Apian-Gymnasium Ingolstadt

Maximilian Strasse 25a

The Apian -Gymnasium is a secondary school in Ingolstadt.

It was formed in 1971 as a spin- out of the Christoph- Scheiner -Gymnasium.

It includes a scientific- technological branch with English as a first and French or Latin as a second language with the subjects focus on mathematics, physics and chemistry, the economic branch with English as a first, Latin or French as a second foreign language, economics and law as an additional main compartment from the 9th grade with the fan 's main business and accounting / business computer science, as well as the linguistic branch with English as a first, Latin or French as a second and third Spanish as a foreign language. The school is named after the Ingolstadt professors Peter (1495-1552) and Philipp Apian (1531-1589) and currently has about 1,200 students. The Apian -Gymnasium was initially housed in the High School in the city center, since the construction of the new building at the Maximilian street in the years 1974-78 the only school outside the old town of Ingolstadt.

The Apian -Gymnasium is characterized by particularly active promotion of the natural sciences, it has been producing state-wide, most applications to the competition "Young Scientist - Students experiment " and maintains a German schools once great collection of live animals for teaching purposes ( " Vivarium " ). There are therein representing more than 60 species, which are held in part except at this school only in a few major zoos, about the ant Azteca, the largest land-dwelling crustacean, the coconut crab or the endangered Mexican Axolotl.

The SIGNO Inventor Club, sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, is one of the most renowned in Germany.

The Apian -Gymnasium is one of eight Bavarian grammar schools by the Ministry of Culture for the pilot project "Center of Excellence - Centre for School Quality" were selected the Foundation for Education Pact of Bavaria. In this project, under the motto - develops innovative educational concepts, tested and passed on in training to teachers ' science experience and communicate. "

In the science wing of the school, there is a Japanese garden, the study director Werner Karl has created his retirement as a gift to the school.

Known teachers and graduates

• Manfred Schumann, a former member of the Bavarian State Parliament (SPD )
• Alfred Easter Meier, Mayor in Böhmfeld
• Karl Werner, PhD in history with numerous contributions to regional history