Zabel high school
| Zabel-Gymnasium Gera | |
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 Zabel School Schiller School  |
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| type of school | State high school |
| founding | 1889/1992/2002 |
| address |
Clara-Zetkin-Strasse 7 |
| place | Gera |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 52 '52 " N , 12 ° 4' 56" E |
| carrier | City of Gera |
| student | about 642 |
| Teachers | about 84 |
| management | Katrin Proschmann |
| Website | www.zabel-gymnasium.de |
The Zabel-Gymnasium is one of four municipal high schools in Gera . It emerged from the former Zabelsche Höhere Töchterschule , which was donated by the Zabel family of pharmacists and named after them. In 2002 the grammar school was merged with the Friedrich Schiller grammar school .
history
History of the Zabel School
The then Höhere Töchterschule existed since 1864 as part of the Citizens ' School on the Nicolaiberg (today part of the Goethe Gymnasium ). Auguste Henriette Zabel , widow of Gera city pharmacist Karl Friedrich Gotthelf Zabel, who died in 1884 , bequeathed monetary and material assets worth a total of one million marks to the city of Gera (around 7,540,000 euros today) to support the girls' school and to build their own school . In the testament in question, it was required that the new school should be named after the Zabel family, which is why the Zabelsche Higher Daughter School was named. The Zabel School was built from 1887 to 1889 according to plans by Fritz Köberlein . In 1906 the school building on the north side was expanded to include an extension with additional classrooms and a second staircase. In 1911 the school was recognized as a lyceum ; This gave the graduates the opportunity to study at university.
In the GDR, the school was an extended secondary school (EOS) and named after Otto Grotewohl . After the reunification, the school became a high school and on May 8, 1993 it again took the name Zabel.
History of the Schiller School
Like the Zabelschule, the Schillerschule goes back to a private foundation. The secondary school at that time was established in 1894 from a donation of 250,000 marks from the Gera commission councilor Louis Schlutter. The building was erected in 1893/94 by architects and government builder Wendorff and inaugurated on September 29, 1894.
In the 1930s the school was named Friedrich Schiller. Even as a polytechnic high school in the GDR, it retained this, making it one of the few schools in the city that was not named after a personality of the workers' movement.
fusion
With the new school network plan, which was passed in spring 2000, the number of schools in Gera was reduced in view of the declining number of pupils. It was decided to merge the Zabel and Schiller grammar school, as well as the closure of the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg grammar school in the western city center in 2005. The Lichtenberg students from the 2006 Abitur class should also switch to the merged grammar school after their school closed.
The merger of the two schools took place at the beginning of the 2002/03 school year. Initially, the new school operated under the makeshift name of the Staatliches Gymnasium Gera . After lengthy naming processes, in which, among other things, double names such as Zabel-Schiller-Gymnasium or completely new names were proposed, the school was finally renamed Zabel-Gymnasium again in 2003 . The reason given was the foundation of the Zabel family from 1884, which called for the school to be named Zabel .
At the beginning of the 2003/2004 school year, the students in the 2006 Abitur class switched from Lichtenberg to the Zabel high school. This change took place in order to allow the students to complete the upper school level every three years, including the newly introduced special performance assessment (BLF), at the same school. This amalgamation of students from different schools led to a record number of almost 200 high school graduates in 2006.
In 2004 the 2007 Abitur class followed from the Lichtenberggymnasium; 2005 - after the final closure - the remaining years of 2008 and 2009.
particularities
At the Zabel-Gymnasium, students have the option of learning two foreign languages at the same time from the 5th grade.
The Zabel-Gymnasium was one of the first schools in Thuringia to use CAS- enabled pocket calculators in its lessons .
Run with heart
The school is one of the organizers of the charity event Laufen mit Herz, which has been held in the Geraer Stadion der Freund since 2003 . Teams of three people run on the stadium's circuit; Depending on the number of rounds achieved, a sponsor will donate a predetermined amount. The donations benefit cancer victims.
literature
- Sabine Schellenberg: School buildings between 1860 and 1900 . In: Schools in Gera , published by the Lower Monument Protection Authority Gera, November 2001