabe-schule.info

The Wilhelm Raabe School (WRS) is an urban high school in the Hanseatic and university town of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony . The school was founded in 1830 as a private secondary school for girls , has been under municipal management since 1875 and was converted from a girls' high school to a high school for boys and girls in 1971/1972 . The school name refers to the writer Wilhelm Raabe . The WRS, located south of the old town in the Rotes Feld district , is attended by around 1,100 schoolchildren and consists of four to six classes.

The current focus of the modern-language grammar school is foreign languages and the mathematical and natural sciences , plus special focus areas such as the wind classes , early French lessons and various activities as a UNESCO project school in the areas of “people and the environment”, “understanding between peoples” and “intercultural issues” Learn". As a model school , the Wilhelm Raabe School has been actively protecting the climate and the environment since the early 1990s , for example by covering around a fifth of its own electricity requirements with self-built solar systems .

history

Foundation and beginnings (1830–1875)

At the beginning of the 19th century there were already several public educational institutions for boys in Lüneburg with the Johanneum , which had been in existence since 1406 , the Knight Academy and the Michaelis School, whereas most of the girls were taught privately. In August 1830, the 23-year-old theology student Carl Oltrogge decided to found a private girls' school together with his friend Johann Moths. The magistrate and the city superintendent approved the establishment of such a school in October of that year. While Moths then took care of the finances, Oltrogge was responsible for the actual organization. Franz Hamelberg, the pastor of Lüneburg's Michaeliskirche , was also involved in the project, as the city superintendent initially doubted the experience of Oltrogge and Moth and therefore asked that they be supported by a "well-known Lüneburg personality".

The daughter's school began teaching on January 3, 1831; the first school building was on the outskirts of the Am Sande / corner Rote Straße in the center of the city. The first 21 students were taught by nine teachers, including two women who both gave handicraft classes. In the summer of 1831, the city superintendent inspected the girls' school and praised it for “adequate teaching” and “diligent efforts” by the founders Oltrogge and Moths. The number of pupils tripled within a year and in 1833 there were already 74 pupils, so that at the beginning of 1834 the school moved to a larger building in the neighboring Grapengießerstrasse.

In 1838 Queen Friederike von Hannover was to take over the sponsorship of the school.

Despite this success, Oltrogge - meanwhile sole head of the school after Moths and Hamelberg had retired from the management - had financial problems. Since the magistrate refused to support him in this regard, Oltrogge turned to Queen Friederike of Hanover in 1838 so that she could take over responsibility for the school. In this case the daughter school should be named after her. This did not happen, however, because the Lüneburg magistrate did not approve the procedure and prevented it.

After Carl Oltrogge had presented his “Principles for the Education of Young Women” in a book in 1842, the school he founded became a point of reference for a number of other daughter schools that were built on the Lüneburg model. Oltrogge himself saw the onset of success as a satisfaction and reported: "In a capital city, a new student who was to be accepted was exempted from the exam when she proved that she had been in the first class of the Lüneburg daughter school."

In 1843 he opened another school (Bürgerertöchterschule) , which offered lessons for less school fees . When both daughter schools together comprised almost 200 students, they had to move again, this time to a semi-detached house. In 1858 both schools were merged. In the following decades the school established itself in the Lüneburg educational landscape; Due to the steadily increasing number of pupils, Oltrogge introduced additional classes in which, in addition to the main subjects religion and handicraft, natural and social sciences were taught. On June 11, 1874, the sick Oltrogge asked the Lüneburg magistrate to take over his daughter's school as a "municipal institution", which was valid from Easter 1875. Just a year later, Oltrogge died at the age of 68.

From municipal to state sponsorship (1875–1933)

The Johanneum building completed in 1829 , 1875–1908 the location of the Höhere Töchterschule (today's Wilhelm Raabe School), today the Johannes Rabeler School.

In the months between Oltrogge's request for city takeover and the beginning of the school year 1875/1876, the magistrate prepared everything for the new task. So the school location changed again; the school was housed in the old Johanneum building, located directly on St. Johannis , which was vacated by the new Johanneum building on Roten Wall from 1870–1872. Theobald Karnstädt, who had previously been the head of a daughter's school in Mühlhausen / Thuringia, was selected as the new director from 35 applicants . The opening of the new “urban secondary school for girls” took place on April 12, 1875, the first day of classes was April 13. Of the ten teachers who were now responsible for the 209 students, seven had already worked under Oltrogge in previous years.

