Helene-Lange-Gymnasium
Encyclopedia
The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium is a bilingual secondary school
in Hamburg
. It was created in 1910 as a girls' school, and has been accessible to boys since 1969. It was the first bilingual school in Hamburg
.
It maintains sponsorships with schools in Dar es Salaam
, Havanna, Chicago
, and London
.
.
, a prominent pedagogue and feminist. It was in 1926 that the school was finally given the name "Helene-Lange-Oberrealschule", in small part because only a tenth of the school's periphery was on Hansa street.
It should be noted that the Helene-Lange Gymnasium was one of the first schools in Hamburg to voluntarily remove Jewish students from their student body, without any legal compulsion to do so.
are German
and English
. The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium was the first bilingual school in Hamburg as well as one of Germany's first UNESCO project schools.
Since 2003 Helene-Lange-Gymnasium offers the International Baccalaureate additionally to the Hamburg Abitur. The IB students have scored an average of 34 points so far.
Bilingual education
Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.-Bilingual education program models:...
in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. It was created in 1910 as a girls' school, and has been accessible to boys since 1969. It was the first bilingual school in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
.
It maintains sponsorships with schools in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam , formerly Mzizima, is the largest city in Tanzania. It is also the country's richest city and a regionally important economic centre. Dar es Salaam is actually an administrative province within Tanzania, and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts: ...
, Havanna, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, and London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Building
The building which today houses the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium was built between 1908-1910 by the architect Albert Erbe, and officially opened on January 4, 1910.Location
The school lies in the south-west of the Hamburg quarter Harvestehude on the border to EimsbüttelEimsbüttel (quarter)
Eimsbüttel is one of the 105 quarters in the Eimsbüttel borough of Hamburg, Germany. In 2006 the population was 54,702.-History:On March 1, 2008 the Eimsbüttel quarter lost a part of its area to form the quarter Sternschanze in the borough Altona....
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Early history
The school has had a long history of renaming. The Hamburg senate gave the school the name "Staatliche höhere Mädchenschule an der Hansastraße" (National girls' higher school on Hansa street). By 1926, the school was renamed from "Lyzeum mit Studienanstalt an der Hansastraße" to "Mädchen-Oberrealschule an der Hansastraße." The change in name from Lyzeum to Oberrealschule created an opportunity to name the school after Helene LangeHelene Lange
Helene Lange was a pedagogue and feminist, and a symbol of the Women's Movement in Germany.-Education and pedagogy:...
, a prominent pedagogue and feminist. It was in 1926 that the school was finally given the name "Helene-Lange-Oberrealschule", in small part because only a tenth of the school's periphery was on Hansa street.
Nazi era
300 Jewish pupils passed through the school between 1910 and 1933. In 1935 — the school's 25th anniversary — the school's name was again renamed to "Hansa-Oberrealschule"; the headmaster had believed the school's inclusive nature ("Völkerversöhnung") was a detriment to German nationality and to the preferment of the Jewish element within the school. On the 25th anniversary, he said the school was imbued with a "new spirit", noting that nearly a fifth of the girls were members of the BDM. There began a decline in Jewish students. By 1939, there were no pupils of the Jewish faith.It should be noted that the Helene-Lange Gymnasium was one of the first schools in Hamburg to voluntarily remove Jewish students from their student body, without any legal compulsion to do so.
Education
The languages of instructionMedium of instruction
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are German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium was the first bilingual school in Hamburg as well as one of Germany's first UNESCO project schools.
Since 2003 Helene-Lange-Gymnasium offers the International Baccalaureate additionally to the Hamburg Abitur. The IB students have scored an average of 34 points so far.