Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren

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The Evangelical seminars Maulbronn and Blaubeuren are old and modern language high schools for grades 9-12 with Protestant boarding schools in the tradition of Württemberg monastery schools. They are common areas of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg and Baden- Württemberg. By the year 1975 or 1977, this included the evangelical seminars in the monastery Schoental and Urach. Since 1969, the school is open to girls.

The legal bases for collective ownership and co-financing by the country and the seminar foundation next to the Law on the Evangelical Church contract Baden- Württemberg and the Roman Catholic Church agreement Baden- Württemberg from 2008, several Württemberg laws and agreements with the Evangelical Church from the 1920s ( lower Evangelical theological seminaries ).

History

The seminars were founded by the monastic rule of Duke Christoph of Württemberg in 1556 as a Protestant monastery school and transferred in March 1928 in a jointly supported foundation of church and state. They are the last two surviving of originally 13 monastic schools, which established Duke Christoph in all Württemberg monasteries of men to gifted boys - regardless of the status and wealth of the family - to provide a first class education and so its with other riches not blessed land an educated elite to gain. The further your career preparation seminar usually led her to study in Tubingen.

Similar schools were founded during the Reformation, there were approximately in Saxony with the prince schools in Schulpforta ( 1543) in Naumburg, St. Afra ( 1543) in Meissen, St. Augustine ( 1550) in Grimsby or in Thuringia with the convent school Roßleben ( 1554 ). In the Württemberg schools, however, the monastic tradition has, in addition to a thorough scientific training, more emphasis, for example by maintaining the canonical hours.

Among the original 13 convent schools in Württemberg were:

  • Adelberg, 1556-1648
  • Alpirsbach, 1556-1594
  • Anhausen, 1556-1584. The pin Herbrechtingen had no school, but participated from 1556 to Anhausen.
  • Bebenhausen 1556-1807, (published by Maulbronn )
  • Blaubeuren, 1556-1810 (after Schoental installation), 1817 ( re-opened ) until today
  • Denkendorf, 1556-1807
  • Herrenalb, 1556-1594
  • Hirsau, 1556-1692
  • Königsbronn, 1556-1595
  • Lorch, 1556-1583
  • Maulbronn, 1556 to today
  • Murrhardt, 1556-1594
  • St. Georgen, 1556-1594

At the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery schools were reorganized in the wake of neo-humanistic reforms and established under the name of seminars as humanistic schools. From the ancient monastic schools this process lasted only school in Maulbronn. Blaubeuren was first closed and reopened in 1817. Newly arrived Schoental (1810-1975) and Urach ( 1818-1977 ).

Since 1975, the classes were housed 9 and 10 in Maulbronn. The classes 11 to 13 were taught in Blaubeuren monastery partly in cooperation with the school Blaubeuren. At this change of location (G8) in Baden -Wuerttemberg from the school year 2008/2009 was not held after the introduction of the eight-year school. Instead, there are two distinct schools, each teaching the vintages 9 to 12 and each form own priorities.

Characteristics of today's seminars

Common features of the seminars today are embossed on the orientation of the Christian faith, the small number of students, family interaction of teachers and students by locally adjacent living and life, the humanist education and a variety of possibilities, some mandatory, demanding musical activity.

Priorities in Maulbronn are both old (Latin and Ancient Greek) and as well as new languages ​​(English, French), theology, music, and European cultural tradition.

Priorities in Blaubeuren are old and new languages ​​(Greek, Latin, French, English ), European Baccalaureate, cross-curricular work in the seminar course ( Topics 2011: " mind, brain, soul ", 2012: " What is happiness? ", 2013: "Time " ), music, religion, and the formation of personality ( sail leisure, climbing course, Compassionprojekt ).

Boarding school

All students in the seminars live in the boarding of each seminar, there are no external. Approximately every other weekend and during the holidays they go home. The seminar is a conscious spiritual and extensive musical life, as well as numerous joint ventures. There are several organized partly multi-day excursions each year.