During the 21 years that Karnstädt was headmaster, little changed overall compared to the time under Oltrogge. In 1876 the school published a forerunner of the later school rules , the "Laws for Pupils". In addition, the increase in the number of students continued: in 1880 it was already 263 students. Nine years later, at Karnstadt's request, the first gymnastics lessons for girls took place, in 1895 a dedicated gym was built for this purpose . Theobald Karnstädt died in office in 1896 at the age of 56; his successor was Dr. Arthur Zechlin, who had also previously run a girls' school - in Stade - and continued his predecessor's course. In addition, he implemented some ideas from Karnstadt that the latter had not been able to realize. Among other things, Zechlin created an elementary class in which boys were also taught and which functioned as a kind of preschool for the Johanneum, and introduced a further training course in which the previously not taught subjects Latin and mathematics were taught.

Partial view of the north wing and entrance portal of the school building on Feldstrasse, completed in 1908.

Partial view of the courtyard of the school building from 1908, on the right the north wing on Feldstraße, on the left the west wing on Schillerstraße.

By the spring of 1905, the number of pupils had again grown so strongly that some parents assessed the space available as "completely inadequate". Therefore the school had to move again; This time , a new building was to be built especially for them in the Rotes Feld district south of the old town on Feldstrasse, between Gravenhorststrasse and Schillerstrasse. The construction work lasted about two years and was finished in autumn 1908. On October 21 of this year, 18 teachers with 465 students in 14 classes moved into the new building, which was described as the "ornament of the city".

The inauguration took place on November 9, 1908; the later connection of the date “9. November “with the commemoration of the Reichspogromnacht found expression in special designs of building anniversaries of the present, such as the 100th anniversary celebration in 2008. This new building in Feldstrasse was also overcrowded after a few years, since Zechlin next to the original daughter's school - from 1908 characterized as a lyceum - set up a women's school and several seminars. His successor Hugo Koch explained that the school had developed into an “almost unmanageable 'school monster'” during this time, with almost 1,000 students and the additional courses offered.

In the course of the First World War , lessons were often canceled or were transferred to the Johanneum; in the winter of 1917/1918 the school had to be closed completely due to a lack of coal. After the war ended, a flu epidemic broke out in the autumn of 1918, in which a teacher died. From 1919 onwards, lessons could mostly be carried out without problems. Arthur Zechlin, who retired in 1921, was replaced by Hugo Koch. However, he only ran the school until 1924 and was then also retired. He in turn was followed by Adolf Vahlbruch, who had previously been director of the Uelzen Lyceum.

In 1925, under Vahlbruch's leadership, the city handed over the school administration to the State of Prussia ; for the near future the upper lyceum was therefore a state responsibility. This step was also accompanied by the naming of the grammar school as the Wilhelm Raabe School ( see the section on naming ). Towards the end of the Weimar Republic - at the beginning of the 1930s - the democratization of schools through so-called reform classes began.

Third Reich, World War II and the immediate post-war period (1933–1949)

The takeover of power by the National Socialists in early 1933 quickly affected teaching. Already at the beginning of the school year 1933/1934 the curriculum changed , although the teaching staff initially rejected some innovations, such as the purchase of a film on race theory . For this, Robert Brendel , who was married to a Jew , was forcibly dismissed in 1934 and transferred to another school; At the same time, the curriculum became more and more in line with political demands, especially in social subjects such as history and religion. Like the First World War, the Second World War also influenced school life. Initially, lessons were temporarily suspended in winter, and from 1943 every teacher had to be used in military service. In the last months of the war, Wehrmacht soldiers confiscated the school as a military hospital and partially demolished it; the lessons for around 1000 students took place in different buildings, including private apartments.

The Johanneum am Roten Wall building, completed in 1872, was temporarily shared by the Wilhelm Raabe School during the First World War and from 1945 to 1949, today the Hauptschule Stadtmitte .

