Stadtgymnasium Detmold


Stadtgymnasium Detmold is a Gymnasium in Detmold in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1830, Stadtgymnasium Detmold is the second oldest Gymnasium in Detmold.

History

In March 1830, General Superintendent Ferdinand Weerth proposed his sovereign Prince Leopold II a plan to lay foundations of a "daughter school" in Detmold. Prince Leopold II approved the plan on March 10th, 1830. In the following decades, the "daughter school" transformed into the present city's grammar school.
The school moved three times: it was located at Hornschen Tor from 1830 to 1831, at Exterstraße from 1840 to 1871, and at Am Wall from 1871 to 1966, where it was rebuilt in 1911. It has been located at the Detmold Stadtgymnasium at Hiddeser Berg since 1966, in a building designed by the Osnabrück architect Friederich Helbrecht. Located next to the school building, it has an external specialist wing for biology, chemistry, physics, and art, which can be reached via a red closed bridge. There was once an emergency hospital under the building until the end of the 1990s. The rooms of the former emergency hospital have been used by the city archives since 2015. The original building, consisting of the main building, the specialist wing, and the gymnasium, was first supplemented by another gymnasium and then by a classroom building.

School names

Stadtgymnasium Detmold attaches great importance to education in modern languages, music, art, natural sciences, mathematics and social sciences.
In December 2016, Stadtgymnasium was recognized as a European School by the Ministry of Education of North Rhine-Westphalia.