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The gymnasium at the east ring was the oldest high school in Bochum. The school was centrally located in the center of Bochum, near Central Station and had a district- border catchment area. The gymnasium at the east ring was a recognized European School.

On 1 August 2010 the school merged on the east ring with the Albert Einstein School to the New School Bochum.

Humanistic school history

The school was located in the east of the city center between the Commerce and Industry Chamber in the Middle Ruhr Region, the goods station north and the successful especially in Bochum Fiege brewery. Opposite is the new House of Stadtwerke Bochum. Among the neighbors formerly included the old vocational school of Bochum, the milk factory DoBoMil and the old Bochum slaughterhouse.

The school was established at the instigation of the Bochum Mayor Max Greve as parity higher public school on October 4, 1860 in the Diekampstraße. A few decades later it was time for a bigger building.

The old building on the east ring comes from the construction period from 1890 to 1892 and coined the face of the school, the architect was the city architect Hermann Bluth. The hitherto urban high school went on 1 April 1910 under the sponsorship of the Kingdom of Prussia was called the Royal Grammar School, since the revolution in November 1918 Staatliches Gymnasium. The building survived the Second World War reasonably unscathed despite some damage. On the opposite part of the school grounds was a teacher training college.

At the old main entrance on the east ring was located in the artwork " Phoenix" of the artist Heinrich Wilthelm (1913-1969) in 1959.

The cultivation at the beginning of the 1970s added recreation hall and specialist rooms for art, biology, and chemistry. Nevertheless, you had to also tap into a gazebo and a former elementary school due to the baby boomers. The late 1970s, followed by the triple gymnasium, more classrooms and the tartanbeschichte sports field. Until then, the school sports took place on the ash sports field at the JVA Bochum ( " Krümmede " ), in the gym of a neighboring school and eight kilometers away Südbad, but also in the former municipal swimming pool Bochum; the transportation of the students was carried out with the buses of a private Busunternehmers. The extensions have been rounded down to the schoolyard in 1979 by further walls and concrete pipes - the Gräsel -Z the artist Friedrich Gräsel.

On January 1, 1974, the ownership changed to the city, so the school was renamed the School at the east ring. The proximity to the location of the 1979 established plastic terminal by Richard Serra was the nickname of the school gymnasium on a grate thing. An initiative from 1982 to rename the school after Bertolt Brecht in terms of the same theater group did not meet the then conservative self-image of the school.

In the early 1980s, the school had well over a thousand students. Because of the baby boomers, the school had a peak of 1,310 students in the school year 1980/81. In the school year 2005/2006 786 students were taught by 55 teachers and trainees.

In the humanistic tradition of the ancient languages ​​of Latin, Greek and Hebrew were offered at the high school. It was also possible, however, in the selection of subjects in English and French, and later to choose Modern Greek, Spanish and Italian. In 1971, English was possible as early language.

  • Approximately 1974 - 2000: Hans -Werner Schmidt
  • 2000 - 2010: Werner Schulz

End of the school

Initially it was intended that the school should take the students from the polluted Albert Einstein School. The following plans of the city of Bochum saw before a new school building at the present site of the Albert Einstein School. The profiles of both schools should be preserved and complement each other.

The initiative for the preservation of the school gathered over 20,000 signatures for obtaining the high school at the present site. The referendum was held in Bochum until 22 June 2008. Although voted 70.6 % for and 29.4 % against the preservation of the high school at the east ring in its current form, however, more than 20% of all voting citizens would have to vote in favor. This number was missed because only 13.21% of all voters have voted at all.

On 1 August 2010 the school merged on the east ring with the Albert Einstein School to the New School Bochum. In the summer of 2012, the school then moved to a new building at the cross- Straße.

The old building of the high school will be demolished in 2013 for the construction of the Bochum Justice Center; remain only the three street side facades visible preserved and integrated into a new building complex.

Internals

As early as 1928 the Association of Former Students was founded, today Association Former pupils of the high school on east ring, Bochum.

The Association of Friends and Sponsors of the high school at the east ring, founded in November 1958, took care needs of the school and the students.

The bright spot, founded in 1977 by students who achieved the status of the oldest student newspaper in Germany. He appeared four times a year. From 1980 onwards, published annually in December a chronicle reported in words and pictures about people and events of the past school year.

Founded in the early 1980s theater group led by Hans -Joachim Salmen had already in many international projects and won several times the Ruhr Oscar the student's theater meeting of the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Furthermore, they drove every two years for a week to Jyväskylä in Finland to showcase students from the partner school " Jyväskylä Lyseon Lukio " a piece.

International

The Europe Day was held once a year in each case on May 5. As part of a school festival while a randomly chosen European country was presented by students.

In addition, there was the European course, which every student can occupy from 11 students. The lessons are based on the history and social science education, with a focus on the theme "Europe". Two highlights that offers this course are three-to four-week student exchanges (one in class 11 and 12) with the numerous partner schools of the school in all of Europe.

As part of Learning for Europe they met in September 2006 with exchange partners from eleven European countries at a Congress of Europe.

The partner schools were (as of 2005 ):

Personalities

  • Darpe Franz (1842 - 1911) worked from 1883 to 1896 as a secondary school teacher at the high school. He is regarded as a major historian of the city of Bochum.
  • Ernst Ising (1900 - 1998) was a German mathematician and physicist ( Ising model ).
  • Manfred Eigen (* 1927), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967
  • Hans -Werner Schmidt ( born 1935 ), the school served for 26 years as head teacher until he retired in 2000. As a classical scholar, he taught Latin and Greek, and played a leading role in the education policy discussion of these subjects.
  • Norbert Lammert ( b. 1948 ) attended the school from 1959 to 1967 and was elected in 2005 as President of the German Bundestag.
  • Michael Holthaus (* 1950) was a successful German swimmer and sports teacher at the school.
  • Dietrich Grönemeyer ( born 1952 ), physician
  • Peter Pieper ( b. 1953 ), archaeologist
  • Godehard Ruppert (* 1953), high school in 1974, and since 2000 Rector and President of the Otto -Friedrich- University of Bamberg.
  • Herbert Grönemeyer ( born 1956 ) was until 1975 a student of the high school and is now one of the most successful German musician.
  • Hansa Czypionka (born 1958 ), film and theater actor, the school attended by 1967 to 1976. His first major roles he played in performances of the theater group.
  • Karl- Heinz von Liebezeit, (* 1960), actor, attended school until 1979
  • Jochen Malmsheimer ( born 1961 ), comedian, was to 1982 students
  • Frank Goosen ( b. 1966 ), author and comedian, attended the school from 1976 to 1986
  • Claude -Oliver Rudolph ( born 1956 ), actor
  • Schühly Thomas ( born 1951 ), film producer
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