At the end of the war, Lüneburg was occupied by British troops , classes were initially banned for several months and the military government used the building on Feldstrasse as a military hospital until 1948. Teaching, which was resumed in October 1945, took place in the Johanneum am Roten Wall, together with the Johanniter, alternating morning and afternoon classes. After a 20-year term in office, the English dismissed the headmaster Adolf Vahlbruch, but he was rehabilitated at the end of 1946. A chronicler described his work at the Wilhelm Raabe School as follows: “Director Vahlbruch [...] received the school's important reputation in the best possible way. With him we left a personality who, as a person, educator and organizer, had the trust of the teaching staff, the parents and the students to a high degree. "

Vahlbruch was followed in October 1946 - after senior teacher Ricklefs had provisionally run the school - with Elisabeth Vogt, the first woman to head the Wilhelm Raabe School. Her term of office was described as "harmonious", despite the difficult circumstances - in 1948 40 percent of the students were children of displaced persons and it was not until March 1949 that the school returned to its own building on Feldstrasse. At the same time, Vogt resigned from her managerial position for health reasons after only four years; she was replaced by 38-year-old Brigitte Hasenclever.

Internationalization and Co-Education (since 1949)

Brigitte Hasenclever's assumption of office provided, according to the assessment of the female students at the time, for new impulses, emphasized her openness towards sport and musical education. Under her leadership, the Wilhelm Raabe School was one of the first German schools to develop regular correspondence with partner schools in France and England. In 1956 she also organized an exchange with a school in Halle from the GDR , which was given up after a short time. In 1968, after lengthy negotiations, the city approved an extension for the school, which was again in shortage of space, which was inaugurated in 1970. One year later, the Wilhelm Raabe School introduced coeducation , from then on boys and girls were taught (together) at the grammar school; In 1980 the first mixed high school graduation class left school. The 27-year term of office of the headmistress, which the Lüneburger Landeszeitung described as its own "era of rabbit clever", ended in July 1976 with a solemn farewell.

School sign with the stylized Lueneburg coat of arms and additional sign at the front entrance of the school.

Hans-Heinrich Schnare succeeded Hasenclever in the school management. During Schnare's term of office, among other things, the final development of the Wilhelm Raabe School into a mixed grammar school took place ; In addition, project weeks took place annually, which, for example, took up the topic of "School as State". In 1992, Hanne Oppermann took over the post of headmaster. In the eight years in which she ran the school, various working groups were set up, such as the environmental working group, which dealt with an energy saving program at the Wilhelm Raabe School ( see the section on Energy and Environment ). In addition to this profile as an environmental school, the introduction to the UNESCO project school began at the end of the 1990s : in 1998 a project dealing with the "encounter with the Republic of South Africa" ​​won first place in a competition and was awarded the Lower Saxony Student Peace Prize .

Hanne Oppermann's successor, Barbara Scheuermann, also continued this course. Under her leadership, which lasted from 2000 to 2007, the Wilhelm Raabe School was recognized as a UNESCO project school in 2006; since then it has been one of around 190 schools in Germany that have been awarded this title. A few years earlier, the grammar school had already become a “ school without racism ” after the TuWas AG, founded in 2001, had campaigned against discrimination and xenophobia . Christa Staashelm, who had replaced Barbara Scheuermann as headmistress in 2007, left the grammar school two years later to return to her old hometown of Cuxhaven . After that, the deputy headmistress Barbara Reichert headed the school for a few months before Christine Hartmann took over the office at the beginning of 2010, who served as director for seven years. During this time, the Wilhelm Raabe School was converted into an all-day school, and the introduction of the eight-year grammar school (G8) meant that in 2011 two years of age passed the Abitur exams at the same time. Hartmann was followed by Thomas Wetzel in May 2018.

Naming

The school was named in 1925 after the German writer Wilhelm Raabe .

In the early days of its existence, the school was called Oltrog School after its founder . In the following years it took the name of the school type; in the beginning of the 20th century it was first referred to as the Girls' School and then as the Lüneburg Lyceum . In the course of nationalization in 1925, the grammar school was to be named after a well-known German personality. The first suggestion was the name of the writer Wilhelm Raabe . Articles and letters to the editor that appeared in the Lüneburg advertisements , for the most part, spoke out against the naming after Raabe, since this was in no way related to a Lüneburg girls' school. Alternative suggestions for namesake were the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff or the women's rights activist Helene Lange .

