History for 78637 days
The Zinzendorf schools have been around for 215 years
2020
Completion of the spacious learning studio in Haus Spangenberg.
2020
Renovation of the rooms in the 7th heaven.
2015
Introduction of the arts major in the general education high school.
2013
Foundation of the Vocational School for Social Work (training to become a youth and home educator).
2009
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary, the Zinzendorf Schools stage Leonard Bernstein's musical Westside Story - and effortlessly fill the largest hall in the region on four evenings. Audience and press are enthusiastic.
2008
As one of the first school buildings to use passive construction methods, Haus Katharina von Gersdorf serves as a nationwide ecological model.
2000
The Jan Hus House with two music rooms, an art room and rooms for technology lessons is inaugurated.
1992
The social and health science high school (social profile) is initially founded under the name of social pedagogical high school.
1989
Foundation of the Business and Economics High School.
1976
The newly built Christian Renatus House is inaugurated as a boarding school for the students of the vocational Zinzendorf Schools. Today it houses the refectory and the learning campus.
1974
The Zinzendorf Realschule (middle school) is founded.
1973
Founding of the Fachschule (technical school) for Social Pedagogy (training to become an educator).
1970
The Berufsfachschule (vocational school) offering a two year course in Home Economics and Nutrition is founded.
1967
The Gymnasium (high school) specializing in Home Economics and Nutrition (grades 11 to 13) is founded. This branch of the school is discontinued in in 1991.
1964
The one-year Vocational School for Child Care is founded. It exists until the summer of 2012.
1956
The new sports hall is inaugurated on December 1.
1954
The new boarding school building Haus Spangenberg is inaugurated on January 17. It had burned down less than a year earlier.
1952
The Fachschule (technical school) for Home Economics is founded. It exists for 30 years.
1949
After attending the women's technical classes I and II, students can take examinations to become home economics managers or continue their education to become vocational school teachers. This branch of the school runs until 1972.
1946
The Home Economics School is reopened and remains in existence until 1968.
1943
The girls' school is dissolved because the principal and staff do not want to submit to the threat of nationalization. In the fall, boys and girls are taught together.
1940
The school is granted state recognition.
1938
The newly built sports hall opposite the boys' institution in Mönchweilerstrasse is inaugurated. It is used not only for sports, but also as a venue for various events in the village, including a cinema. It is demolished in March 1984.
1933
Where the Jan Hus House now stands, a former storehouse is converted into a schoolhouse with a physics and chemistry room, two classrooms and a teacher's apartment.
1905
At the suggestion of Grand Duchess Luise von Baden, a domestic science school with a teaching kitchen was established. In 1939 it is recognized by the state, but four years later it is closed again by decision of the Brotherhood in order to avoid closure by the National Socialists.
1836
The girls' dormitory in the Sisters' House forms the forerunner of the professional Zinzendorf Schools.
1813
The boys' institute is founded. Together with the Girls' Institution opened four years earlier, it is the forerunner of the general education Zinzendorf Schools.
1810
One year after its founding, the Girls' Institution is able to move into the first part of the Sisters' House (today's Erdmuth Dorotheen House), which has just been completed.
1809
Shortly after the founding of Königsfeld, the Girls' Institution is established, which, together with the Boys' Institution founded four years later, is the forerunner of the general education Zinzendorf Schools. Five girls from Württemberg live in two rooms of the Gemeinlogis.
