St.-Pius-Gymnasium
Gerlever way 5
The St. Pius High School Coesfeld is a private school in Catholic-run the diocese of Münster in Coesfeld. The school, whose patron saint is St. Pius X, was led until 1976 as a pure boy boarding school. Today the school is a school for about 800 boys and girls. The catchment area of the school covers the entire Coesfeld and parts of the district Borken. It is surrounded by the so-called " Pius forest " on the outskirts of Coesfeld.
School life
Since the year 2004, students of 9th and 10th class " Social Commitment " at least 20 hours involved in the project with non-profit institutions.
Also since 2004, the Pius -Gymnasium is non-smoking as one of the first schools in North Rhine -Westphalia. This was decided by a large majority of teachers, parents and students.
To express the closeness to their patron since September 2005 is a bust of Pope St. Pius X in the courtyard of the school.
In grades 6, 8 and 10 Days will be held religious orientation ( TrO ). A chaplain and a doctor working at the school. In addition, the school has a modern, technically well-equipped auditorium.
The St. Pius High School maintains several decades a partnership with the Lycée Notre -Dame in Guingamp in Brittany. A group of 20 to 30 students of grade 10 attended about two weeks the Breton city and receives their exchange partner to an equally long return visit. To exchange along with their school also includes a cultural program.
In the 7th and 8th grade a trip to Herne Bay will be organized in the 11th grade is an exchange with Krakow ( Poland).
The school is once a year during the Advent season the " Pius letter " with the events of the past year in school out. Since 1984, project weeks are held regularly.
It will be offered in 2006 Lernzirkel numerous working groups, including dance, theater, computer science / robot control, badminton, archery, football, jurisprudence and plants as well as from December.
In August 2007, a religious project Week. Most famous guest was the former student and then, now controversial, Auxiliary Bishop Franz -Peter Tebartz -van Elst.
Historical development
Boarding and Pius - Colleg
1953 was built at the suggestion of the Bishop of Münster, Dr. Michael Keller, a seminary for young priests on the outskirts of Coesfeld at the site of the present Kolping Training Site. With a boys school boys were given from financially weak families and from the rural area, the possibility to obtain the Abitur. The idea for this project was initiated by the headmaster of the state Nepomucenum Grammar, Dr. Lammers. The congregation St.Lamberti presented a plot of land on the mountain Coesfelder available. Diözeseanbaurat Boklage devised a plan for a school of 80-115 students. In March 1954, the groundbreaking ceremony took place at a body shop, which was completed in 44 days. In August 1954, the topping-out ceremony was held and the house could be obtained from 88 students in 1955. The school was allowed to record only boys who " have founded on reason of their character lay and religious attitude, hoping to serve as priests of God and the people again ." Only elementary school pupils who came for entry into Year 7 or 9 in question were prepared in remedial courses, which were held in the boarding school, on to attend high school Nepomucenum. The fee for the boys from the diocese of Münster was 40-120 DM
High school
It was soon recognized that it was insufficient merely to offer remedial courses for attending high school Nepomucenum. It proved to be necessary, the institution was initially planned as a pure boarding school, convert it into a standalone construction grammar school, which enabled independent of the curriculum of the public school to gain higher education in six or seven years.
The management of the construction grammar school founded in 1963 was acquired by Josef Siepelmeyer on 1 April 1964. This state alternative school could be visited by external, not in the boarding resident students.
At the beginning of the school year 1964/1965 the teaching of five teachers and 88 students in the rooms of the boarding school for grades 8 and 9 could begin. The construction of school initially consisted of three classes with a total of 89 students. With a residential building with 40 single rooms, the boarding school could accommodate up to 160 students.
First, the students first learned Latin, then English. It soon became the first English language because the students came with knowledge of English by the selling schools. Two thirds of the students should initially be boarders. 1965 was built a pavilion with five classrooms due to rising student numbers at Gerlever way on the site of today's sports field.
In the school year 1968/1969 207 students were taught by 14 teachers. With the beginning of the school year 1969/1970 for the first time girls could be included. So that Pius was the first and another decade the only high school Coesfelds, the coeducational classes offered. After four years of existence of the construction of the first High School Gymnasium with eleven students took place in temporary premises in 1968.
From 1967 to May 1969, a new, two-story school building was created, the current H- tract, the old sports hall with art rooms and work space. The plan was the school building for 300 students.
The Pius - Colleg served as a boarding school for students who attended predominantly the St. Pius High School.
To August 1, 1975 for the first time students in grade 5 were taken. In 1976, six additional classrooms, the east wing, built, was the first music room. In 1977 the school was the first time three spacious. 1978, a second gymnasium was built. At the end of the school year 1978/1979 the last students left the Pius - Colleg and the boarding building was handed over to the Kolping Society. The school uses only the chapel and the hall along with the Kolping Society. From that point on the St. Pius -Gymnasium was performed three compartments. In August, the " Association for the Advancement of the St. Pius High School " was founded.
1980 an additional building projects, the construction of the Western Tract and the Central tract with the new geography room, the chemistry room, and a now defunct language laboratory was completed. The porter's lodge of the caretaker was moved from one room opposite the staff room in the middle section opposite the old geography space that was previously used as a regular classroom. The staff room was moved from today's teachers library in an annex to the main entrance and the school library from the present upper room into the hallway of the east wing break. Since then, the school has remained largely the same in appearance.
1983/1984 was a " pillar of Sciences and Arts " erected at the entrance to the school.
1984 made the first undergraduate high school diploma. In 1986, Headmaster Siepelmeyer retired, and was succeeded by Detlef Nolte.
In May 1995 a new hall was opened with music room and meditation room. The extension was designed by the famous German architect Josef Paul Kleihues.
2002 Association of Former Students was founded, which joined the Friends. In 2005, the Friends decided under the current and the former students a tender for the development of a new school logos exclaim. On 23 December 2005, the winner of this tender and the new school logo was announced that is has since led to the official documents of the website as well as the letter of Pius School.
Since the school year 2005/2006 is at St. Pius High School the opportunity to take a high school in eight years.
Since the first Baccalaureate at St. Pius High School in 1968 have within forty years 2030 pupils attained the Abitur.
In August 2010, Norbert Just took over with the new school year 2010/11 the Office of the new headmaster.
In June 2013, the Association of Former Students of St. Pius High School was founded under the name " Pius Connect". Celebrations are planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the school for the beginning of September 2014.
Pupil numbers
The following table shows the progress of the student enrollment in each school years, broken down by their confession dar.
Known disciple of Pius -Gymnasium
- January Ammann, who starred in the musical Ludwig ² and Dance of the Vampires
- Christian Baumeister, wildlife filmmaker
- Heinrich Schafmeister, actor ( known from ZDF detective series Wilsberg )
- Siegfried Schoppe, economists
- Franz -Peter Tebartz -van Elst, Bishop of Limburg