On February 7, 1925, the school was named Wilhelm-Raabe-Lyzeum by a ministerial order . At the general conference in March 1925, “the behavior of the magistrate when the name of the school was published […] was found to be very peculiar”, especially since two months earlier it had been announced that the teachers should think of the future name themselves and then the Prussian Propose school board. Nevertheless, the writer's works were later integrated especially into the lessons; For example, on the occasion of Raabe's 150th birthday in 1981, schoolchildren sold commemorative stamps and organized a Raabe exhibition, one year later the school theater performed Raabe's novella Die Gänse von Bützow in a scenic adaptation.

building

View from the water tower to the north side of the old school building from 1908 on Feldstrasse, the east wing on the left, the gate tower on the right.

View from the schoolyard to the south side of the old school building, on the left the west wing with the extension from 1970, on the right the north wing.

The school has a larger, connected school building. The oldest and largest part of the building was built from 1906 to 1908 based on a design by the Lüneburg city ​​architect Richard Kampf (1859-1919). Kampf - a student of the architect and Hanoverian university professor Conrad Wilhelm Hase - was concerned with creating a combination of “simplicity with functionality and good form” in his design.

Kampf's building concept envisaged two main wings , a gate tower and an auditorium, which resulted from the task, in addition to the secondary school for daughters (in the north wing on Feldstrasse), eight classes of a middle school or "women's school" and the training rooms of a newly founded teachers' college (in the west wing on Schillerstrasse). In addition, the building arrangement created by Kampf was supposed to protect the schoolyard from the prevailing northwest wind .

The space program of the school building from 1908 included not only a total of 28  classrooms more preparation and collection rooms, a physics lab , a library , two drawing rooms, a room for the milk output and the caretaker apartment , and auditorium and gym (in the east wing on the Gravenhorst road). Good exposure of the classrooms was especially important to combat; He aligned their windows to the south or west , arranged relatively high windows with straight lintels from the inside 10  cm visible area below the ceiling, reduced the width of the pillars between the windows to 71 cm and sloped the window reveals on the inside. In a technically elaborate manner, the lighting of the drawing rooms arranged in the attic of the north wing through very large, north-facing skylights.

In the extension area created in 1970 the rooms for the natural science subjects are housed. The extension is a multi-storey flat roof building in the "functional style" of the seventies with a facade with exposed concrete surfaces . On the flat roof of cultivation are the solar plants with a total of six rows of photovoltaic - solar modules .

School meals have been provided since May 2008 , for which purpose a school canteen and a serving kitchen have been set up in the basement of the school . A local catering company offers two warm main meals for lunch on all school days, one with meat or fish and a vegetarian meal , which is supplemented by another dish, stews and dessert, depending on the seasonal offer. The preparation takes place externally from "fresh products from the region and high quality Neuland meat". Due to the high demand, the gym was cleared out and converted into a cafeteria in 2019. The previous cafeteria area in the basement of the school has been converted into a lounge.

Picture gallery

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  New building seen from Schillerstrasse

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  West side of the old building

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  East wing with gym (now cafeteria) and auditorium

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  School auditorium, with barrel vault .

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  Cross vault in the entrance hall .

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  View into the main staircase .

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  Art Nouveau stained glass windows in the main staircase.

Dates, courses, languages

In the school year 2008/2009, 1151 students attended the school, of which 672 were female (58.4%) and 479 were male (41.6%). Years 10 to 13 ( upper secondary level ) were attended by a total of 422 students in 2008/2009. In years 5, 7 and 8 there were five parallel classes, in years 9, 10 and 11 there were four and in year 6 there were six parallel classes; Years 12 and 13 were divided into courses of different sizes according to the elective profiles . The reduction in school time to 12 years, the so-called Reform G8 , which has meanwhile been introduced in all federal states, including Lower Saxony , led to two cohorts taking the Abitur examination at the Wilhelm Raabe School in 2011 .

The teaching offer includes all currently available at high schools teaching subjects and in addition, various working groups . A specialty is the subject performing games (DSP), which is offered as a full-fledged subject in upper secondary level and which has a long tradition at the school.

In the area of ​​languages, students usually learn the first foreign language ( English ) from class 3 and then at the grammar school additionally the second foreign language ( Latin or French ) from class 6. After the grammar school in Lower Saxony has started again from class 5 since the 2004/2005 school year , the Wilhelm Raabe School offers French as a second foreign language from grade 5. Latin or French can also be learned from grade 8, both with the important qualifications Latinum or DELF . For other foreign languages ​​there are working groups from grade 10 onwards.

