Centgraph School

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Centgraph School
Zentgrafenschule frankfurt hesse germany deriv.JPG
main building
type of school Elementary school , all-day school
founding 1879
address

Wilhelmshöher Strasse 124
60389 Frankfurt am Main

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 8 '35 "  N , 8 ° 43' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '35 "  N , 8 ° 43' 37"  E
carrier town Frankfurt am Main
student around 300 (2016/2017)
management Mechthild Ossenbeck-Özak
Website www.zentgrafenschule.de

The Zentgrafenschule is a three to four-class elementary school with a preliminary class and a full-day branch in Frankfurt am Main . The school grounds extend between Wilhelmshöher Strasse , Wichernstrasse and Hochstädter Strasse in the Seckbach district . In the 2008/09 school year, the Zentgrafenschule was attended by around 360 students from 26 nations. There is only one school of this name in the world.

history

Former Pedellhaus
New construction of the all-day branch on Hochstädter Straße
View from Wichernstrasse to the main building

According to the facts known today, Seckbach's school history begins in the 1660s. Seckbach is shaped by Lutherans. The local Lutheran congregation starts its own school. Their pupils and teachers, however, first have to be instructed in the Seckbach town hall , because no suitable premises are available and cannot be created at short notice. It wasn't until almost half a century later, in 1709, that the Lutheran congregation built the Lutheran schoolhouse , a half-timbered house . It is still opposite today's Zentgrafenschule at Wilhelmshöher Straße 135. Two classrooms are being built on the ground floor and an apartment for the teacher on the upper floor. Just a year later, the baroque St. Mary's Church on the slope above can also be consecrated. Children and teachers of the Lutheran school are now housed in the immediate vicinity of the new church.

By 1764, the stones from the former St. Elisabeth mountain church from Kirchberg, a place between Bergen and Seckbach, were used to build the Reformed St. Peter's Church at the eastern end of the village to Bergen. After the unification of the Reformed and Lutheran regional churches in 1834, however, it is no longer needed and converted into Seckbach's second schoolhouse. In view of the growing number of pupils, the old school is no longer enough. In 1874, three years after the establishment of the German Empire (January 18, 1871), there are 275 students in Seckbach. These are divided into three classes. Two of them will be housed in the former St. Peter's Church, one in the old school.

Finally, on August 17, 1879, Seckbach's New School was inaugurated. It is being built on the courtyard of the egg dealer Christoph Henß at Wilhelmshöher Strasse 124. A former barn becomes a school building, a former stable becomes a gym. A teacher's apartment will be created above the gym. The pedell lives in a half-timbered house at Wilhelmshöher Straße 24 a, which is still on the school grounds today. The Seckbach Local History Museum has been housed there since 2004 .

Lush space and small classes are still foreign words in Seckbach. It gets really tight around 1900 when there are 520 school-age children in Seckbach. Four primary school classes are housed in the new school, four upper classes in the old school opposite. There are no collection or side rooms. After Seckbach was incorporated into Frankfurt on July 1, 1900, Seckbach's New School must have a real name in order to be correctly identified within the Frankfurt school landscape. In 1908, Seckbach's New School became the Zentgrafenschule. The name goes back to the medieval centgraves ( lat. Centenarius ). According to Germanic tribal law, they were regional representatives of the counts. The areas of responsibility of the Centers were parts of a Gau, the Cantons or Cent (historical administrative unit) e ( Latin centena ). The reference of the name to Seckbach results from the fact that the former rural community belonged to the County of Hanau and later to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel .

In 1930, a shelter pavilion was built in Huthpark for pupils of the Zentgrafenschule under the aegis of the city master builder Ernst May and equipped with showers and toilets. The school uses the Huthpark for its physical education classes.

After the Second World War , the shortage of space worsened, also due to the influx of displaced people who built the Zentgrafensiedlung in Zentgrafenstrasse . 430 Seckbach children are taught in eleven classes. Since only four rooms are available for this, teaching has to be done in three shifts, from early in the morning until late at night. For students and teachers, this is an unbearable burden alongside the difficulties of the immediate post-war years. During the winter months, pedals have to heat up to ten coal stoves very early in the morning so that students and teachers can find reasonably tolerable temperatures. There was bomb damage, especially along Wilhelmshöher Strasse, and the Marienkirche and its large parish hall were destroyed in 1944. The evangelical congregation of Seckbachs is therefore acquiring the former St. Peter's Church from the city by means of a compensation deal so that it can be used until the Marienkirche is rebuilt. In return, the city received church property between Wilhelmshöher Strasse and Schulstrasse (today's Hochstädter Strasse) from the Mariengemeinde. This area can now be used for an extension of the Zentgrafenschule, which is built in 1952/53, today's main building.

