Old School (Eschelbronn)
The old school house is a historic building at Schulstrasse 14 in Eschelbronn . It was built in 1911 according to plans by the Sinsheim architect Josef Huber and is now a listed building . The building was available for school operations until 1989 and was used as a public and school pool from 1941 to the mid-1970s. Today it is home to the Eschelbronn carpentry and local history museum operated by the local history and tourist association .
Premises and original equipment
The house is on two floors and an attic with a bell tower. It is surrounded by an associated meadow and the former playground. On the first floor of the building there were three classrooms for the elementary school and a teacher's room. In addition, it was equipped with central heating during construction . On the first floor there was a hall for the advanced training school and a teacher's apartment without a bathroom with four rooms, a kitchen and a hall.
history
Construction planning
Classes in Eschelbronn initially took place in the town hall. According to a report by the district doctor, however, the hygienic conditions of the sanitary facilities were rated as unsuitable for school operations. Inadequate lighting conditions were also criticized and the Grand Ducal Baden District Office in Sinsheim demanded the construction of a school building. The request was initially rejected by the Eschelbronn municipal council for financial reasons, although the municipality currently had assets of 350,693 marks and a cost estimate of only 52,800 marks for the construction of the school was made. The Ministry of Culture nevertheless pushed through the construction of the building.
The marketplace was also initially discussed as a location. The land on which the building was ultimately erected was located on the edge of the village in the so-called "new district" and was owned by the Lords of Venningen . It was exchanged for the congregation. The plans for the school building were drawn up in 1908 by the architect Josef Huber. Construction began in 1910 and the building was completed in 1911. After an order from February 10, 1911, the local tüncher Adam Butschbacher was responsible for the interior design.
The dirt road on which the building was initially located was converted into a paved road with sidewalks after its construction on the initiative of residents.
School operation until 1989
During the first years of the Second World War , around 200 students attended classes at the Eschelbronn School. In autumn 1944, however, he was initially hired for the upper and later for the lower classes. After the end of the war in 1945, the building was used as accommodation for US soldiers and the staff room as a coordination office for the occupiers.In autumn 1945, two rooms, initially only for the lower classes, were opened up again for teaching in addition to military use. The two areas in the hallway were separated from each other by a wooden partition during this time. The students were provided with provisions from the army. After the occupation troops withdrew, the attic served as accommodation for the school clerk, a family from Karlsruhe and a couple from the Soviet occupation zone. Other areas of the building were used as emergency shelter for war refugees and displaced persons.
The central heating had to be taken out of operation during the post-war period due to a lack of fuel and replaced by hand-held stoves that were heated with fuel from the parents of the 350 pupils who were now being taught.
From 1947, classes for the upper classes also took place again.
From the 1950s onwards, evening adult education was increasingly offered , but from 1964 onwards the building was only used for teaching the lower levels. The advanced training school took place immediately in the 1954 building on Daisbacher Straße . The secondary school moved there in 1964.
The public and school pool in the basement was used by the schoolchildren after sports lessons and soccer players at FC 1929 Eschelbronn until the mid-1970s . On Saturdays it was available for public use for a fee (bath tub 0.50 marks, shower 0.30 marks).
Extensions and renovations
In 1924 the school in the basement was expanded to include a kitchen, the so-called cookery school, and in 1941 the building between the kitchen and the heating system was given the public and school bathroom with three bathtubs, three shower cubicles and an open shower.
In the years 1958/59 extensive renovation work took place at a cost of over 100,000 DM. The teacher's apartment on the first floor was expanded into two more classrooms and a teacher's room and the teacher's room on the ground floor was later used as the rector's office. The schoolhouse was also extended by an attached, heatable break hall and this was equipped with toilets, which replaced the previous toilet block. In addition, renovation work took place in the previous halls, improved lighting was installed, the floors sanded and sealed and the tables and benches gradually replaced with new furnishings. The newly built break hall was also used for school sports for years before the sports and culture hall was built in 1974 on Schloßplatz.
In 1993, a breakthrough from the main building to the schoolyard and ground level access to the cellar was created and the heating system switched to natural gas operation in 1996. The stairwell was restored in 2008 with the proceeds from two charity events in the years before. At the moment, the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein, with the support of Elke Brunnemer, member of the state parliament, is trying to get new windows installed, but this was rejected by the state monument office.