The WRS informs parents and pupils about “ method learning ” with the help of a specially created guide booklet . On four teaching days per school year, the pupils are instructed about specific learning and working methods and receive tips on how to write minutes , prepare presentations or plan exhibitions . As part of the RaaTuS ( Raa be Tu toren- S ystem) named tutors system at the WRS, remedial lessons are given in various (main) subjects for students from grades 5 to 9. Students from grades 9 to 12 can apply as tutors who have at least achieved good results in the respective subject and who have participated in the advanced training events offered by the school.

particularities

Mission statement and learning culture

Memorial plaque for Robert Brendel in the Wilhelm Raabe School.

In its mission statement, the Wilhelm Raabe School refers to the UNESCO principles and wants to “enable young people to contribute to the democratic shaping of our society and to take responsibility for themselves and others.” The mandatory role model is Dr. Robert Brendel, who worked as a teacher at the school from 1919 to 1934 and who in 1934 opposed the demands of the Nazi rulers to separate himself from his Jewish wife Xenia Brendel, and was punished for this with forced transfer and forced retirement. What Brendel gave his high school graduates in 1930 is still considered a basic pedagogical orientation at the Wilhelm Raabe School :

"Let us work to ensure that you help to realize a future in which community, humanity and the creative unity of life are the natural foundations of all existence."

- Robert Brendel : Preface to the Abitur, 1930.

In the guiding principles for the learning culture , the school also takes up the Unesco principles; In addition to the “obligation to learn in diversity and reliability”, the “promotion of tolerance, humanity and moral courage” are seen as decisive.

The wind classes

From the 5th grade onwards, those students who want to learn a wind instrument are grouped together in a wind class of four or five parallel classes . In the music lessons of the wind classes, music is predominantly made with wind instruments in order to create a link between theory and practice. In addition to the music lessons, the students then receive instrumental lessons in small groups of around 5 students in a further hour , with the school working together with teachers from the Lüneburg Music School . In all other subjects, the lessons do not differ from those in the parallel classes.

UNESCO project school

Logo of the UNESCO school project used in Germany .

As a UNESCO project school, the Wilhelm Raabe School works continuously in the UNESCO school network (ups) and actively supports the aim of UNESCO in its school and extracurricular areas - education for international understanding and cooperation. The WRS is particularly involved in the following areas:

• “People and the environment”, through several measures to save energy, through energy generation using our own solar system, as well as through education in active environmental protection ( see also AG Energy and Environment ).
• "Understanding the peoples and intercultural learning", such as through school partnerships, exchange programs and information events ("Aula-Café"), also in cooperation with the city of Lüneburg in the Agenda 21 working group North-South and with interested people and organizations in the region, as well as through various aid projects of the WRS in South Africa , Tanzania , Brazil and Belarus , which have developed from school partnerships.
• "Culture of tolerance and peace", such as through a mediation offer at the WRS to manage conflicts , and through the TuWas AG - movement workshop for human rights, which has already carried out several campaigns and exhibitions.
• "Education for responsibility and independence".

In addition, there are other measures and actions to implement the Unesco guidelines at the WRS, such as the integration of Unesco work in interdisciplinary teaching , cooperation with other project schools in the ups network for exhibitions and actions such as the dance project “Where are you going? - Steps into the future ”, as well as the project“ Boukra ”, an internet newspaper in the European - Arab dialogue.

Working groups and projects

To deal with conflicts that arise, mediation talks are offered by conflict controllers at the WRS . A first group of students was trained to become conflict controllers in 1999, and in 2002 another group of around 20 students. The mediator training was carried out by the association Mediationsstelle Brückenschlag e. V. , which has its seat in Lüneburg. Every school day, two conflict-free people are available in a "mediation room" in order to deal with conflicts in a conversation. Any student who has an argument can get help in resolving the conflict there.

AG Energy and Environment

In 1993 the working group (AG) “Energy and Environment” was formed, which has been actively protecting the climate and the environment since then. Among other things, heating energy consumption was reduced by around 30 percent and electricity consumption by around 50 percent. This corresponds to an annual reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of around 109  t , which the WRS achieved through several measures: A special energy management system only heats as needed, and on the user side, the sense of responsibility was specifically trained, such as by choosing "energy managers" in all of them Classes. The WRS contractually agreed with the city of Lüneburg that part of the saved energy costs would be paid back to the school, which became a model for the region.

