Old School (Lösnich)
The former school in Lösnich on the Moselle in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district is a historic school. The first mentions of the school system in Lösnich go back to the year 1685. The primary school Lösnich was finally closed in 1969, when the school operations were taken over by the schools in Zeltingen and Bernkastel-Kues .
history
The first school house
The first school house used until 1839 was on the corner of Schulgraben / Hauptstraße. This corner house at Hauptstrasse No. 48 was owned by the innkeeper Stephan Mechtel in 1928. When the house was demolished for traffic-related reasons in 1928, Stephan Mechtel left parts of the beautiful and richly decorated half-timbering to Pastor Koster. These parts now adorn the hallway on the ground floor in the Lösnich rectory. The half-timbered upper storey, projecting on headbands, had four pairs of windows and a group of three windows in little protruding frames with serrations and notched carvings (wickerwork and window friezes ). During the demolition, according to Pastor Koster, a lintel with the year 1432 came to light, which was provided with Gothic minuscules . Stephan Mechtel is said to have intended to have this old historical document walled into the substructure of the veranda planned at that point. However, the stone is now lost.
Damian Heimes, who worked as a teacher in Lösnich until his death in 1831, complained about the confined space of the old schoolhouse, which he lived in with his wife and six children. A school revision from November 1828 confirmed the spatial need of the school premises and its apartment, which consisted of a living room and a room. Pastor Zils did not seem to share this opinion. In a related letter to the school authorities, Pastor Zils said a year earlier that the “fairly spacious night room” and another room would have been sufficient for his predecessor. The school would also have been big enough if Kindel's children had also attended the Lösnich school.
Since the congregation had already considered building a new church and a rectory at this point , the signs were not exactly favorable to start building a new school as well. The church in today's cemetery was dilapidated and in need of repair. The parsonage, the former property of the Kesselstatt family , was only rented, and the duration of further use was not foreseeable. Damian Heimes did not live to see the construction of a new school in Lösnich.
Construction and renovation of the new school from 1839 to 1981
The construction of the new school building was decided in 1837 and completed in 1839. The teacher's apartment was on the ground floor, the one-class classroom on the first floor.
On April 17, 1850, teacher Johann Hauptrich followed his appointment to Lösnich as acting school administrator. During his long thirty years of service, the new school in Oberdorf was converted into a two-class school in 1874.
The high number of schoolchildren of 111 children in 1873 and the increasing number of newcomers, it was stated to be 16 children per year compared to 13 departures, whereby in 1873 96 children not required to attend school were assumed, prompted the municipal council not least to urge teachers Hauptrichs to expand the school into a two-class school in 1874.
According to Hauptrich's handwritten sketches, his teacher's apartment was on the ground floor of the new school building, consisting of a kitchen, living room, bedroom and an additional room. The fire brigade's syringe house and a cowshed were also located on the ground floor on the west side . Until 1874, the school room on the first floor was bordered by the hayloft above the cowshed on the west side and a small neighboring chamber above the syringe house. A teacher's apartment was set up here. A staircase was built on the east side of the village to reach the first floor and the two school halls. In 1882 a meadow was created as a garden for the teacher and a gymnastics area. The teacher's garden was converted into a playground. The next renovation of the school took place in 1933. Two new school halls with a citizen's hall in the attic were built on the eastern part of the playground at right angles to the eastern part of the existing school building. When the school was rebuilt again in 1939, a bathing establishment was built on the ground floor facing the street and a kitchen and toilet facility at the rear. In the 1930s, a rural advanced training school (vocational school) was set up in Lösnich.
The old classrooms on the first floor of the old building became school apartments for the teaching staff. At the beginning of 1950 the community converted the bathing establishment into a freezer. The families were able to rent 30 freezer compartments.
In 1969 the Lönich elementary school was closed. The students were divided between the schools in Zeltingen and Bernkastel-Kues and the teacher's apartments were rented out privately. The classroom on the ground floor became a meeting room for the local council. The Musikverein Heimattreu Lösnich found a suitable practice room on the first floor. The top floor, which once served as a practice room for the former choral society Lösnich, was made available to the young people of Lösnich as a meeting place in the mid-1970s. In 1981 the building was finally put to further use. The new Lösnich Citizens' Hall was built on the former schoolyard adjacent to residential buildings and school halls. The school hall on the ground floor was integrated into the hall and can be separated if necessary. The still existing freezer was closed in 1982. The citizens' hall is now available to the population as a meeting room, as an event location for local clubs, private parties and celebrations and as a practice room for the music association.
