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Brief history of “Lessing-Schule
Bochum-Langendreer” |
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April 28, 1890
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School starts in private rooms of the parish
priest Rev. Prietsch
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April 1, 1896
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The borough of Langendreer takes over the private
school
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September13,1900
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School starts in a new building in Unterstrasse (today
city administration)
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April 29, 1903
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School is officially turned into a
“Realschule“ with 3 classes
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May 16, 1909
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School is officially turned into a Gymnasium
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June 15, 1917
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First „Abitur“ (secondary school leaving
examination) with three students who were not drafted into the army to
fight in WW1
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1925
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annex building is put into operation
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October 9, 1932
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first open school day for parents
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December 1937
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Gymnasium Bochum-Langendreer is renamed
“Hindenburg School for Boys”
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March 18, 1945
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6 weeks before the end of WW II the school and gym
are destroyed by airstrikes
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June 1, 1948
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school is renamed
“Lessing-Schule”
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January 1951
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first girls are
enrolled at “Lessing Schule”
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September 6, 1956
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students move into the
new school building
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1959
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first school exchange with “Wolverhampton
High School for Girls”
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November 16, 1961
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auditorium is
opened
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September 4, 1980
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opening of
the new wing of the building
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1981
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Lessing Schule reaches
its all-time high with 1,300 students
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1983
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first
student exchange with “Niskayuna
High School” in Schenectady,
New York, USA
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March 18, 1985
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first student exchange
with France: Azay-le-Rideau.
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August 1990
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centenary of
Lessing Schule Bochum-Langendreer
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1992
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student exchange with school No. 12 in (Ukraine/USSR)
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field
trips to: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands,
Scotland, Spain |
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2004 |
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project' - exchange with schols in Turkey, Greece, Poland and
Bulgaria |
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statistical records: |
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960 students
(497 female, 463 male) in grades 5 -13
67
teachers
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