From 1997 to 2005, the AG installed several solar systems on the flat roof of the extension, which produce environmentally friendly electricity that is fed into the local power grid. The acquisition of the photovoltaic solar modules and other building components was financed by money from competitions won as well as sponsorship money and grants from the German Federal Environment Foundation and the German Children and Youth Foundation . The total module area is 98  m² , which provide a total electrical output of around 12 kWp , which covers  around 20 percent of the school's electricity needs. Since a further increase in the number of solar systems is not possible due to exhausted roof resources and for monument protection reasons, the working group will be concerned with the technical optimization and maintenance of the systems from 2006 onwards.

In addition, the AG is involved in active environmental protection education. Among other things, an environmental competition was held for the third time in 2007, which aimed to avoid wasting resources ( energy saving , waste separation ) and to share responsibility for cleanliness in the school building.

Student company RaabeSoft

Since the 1990s, several groups of pupils at the WRS and sometimes also outside of school have been intensively involved with computer science , the Linux operating system and various software applications . Among other things, the students dealt with databases , multimedia and computer animations , video editing , 3D representations as well as the creation of websites and the school's website . This know-how was the "start-up capital " for founding the student company RaabeSoft , which took place in 2000. Since then, RaabeSoft has been managed exclusively by students and only supported by a teacher.

Since then, RaabeSoft has twice been represented with its own stand at CeBIT , the world's largest trade fair for information technology in Hanover , was an exhibitor at the Lüneburg trade fair IMEK ( I nternet- M edien- E lektronik- K ommunication) in 2004 and developed various products. The student company has already been reported several times in regional and national media , including RaabeSoft's 20-minute appearance on NBC GIGA and won a prize of EUR 8,000 as part of an ARD broadcast  . With the help of the prize money and other income as well as funds from the German Business Foundation , professional programs such as Director , Cinema 4D or Poser as well as special PCs for video editing were purchased.

RaabeSoft's best-known products include the creation of various websites, a multimedia CD about the Wilhelm Raabe School and the nationally distributed multimedia CD Orgelstadt Lüneburg on the history, technology and physics of the church organ , combined with virtual tours through Lüneburg churches . RaabeSoft also offers courses for schools.

Honourings and prices

WRS pupils regularly take part in school competitions at district, state and federal level and have repeatedly achieved good results, for example in the federal foreign language competition or in the That Is Chemistry competition . The project of a school's own solar system, for the construction and maintenance of which students have committed themselves in a working group, has already received several awards. In addition, the WRS received the following awards and prizes at school competitions:

• 1998: 1st place in the youth competition “Keep the world in balance” for the project “Encounter with the Republic of South Africa”.
• 1998: Lower Saxony Student Peace Prize , also for the South Africa project.
• 1998: Bruno H. Schubert Prize for your efforts to save energy in your own school building and to make an effective contribution to environmental and climate protection through responsible user behavior.
• 2007/2008: National award "Official UN Decade Project Education for Sustainable Development", for partnerships with schools in South Africa.
• 2008: 1st prize of the nationwide “Sharety Award” for the aid projects of the WRS in South Africa , Tanzania and Belarus .
• 2008/2009: National award "Official UN Decade Project Education for Sustainable Development", for the South Africa project "Future School As A Sustainable Community".
• 2014: Bruno H. Schubert Prize for the joint installation of a 5 kW solar system on the roof of the Bishop Moshi Secondary School in Marangu , Tanzania as part of a school partnership.

public relation

The school has its own website (www.raabe-schule.info) and has had an official school newspaper for pupils and parents since the beginning of 1993, which appears two to four times a year at different times. The booklets published by the school management contain information on school events and reports from everyday school life. The previous title RAABE Mitteilungen was changed to RAABE magazin in 2009 . In mid-2009, after 60 issues had appeared, the school newspaper was temporarily suspended for personnel reasons. The booklets from 2003 onwards are also available for download as PDF files on the school website .

The AG Energie und Umwelt operates its own website (www.sonnenraabe.de), on which it provides information about its working group and its activities. The student company RaabeSoft is also represented on the Internet with its own presence (www.raabesoft.net) and also publishes a newsletter .