Other teachers
After an archbishop's visitation protocol from 1685 was entered, the parish of Lösnich had to appoint a sexton and capable schoolmaster with the consent of the incumbent vicar.
On April 29, 1791, Vicar Mees von Lösnich reported to Count von Kesselstatt about the school system in Lösnich: The teacher was a man of mediocre age, was born in Lösnich and was already in his eleventh year working with admirable zeal. Because of his low school income, he could only earn his living with the help of his trade as a tailor. His name is not explicitly mentioned in this report, but it is probably Peter Joseph Dambly, who is proven as a teacher and sexton as early as 1785. Like his predecessor Nikolaus Gietzen, he wrote very beautiful choral books for the Lösnich church.
According to the report mentioned, the number of students was thirty. Lists of pupils born between 1779 and 1785 show that both girls and boys attended school. The subjects of reading, writing, arithmetic, catechism and history of the New Testament were taught and tested at the Lösnich School. Classes were held summer and winter.
The first teacher in Lösnich known by name, Nikolaus Gietzen, is mentioned as a teacher as early as 1728 and worked in Lösnich at least until 1766. A list of the teaching establishments in the mayor's office in Zeltingen in the 10th year of the French Revolution (1801) names Johann Fries as a teacher in Lösnich. He had twelve girls and eight boys to teach.
A year later he was told that he had a good but small apartment. According to the same report, the number of pupils was now 36. His appointment as a teacher had been carried out by a commission which had found him capable.
In 1808 Damian Heimes is named as a teacher in Losnich. He was confirmed that there were 24 boys and eight girls in school. According to another statistical survey of February 4, 1818, Damian Heimes was already employed by Prefect Keppler in 1807. Since then he has provided general satisfaction with his service. After the French had cleared the Rhineland again in 1814, Damian Heimes from Hetzerath was officially appointed as a teacher in Losnich by the Royal Government on April 17th. After his death in September 1831 his son Johann followed him as a teacher. However, Johann Heimes only stayed in office for four years. He was followed in 1837 by Grundhöfer, a teacher who was transferred to Wehlen after three years of activity. He was succeeded in Losnich in October 1840 by the teacher Zirwes, who had been working at the Upper School in Wehlen. His employment as a teacher and sexton in Lösnich ended on August 24, 1849.
The conversion of the school into a two-class in 1874 meant that another teacher could also be employed. The first teacher, Christine Kiebel, was a native of Lösnicher. She was followed in 1886 by Maria Gerhardt from Kondel to the "Girls and Boys School" in Lösnich. The teacher taught the younger boys and girls, while the teacher took on the older ones.
The teacher's certificate of appointment explicitly stated that if she married, the appointment would automatically be void. The teacher was obliged to be celibate if she did not want to jeopardize her position. Teacher celibacy was introduced by the Prussians in 1855 and was valid from 1892 without exception. It was not until 1956 that Baden-Württemberg was the last federal state to finally abolish the marriage ban.
The center politician Maria Schmitz , chairwoman of the Association of Catholic German Teachers and former member of the Weimar National Assembly, wrote about teacher celibacy:
“The teacher - as we wanted and raised her - should devote herself to her profession with all her might. She should leave the profession when she realizes that she should enter the marriage and take up another high-quality profession. It should be undivided as long as it is in school. And out of this experience she should have the ability to see the teaching profession also as a teaching profession, to consecrate herself to it forever, and she can do this all the more if she is in the Catholic Church, which she is in the doctrine of the consecrated to God Virginity is a wonderful pointer, yes, a transfiguration for this holistic task of the profession. It is a social act of our association when it expects from its members that they, the people's educators, do not combine marriage and school service. They should set an example of what they expect as a social development: the recovery of women undivided for the family ... Our ideal is the connection of Christian virginity with the ideal of teachers. At a time when a holy radicalism must be contrasted with the radicalism of the wicked, it is as contemporary as ever. "
Teacher Hauptrich was replaced in 1880 by teacher Matthias Schmitt, who taught in Losnich for over ten years. In March 1889, Miss Katharina Schmitt from Wiesbach came to the school in Losnich. After her voluntary resignation from the school service on September 12, 1889, she had not yet worked a full year in Lösnich, the appointment of the teacher Aerna Güth from Fell took place. Her male colleague Matthias Schmitt followed his appointment to Leiwen in May 1891. He was followed in May 1891 by teacher Jakob Hennes from Lützkempen at the "Catholic School" in Lösnich. In addition to his school office, teacher Hennes, like his predecessors, held the church offices of sexton, organist, church choir conductor and clock winder. Fräulein Güth was replaced, also in May 1891, by Fräulein Therese Simon from Wehlen.
