Stiftsgymnasium Melk

The Stiftsgymnasium Melk ( official long form Public Stiftsgymnasium and Oberstufenrealgymnasium the Benedictine Melk ) is a humanistic oriented high school and secondary schools including public law, which is located in ownership of the Benedictine Abbey of Melk Abbey and is also housed in the pen. The Stiftsgymnasium in its present form since 1707, but came originally from a convent school, founded in the Middle Ages. It is one of the oldest schools in the German -speaking world.

  • 2.1 Student Council
  • 2.2 motto
  • 3.1 Known professors
  • 5.1 Students connection
  • 5.2 Fire

History

The convent school in the Middle Ages

The earliest evidence of the medieval convent school can be found in a book of the dead from the year 1140 and on parchment fragments of 1160. It is assumed that they are already in the early 12th century. was founded. At the time of milking monastic reform in the 15th century. There was the school in a flourishing condition, the monk Simon wrote a 1446 book education for the six -year-old King Ladislaus Postumus for Hungary. From about 1530, the admissions Reformation movement took the monastery under the influence of ( and Habsburg empires onset ) rapidly, for 1566, a workforce of only three clergy and three clerics is attested.

This crisis lasted until the late 16th century when it became increasingly occurred as a result of the Counter-Reformation students from South German Jesuit schools. These students, among them the poet laureate Lawrence Flenheintius, brought with them a very good education. 1596, the school was therefore redesigned according to this model ( six-class ) Jesuit schools. However, only the lower four classes were actually in Melk, the last two had to graduate students at Jesuit in Vienna. 1707 Abbot Berthold Dietmayr walked to school then in a complete, so actually sechsklassiges, high school to what is considered the beginning of the history of the school pin can be viewed ( in its present form ).

Modern High School

As a result of school policy of Maria Theresa, the school ( a partial public school form) was from the beginning of the school year 1781/82, ie from 3 November 1781, when high school publicum out. In 1787 Joseph II, however, the high school to St. Pölten, which (to its efforts toward ) the newly established Diocese of St. Pölten also should have a "reasonable " school as a bishop's seat in three years earlier. Only in 1804 it was transferred back again to Melk. 1811 built Abbot Anton Reyberger the seminary, which was opened on 7 November. This year, a preparatory class ( praeparanda ) was introduced, which should facilitate the students transition to high school and lasted until 1927. 1850, the number of classes was increased to eight, then could the following year in Melk held the first graduation. In addition, we put henceforth pay particular attention to the scientific collections.

The annual report of 1861 speaks of a total of 208 students, including 51 Konvikt. From 1873 secular teachers from 1879/80 and taught in addition to objects then in all subjects. Under Abbot Karl Alexander the school in the years 1877/78 has been extended structurally, including a new physics and dining room were built. 1905, the Episcopal seminary Melk was opened, in which up to its closure in 2006 boarder pin Gymnasium were housed. They were called to distinguish them from directly living in the pen Konvikt also " seminarians ".

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich Director William P. Schier was removed from his post on 13 March 1938 and replaced by the National Socialists related P. Celestine Schoiko. From autumn 1938, the school was allowed but anyway no longer be continued and was closed and later to a National Political Education Institute ( " Before the Fall " ) converted.

Since 1945

After clean-up and repair work of the school operations could be resumed in September 1945. 1966 had its first student exchange with the ( also run by the Benedictines ) St. John's Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minnesota, which is performed to this day every year. Due to the sharp decline in pupil numbers and girls were admitted to the school from the school year 1967/68, there was also the first time - in addition to the humanistic - also a branch in modern languages ​​in high school, Latin, however, is to this day for all mandatory. 1972 appointed Abbot Reginald Zupancic with Ernst Wegscheider first time a lay director. Since 1973, the teachers are paid to the school by the federal government, which represents a significant financial relief for the Stiftsgymnasium.

In 1976, the state secondary schools was established, initially followed only with a focus on instrumental music, the artistic and the scientific branch. Improved roads, the students free ride and new family situation led to a steady decrease in the number of persons accommodated in the boarding school students, while the total number of pupils increased so that the seminary was finally closed down. 1999 Ernst Wegscheider retired and was succeeded by Anton Eder. 2005/ 06 for the first time with two first classes of the five-day week has been tested, then introduced in the following school year for all grade levels. Over a two-year renovation period 2006-2008 were gradually replaced by all areas of the pen school and also built a new " triple sports hall ".

