Selected Events 2008    

Building Friendship

Gräfenhainichen students at the new Springfield High School

August 4, 2008. In July, a 17-day visit by 15 students and their teachers from the Paul-Gerhardt-Gymnasium in Gräfenhainichen, Saxony-Anhalt, to Springfield, OH, kicked off a new school partnership. During their two-week stay with host families, the students learned about U.S. history, culture, and everyday life.  The exchange marks the first school partnership within the sister city partnership between Springfield and Wittenberg, located only 15 miles north of Gräfenhainichen. It was initiated by English teacher Uta Böttcher and Benjamin Fricke, a former student of Gräfenhainichen’s Paul-Gerhardt-Gymnasium, who is now enrolled in the American Studies Program at Leipzig University.