From 1906 until at least 1928 Miss Katharina Latz worked in Lösnich. Other teachers were Miss Margarethe Ehses (1950), Katharina Scholzen (1961–1963) and Ms. Ursula Heimes (1963–1969).
After teacher Hennes, teacher Johann Brand started his service in Lösnich in 1902. He was followed by teacher Paul Hoffmeyer in October 1927, Andreas Krämer in April 1928 and Karl Knotte in 1947.
With teacher Gerd Heimes, who came to the Lösnich School in 1961, the time of the Lösnich School came to an end with great strides. Gerd Heimes was the last teacher together with his wife Ursula Heimes as a teacher until the school closed in 1969 in Losnich.
- Teachers
- Teacher
- 1766 Nikolaus Gietzen
- 1785 Peter Joseph Dambly
- 1801 Johann Adam Fries
- 1807 Damian Heimes
- 1817–1931 Damian Heimes
- 1831–1837 Johann Heimes
- 1837–1840 Grundhöfer
- 1840–1849 Zirwes
- 1850–1880 Johann Hauptrich
- 1880–1891 Matthias Schmitt
- 1891–1902 Jacob Hennes
- 1902–1929 Johann Brand
- 1927–1928 Paul Hoffmeyer
- 1928–1940 Andreas Krämer
- 1940–1945 Karl Regh
- 1947–1961 Karl Knotte
- 1961–1969 Gerd Heimes
- teachers
- 1874–1891 Christine Kiebel
- 1886–1889 Maria Gerhard
- 1889–1889 Katharina Schmitt
- 1889-1891 Aerna M. Güth
- 1891–1901 Therese Simon
- 1905–1928 Katharina Latz
- 1940–1945 Frank
- 1950–1961 Margarethe Ehses
- 1961–1963 Katharina Scholzen
- 1963–1969 Ursula Heimes
swell
- Stadtarchiv Trier, 54290 Trier, Weberbach 25, Archive of the Imperial Counts of Kesselstatt DK xxxx (see individual records)
- Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, 56068 Koblenz, Karmeliterstraße 1/3, (see individual records)
literature
- The art monuments of the Bernkastel district, edited by Hans Vogts, reprint of the 1935 edition, published by the publishing house of the academic bookstore Interbook Trier
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Festschrift, Singer Festival in Lösnich, 1928, P. Koster, p. 23
- ^ Art monuments of the Rhine Province, Hans Vogts, 1935, vol. 15
- ↑ Festschrift, Singer Festival in Lösnich, 1928, P. Koster, p. 24
- ↑ LHA Kobl., Dept. 655,123, No. 366
- ↑ a b LHA Kobl., Dept. 655, 123, No. 511
- ↑ LHA Kobl. Dept. 655, 123, No. 425
- ↑ a b c d Records of the Losnich School
- ↑ Records of the Lösnich School
- ↑ http: //www.mv-lösnich.de/
- ↑ a b Festschrift, Singer Festival in Lösnich, 1928, P. Koster, p. 26
- ↑ 2 staff. Trier, Kesselstatt Archive, DK 4413
- ^ Trier City Archives, Archives of the Imperial Counts of Kesselstatt, DK 4413, tabular overview of the subjects taught on October 6, 1793
- ↑ a b c LHA Kobl., Best. 655,123, No. 432
- ↑ LHA Kobl. Dept. 655, 123, No. 510
- ↑ LHA Kobl. Dept. 655, 123, No. 511, see Festschrift 1928, P. Koster, p. 26
- ↑ LHA Kobl. Dept. 655, 123, No. 192
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '30.3 " N , 7 ° 2' 24.5" E