Parkschule Weimar, State secondary school at Rathenauplatz, Weimar, Germany
Parkschule Weimar occupies the 1886–1888 Bürgerschule Weimar, a Neorenaissance building by city architect Reinhardt Ferdinand Albert Has with 24 classrooms. Its massive, fully cellared structure rises four storeys above a basement, with tuffstone outer walls and sandstone cornices; the southeast corner, destroyed by an aerial mine in 1945, was rebuilt true to the original in 1949–1950.
The building was constructed between 1886 and 1888 as the Bürgerschule Weimar and suffered damage during the war in 1945. It was repaired and returned to use for education afterward.
The school's name comes from its location by the Park an der Ilm. Its motto, "School our life(t)raum: Living together. Working together. Preparing for the future together," shapes an open all-day programme for grades 5 to 10. Pupils take part in competitions such as Planspiel Börse, the Känguru mathematics contest and Jugend trainiert für Olympia in basketball, football and volleyball.
The building stands at Rathenauplatz in Weimar and is a working school, so the interior is not open to casual visitors; the tuffstone and sandstone facade can be viewed from the public street. The 1949–1950 reconstruction of the southeast corner, destroyed by an aerial mine in 1945, is visible from outside.
The southeast corner was destroyed by an aerial mine in 1945 and rebuilt true to the original in 1949–1950. The renovation begun in January 2019 was budgeted at 7.6 million euros but ended up costing 9.3 million, with 5.0 million covered by federal and state grants.
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