School

Juxtaposition exist at the school a classic eight -year Gymnasium, in which there is a choice between the languages ​​Greek and French in high school, and a four-year secondary schools including choice between a musical, a pictorial and a scientific- mathematical branch. From the 6th year ( 10th grade ) must occupy an elective course each student. This is either " in depth " (more lessons in an already occupied compartment) or " expanding " ( a new subject ). When expanding compartments Spanish, French, Italian and Russian, computer science and theory of sport are offered.

In the school year 2012/13 916 students attend classes in the 38 Stiftsgymnasium. They are taught from the present 86 teachers, school director is Anton Eder. The school fee per student is currently ( the first child ) € 86, from 2013/14, then € 88 per month. Visit several children in a family, the school, this reduces the fees for the other. It is ten times a year offset ( in the summer months of July and August, no tuition fees are due) and quarterly confiscated. Since January 2012, the Stiftsgymnasium is a UNESCO school.

Student Council

The student council elections of the post secondary school place once a year on October 13, the feast day of St. Koloman ( patron saint of the town and the Abbey of Melk ), instead. Be selected while a school speaker whose two deputies and three possible alternate to the school community committee (SGA ), said the school speaker - delegate the ability to take in choosing a second and third place on the fourth to sixth place, the delegate for the SGA. Choice is open to all high school students. Current Head Boy (2012 /13) is Yannic Mörth, his deputies are Tobias Ziegler and Kerstin Puchinger. Her deputies in the SGA are Alexandru Igna, Philip Kienast and Marlene Strasik.

Motto

Known Altmelker

The graduates or former students of the school pin are called " Altmelker " means. 2000, the Association of Graduates and Friends of the pin Gymnasium Melk, conveyor and alumni association of the school was founded, whose chairman is the former director Ernst Wegscheider. Known Altmelker are not limited to:

  • Lambert de Sayve (1548-1614), composer
  • Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591), composer
  • Gregor Joseph Werner (1693-1766), composer
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809), composer
  • Ignaz Franz Keiblinger (1797-1868), historian
  • Anton bolters (1801-1849), local poet
  • Friedrich Halm (1806-1871), poet
  • August Sicard von Sicardsburg (1813-1868), architect
  • Alexander Baumann (1814-1857), playwright, librettist
  • Karl Werner (1821-1888), moral theologian
  • Matthew Binder (1822-1893), Bishop
  • Victor Fuchs (1840-1921), politician, lawyer
  • Carl Zeller (1842-1898), composer
  • Albert Richter (1843-1897), politician, lawyer
  • Ofner Hermann (1848-1917), politician
  • Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), Marxist theorist, politician
  • Spiridon Gopcevic (1855-1928), journalist, diplomat and astronomer
  • Alois Theodor Sonnleitner (1869-1939), educator, writer
  • Adolf Loos (1870-1933), architect, architectural theorist
  • Franz Blei (1871-1942), writer, literary critic
  • Franz Quidenus (1871-1936), architect, builder
  • Johann Löwenfeld - Russ (1873-1940), politician
  • Hermann Swoboda (1873-1963), psychologist
  • Raimund Nimführ (1874-1954), aeronautical theorist, airplane pioneer
  • Robert Tüchler (1874-1952), the Old Catholic Bishop
  • Leopold Blaustein (1880-1947), painter
  • Eduard Hütter (1880-1967), architect, conservationist
  • Rudolf Junk (1880-1943), graphic artist, painter
  • Kurt Richard Donin (1881-1963), art historian
  • Hans Gerstinger (1885-1971), Altphililoge, Rector
  • Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887-1973), painter, writer
  • Pernitza Friedrich (1888-1976), lawyer, civil servant
  • Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), mathematician, eldest Austrians
  • Jakob Baxa (1895-1979), sociologist, historian of literature
  • Friedrich Sacher (1899-1982), writer
  • Eduard Hartmann (1904-1966), politician
  • Beiglböck Wilhelm (1905-1963), doctor, war criminals
  • Franz König (1905-2004), Archbishop and Cardinal
  • Reginald Zupancic (1905-1999), 65th abbot of the monastery, physicists
  • Herbert Koller (1911-1995), Industry Manager
  • Withalm Hermann (1912-2003), politician
  • Alois Tampier (1913-2007), poet, priest
  • Käs Ferdinand (1914-1988), resistance fighters, an official
  • Bertil Sjöberg (1914-1999), painter
  • Schandl Ernst (1920-1997), composer, music educator
  • Josef Wiesmayr (1920-1994), politician
  • Robert Lang (1921-2010), General
  • Anton Brunner (1923-1999), a resistance fighter, cleric
  • Wolfgang Kudrnofsky (1927-2010), writer, journalist
  • Heinrich Fasching ( born 1929 ), Bishop
  • Burkhard Ellegast ( born 1931 ), 66th abbot of the monastery, theologian
  • Robert Loeffler ( born 1931 ), journalist
  • Ferdinand Staudinger ( born 1933), biblical scholar
  • Hans -Georg Behr (1937-2010), journalist, writer
  • Franz Romeder (* 1938), politician
  • Karl Plepelits ( born 1940 ), classical scholar, writer
  • Leopold Schagerl ( born 1941 ), cleric
  • Helger Hauck ( b. 1942 ), Physicist
  • Helmar Kögl (1944-2010), historian, archivist
  • Clemens Steindl (1944 ), educator, Catholic official
  • Ernst Bruckmüller ( b. 1945 ), historian
  • Johann Figl (* 1945), scholars of religion
  • Leo Maasburg ( born 1948 ), cleric
  • Gottfried Glassner ( b. 1950 ), librarian, theologian
  • Erich Schreiner (* 1950), politician, Chartered Accountants
  • Reinhard Resch (* 1955), politician, doctor
  • Meta Niederkorn ( b. 1959 ), historian
  • Josef Hader (born 1962 ), comedian, actor
  • Otto Lechner ( b. 1964 ), accordion player, composer
  • Gerhard Karner (* 1967), politician
  • Ilse Kopatz ( b. 1975 ), football and volleyball player
  • Harald Froschauer, archaeologist
  • Hermione Haselboeck, mezzo-soprano
  • Bettina Rausch ( * 1979 ), politician
  • Bernadette slate (* 1979), writer, publisher

