A time-lapse of the individual steps towards the “1st grammar school in Donaustadt”
12.8.1964: Acquisition of a 15,500m2 property on Kagraner Anger by the Federal Buildings Administration. 1.4.1966: The Vienna City School Board informs the Federal Ministry of Education about the possibility of teaching in the classrooms of the Kaisermühlen Volksheim. 26.4.1966: The SSR’s motive report to the BMfU provides for the two opening classes to be assigned to BRG 7, Neustiftgasse. Literally: “According to initial expectations, 38 applications could be expected.” However, for the 1966/67 school year, only 17 children were to form the nucleus in Kaisermühlen. Note: At that time, Donaustadt was at the bottom of the league in Vienna with only 19% grammar school children (average 39.6%). 19.9.1966: An initial spatial and functional plan for the BG/BRG 22 to be built is submitted to the BMfU by the SSR. The plan included 22 mainstream classes (14 for 36, 8 for 20 pupils), to be co-educational, special classrooms, a language laboratory (all the rage at the time), a conference room for around 60 teachers, two gymnasiums, a sports field and a school caretaker’s apartment. Unfortunately, a central checkroom was forgotten. These 22 classes would be sufficient “in the long term” (quote). 31.3.1967: The spatial and functional plan is approved by the BMfU and forwarded to the Ministry of Buildings. 3.11.1967: The renowned architect Dr. Roland Rainer is commissioned to draw up the construction plan. The Bernoullig Gymnasium is designed as a “full-wall concrete construction with internal thermal insulation” of the “indoor school” type. Honeycomb-shaped classrooms offset from each other form the main design element around the spacious assembly hall, which is planned as a communication center. A little treat: the roofs of the classrooms were originally intended to be accessible (!) 3.3.1969: Start of construction. Education boom in the 1970s … 23.9.1970: The “east wing” with 13 classes is announced as ready for occupancy. 19.10.1970: Teaching begins under principal Dr. Roman Oczenski. 26.11.1971: The conference minutes confirm that the then “existing 18 classes with a total of 636 pupils will be accommodated in the new building [konnten]”. School year 1972/73: 24 classes with 825 pupils (including 7 first classes). School year 1973/74: 32 classes fill this building, with exactly 1062 pupils, including one “traveling class”. June 1975: The first Matura class in our school is graduated. General renovation, extension and conversion … June 1980: The sports field can now be used.
Summer 1983: The general renovation of our school is tackled … and completed in 1985 after two years of work, with the strong assistance of interim director Professor Eduard Hausner. School year 1984/85: Principal Dr. Ernst Worliczek begins his 19-year term of office. 1986 to 12.12.1988: Renovation of the overly cramped administration area, especially the conference room; new furnishings for the music education and handicraft education areas; as a Christmas present, so to speak, this renovation was completed on 12.12.1988 with the furnishing of the rooms. (from a Worliczek letter: “… the teachers at this school work out of their briefcases, there is no proper filing system for the secretary’s office and management, …”) School year 1984/1985: 1st annual report 1988: work begins on the library and physics room. School year 2003/2004: OStR. Dr. Herta Leder leads our school as interim director. School year 2004/2005: Principal Albert Schmalz begins his work with a mega-project, the renovation and functional refurbishment of the entire school. School year 2008/2009: ContiCity is opened. School year 2009/2010: The new extension is now available for 18 classes. 2011/2012 school year: ContiCity is demolished at the end of the school year. The school building has existed in its current form since the 2012/2013 school year. 2013/2014 school year: 3 beach volleyball courts are added to the outdoor facilities. 1.9.2017: Headmaster Franz Anreiter begins his term of office. 2019/20 school year: Introduction of the school-autonomous subject “Social Competence and Communication” (SOKO) in the first and second grades. Nationwide WLAN coverage. School year 2021/22: All pupils in the first and second grades receive iPADs and lessons in the subject “Digital Basic Education”. School year 2022/23: Opening of the Bernoulli Campus, an additional container building with 12 classes and special rooms. Thermal refurbishment of the south wing. Bernoulli Gymnasium has over 1000 pupils for the first time.
School year 2023/24: 44 classes, 1074 pupils
