Casimirianum Coburg

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The Casimirianum is a high school in Coburg, Bavaria. It was founded in 1605 and named after the school founder Duke John Casimir of Saxe- Coburg ( 1564-1633 ). Today, the Casimirianum is a linguistic and human High School with the Latin language sequence from the fifth, sixth from English class and Greek, French or Spanish as a third elective foreign language. With the school year 2009/10 the profile of a scientific- technological branch with Latin has been extended as a second language. The school participated in the school gymnasium and is trying some European (provisional 2015 ) is one of 44 MODUS21 model schools.

History

On September 2, 1601, the groundbreaking ceremony was held by Duke Johann Casimir, which was built by Peter Senge foliage Renaissance building was inaugurated on July 3, 1605. After the foundation charter of the Duke this country school should be " a medium or means " between a trivial school and a high school or academy. The lectures were " publice et free ". A Convictorium ( boarding school ) was established " with zweyen tables, uff four and zwantzig boys, a table free, and from the other weekly from each person Siebengroschenn Zuschus ". Knew the Duke, " as is sometimes poor Leuthe Kindere that geschicklichkeitt of natural good Vehiger, and to breed sameness and also let Lähr, like to educate woltten, offtmahls skipped are negligiert and verseumet, the experienced or heard we not mutt ahn the lowest woltten ... ".

From the Bewiddungsbrief of Duke Johann Casimir, the Deed of Casimirianums, from July 3, 1605: " Unzweiflicher Previously view when on this our Verordnunge and fundation stiff and vest held tten that Praeceptores multiply trewlich and vleisig, and the public lec -tures, also the beneficim Communis mensae right up out, there be such a christian Werck to honor God, Christianity erbawunge, and our lands to Wohlfahrth, with the time of guthertzigen Marktleuthen and foremost our honor, will multiply and furthered follows that it initially intentioned intententlichen reach ".

On November 11, 1677 Emperor Leopold I granted the imperial privilege of establishing a new university in Coburg. 1705, the Coburg University was proclaimed on the occasion of the centenary of the school. However, in 1723 involved among the seven because of disputes Ernestine princes and due to lack of funding the efforts of a joint committee to a second university in addition to Jena were abandoned. The gymnasium Casimirianum kept continue the structure of 1607.

In July 2013, an anonymous complaint was made for abuse of office after the school principal defied the German High School on the second examiners and all the reviews had raised a point against the school principal - without the faculty to teach them. As Chairman of the Audit Committee, he has also confirmed by signature that the test result was achieved properly. After exceptionally long examination into an order was issued due to false certification in office against the director of the Casimirianums by the District Court of Coburg.

Architecture

Opposite the Morizkirche, on the corner lot for Neugasse, stood until 1601, built in 1496 as a granary granary Council. Duke Johann Casimir had to tear it down and to 1605 by Nicholas Bergner and Peter Senge leaves, who lived in the house opposite build, a high school with Convictorium ( boarding school ). For Bergner it was the second of its three magnificent Coburg. The construction of the Cabinet Office had just completed the the armory should follow. The two-storey Satteldachbau in the Renaissance style is determined by a row of six Zwerchhäuser with richly structured gables and one each pyramid as pointed statements. Both three-storey gable ends are made ​​very ornate with Volutenspangen and five pyramids at the ends of the basement division. The eight to three window axes are executed on the upper floors as large windows with mullions, only the gable ends, the middle window are simple. The ground floor is divided into two parts by a substantially centrally landscaped circular portal, consisting of more than cut rods and its entablature with architrave and cornice bead resting on consoles. To the left of this gate a driveway Portal low, laced by Blattvolutenkonsolen worn round arch, which is concluded by a cornice with egg and dart and dentil. On the northeast corner, facing the church, is equal to the upper floor, the stone statue of the school founder, Duke Johann Casimir, renewed in 1638 by Veit Dümpel. Originally the gable side of the figure with the images of famous scientists was painted right. On the back is the ridge of the roof to a half floors superior polygonal stair tower with a stone spiral staircase, onion dome and lantern, hanging in the gymnasium Glöckle. In the auditorium of the high school are wood panel paintings with the allegories of the seven virtues, which were discovered in Muenzmeisterhaus 1957. Through numerous, made ​​in the course of 400 years of renovations and additions, and demolition of surrounding townhouses of today's high school complex was created. The last extensions were in 1961 the construction of a gymnasium with recreation hall at the Neugasse 1986-1988 and an additional school building with music room toward Ketch alley.