Partner schools

The Wilhelm Raabe School maintains various school partnerships with other schools abroad , such as since 1978 with a partner school in France. Initially this was a college in Lüneburg's twin town Clamart , and from 1983 the college St. Justin in Levallois-Perret , which is also located in the greater Paris area. A school exchange takes place every year : Schoolchildren in the 9th grade go to Levallois-Perret, and their partners, pupils of the “troisièmes”, come to Lüneburg. The partner school in England is The Beauchamp College in Leicester ; an exchange with students from this state comprehensive school took place for the first time in 1999. Previously there was a long-term partnership with a school in Winterton near Scunthorpe .

Since the early 1980s, there has been a regular exchange with the partner school Södra Latin in the Swedish capital Stockholm , in which 11th grade students take part. Communication takes place in German , which the Swedish students have chosen as their second foreign language, as well as in English. There was also an exchange with the Stockholm Brännkyrka-Gymnasium, but this came to a standstill in the 2000s after interest in the German language had declined due to changes in the Abitur conditions in Sweden.

Further exchanges take place with various partner schools in the provinces of Eastern Cape , Gauteng and North West in the Republic of South Africa, the Bishop Moshi Secondary School in Marangu in the East Kilimanjaro district in Tanzania, school No. 49 in Gomel in Belarus, the Colegio Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the partner school in Naruto in Japan .

Wikipedia

From June 4-8 , 2010, the first skills share event took place at the school .

Friends' associations and alumni association

Friends' Association, Wilhelm Raabe Prize, Vintage Prize

The school's support association , the registered and non-profit association of friends and supporters of the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule e. V. , supports the WRS and its students financially and materially. Members are parents, teachers and school management as well as other interested persons. Since 1997, the association has awarded the Wilhelm Raabe Prize, which is currently endowed with EUR 250, annually  to a high school graduate for "outstanding commitment to social, school and extracurricular matters during school time". In 2009, the year-old prize was awarded for the first time , with which "[should] motivate students who are not in the foreground".

Raabe grant

Shortly after the Chernobyl reactor disaster in April 1986, I contacted school No. 49 in the Belarusian city of Gomel , which is located in a region with a high level of radioactivity. In 1995 the entire senior class of this school was invited to a four-week stay in Lüneburg, whereby the WRS committed itself to the financing and took over part of the costs. This resulted in the Friends of the Wilhelm Raabe Scholarship , to which only teachers from the Wilhelm Raabe School belong. This association invites two to four scholarship holders from school no. 49 to a four-week stay at the WRS. The Belarusian students are accommodated in host families . Several of the German hosts have since undertaken private trips to Gomel in order to maintain the contacts that have been established. In 2002 there was again a larger group from Gomel in Lüneburg.

League of Alumni

The Association of Alumni of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Lüneburg has existed since 1926 and has around 850 members (as of 2009). The Alumni Association is an association of all former students and active teachers. Its goals are:

• Maintaining contact between former students of different years, with former teachers and with the school. This takes place in particular through regular events such as annual meetings, kale and asparagus meals, summer meetings, day and summer trips, Advent celebrations and Christmas meetings as well as through the publication of a bulletin and a separate website (www.bund-der-ehemaligen-wrs.de).
• Financial support of students and the school, such as in student exchange trips, seminars at the student council , individual subjects and in various projects. From 1986 to 2010, the Association of Alumni made more than EUR 110,000 available in funding.
• Maintaining tradition , for example by organizing school anniversaries (1950, 1975, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and most recently in 2008), publication of festschriften and contributions to the preservation of the traditional building.

Luise Reinhardt-Drischler has been chairwoman of the Association of Alumni since 1983. She was a student from 1948 to 1957 and director of studies at the Wilhelm Raabe School from 1972 to 1983 .