Reuse
After the lessons were moved to the newly built Schlosswiesenschule on Siedlerstraße , the first discussion was about the sale of the property with the old schoolhouse to the Schwarzbachtalhaus company . However, on January 16, 1990, the local council decided to make the building available as a space for local associations and as a new space for the Eschelbronn carpentry and local history museum. After a resolution of May 18 of the same year, the heating system was renovated. The two outer rooms on the first floor were initially used by the Eschelbronn choir and the music club as a rehearsal room, the middle room later as a training room for the karate club. The old break hall serves primarily as a storage room.
The carpentry museum operated by the local history and tourist association, which was previously located in Brunnengasse , expanded the basement and ground floor of the building as a new space on April 6, 1990. The former boiler room has served as an archive room for the municipal administration since 1991. The planned demolition of the break hall and the sale of the surrounding property were rejected by the local council in the same year.
The volunteer fire brigade moved into the building as additional users in 1993 as a storage facility for equipment in the event of flooding and the DRK standby . It is also used by migrant children of Turkish descent for dance and tutoring lessons. In 1999 the Siedlerbund and the theater group Sellemols Theaterleit were added as users.
After the kindergarten building in Neidensteiner Strasse became unusable after a flood in June 1994, the old school building was able to use it temporarily until autumn 1998. The carpentry museum was temporarily dismantled with the help of the Bundeswehr and moved back into the building in 1999. Among other things, old handicraft machines such as those used in the region are exhibited there, as well as a typical historic living room with an attached workshop . The museum shows various traditional steps in woodworking and gives an insight into the linen weaving of that time and the shoemaker's trade, which was also once represented in Eschelbronn . In the basement there has been a simulated mom and pop shop since 2011 .
The proposal in the future, the building officially under the name community center could not prevail to exploit.
When a pipe burst in 2001, numerous exhibits in the carpentry museum were damaged. In the same year, the Association of Friends of Nature, Animals and Birds installed an incubator for barn owls in the former bell tower, which was adopted by the birds after four years.
Refurbishment of the break hall
For the ailing break hall, redevelopment plans and an expansion into an event room for citizens and clubs were created. In March 2013, the state of Baden-Württemberg agreed to subsidize the renovation within the framework of the funding program for the development of rural areas.
In 1960 the music association shot the film “A village and its residents” and in 2012 it was digitized. The proceeds from the new edition distributed by the local authority and tourist association will also be invested in the renovation of the break hall.
Planting the outdoor area
At the north-western end of the garden belonging to the school there are three birch trees that were assessed as no longer roadworthy in 2016. The chairman of the local association of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany and member of the municipal council Wilhelm Dinkel asked the gardening consultant and technician in gardening and landscaping at the Baden-Württemberg residential property association to give an assessment and a proposal for alternative planting. He found that, caused by pruning strong branches, a rotting area had formed on one of the trees and branches that had grown on it were in danger of breaking. Similar locations were suspected in the other two trees. The problem can only be remedied by heavy trimming, and rot can be expected again after a few years. Felling and replanting was therefore suggested as a more sensible alternative.
Movies
- A village and its inhabitants , 1960/2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Eschelbronn: Eschelbronn - your home , 1957
- Mayor's office of the municipality of Eschelbronn: 1200 years of Eschelbronn , 1989
- 100 years of “die ald 'Schul” , information brochure of the Eschelbronn Local and Tourist Association
- ↑ Old school building at eschelbronn-online.de
- ↑ http://rhein-neckar-zeitung.de/KraichgauEschelbronn/00_20130330002323_103591440_Schickt_Land_jetzt_die_Sanierung_an_.php read-in | url = http: //rhein-neckar-zeitung.de/Kraichgau.Eschelbronn/00_20130330002323 = 2018-08-23 13:24:05 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
- ↑ Heimatfilm is a true global success ( memento from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from January 7, 2013
- ↑ Presentation of the Heimatfilm “A Village and its Inhabitants” , Official Gazette No. 50 of December 13, 2012
- ↑ There is something wrong with the three birch trees in Eschelbronn . ( rnz.de [accessed on November 6, 2016]).
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '14.8 " N , 8 ° 51' 57.5" E