Wittekind-Gymnasium Lübbecke
| Wittekind high school | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| School number | 168932 |
| founding | 1926 |
| address |
Ziegeleiweg 14 |
| place | Luebbecke |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 18 '10 " N , 8 ° 37' 26" E |
| carrier | City of Luebbecke |
| student | 824 (March 1, 2019) |
| Teachers | 68 (Feb 5, 2019) |
| management | Eberhard Hagemeier |
| Website | www.wittekind.de |
The Wittekind-Gymnasium is the municipal high school in the East Westphalian city of Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The high school is located directly on the northern slope of the Wiehengebirge and is about 200 meters from the federal highway 239 . About 200 meters further up, in the forest, there is a sports field that is used in summer by the students in physical education and for sports events such as the national youth games.
Catchment area
The students come from the entire city of Lübbeck ( Alswede , Blasheim , Eilhausen , Gehlenbeck , Lübbecke (core city) , Nettelstedt , Obermehnen and Stockhausen ). The neighboring municipality of Hüllhorst and the city of Preußisch Oldendorf also belong to the catchment area.
internationality
The high school is a member of the European project "Lessons without borders". In addition, there are numerous student exchanges every year, for example to Imola , Novosibirsk or New York . There are also various AG offers that deal with international exchange and communication.
In the "International Class" created by the refugee crisis , teachers teach together with former teachers. Early activities .
On November 25, 2019, the grammar school was named a European school together with eleven other schools from North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
1926-1945
The history of the Wittekind-Gymnasium began in 1926, when there was only one entry class with 27 students. The class teacher was Schmidt, a former principal of the secondary school. At the beginning, the location of the "Wittekindschule" was not at the foot of the Reineberg, but in the town of Lübbecke am Geistwall. Under the first headmaster Otto Piene (1928–44), the old building was completely renovated at the beginning of the thirties in order to do justice to the growing number of students. Due to the Second World War, classes only had to be suspended once from March to December 1945. At the beginning of junior high school reported the notification deposited with the construction of an additional school building on the planks road in 1929 certificate details:
. "The classrooms of the Protestant primary school in the market in Lübbecke i./Westf ranged for some time no longer had a part of the classes. will be housed in the building of the advanced school, which has been assigned to the state. The provincial school board has withdrawn the permission to continue using the rooms because they have become necessary for the purposes of the advanced school. " The document has been in the Lübbecke City Archives since 2005.
1946-1967
Piene's successor, Georg Proffen, was only in office for a few months because the British military government did not approve of him as director. Gustav Winzer took over his post in early 1946. Under his successor Walter Gaupp (1955–1965) a new school building was built, which is now used by the Diakonie. This new building was urgently needed due to the rapidly increasing number of students after the Second World War. Only in 1963 was the building erected on Ziegeleiweg, which is known today as the former "old building". In addition to the new location, the school was provided with a new gymnasium and the forest sports field in order to guarantee a wide range of sports lessons.
experiment
"In 1955 with the appointment of Walter Gaupp as head of the school Lübbecker the experiment after Lübbecke in Westphalia." This was reported on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of experiment activities in Germany, the brochure (via web link ) of the experiment e. V. The work of Walter Gaupp is honored in detail. Gaupp was managing director from 1953, first chairman from 1967 to 1970, and finally honorary member from 1971; in the same year he was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Gaupp had been involved in the experiment in International Living , Weblink , since 1936 after meeting founder Donald B. Watt.
Oberstudiendirektor Gaupp had taught as an assessor, and finally as a teacher, at the Aldegrever-Gymnasium Soest since 1932 , where he earned the honorary title of director of the Aldegrever-Gymnasium Soest . "This honorary title was held by the teacher Gaupp, who for many years led his amateurs to ever new successes."
SMV
The establishment of student co-responsibility (SMV) at secondary schools was recommended by a decree of the Ministry of Education in January 1948, and sponsorship made compulsory in 1956. The American school life of the Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) was regarded as a model - not to be adopted schematically.
With Walter Gaupp the school got a director who, partly due to his experience in the USA, appreciates the SMV as an organizational framework and will promote it as a democratic institution. He was able to rely on a few younger teachers for this.
The constitutional organs of the student assembly, student council with preparatory committees, school spokesman, liaison teachers of the SMV served democratic education and are a prerequisite for critical participation without the risk of personal disadvantage, but also justified themselves as a bracket for the formation of new groups of enthusiasts, for example on biology and running a Photo labs or a journalistic group for the school newspaper . An attempt with a student court was also started and, by the way, viewed critically by the district SMV. Musical working groups a. a. for the organization of school celebrations and sporting interest groups existed, led by the teachers, even before, now the student body could appear more clearly as organizers.