Well-known teachers and students

Teacher

• Robert Brendel (1889–1947), writer, teacher from 1919 to 1934.
• Lambert Huys (1908–1992), teacher from 1938 to 1957, also a politician and member of the Bundestag (CDU).
• Klaus Thraede (1930–2013), study assessor from 1958 to 1960 (at times), later classical philologist.

student

• Anke Abraham (1960–2017), student from 1971 to 1978, German master of rhythmic gymnastics in 1980, professor at the University of Marburg
• Thelma Elisabeth von Freymann (* 1932), German-speaking educator, author, lecturer and lecturer
• Sandra Maahn (* 1968), a student, then switched to a school in Hamburg, where she became a news anchor and television presenter
• Bahne Rabe (1963–2001), student from 1974 to 1984, later Olympic champion and world champion in rowing
• Timm-Marvin Schattling (* 1990), student from 2003 to 2010, actor

literature

• Uwe Plath (Ed.): Ad multos annos. 175 years of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Lüneburg. Anniversary commemorative publication . Wilhelm Raabe School (Lüneburg), Lüneburg 2006, ISBN 3-922639-07-0 .
• Uwe Plath (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe School 1831–1986. Memories . Wilhelm Raabe School (Lüneburg), Amsberg a. Schwalb, 1986, without ISBN.
• Luise Reinhardt-Drischler (ed.): 60 years of the association of alumni of the Wilhelm Raabe School . Wilhelm Raabe School (Lüneburg), Lüneburg 1986, without ISBN.
• Uwe Plath: Girls Education in Lüneburg in the 19th Century. On the history of the Wilhelm Raabe School . Heinrich-Heine-Buchhandlung, Lüneburg 1986, ISBN 3-88456-030-1 .
• Robert Brendel: The homecoming . Reinbek near Hamburg 1946 (Parus-Verlag)

Web links

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

• Wilhelm Raabe School Lüneburg
• RaabeSoft - student company of the Wilhelm Raabe School
• Association of alumni of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Lüneburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, p. 14.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Plath / Scheuermann (ed.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 15-16.
3. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, p. 17.
4. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, p. 20.
5. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg, p. 39.
6. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 40-44.
7. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, p. 45.
8. ↑ Barbara Reichert: Building Anniversary. 100 years of WRS on Feldstrasse. (PDF; 2.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: RAABE magazin, issue 60. Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, May 2009, pp. 8–10 , archived from the original on December 29, 2009 ; Retrieved June 9, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 46–47.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Plath / Scheuermann (ed.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 47-48.
11. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 84-87.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Eberhard Hofmeister: School through the ages . Lüneburg 1975, p. 22.
13. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, p. 98.
14. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 98-100.
15. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 127-130.
16. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 147–148.
17. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 149–151.
18. ↑ Christa Staashelm is back on the coast. (No longer available online.) Cuxhavener Nachrichten , August 14, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 6, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
19. ↑ Alexander Hempelmann: Christine Hartmann leaves the Wilhelm Raabe School on landeszeitung.de. Released August 1, 2017. Accessed May 14, 2018.
20. ↑ Mr. Wetzel is our new headmaster at raabe-schule.info. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
21. ↑ Plath / Scheuermann (eds.): Ad multos annos . Lüneburg 2006, pp. 105-113.
22. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Krone: Concept and construction of the school house. (PDF; 2.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: RAABE magazin, issue 60. Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, May 2009, pp. 10–12 , archived from the original on December 29, 2009 ; Retrieved June 11, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ↑ Werner Krone: School cafeteria opened. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) In: RAABE mitteilungen, Issue 59. Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, October 2008, pp. 12–14 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 26, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
24. ↑ Christa Staashelm: Number of pupils at the Wilhelm Raabe School on September 1, 2008. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) In: RAABE Mitteilungen, issue 59. Wilhelm Raabe School Lüneburg, October 2008 , P. 5 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 26, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
25. ^ Herbert Obenaus / David Bankier / Daniel Fraenkel (eds.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 2 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , p. 1019.
26. ↑ (mission statement). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
27. ↑ (learning culture). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
28. ↑ (Our goal: to learn a new instrument together). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
29. ↑ (Unesco School). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
30. ↑ ^{a b c} (man and the environment). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
31. ↑ (Self-made school solar system). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
32. ↑ ^{a b c} (Our student company RaabeSoft). (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 6, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
33. ↑ bruno-h-schubert-stiftung.de: Prize Winner 2014 in Category 3 (accessed on May 7, 2015)
34. ↑ Werner Krone: Those were the "communications". (PDF; 2.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: RAABE magazin, issue 60. Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, May 2009, pp. 30–31 , archived from the original on December 29, 2009 ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
35. ^ Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Wilhelm Raabe School V. (No longer available online.) Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
36. ↑ About us - the covenant and its history. (No longer available online.) Association of Alumni of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Lüneburg, archived from the original on September 25, 2009 ; Retrieved June 6, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.