The Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium is a secondary school located in Chemnitz

Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

, Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

. The school was established in 1910 and serves students in grades 5–12. The school principal is Steffen Morgner. The assistant principal is Veronika Pißler.

History

The school originally was established as School in Bernsdorf named after the district in Chemnitz in which it is located. Its name changed during the 20th century. In 1992/1993 it received its current name Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium.

Athletics

The Goethe Gymnasium offers sports like volleyball, beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

 or table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 and also has got a flag football

Flag football

Flag football is a version of Canadian football or American football that is popular worldwide. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game , but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end...

team which won the Saxon Flag-Football Championship in the 2009/2010 season.

External links

• Goethe Gators Official website