A look back at the eventful school history: P seminars in German and history design an exhibition
Created: 05/19/2022, 15:11
By: Dieter Dorby
Founded a Miesbach tradition: For many years, the Café Haidmühl housed the Realschule, Oberrealschule and the Gymnasium, until 1960, when today's Gymnasium was built opposite.
The students later went back to the café – to the one on the Lebzelterberg.
© City Archives
The Miesbach Gymnasium is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
The exhibition "100 Years of Miesbach Gymnasium" will open in the entrance hall of the school tomorrow at 5 p.m.
A look back at the beginnings of the school and the distinctive stations in the past 100 years has also become part of the lessons in some places.
The P-seminars for the subjects German and history in the eleventh grade have jointly designed an exhibition that not only illuminates the well-known key data, but also provides a number of side aspects that are worth knowing.
The work of the seminar participants shows how eventful the history of today's grammar school is.
Started as a private secondary school
The school was opened on May 1, 1922 as a private secondary school - not in a school building, but in the Café Haidmühl, which was leased for ten years.
The private school was taken over by the city in 1927.
Before, she had had to help out financially again and again.
Also interesting: In the 1934/35 school year, the 45-minute lesson was introduced.
Three years later, in the school year 1937/38, the Realschule became an Oberschule.
In 1940/41, it was expanded into an "eight-class full-service institution".
Eventful time at the end of the war
After the war, the school operated from 1946 as the Municipal High School in Miesbach.
It was closed in 1945 and served as a military hospital in the last days of the war.
The lessons still took place - in Schliersee with Sixtus Becker, the founder of the sports care product manufacturer Sixtus.
School in the Café Haidmühl
The café, which had been converted into a school, was already under extreme strain in 1944: there were up to 57 students per class.
Therefore, the two gables were converted into classrooms and reinforced with T-beams.
The reason: Many big city schools were relocated to the surrounding area.
This increased the number of pupils in Miesbach from 272 to 582.
After the war comes the high school department
In the 1947/48 school year, a grammar school department was attached to the school.
Then, in 1956/57, the big change: the Miesbach secondary school became state-run.
The state bears the personnel costs, the city the material costs and undertakes to build a new school building.
The reason: at the end of the 1950s, lack of space, danger of collapse and fire protection were major problems, because classes were still held in the old Café Haidmühl.
Construction did not begin until 1960, and the move to the new school building took place in 1963/64.
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Special commemoration of headmistress Maja Schug-Scheppach
In its 100-year history, the school had three female and ten male principals, one of whom is particularly highlighted for the exhibition: Maja Schug-Scheppach.
She ran the school from 1943 to 1946 and steered it through the difficult times of the late war years.
Her leading role came to her in the post-war period: since she was one of the few unencumbered managers available, the commander of the military government offered her the position of mayor in Schliersee as a thank you for her work.
But Schug-Scheppach turned down the offer to become the first female mayor of the new Germany.
Her priority was to reopen the school - and also to finance it, along with new books.
ddy
