Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium
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Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 6–8 60316 Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main Hessen  Germany
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| Coordinates | 50°6′53″N 8°42′0″E / 50.11472°N 8.70000°ECoordinates: 50°6′53″N 8°42′0″E / 50.11472°N 8.70000°E |
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| School type | Public Gymnasium |
| Founded | 1888 |
| School number | 5110 |
| Head of school | Thomas Mausbach |
| Grades | 5–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Number of students | approximate 1000 |
| Website | www.hvgg.de |
The Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium (abbreviation: HvGG; English: Heinrich von Gagern Gymnasium) is a humanistic or classical Gymnasium in the borough Ostend of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The eponym is Heinrich von Gagern (1799–1880). The school has approximately 1000 students.
The Heinrich von Gagern Gymnasium is one of only two schools in Frankfurt which teach Latin and ancient Greek. The other school which offers a traditional, humanist education in Frankfurt is the Lessing-Gymnasium, Frankfurt.
Founded in 1880, the school enjoys a reputation for academic excellence in the greater Frankfurt area. Because of its reputation for academic rigour and as a drug and violence free environment, the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium is known to draw a large proportion of its student body from the children of Frankfurt's highly educated and upper-class families.
Latin is compulsory for all students from the fifth to the ninth grade. Ancient-Greek, French or Italian must be selected as a third foreign language from the eighth grade onwards.
The Heinrich-von-Gagern Gymnasium was opened in 1888 as the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium. Patron of the school was Kaiser Friedrich III, who ruled at that time in Germany. After the 2nd World War the school was called the "State High School Frankfurt am Main" .
Exactly on the centenary of the opening of the St. Paul Church Parliament, the minister gave the school the name “Heinrich von Gagern Gymnasium” after Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern, president of the German National Assembly.
In memory of Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern some students of the school created a sandstone sculpture ("Gagern Monument"), which stands in the schoolyard since November 1998.
The large frescoes in the assembly hall were made by Wilhelm Steinhausen, completed in 1906 when the school was founded. They are rare example of fresco-paintings in the time of the Art Nouveau.
In 1960 the old Jewish school "Samson-Raphael-Hirsch-Schule" was knocked down. Today there is a modern annex building which replaces it and since 1989 and 2001 bronze badges commemorate that Jewish school.
Since 2008 the school is located in the Bernhard-Grizmek-Allee, which has been the west sector of the street "Am Tiergarten" in the past.
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