Old School (Kirdorf)
The old school in Kirdorf , a district of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, is a former school building and is a listed building .
history
After the previous school in the village center (on Bornplatz (today Raiffeisenplatz)) had become too small, a new school building was built on the outskirts in 1827. It contained a teacher's apartment and three classrooms on the ground floor and another teacher's apartment and three classrooms on the upper floor. There was no schoolyard; the road was used for this. From 1892 the one-class Protestant school also used the building (Kirdorf was predominantly Catholic).
The rural community of Kirdorf was incorporated into Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1902. As a result, Kirdorf received a new school, the Citizens' Schools II and IV, which opened in 1910, today known as the Ketteler-Francke School. The old school building has now been converted for residential purposes. Today it contains four residential units. In the 1990s, use as a local museum was discussed but not implemented.
The building
The two-story, classicist school building at Bachstraße 2 is partly solid and partly half-timbered and plastered. It has a hipped roof and a four-sided ridge turret as a bell tower . The nine-axis plastered facade with rectangular openings is accessed via a central one. Originally there was a two-flight staircase here. The basement was converted into an air raid shelter before 1940 .
In 2013, a complete renovation took place, during which the building was given its original color again.
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- Klaus Späne: Where the Kirdorfer crammed; in: Taunuszeitung from February 16, 2013, p. 11 online
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Old School In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
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Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 24.8 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 31.5 ″ E