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"Questionmark"
The first number with the title ——— ? ——— the school newspaper of the Wittekindgymnasium appeared in June 1957 with prefaces by the director and chairman of the association of former Wittekind pupils . A competition among the student body did not produce an attractive and independent name, and so the title was ultimately only formulated into the question mark . In any case, particularly questionable things should be raised. Publisher at that time: SMV des Wittekindgymnasium, Lübbecke .
In 1962, the school newspaper was still in its sixth year with a circulation of 1000 as " the question mark of the pupil's own magazine of the Wittekindgymnasium Lübbecke". Number 17 of September 1962 testifies that the three editions planned for 1957 per school year were achieved.
Advanced high school in dismantling
In the term of office Gaupp coincides with the departure of Abiturientia 1959, the end of the original version Aufbaugymnasium of Wittekind-Gymnasium Lübbecke. In 1926, the city of Lübbecke approved the higher education institution as a secondary school . In 1951, under Gustav Winzer, the new language grammar school was founded with the admission of the first sexta. Construction of the four-class extension for the additional years Sexta to Quarta, accessible via the Bridge of Sighs , began in 1953; In this year, a lower secondary school was last added to the advanced branch of the Wittekindschule Staatliche Oberschule for boys in advanced form and modern language grammar school i. E. added. This school year group left the institution in the year mentioned 1959 as the last upper prima of the advanced school. The certificate of maturity is issued under the name Wittekind-Gymnasium Neusprachliches Gymnasium i. E. and advanced high school i. A. Lübbecke i. Westf. And clearly names the mining.
The extension still exists while the main building on Geistwall has been demolished. Built in 1904 in Art Nouveau style, it had served as a higher city school , now the Jahn Realschule - for boys and girls in separate wings, each with its own entrance. After 1926, it was refurbished much more simply and expanded to include scientific rooms and an auditorium.
1968-1992
After three years with Joachim Vogt, Friedhelm Kindler took over the post of director in 1968, which he held until 1992. The largest restructuring of the Wittekind grammar school to date took place under his direction. Like its predecessors, Kindler had to face a growing number of students and the resulting lack of space. The consequence of this was the abandonment of the Geistwall site and a complete move to Ziegeleiweg. To this end, the buildings there have been extensively expanded, including the "new building", a new gymnasium and a teaching pool. This construction phase was completed in 1976 for the 50th anniversary. However, the number of students continued to rise. So visited z. B. At the beginning of the 1970s around 700 students attended the grammar school. At the beginning of the 1980s there were already around 1200, so there was an acute lack of space.
Since 1993
Although the number of students stabilized afterwards, it rose again in the mid-1990s. As a result, under director Friedhelm Sauerländer (since 1993) a conversion of the grammar school was planned at the end of the 1990s. Construction began in 1999. In the course of this renovation, the "old building" was completely renovated, renewed and given a new porch (atrium and library). The music rooms moved into the former small sports hall, which had been converted into a music center. A new, modern sports hall was built next to the school premises and the old large sports hall was followed by a modern tartan court. The renovation work was completed on time for the 75th anniversary in 2001.
Known students
- Christoph Barre, managing director of the private brewery Ernst Barre
- Martin Heidenreich (* 1956), social scientist and university professor
- Wilhelm Heitmeyer (* 1945), university professor at the Faculty of Education, Bielefeld University
- Antje Vollmer (* 1943), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), later Vice-President of the Bundestag
- Martin Lücker (* 1953) organist and professor for artistic organ playing and methodology / didactics of organ lessons at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main
literature
- Ulrich Ohlhoff (responsible): 50 years of the Wittekind grammar school. Festschrift. Kurt Meyer, Hüllhorst 1976.
- Gerhard Terstegge (responsible): BLICKwinkel 75 years Wittekind-Gymnasium. All-round printing service, Lübbecke 2001.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Wittekind-Gymnasium
- Experiment e. V. , known internationally as Experiment in International Living
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the Wittekind Gymnasium: Europrojekt , accessed on February 7, 2019
- ↑ Lübbeck delegation receives certificate from the state government: Gymnasium is European school. In: Westfalen-Blatt . Westfalen-Blatt Vereinigte Zeitungsverlage GmbH, November 26, 2019, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ The Circle - The New Scholar . 7 (1955) issue 1/2 (May / June) occasionally Gaupp's appointment to Lübbecke.
- ↑ After the entrance examination, the Headmaster therefore had winemakers regarding the girl formulate. Were taken too ... .