Banatia
| Banatia | |
|---|---|
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| Banatia School (1939) | |
| type of school | high school |
| place | Timișoara |
| circle | Timiș |
| Country | Romania |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 45 '24 " N , 21 ° 14' 12" E |
The Banatia School was a German-speaking educational institution in Timișoara , Romania from 1926 to 1944 . The three-story building is characterized by the neo-Hellenistic style. The building was built by architects Mathias Hubert and Michael Wolf between 1924 and 1926.
history
The Banatia emerged as a Catholic school, which was also open to students of other denominations. Financing, construction, teaching organization, training materials and the establishment of a boarding school to accommodate 300 students, including the kitchen and dining room, were mostly raised from donations. The Banatia complex housed an elementary school , grammar school ( boys' college ), teacher training college , commercial grammar school and trade school. The Banatia Education Center included several libraries and laboratories as well as a gymnasium and the attached Banatia holiday home, a specially converted villa building with two hectares of land near the southern Banat town of Oravița . The seminary was housed in the adjacent building . There was close cooperation with the teacher training institute in the Notre-Dame convent school .
The school opened on August 29, 1926 at a time of decades of Magyarization of the German-speaking population in the Banat . The solemn inauguration was celebrated by Bishop Augustin Pacha . From 1926 to 1942, thanks to financial support from the German government, the Banatia grew to become the largest German educational institution in southeastern Europe .
In March 1942, the leader of the ethnic group, Andreas Schmidt, offered Augustin Pacha to recognize the property rights to church property and to guarantee religious instruction. In April 1942, however, the denominational schools were placed under the leadership of the ethnic group. The "Banatia" was renamed the Prinz-Eugen -Oberschule. Anton Valentin was the new director of the Lyceum until the royal coup in Romania in August 1944 . He had studied in Germany and between 1937 and 1940 he headed the “Banat Cultural Office” of the “Volksgemeinschaft”. From 1941 he headed the regional office of the “Office for Art and Science” and was a member of the NSDAP in the German ethnic group.
In 1942, the Nikolaus Lenau Lyceum was temporarily housed in the Banatia building. After the Communist seizure of power in 1944, the school was closed and turned into a Soviet military hospital. The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1944 and moved into the Banatia building and was promoted to the rank of university in 1990. Since 1990 the building has housed the Victor Babes Medical and Pharmaceutical University .
Personalities
Many of these personalities were politically persecuted in communist Romania.
literature
- Martin Eichler, Dan Leopold Ciobotaru, Martin Rill: Temeswar / Timișoara. A pearl of the Banat. Word + World + Image, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810825-6-2
- Koloman Juhász , Adam Shift: The Diocese of Timișoara-Temesvar. Past and present. Timișoara 1934
Web links
- UMFT.ro , website of the Medical and Pharmaceutical University Victor Babes
- History of Timisoara. The capital of the Banat. In: banaterra.eu
Individual evidence
- ^ Mariana Hausleitner : The Danube Swabians 1868–1948. Your role in the Romanian and Serbian Banat. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014. pp. 198–199.