From 1949 to 1964, schoolchildren can use the gym of the Seckbach gymnastics club in the street Am Schießrain, which was rebuilt by the club on its own between 1947 and 1949 . In 1964 the gym of the Zentgrafenschule on Wichernstrasse / Hochstädter Strasse was finally inaugurated.

With the construction of the new settlement on Atzelberg from the end of the 1960s / beginning of the 1970s, many new children came to the Zentgrafenschule, and the number of pupils in the primary school classes increased accordingly. At the same time, the number of pupils in the upper grades is continuously decreasing because around two thirds of the pupils from the 5th grade attend secondary schools in other districts. From the 1970/71 school year onwards, the Zentgrafenschule will therefore become a pure elementary school. A new branch of the day care center is being set up in three makeshift pavilions on Hochstädter Strasse. As early as 1972, a three-storey new building was built in its place, accommodating 18 classes. In 1979 the Zentgrafenschule celebrates its 100th anniversary. In the same year, the seven-year-old new building for the all-day branch burns and is seriously affected.

Since 1999 there has been a registered association that supports the school. Since September 2002 there has been a cooperation with the Schachklub 1959 Bischofsheim e. V., with whose support a chess group for pupils in the 2nd - 4th grade is being set up.

In 2009, in the 130th year of the school's existence, only two thirds of the students are from Seckbach, a third come from other parts of the city because of the all-day offer. Their share is increasing. All students can have a warm lunch, but it is compulsory for all-day students.

First passive house school gymnasium in Frankfurt

Single-field gym Wichernstrasse (opened in 2010)
Single-span gym in passive house standard

The Zentgrafenschule is the first school in Frankfurt to benefit from a city renewal program. After the ramshackle school gym, built in 1964, was demolished in 2009/10 on the site of the Zentgrafenschule at the level of Wichernstrasse, a single-span school gym in wood construction with full-surface glass cladding, which was given a passive house certificate. The flat roof was greened. The new school gymnasium was built using a modular system, which the school authority and building construction department of the city of Frankfurt had put out to tender across Europe. The compact structure has a minimized enveloping surface, with high insulation thicknesses and few thermal bridges ensuring optimal thermal protection and efficient energy savings. The heating takes place via the local heating network of the school, via the ventilation or via radiators which are installed behind the so-called baffle wall. The domestic water heating is ensured via a fresh water station with a buffer tank. A ventilation system suitable for passive houses with a high heat recovery rate circulates 1,400 cubic meters per hour. The sanitary installation includes group shower rooms and around 16 objects, some of which are handicapped-accessible. The rooms with higher room temperatures (changing rooms and wet rooms) are grouped together. The hall area is illuminated via overhead glazing on four sides, so that even daylight illumination is achieved. The new single-field gym has been playable since summer 2010. The hall is z. B. also used by groups and teams of the Seckbach 1875 gymnastics club .

activities

  • May children's day
  • Trial day for school beginners
  • School festival
  • School trips
  • Chess AG
  • Christmas chess tournament

Transport links

Graphic: The proportion of schoolchildren from districts other than Seckbach is increasing.

Since parking spaces are rare in the center of Seckbach, the use of public transport is recommended. The Seckbach local history museum at Wilhelmshöher Straße 124 can be reached with the RMV line bus 43. The building is at the Zentgrafenschule stop. It takes about 8 minutes to walk from the last stop at Leonhardsgasse if you use the RMV bus lines 44 or F-41. A walk of about the same length is required if you come from the terminus Atzelberg-Ost of the RMV bus route 38. Primary school students should avoid Wilhelmshöher Straße as much as possible. From Leonhardsgasse you can reach the school with reduced traffic via Hochstädter Straße, from Atzelberg-Ost via Propst-Goebels-Weg and, if necessary, Ellerstraße.

Well-known former students

  • Manfred Emmel (* 1945) - athlete (multiple German champion, European champion and Olympic champion in table tennis)
  • Gustav Heinzmann (1920–2006) - physicist and inventor

literature

  • Rochelmeyer, Folker: Seckbach and his surroundings , Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822 - Polytechnische Gesellschaft (ed.), 1972, 84 p
  • Rochelmayer, Folker (ed.): Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach, 880-1980 , Festival Committee 1100 Years Seckbach e. V. (ed.), 1980, 151 pp.
  • Sauer, Walter: Seckbacher history (s) , Kultur- und Sportring Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach 1954 e. V. (ed.), Frankfurt am Main, 2000, 164 pp.

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Web links

Commons : Zentgrafenschule  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Centgrave School. Retrieved November 7, 2016 .