School

The seminars are public high schools in Baden -Württemberg. The majority of the teacher stands in the civil service, along with pastors and church musicians as teachers in the seminar. The timetable and the educational plans meet the requirements of the Ministry of Culture for old or modern language schools, the conclusion is the general education diploma ( and other certificates such as DELF diplomas, church music C- test and else). Third foreign language for all pupils from the entrance to the seminar Classical Greek. The " brought " languages ​​are English and French or Latin. In which class was which language began is not critical. Participation in the Protestant religious education is compulsory.

Country exam ( entrance exam )

The existence of the so-called Country exam is since the founding of the seminars prerequisite to get a full scholarship for the stay in the seminar. Only in the Landexamina 1980-2004 was waived the school part of the three - to four-day test ( to be separated yet made exceptions), when candidates were able to demonstrate a certain grade point average.

Join the Country exam and in a seminar can be taken all evangelical eighth-grade students of a high school. Requirement is the baptism and confirmation or notification of this. In addition to the school exam at the exam country, the social suitability of candidates for the seminar is to be determined. Are tested in writing in mathematics, German and English both orally and in the subject Protestant religion. In addition, a presentation examination in Latin, French, music (eg audition ) or history part of the test. It will be added per year 50 students in two seminars.

Costs

Passing the exam country seminarians receive a full or partial scholarship from the state and the Protestant Church.

  • Full scholarship:

Up to 18 students per seminar and born a full scholarship can get. The monthly fee is 250, - Euro. Families who find it difficult to raise this amount can be supported in the 9th class of the Evangelical Foundation seminar.

  • Partial scholarship:

More 7 students per seminar and year can get a partial scholarship. The monthly amount is based on the income of the parents.

In both cases, from the 10th grade student federal financial aid, which is paid as a non-repayable assistance may be requested.

Former seminarians

Many of the students of the Protestant seminars taken the profession of priest, teacher, or academic work, take a look at the list of alumni, however, shows a wide range of talents and professions.

Famous personalities who attended the convent school or the evangelical seminar:

  • Hartwig Altenmüller ( Maulbronn / Blue Beuren, 1953-1957 ), Egyptologist
  • Adolf Bacmeister ( Blaubeuren 1841-1845 ), German scholar and writer
  • Adolf Friedrich Bonhoeffer ( Maulbronn, from 1873 to 1875; Blaubeuren 1875-1877 ), theologian, classical scholar and historian of philosophy
  • Johann Friedrich Gaab (1761-1832), theologian and professor in Tübingen and General Superintendent of Tübingen
  • Gerd Gaiser ( Schoental / Blue Beuren, 1922-1926 ), artist, writer
  • Albrecht Goes ( Schoental / Blue Beuren, 1922-1926 ), theologian, writer
  • Robert degrees man ( Maulbronn 1879-1881 ), botanist and geographer, professor in Erlangen, founder of the steppe heath theory, namesake of the Robert - degree man - Medal of the German Academy for Regional Studies.
  • Klaus Harpprecht ( Blaubeuren, 1945-1946 ) writer, journalist, speech writer Willy Brandt, co-editor of the book series The Other library.
  • Hartmut Häussermann ( Maulbronn / Blue Beuren, 1959-1963 ), urban sociologist.
  • Wilhelm Hauff ( Blaubeuren, 1817-1820 ), writer.
  • Karl Friedrich Haug, " pupil" in Maulbronn and blue Beuren, theologian and professor of Universal History
  • Georg Herwegh ( Maulbronn 1831-1835 ), revolutionary poet of the pre-March period.
  • Hermann Hesse ( Maulbronn 1891-1892 ), writer, Nobel Prize winners. Processed his Maulbronner experiences in the novel The bottom wheel
  • Philipp Friedrich Hiller ( Maulbronn 1716-1719 ), pietist pastor and hymn writer.
  • Christian Gottlob Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter ( Maulbronn 1829-1884 ), geographer, geologist and explorer, leader of the Novara Expedition.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin ( Denkendorf / Maulbronn 1784-1788 ), poet.
  • Julius from Jan ( Maulbronn / Blue Beuren, 1911-1914 ), theologian, Bußtagspredigt 1938 against the excesses of the November pogroms.
  • Johannes Kepler ( Maulbronn 1586-1589 ), theologian, natural philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, optician, discoverer of Kepler's laws.
  • Justinus Kerner ( Maulbronn 1795-1797 Private lessons by students monastery ), physician and writer, representatives of the Swabian school of poetry.
  • Karl Heinrich Köstlin (1755-1783), professor of natural history at the High School Karl Stuttgart
  • Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb von Köstlin ( Blaubeuren 1797-1799 ), professor and headmaster at the Evangelical Theological Seminary Urach.
  • Karl Reinhold von Köstlin ( Blaubeuren 1833-1837 ), theologian, aestheticians and literary historian
  • Hermann Kurz ( Maulbronn 1827-1831 ), writer.
  • Maximilian Albert Landerer ( Maulbronn 1823-1827 ), theologian.
  • Georg Heinrich von Müller (1750-1820), theologian, university professor and General Superintendent of Heilbronn
  • Philipp Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer ( Denkendorf / Maulbronn 1780-1784 ), neuhumanistischer philosopher, theologian and school reformers.
  • Richard Ottmar ( Maulbronn / Blue Beuren 1903-1907 ), teacher of religion and schedule expert.
  • Johann Christian Pfister ( Denkendorf / Maulbronn 1786-1790 ), historian and general superintendent of Tübingen
  • Karl Friedrich Reinhard (French: Charles Frédéric, comte Reinhard) ( Denkendorf / Maulbronn 1774-1778 ), Peer of France, French diplomat, Foreign Minister of France for a short time.
  • Friedrich Theodor Vischer ( Blaubeuren, 1821-1825 ), 1831 Repetent in Maulbronn, philosopher, professor of Aesthetics, a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly.
  • David Friedrich Weinland ( Maulbronn 1843-1847 ), zoologist and youth writers ( Rulaman )
  • Gustav Werner ( Maulbronn 1823-1827 ), theologian, founder of the Gustav -Werner Foundation for Brother house.
  • Eduard Zeller ( Maulbronn 1827-1831 ), philosopher, theologian, professor in Bern, Marburg, Berlin.
  • Jonathan Zenneck ( Maulbronn / Blue Beuren, 1885-1889 ), physicist, radio pioneer, member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, winner of the Werner -von- Siemens-Ring in 1956.
  • Wilhelm Zimmermann ( Blaubeuren, 1821-1825 ), theologian, poet, historian, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly.

Well-known teacher of the seminars:

  • Karl Christian Planck, professor in Blaubeuren, 1879/1880 Ephorus in Maulbronn, natural philosopher.
  • Eberhard Nestle, a professor in 1898, 1912/1913 Ephorus in Maulbronn, theologian and orientalist, publisher of the first text-critical edition of the Novum Testamentum Grace.
  • Gustav Eugene Lang, Ephorus in Maulbronn, historian.

Abbey concerts

  • The seminar Maulbronn organized with about 30 concerts per season a summer music festival on an international level. The " Maulbronner monastery concerts " were launched in 1968 by church music director Martin sweetness. Artistic Director from 1979 to 2013 was director of church music Jürgen Budday, Since 2013 Sebastian Eberhardt.
  • Also the seminar Blaubeuren joined in 2007 his hitherto held concerts to a monastery own concert series, which since then competes with a detailed annual program as " International monastery concerts Blaubeuren ". Artistic Director Ulrich Stierle.

Maulbronn - Spiritual Life (. During Evang seminar Maulbronn )

By resolution of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg, the project was set up " monastery for the people" in the years 2002 to 2006 Maulbronn. The aim of the project was to strengthen the spiritual aura of the monastery. During the project period, numerous offers and events were convent priest Klaus Hoof developed and tested that have proven to be useful. At the end of the project are from the Protestant seminary of the Evangelical church Maulbronn, the monastery concerts, the monastery of Maulbronn and many honorary staff of the project since then the offers and events continued and coordinated by a secretary at the parish convent.

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