Gymnasium Petrinum Dorsten

The value 17 D- 46282 Dorsten

The gymnasium Petrinum Dorsten is one of two schools in the city of Dorsten.

History

On October 7, 1642, the Franciscans ( OFM) found the school. 1823 she was awarded the status of a Progymnasium. 1837 is the Franciscan Order to the line of the high school after the last rector died. 1894 receives the school 's status as a church school. On October 16, 1898, the approval is to continue the school as a whole institution to build a new school building under the obligation. 1902, the new school building at the monastery road is completed. 1904, the first baccalaureate as "Catholic school ( with replacement lessons for the Greek ) to Dorsten " will be held. In connection with the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 Belgian troops sent in the rooms of a school their headquarters, the school applies then the spaces of the former teachers' college at the Bochum road. The Ministry assigns 1932 to the reconversion of Petrinum in a gymnasium conventional humanistic orientation. 1946 approved Oberpräsident the reopening of the school after the war. In 1948, the lessons will again be fully granted, although the building must also accommodate an elementary school. In 1963, the completely rebuilt and expanded with an extension building is based. The foundation stone for the new building at the new location " Maria Lindenhof ", between lip and channel is set in 1980. 1982 draws to school in the new building. A new school wing relieves from 2003, the largest housing shortage that had arisen due to increased student numbers.