Musterschule

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Musterschule
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Musterschule
Oberweg 5–9


Germany
Coordinates 50°7′19″N8°41′8″E / 50.12194°N 8.68556°E / 50.12194; 8.68556 Coordinates: 50°7′19″N8°41′8″E / 50.12194°N 8.68556°E / 50.12194; 8.68556
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School type Gymnasium
Founded18 April 1803;218 years ago (1803-04-18)
LanguageGerman
CampusUrban
Website musterschule.de

The Musterschule ("model school") is a gymnasium in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded on 18 April 1803 by Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel as a Realschule and is Frankfurt's second oldest higher school after the Lessing Gymnasium. It received the name Musterschule due to being an experimental and progressive school based on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's educational ideas. In accordance with this tradition, the school has been named a "center for music education and gifted education" by the Hessian ministry of culture. Since the 19th century, it has been renowned throughout Germany and abroad as a progressive Realgymnasium . [1] The Musterschule is a neighbour of the Philanthropin, the renowned Jewish school founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, which is found on the other side of Eckenheimer Landstraße.

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History

The school was founded as a private school, after Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel, Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode and Simon Moritz von Bethmann had collected funds for this purpose. Its first teacher was Friedrich Vertraugott Klitscher (1772–1809), a supporter of Pestalozzi. The school initially had nine pupils and was located in Rotkreuzgasse–6. From its foundation the school was coeducational and thus had both male and female pupils. The initial tuition fee was 15 Gulden, from 1807 25 Gulden. [2]

In 1805 Klitscher was succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel as the school's head teacher. In 1806 the school moved to Große Friedberger Gasse. As of 1805, the school had 130 pupils, as of 1812 it had 350 pupils and as of 1819 it had 555 pupils, including 212 girls. In 1819 the Musterschule became a state school in the then independent city-state of Frankfurt, and its teachers became state officials.

The school was located in the Mauerweg, in the buildings of the current Klingerschule, from 1880 to 1901. In 1901 the school moved to its current location in Frankfurt-Nordend. The Philanthropin, Frankfurt's most renowned Jewish school, shortly after moved into a neighbouring building across the street. The Musterschule also had a high proportion of Jewish pupils, around 20%, until the 1930s when they were gradually forced out by the Nazis. Most of them belonged to families who had been living in Frankfurt for an extended period of time. [3]

The school has a close cooperation with the Hoch Conservatory and with the Elisabethenschule, a gymnasium formed in 1876 as a higher girls' school from the girls' department of the Musterschule.

Notable teachers

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Friedrich Fröbel

Alumni

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Nachum Goldman

Literature

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References

  1. Gerhard Menk, Vom Bismarckianer zum Liberalen: der Politiker und Lehrer Otto Hufnagel (1885–1944) in Waldeck und Frankfurt am Main, Elwert, 2006, p. 716
  2. Heinrich Meidinger, Frankfurt's gemeinnützige Anstalten : eine historisch-statistische Darstellung der milden Stiftungen, Stipendien, Wittwen u. Waisen-, Hülfs- und Sparkassen, Vereine, Schulen &c. ; nebst einem geschichtlichen Ueberblick der in dieser Stadt erschienenen periodischen Schriften und Lokalblätter ; von der ältesten bis auf die gegenwärtige Zeit, Frankfurt am Main 1845, p. 291–299
  3. 150 Namen gegen das Vergessen
  4. Stephan Zind
    Frankfurt Music Academy