Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen
Windthorst High School | |
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The WGM from Gymnasialstraße | |
type of school | high school |
School number | 67453 |
founding | 1642 |
address |
Gymnasialstrasse 3, |
place | Meppen |
country | Lower Saxony |
Country | Germany |
carrier | Emsland district |
student | 1,050 |
Teachers | about 88 |
management | Daniela Brüsse-Haustein |
Website | windthorst-gymnasium.de |
The Windthorst-Gymnasium is a high school in the Emsland district town of Meppen . Currently, 1050 students attend this school, 54% of them girls. The students are taught by 73 teachers. The teaching staff includes two subject managers who work in teacher training and trainee lawyers . Two federal volunteers support physical education.
The school is located on Gymnasialstraße in the old town of Meppen. It has its own auditorium and two sports halls . The residence belonging to the school (built in 1642, expanded from 1726–1729) and the adjoining grammar school church (built 1743–1746) are historically interesting . In the garden of the residence there is a statue of Ludwig Windthorst , who gave the school its name. The statue of Francis of Assisi stands in front of the main building .
history
It was founded by the Jesuits as the Gymnasium Marianum-Aloysianum in 1642. It was created in the course of the Counter Reformation . A library was built as early as the 17th century.
In 1820 it was renamed the Royal Gymnasium for Boys Meppen and was subordinate to the King of Hanover , who gave the gymnasium its own school regulations. The grammar school has had the right to take Abitur exams since 1833. It was now considered a first-class grammar school .
From 1935 to 1945 the school was called Emslandschule and was then called Gymnasium für Jungs Meppen until 1973 , and until 1981 it was called Kreisgymnasium Meppen . Eventually it was named in Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen , as it is still called today. Since May 8, 2006, the school has also been allowed to call itself the European School .
The Jesuit residence (1729) and the grammar school church (1746) date from the time the school was built . The classroom building, auditorium and gymnasium were built in the late 1950s. Another classroom building was added at the end of the sixties. At the same time as a specialist room building, the large gymnasium was put into operation in 1976. In 2010, a new building for the natural sciences and art was inaugurated as an award-winning passive house . It also contains a modern media library, a large assembly room and an invitingly designed cafeteria with a kiosk and hot meals for the students at lunchtime. In the cafeteria, students also have the opportunity to play billiards or table football. All of the school's older classroom buildings have been energetically refurbished in recent years and brought up to date in terms of both looks and technology. Newly designed schoolyards invite students to take part in a variety of activities during breaks. A total of over 10 million euros was invested.
Funding in the MINT area
The Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen is a "lighthouse school" in the national excellence school network MINT Ec . As a result of membership, the Windthorst-Gymnasium can issue the MINT-EC certificate to particularly committed pupils , which can bring considerable advantages when looking for work and study places in the MINT area. In order to become a member of this network, numerous support and challenge opportunities are necessary for the students. There are numerous projects with regional companies and Lingen University of Applied Sciences at Windthorst-Gymnasium. For example, there is a one-week "MINT camp" with numerous other Emsland high schools, Emsland companies and the Lingen University of Applied Sciences.
Furthermore, in the years 5./6. a MINT profile is offered and a two-hour MINT elective in grades 7–10. In the elective course, the interdisciplinary program changes every six months and includes, for example, topics from "bionics", "robot construction and programming", macromolecules or "3D printing". This is often combined with field trips to local companies and other extracurricular learning locations.
In addition, participants from the Windthorst-Gymnasium take part in a variety of different competitions. For example, in the competitions " Students experiment ", " Jugend forscht ", " First Lego League " with qualification and participation in the World Championships in the USA in 2014 and " Chemistry Olympiad " with a school award for "continuous promotion" 2015/16 and as "best School in Lower Saxony “2016/17 and 2017/18.
In the upper secondary level , all natural sciences and mathematics are offered in courses at an advanced and basic level. In addition, there is a STEM seminar subject every year, such as "Electrical engineering", "Arduino programming" or "Chemistry in everyday life". In addition, a "science day" is organized every year, on which speakers from technical colleges and universities present their field of work.
Partnerships
The Windthorst-Gymnasium has partnerships with schools in France , the Netherlands , Poland and Tanzania . The long-term student exchange with the Collège André Streinger in Douai should be emphasized here .
Awards
- MINT EC school
- Europaschule (Germany)
- Sport-friendly school
- School without racism - school with courage
- Pilot school in the HPI School Cloud project
- Seal of approval "Ready for the job - Weser-Ems goes to school" 2017
Known students
- Tonio Bödiker (1843–1907), civil servant and president of the Reich Insurance Office
- Wilhelm Guddorf (1902–1943), journalist and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
- Gerhard Henschel (* 1962), writer
- Hermann Lause (1939–2005), film and theater actor
- Werner Müller (1946–2019), Federal Minister of Economics (1998–2002)
- Reinhold Schaffrath (* 1946), actor, singer, theater scholar and director
- Ferdinand Schöningh (1815–1883), publisher and bookseller
- Albert Trautmann (1867–1920), pharmacist and writer
- Emil Russell (1835–1907), lawyer
Customs
Up until 2002 it was the custom at Windthorst-Gymnasium for high school graduates to organize a so-called Abiumzug. To this end, all high school graduates built figures on a chosen topic, decorated the buildings, printed T-shirts and produced a school newspaper . After a morning with games and music entertainment by a band, there was then the move through the city (until 1996) to the high school Marianum .
In 2002, a public "Abitur" celebration was held for the first time on the student meadow. Under the motto Stars on Stage , various bands from northern Germany were invited by the Meppen high school graduates on the day after the Abitur exams. Stalls with sausages and drinks took care of the physical well-being. The following years have taken up and continued the practice of an annual event. In 2004 this event was then carried out as " Rock unter Linden " together with the respective Abitur class of the Marianum high school, also in Meppen. This event took place annually from 2006 to 2014, and the vocational high school for economics and technology has also been involved since 2012. The increasing number of visitors ensured that the city of Meppen had tougher requirements for " Rock unter Linden ", such as a new security concept, and provided costs that the three graduates could not finance through sponsors, ribbon sales and beer sales and therefore stopped the organization.
The idea of a music event organized by high school graduates was partially adopted by a better-known traditional event in the neighboring town of Lingen . The “ Abifestival ” there has been taking place since 1981.
Picture gallery
literature
- State high school in Meppen (ed.): Annual report on the royal high school in Meppen. 1867–1915 digitized
Web links
- Website of the Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen
- Website of the Alumni Association of Windthorst-Gymnasium
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen. In: www.mint-ec.de. Mint Ec, accessed March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Teaching staff. In: windthorst-gymnasium.de. Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
- ↑ school management. In: windthorst-gymnasium.de. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Windhorst-Gymnasium Meppen. MINT EC, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
- ^ Library of the Windthorst-Gymnasium
- ↑ WGM receives building for science . ( noz.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
- ↑ About us. In: www.mint-ec.de. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ MINT-EC certificate: Advantages when applying to the Heilbronn University and TU Dresden. In: www.mint-ec.de/. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Nico Buchholz: WGM Devils were in the USA: Meppener had great experiences at the Robot World Cup. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ PM: Second round of the Chemistry Olympiad: WGM Meppen most successful school in Lower Saxony. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Marko Lübbers : Gütesiegelaktion 2017. (PDF) In: windthorst-gymnasium.de. Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen, November 11, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Schmidt-1902/A/Sch%C3%B6ningh,+Ferdinand
- ↑ Rock under Linden Facebook Post. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ The archive of: Rock Unter Linden. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 35 ″ E