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Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński Secondary School in Otwock

Kostanty Ildefons Gałczyński Secondary School and the Secondary School for Adults constitute the Secondary School Complex.

Contents History The school building Famous graduates Class profiles

History Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński Secondary School is the continuation of the Municipal Mixed Gimnazjum which was founded in 1919 as the first secondary school in Otwock. In 1946 the school was moved to the building in which a casino used to be situated. In 1966 the school was named after a Polish poet, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński. The school building has not changed since 1979. Wojciech Dziewanowski was the former headmaster, Joanna Michalczyk is the current one.

The school building In 1926, the municipal authorities took out a loan for 1,365,000 zlotych in order to build a casino but in fact it eventually cost over 2,000,000 zlotych. The casino building was designed by Władysław Leszek Horodecki. The erection started in 1927 and lasted till 1933. Afterwards, the Warsaw authorities did not permit to make the building a place for gambling because of a few reasons. Firstly, the public opinion and the press did not approve of it. Secondly, a few economic scandals were revealed in which lots of well-know people from Otwock, includning Gustaw Pojsel, the lesee of the building, had taken part. Although the casino was the centre of social and cultural life in Otwock, it brought serious financial loss. Nowadays it is possible to see how the building had looked like before 1939 thanks to films such as Manewry Miłosne (1935) with Tola Mankiewiczówna and Aleksander Żabczyński in which the school building was shown as a casino for officers. Some film fragments are available on Youtube. When Nazi German occupied Poland, the edifice was transformed into a ‘soldier house’ where soldiers could spend free time before fighting. After their retreat all valuables were taken away from the building. When the Red Army stationed in Poland, the building was used by the Department of Public Security for, inter alia, holding conspirators under arrest. The Municipal Mixed Gimnazjum and then Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński Secondary School have been situated in the edifice since 1946.

In 1978, the building was recognized to be a historic monument (Grade II according to Polish listing scale). Famous graduates Grzegorz Markowski – singer Ignacy Gogolewski – actor, director Hanna Krall – writer, journalist Maciej Rock – journalist Piotr Sommer – poet, translator, editor-in-chief of Literatura na świecie Marek Pąkciński – Polish writer Class profiles A – the class with extended curriculum in Mathematics, Physics and Information Technology B – the class with extended curriculum in Biology and Chemistry C1 – the class with extended curriculum in History, Social Studies and German C2 – the class with extended curriculum in History, Social Studies and Russian D – the class with extended curriculum in Geography, Mathematics and Russian E – the class with extended curriculum in foreign languages and Social Studies F – the class with extended curriculum in Mathematics, Geography and Spanish