FROschTOsch

by G. Fiedler (BvA)

On March 23, 2010 the FROschTOsch project meeting had the privilege to welcome two very special guests, Ms Erna Funk and Dr. Stephan Lipski. They were both born into the German minority in Gostynin before World War II and told the FROschTOsch team about how Germans came to live in Poland 200 years ago, what life was like as a German among Polish neighbours and what they experienced under Nazi German occupation.

2 Germans born in Gostynin report

by Marika Cholewik (BvA)

The little town Hilden, hometown of many students of our school,  is situated on the little river Itter and near Düsseldorf, the capital of state Nordrheinwestfalen. The town is more than 1000 years old, but the year of origin is not exactly known.

In the 13th century, the protestant church “Reformationskirche” was built. Through the centuries the church has been changing between the Protestant and Catholic denomination, but in 1624 it has been decided that the church should be Protestant and the Catholics built a new church named “St. Jacobuskirche”.

Important Dates in the History of Hilden:

1823 – the first post office

1849 – waterworks

1900 – the old townhall was built and Hilden got its city coat of arms

1904 – electricity supply

Celebrities of Hilden:

(16th/17th century) Anton and Wilhelm Hüls – Pastors

1560-1634 Wilhelm Fabry – famous German doctor

Ellen Wiederhold – she was the Mayor of Hilden for 25 years (1969-1994)

by Nitharsini Y. and Katrin H. (BvA)

Maybe, you already know the town Langenfeld, but here are some details about our town – where we live and where our school is.

Langenfeld is a town which belongs to the county of Mettmann. It is divided in five parts named Richrath, Immigrath, Reusrath, Berghausen and Wiescheid.

Map taken from: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langenfeld_(Rheinland)

All in alll, there are 59.000 inhabitants.

We have lots of options to go shopping! There is the “Stadtgalerie” where there are lots of shops. For example: a bakery, Madonna, C&A, the post office, a drugstore, a bookshop, etc. Since November 2009, we have a new shopping center, called “Marktkarree”. It is very big and has lots of new shops like New Yorker, a boot shop, a big multiple drugstore.

In Langenfeld you can do a lot of sports, for example: go swimming, play golf, go horseriding. In Langenfeld – Berghausen there are popular water ski facilities, in the summer there are many visitors. In the center of Langenfeld you find big sports fields where the sport clubs like football clubs, an American football club (Longhorns), basketball clubs etc. have their training. We also have a gliding airfield.

In Langenfeld there are six secondary schools, our school “Bettine von Arnim Gesamtschule” is in Langenfeld-Richrath and the only comprehensive school here. Also we have a big supermarket, two bakeries, two schools to learn driving, a hair salon, a little post office, etc.

So you can say: We like to live inLangenfeld-Richrath because it is small but we have all things we need and we are very happy

by Nitharsini Y. and Katrin H. (BvA)

by Mira Pabich (BvA) and Callum Allman (LHS)

On 25 June 2010 Wilhelm Fabry would be 450 years old. Hilden celebrates this year the Fabry-Year 2010. There are many events and Hilden will be established as  “Fabry-City”.

In Hilden you can see a statue of Wilhelm Fabry. He is a very famous person and well known in Germany. Wilhelm Fabry is seen as the best German surgeon of his time and as the founder of scientific surgery. Besides, he was very famous for the medical works he published. Among them “Observationum et Curationum Chirurgicarum Centuriae “, a summary of case reports during his lifetime. A street, a school and the only museum in Hilden were named after him.

Still today his works stamp the city.  The city celebrates him because his birthplace is Hilden and he has reached a lot in his life. On 15 February 1634 Wilhelm Fabry passed away in Bern.

Am 25. Juni 2010 wäre Wilhelm Fabry 450 Jahre alt geworden. Hilden feiert in diesem Jahr das Fabry-Jahr 2010.
Hilden soll als „Fabry-Stadt“ etabliert werden. Wilhelm Fabry wird als der zu seiner Zeit bester deutsche Wundarzt und als Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Chirurgie angesehen.
Er war unter anderem sehr berühmt für seine medizinischen Werke, die er verfasst hat. Unter ihnen das “Observationum et Curationum Chirurgicarum Centuriae”, eine Zusammenfassung von Fallberichten zu seiner Lebenszeit.
Eine Straße, eine Schule und das einzige Museum in Hilden wurden nach ihm benannt. Seine Werke prägen die Stadt noch heute.
Die Stadt feiert ihn, weil seine Geburtsstätte Hilden ist und er sehr viel in seinem Leben erreicht hat. Am 15. Februar 1634 verstarb Wilhelm Fabry in Bern.    www.fabry-jahr.de