The first years of the Karlstadter Gymnasium were pioneering years. It started in the 1970/71 school year with two fifth grades. The initial three teachers had to teach all subjects, including those for which they were not actually trained. Another year was added every year. This gradually created a massive space problem. What to do with the classes
At first, however, it was about recognition as a state high school. When it was founded, the district initially “played” the sponsor. After the first school year, on August 1, 1971, the new foundation became a state, mathematical and natural science grammar school. This means that the previous three teachers have also been taken over into the civil service. As early as May the school was called “Johann-Schner-Gymnasium”. From the second year onwards, three classes were formed each time. The school had established itself.
There was even teaching in Mhlbach
When the two buildings of the Georgschule were full, the Johann-Schner-Gymnasium nested itself in all conceivable rooms in the immediate vicinity, initially in the old schoolhouse on Kirchplatz, but then also in the parish hall of St. Andreas, in the former nurses’ home on the corner of Langgasse / Schulgasse, in Theresienheim and in the low-rise building in Neue Bahnhofstrasse opposite the post office. There was the drawing room. These locations are all mentioned in the commemorative publication for the inauguration of the new building on Bodelschwinghstrasse in December 1977.
The old school in Mhlbach is not mentioned. Caretaker Franz Krumpschmid remembers that well. Because there, too, he had to take care of the eleven. Only the Georgschule was not heated with oil. There he kept the coke-powered heating going. “I got the slag out of there at night, the heating was never allowed to go out.”
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Tricked the teachers with the alarm clock
The former student Christine Siegmund remembers a school year in the Theresienheim. In any case, it took a while for the teachers to get there after the lesson changed. “We then bought a huge alarm clock from the class fund and were happy to turn it off a bit so that the hour was over sooner.”
The same class was in Georgschule another year. One day after a major earthquake hit some country shortly before, the classroom shook. “Our teacher Werner Zapotetzy got scared and ordered the class: Now get out of here.” The whole class ran down into the yard. No trace of earthquakes, however; there had been a major blast in the cement works quarry. The students also often escaped during the break and went to the Bcker Schwenk on the church square and “bought the kernel” a foam kiss wake that was called differently at the time.
Small computer “Model Monroe 1665”
The first annual report comes from the school year 1972/73. In it, the then trainee lawyer Henning Lucht (mathematics / physics) wrote that he had borrowed a “Model Monroe 1665” small computer from the Rntgen-Gymnasium Wrzburg. He assessed the device: “Of course, the computer is not a computer with which one could send astronauts to the moon, it is too small for that. But it can calculate things that students have nightmares about in five seconds: 7385 divided by 7135 plus 987 divided by 1028. “
Sports instructor Klaus Deinzer organized the first ski course in Eben im Pongau (Austria). The JSG courses are still held there today. His wife Theresa remembers: “Before that there was a parents’ meeting in the town hall with a big discussion about the sense and nonsense of a ski course.” Her husband dislocated his shoulder on one of the ski courses. In the next week’s follow-up course, she stepped in for him “without a contract, without insurance and without getting a penny for it”.
549 students in eight buildings
In March 1974, the Ministry of Culture approved the mathematical and scientific branch as well as the modern language with a focus on French. In the annual report for the end of the school year 1973/74, the headmaster Hellmut Hampel was pleased with the successful planning for the new school building, which could be ready for occupancy from September 1976. In fact, the topping-out ceremony took place that year. It was purchased at the beginning of the 1977/78 school year. The two fifth grades of the first lesson had just finished the eleventh grade. For them, the first year in the new school building was also the start of the college level. You could say a precision landing.
From today’s perspective, unbelievable: In the last school year without a house of their own, 549 students were distributed in 20 classes across eight buildings. For comparison: Today the JSG has around 800 students and a comparatively huge building with a triple gymnasium, cafeteria and a new extension for math and science subjects.
The teachers 1973/74
The first annual report of the Johann-Schner-Gymnasium appeared at the end of the school year 1973/74. At that time the following teachers taught: Matthias Baum (English / German), Klaus Deinzer (Sport / French), Barbara Kassner (English / German), Christine Liebler (English / French), Winfried Renner (Latin / History), Marie-Luise Reuter ( Handicraft), Peter Gressert (mathematics / geography), Henning Lucht (mathematics / physics), Wolfgang Rupp (biology / chemistry), pastor Josef Dotzel, pastor Paul Steinert, Hermann Zinggl (Catholic religion), Mr Schultz (not confirmed, Protestant religion ), Ursula Schlangen (sport), Christl Hardt (handicraft). The staff members were Klaus Deinzer and Matthias Baum, Chairman of the Parents’ Council Dr. Theo Rthlein.
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