Zeischa village school
The building of the former Zeischa village school and a neighboring bell tower are located in the Zeischa district of the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Both brick buildings are now under monument protection . The brick buildings are the most striking buildings on the old Zeischa village green.
Building description and history
Previous buildings
The local children received their first school lessons in the village from the beginning of the 19th century . It was held at the local poor and shepherd house . A thatched building with folding doors, which one had to share with the Zeischa community pastor.
As the situation became untenable, the government demanded the construction of a new schoolhouse in Zeischa in 1826. However, the municipality should mostly raise the costs incurred from its own resources, as the government was unable to provide any major financial support due to the large number of similar projects. Three years later, the financial resources were obtained from the community and the government also contributed 50 thalers each. After a draft estimated at 338 thalers was rejected by the royal master builder in Torgau for structural reasons, the school building finally began after the submission of a second draft. However, the costs were now 441 thalers and the construction was completed in the same year. In addition to other benefits, the new child teacher initially received an annual salary of 54 thalers and 20 groschen, which was then increased to 84 thalers and 20 groschen in the following years.
In 1851, however, the costs for the village teacher had risen to such an extent that the royal government demanded an increase in the salary to 120 thalers that the community of Zeischa could no longer afford its own teaching position. Until 1861, the Zeischer Schule was co-managed by the teacher from the neighboring community of Zobersdorf, then the school was finally closed completely and the building was sold.
The children of the village have therefore attended school in Zobersdorf since then. In doing so, they had to cross the Schwarze Elster , which separates the two places , which led to considerable difficulties and dangers when flooding occurred. Sometimes they had to go the long way across the manor in Prieschka , which often led to considerable delays. Finally, on December 6, 1900, one of the children was also killed on the way to school. The six-year-old daughter of the nursery owner Reichenbach drowned after falling into the water.
New school
The Zobersdorfer Schule finally reached the limit of its capacity due to the increasing number of pupils in both villages. Negotiations about the construction of a new school in Zeischa, which had already started, were broken off again in 1897 due to a lack of financial means. Three years later, however, these were resumed after the child's death. The Zeischa entrepreneur Carl Weiland assured financial support for the construction by lending the estimated construction costs to the community, contributing 2,000 marks to the construction and also undertaking to pay an annual school fee of 10 marks for the children of his employees. With the prospect of 9550 Marks building aid from the royal government, the school could finally be built. It was inaugurated on November 27, 1904 shortly after the new village teacher moved in.
In 1907 a bell tower was built right next to the Zeischa school. Red brick was again used for the tower. And almost three years after the school opened, on July 14, 1907, a bell procured and donated by Weiland was consecrated. This bell dates from 1807 and was cast in the Heinrich August Weinhold bell foundry in Dresden .
After his death, the entrepreneur Weiland was erected a memorial stone near the level crossing at Landesstrasse 593, which has been preserved to the present day.
This village school was finally closed in 1971 and the children of the village attended the school in Zobersdorf again until it was closed in 2006. Since then, the children from Zeischa have been enrolled in the municipal primary school center Robert Reiss in Bad Liebenwerda.
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c d database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 23, 2016.
- ^ A b c d e Karl Leibrich: The development of the school at Zeischa . In: Die Schwarze Elster (= local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ). No. 136 , September 29, 1910.
- ↑ a b c Korinna Tischer: Zeischa district . In: Association for city marketing and economy Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda . Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 272 to 273 .
- ^ The Zeischa village school on the private homepage www.zeischa.de , accessed on October 23, 2016
- ^ School homepage of the Robert Reiss primary school center ( memento of November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 23, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 53.2 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 19.1 ″ E