English Translation

22-3 Counsellor Dr. Karl P aul: Becoming and Growing. For decades, the desire for a secondary school was already alive in the population of Karlovy Vary. The family fathers had to send their sons away to a middle school — so we called the Dberschulen. In a year 3rd B. 124 Karlovary children attended the high schools in Eger, Kaaden, Komotau and the Realschule in Elbogen. The city fathers, however, had their concerns against a study institute. Even the Minister of Education was fundamentally opposed to a middle school in Karlovy Vary. But the desire of the Karlovie Vary citizenship was too justified and could not be suppressed in the long term. Thus, in 1873, the newly founded Karlsbader Sparkasse built a Miftelschulfonds (Miftel Schulfond) to build up a high school. In 1887, this fund had reached the level of 116,000 guilders, i.e. 192,560 Reichsmark. Thus, the last concerns were scattered. In 1888, the city council decided to build a lower secondary school, but with the intention of building the upper secondary school if there were enough pupils. So the savings bank built the building, the town council approved the necessary resources for the maintenance. The institution was to be opened in 1891. In November 1890 a terrible flooding disaster broke over Karlovy Vary. The already finished substructure of the institution was torn away by the unleashed floods of the Tepl. Only in May 1891 the construction could be started again. However, the work on the completion was carried out at the same time. At the same time, the position of director was advertised, which the then professor at the Reichenberger Gymnasium Franz Grund received among eight applicants. Franz Grund came from Pergles in the district of Ludiß, was therefore a son of the Karlovy Vary homeland. For 32yz years, the first director led the fate of the institution. In September 1892 the school was opened with the name "Städtisches Kaiser-Franz-Josef - R e al gy m n a fi u m", which was equipped for a secondary school with all modern facilities. The first class was so large that two departments had to be built. The teaching constitution was like this: from the 1st class onwards Latin, from the 3rd class, became the first class. Czech, or as it was then called, "Böhmische Sprache", as well as gymnastics, singing, English from the 4th, short script and French (for the pupils who had chosen Greek as their main subject) were free items. From September 1898, before the first maturing exam, the institution was gradually transformed into an anistis che gym nafium with relatively obligatory drawing and gymnastics. Thus, the original intention of the founders was fulfilled. The choice between Greek and French fell away, Latin and Greek remained as compulsory foreign languages. The Austrian state took over the school in its administration on 1 September 1907. The municipality remained obliged to take care of the building and the material needs. In addition, it had to pay by ten years a cash amount, which in 1908 amounted to 20.000 crowns (a.k.a. W.) and decreased annually by 200o crowns. The humanist type only ran for ten years, since the "progressive" part of Karlovy Vary's parenthood urgently demanded a more modern school. The people of the world spa needed modern languages, the upsurge of technology required a preliminary education, which also made it possible to attend the technical college.