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Goethe-Gymnasium Dortmund
The Goethe-Gymnasium is a Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium and secondary school in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded as a school for girls in 1867, as the first school offering higher education to girls in the city. It was later named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It has been a NRW Sportschule, focused on sports, from 2009. History The school was founded as the first school of higher education for girls in Dortmund in 1867, then called Evangelische städtische höhere Mädchenschule (Protestant municipal higher school for girls). It was the first school of higher education in Dortmund, one of the first in the Ruhr region. The limitation by denomination was dropped in 1877 when the school became the Städtische höhere Mädchenschule. With rising numbers of pupils, the school was moved to Hörde, Dortmund-Hörde in 1879. In the 1890s, the aspect of school education as preparation for a future job was added, providing the girls mainly with skills to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the largest city (by area and population) of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million inhabitants, as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers (tributaries of the Rhine), it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural center of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg. Founded around 882,Wikimedia Commons: First documentary reference to Dortmund-Bövinghausen from 882, contribution-list of the Werden Abbey (near Essen), North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Dortmund became an Imperial Free City. Throughout the 13th to 14th centuries, it was the "chief city" of the Rhine, Westphali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
