Paulusheim

Huttenstraße 49

The St. Paul's Home is a private high school in Bruchsal in free sponsorship of the school foundation of the archdiocese of Freiburg.

It was founded by the Pallotines, originally as a boys boarding school. The Paul goes back home to a boarding school in the small Italian town of Masio in Alessandria, had to leave in 1915 due to the war the Pallottiner. Your path led into the former home of the headmaster to Bruchsal. After a transitional accommodation in a restaurant was built in 1922 to a design by the architect Hans Herkommer new building to be inaugurated on the mountain monastery in Bruchsal. During the Second World War, the school was closed for some time by the Nazis, but could then take the first school of North Baden teaching operation. Due to the lack of demand, the boarding school was closed in the 1980s, however, continued to expand the school. Meanwhile, the school is attended by about 750 Catholic and Protestant pupils. It offers new and altsprachliches profile with the languages ​​of Latin, English, French, Greek and Spanish. Also, Chinese is now offered as a working group.

Since the school year 2012/2013, Markus Zepp director of the school. He replaced Gebhard Lipps, who was director of the school from 2006/2007 to 2011. Interim basis, the school 2011/2012 was headed by Deputy Headmaster Paul Christian. Before Gebhard Lipps Father Waldemar Janzer was for many years director of the school.

Famous former students

• Bruno Merk, interior minister Bayerischer 1966-1977 ( High School 1940)
• Hans -Peter Becker, Provincial of the German - Austrian Pallottinerprovinz