Well-known professors

  • John Schlitpacher (1403-1482), theologian
  • Bernhard Pez (1683-1735), historian, librarian
  • Ulrich Petrak (1753-1814), theologian, poet
  • Anton Reyberger (1757-1818), theologian, rector, 58th abbot of the monastery
  • Wilhelm Eder (1780-1866), politician, 60th abbot of the monastery
  • Michael Leopold Enk from the castle (1788-1843), writer
  • Gabriel Strobl (1846-1925), entomologist
  • Valentin Schmidt (1863-1927), Cistercian
  • Karl Vretska (1900-1983), classical scholar
  • Friedrich Scheiner (1923-1985), an official
  • Georg Wilfinger ( b. 1949 ), 67th abbot of the monastery
  • Wilfried Kowarik ( b. 1952 ), historian, archivist, Prior of the pen
  • Franz Thürauer ( born 1953 ), composer, church musician
  • Alfred Nussbaumer ( born 1956 ), computer scientists, physicists and textbook author

Quotes

If I lived in Melk: I would send my children to this school immediately. Because the public Stiftsgymnasium is not, as some convent schools in Vienna, an enclosed refuge of the bourgeoisie. The children from all walks of going, the workers 'and peasants' children.

Others

Alumni association

The Stiftsgymnasium Melk is a regular school, which was founded in 1919 Catholic alumni association K.Ö.St.V. Nibelungia Melk. This is color -supporting, not hitting and a member of the middle school -trust association. Your booth is the Kramer tower near the Assumption Church in the Old Town milker, their motto " ολίγοι τε φίλοι τε " ( ancient Greek: Few but loyalty ). She is committed to the four principles of MKV.

Fire

On 19 June 2007, there was, apparently by a pin by students of the Gymnasium thrown out the window burning textbook, to a hallway fire on the south side of the pin rock above the milking center. The fire departments Melk City and Spielberg moved on, the building was created by the fire but no damage.

Swell

  • History of the pencil Gymnasium ( version of July 19, 2011 at the Internet Archive ) to gymmelk.ac.at
  • P. Wilfried Kowarik et al.: Abbey of Melk, past and present. Melk Abbey (Ed.), Verlag northeast Press House, St. Pölten 1980
  • Ernst Bruckmüller: 900 years Benedictine Melk, Melk Abbey anniversary exhibition in 1989, self-published Melk Abbey, Melk 1989
Order of Saint Benedict Parish register Ladislaus the Posthumous Protestant Reformation Liceo linguistico Natural science Mathematics Egon Schiele Gregor Werner Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen Leopold Blauensteiner Volunteer fire department Klaus Emmerich (Journalist) Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna) Kollegium Kalksburg
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