Guided tour of the international high school

Name: Visita guiada de la escuela internacional
Start: 2022-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Lycée des Pontonniers

Discover the Lycée des Pontonniers, a demonstration of the renewal of regional architecture in the heart of the Neustadt.

Domingo 18 septiembre 2022, 14:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

03 88 37 15 25 Register / book: http://www.lyc-sections-internationales-strasbourg.ac-strasbourg.fr/

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Discover the Lycée des Pontonniers, a demonstration of the renewal of regional architecture in the heart of the Neustadt.

We invite you to discover the school, which has kept its original function for more than 100 years and welcomes students of more than 50 nationalities.
Contemplate the richness of local art through the remarkable architecture of the Höhere Mädchenschule.
High school students in teaching "history of the arts" provide mediation with the public.

About the location

Lycée des Pontonniers

1 rue des Pontonniers, 67000 Strasbourg

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

At the beginning of the century, the project of the construction of the high school, or Städtische Höhere Töchterschule, meets the need to find, near the historic center of Strasbourg, a convenient and spacious establishment that can accommodate young girls in Alsace annexed by imperial Germany. From 1901, construction began on the site of the former Pontonniers barracks on the outskirts of the Neustadt. The building, designed by the chief architect of the City of Strasbourg, Johann Carl Ott, is in historicist style and testifies to the revival of regional architecture. A local manifesto of the Heimatschutz, the building combines references to Gothic and Renaissance styles and borrows details from emblematic Strasbourg buildings to form the aesthetic taste of young girls through didactic illustrations.
One of the innovations of the interior is to benefit from reinforced concrete vaults. Each floor has a different floor (eagle, lion or fish, as well as foliage), all intended to recall t