Tradition

At the end of each school year, the stone figure of the school 's founder Duke Johann Casimir is during the annual Foundation celebration " crowned " at the corner of renaissance building of the school. A student or a student in the 11th grade, or before 2011 from the 12th grade, from the top staff thirds giving a speech, then he rises or they, along with the year's best on a ladder figure of the school's founders, up and sets this one wreath on the main stone. Another ring is attached to the arm of the former ruler. Thereafter, the students three successive glass of beer ( occasionally apple juice as a substitute ) up enough that he or she, " crescat " with the words " high school Casimirianum vivat " and " floreat in aeternum " empties ( translation: " The Gymnasium Casimirianum may cheer, grow and forever bloom " ) and throws to the ground. Shards of the glasses are brisk collected by the students, since they are intended to bring good luck and good grades for the next school year. To celebrate also the three-verse school song ( melody: From hoh'n Olympus ) is sung, the first two verses before Bekränzungsakt, the last as a conclusion.

With the Casimiriana is since 1861 a student at the high school connection.

Known students

  • Michael Eric Franck, novelist of the Rococo period, was a pupil from 1709 to 1713
  • Johann Caspar Goethe, father of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, was a pupil from 1725 to 1728
  • Johann Georg Meusel, historian, lexico and bibliographer, students 1758-1764
  • Friedrich Hofmann ( writer ), was a pupil from 1828 to 1834
  • August Schleicher, linguist and pioneer of Indo-European Studies, was a pupil from 1835 to 1839
  • Bernhard Fischer, student was from 1862 to 1871
  • Richard Leutheußer, lawyer and politician, Abitur 1887
  • Hans Berger, a neurologist and psychiatrist, Abitur 1892
  • Constant Griebel, food chemist, was a pupil from 1886 to 1893
  • Helmuth Johnsen, a Protestant bishop, Nationalist activist, Abitur 1911
  • Georg Alexander Hansen, resistance fighters of 20 July 1944, was a pupil from 1914 to 1923
  • Hans Morgenthau, a lawyer and political scientist, was a pupil from 1914? to 1923
  • Peter Butler, General A.D. the Bundeswehr High School in 1931
  • Michael Stoschek, associate of Brose GmbH & Co. KG, was a pupil from 1957 to 1967
  • Thomas Keyßner, lawyer and local politician, was a pupil from 1966 to 1975
  • Norbert Kastner, a lawyer since 1990 and Mayor of Coburg, was a pupil from 1970 to 1979
  • Heinrich Bedford - Strohm, Bavarian Bishop, High School in 1979
  • Carl-Christian Dressel, politician and university professor, was a pupil from 1980 to 1989

Known teachers

  • Andreas Libavius ​​(1555-1616), co-founder of modern chemistry
  • Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), Lutheran theologian
  • Johann Matthäus Meyfart (1590-1642), from 1617 professor, from 1623 director, fought as a Protestant theologian against the persecution of witches
  • Johann Christoph Kohl, Hans (1604-1677), author of writings on the Greek and Hebrew language, as well as to mathematics and physics
  • Erdmann Rudolf Fischer (1687-1776), Lutheran theologian
  • Ernst Salomon Cyprian (1673-1745), Director 1700-1713, Lutheran theologian, opponent of Pietism
  • Johann Friedrich Gruner (1723-1778), Lutheran theologian, historian, rhetorician and educator
  • Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke (1768-1818), geologist, geographer and cartographer
  • Rudolf Däbritz (1880-1945), Classical philologist, Director 1919-1934
  • Karl Keyßner (1906-1978), Classical philologist, Director 1956-1972

Quotes

  • He had his youth spent at the Coburg High School, which occupied one of the first places among the German schools. He had there a good reason in the languages ​​, and whatever else figured to a learned education down. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe about his father Johannes Caspar Goethe, cit. According to My Life, Poetry and Truth, Book One )
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