Old School (Obertiefenbach)
| Old school from Beselich-Obertiefenbach | |
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| type of school | Elementary school , secondary school , elementary school |
| founding | 1873 |
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At the church 12 |
| place | Beselich - Obertiefenbach |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 27 '29 " N , 8 ° 7' 20" E |
The old school in Obertiefenbach is a striking building in the Obertiefenbach district of the Hessian municipality of Beselich in the Limburg-Weilburg district . She was by the end of 2019 owned by the Catholic parish of St. Giles Beselich-Obertiefenbach in the diocese Limburg . Since the beginning of 2020 she has been part of the parish of St. Johannes Nepomuk Hadamar.
The old school is located in the center of the village in the street "An der Kirche" on the Kirchberg. In the school building near the neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Giles , school children were admitted for the first time on November 5, 1873. From this point on, the teaching staff in the primary, secondary and primary school types taught Obertiefenbach children in this striking building for 110 years until today's primary school in Beselich opened in the summer of 1983. It is known as the "old school" and is now used as the parish hall of the parish "St. Aegidius "used.
history
Situation in front of the school building
Before the Thirty Years' War there were schools in the cities of Nassau , but also in some villages. Obertiefenbach was one of these places, because in 1617 a schoolmaster Endres (Andreas Müller) was listed in the treasury register of this municipality as a landowner with a small cattle farm. The name "Andreas Müller" was also recorded on a church bell cast in 1614. Only a few years after this devastating war is there a reference to the school system again. At that time, according to the vernacular, children went “to the schoolmaster in the Pärrhaus”. A new building was built on the site of this house that burned down in 1670, which was the predecessor of the current "old school".
Until 1822, only one schoolmaster was available to teach the 180 school children. A second school position, which was filled by a teaching assistant, only partially solved the problem, because there was also no second classroom. After the two school classes had been taught alternately from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. as a temporary solution , a room was rented in the neighborhood. Finally, in the following year, a part of the building was added which, in addition to a community bakery, also contained a second classroom on the upper floor.
The number of schoolchildren increased steadily, whereby in 1844 the school operation was expanded to three classes with two teachers . Finally, a student number of 277 was recorded in 1863. Now four teaching positions have been created, but four school halls have also been required. During this time, in addition to other measures, the construction of a large school building with teachers' apartments was seriously considered. Mayor Johannes Schmitt obtained the necessary official approval for this construction project by clearing 53 acres of the community forest "Heckholzhäuser Path", whose beech population was estimated by the forestry treasury at 25,900 guilders .
Inauguration of the school building
On June 19, 1872, master builder Petsch laid the foundation stone for the new school building and construction work proceeded rapidly. After all, on the day of their autumn exam, on September 18, 1873, the schoolchildren visited the old school for the last time. The solemn inauguration of the new building took place on October 15, 1873 with the participation of many guests, including those from outside, including 42 teachers. Before that, a pageant went through the streets of the town. It started from the parish church at that time and led over the Kirchberg, the Chaussee (today Hauptstraße) to the former war memorial , then on the pavement (today Steinbacher Straße) over the bridge on the Paadsbach (part of the Tiefenbach) to the new school grounds. There the keys were handed over and the inauguration took place, accompanied by singing. The move returned to the house of God, where the coadjutor , Pastor Johannes Schräder, gave the blessing. With marching music by the music corps , the participants moved back to the new school building to take a detailed tour. For the school grounds, the previous school and other neighboring buildings had to give way so that the construction work could be carried out.
End of school operations
At the end of the 1982/83 school year, school operations in the center of the village ended on June 22, 1983. On August 4, 1983, the Obertiefenbach school children and the other Beselich pupils moved into the newly built Beselich primary school on Schupbacher Strasse in Obertiefenbach.
Conversion of the building with the discovery of historical documents
Two years after the end of school operations, the large, vacant monument was used again as a parish home for the Catholic parish, which acquired it on October 3, 1985. During the extensive voluntary remodeling and renovation work, old documents and other items were found when removing the paneling in a classroom. The historian Marie-Luise Crone took these discoveries as an opportunity to record research on this in the book “The seven boys in Obertiefenbach - hereby handing this memory down to posterity”. In a document, seven schoolboys recorded their confession as loyal supporters of the Catholic Church and their Limburg bishop Peter Joseph Blum during the Kulturkampf on June 16, 1874 and also left other documents. These historical documents of the students give the school building an unmistakable historical meaning.
The owner of the mighty building is now the Catholic parish of St. Agidius, after its board of directors decided on August 22, 1985 to acquire it from the municipality of Beselich and the municipal council approved it on August 26, 1985. After the largely unpaid work has been completed for many years and the inauguration by the retired Limburg auxiliary bishop Walther Kampe on February 10, 1989, it is a parsonage with spacious rooms.
Todays use
On the ground floor of the old school there is a large assembly room with variable room division, a meeting room and a kitchen. In addition to the groups of the women's community and the men's work, these are also used by community members for family celebrations. The upper floor consists of two large rooms for the youth and the church choir , as well as a wing of the building for the Catholic public library . The 190 m² loft was expanded within four years by active members of the Catholic Men's Work, so that the Obertiefenbacher Heimatstube could be officially opened on March 14, 1998 . This only museum in the municipality with local history collections shows a large number of documents, pictures and objects from life in the village structure. Theme-related exhibition areas have been created that show the previous household, living and sleeping quarters as well as the objects and tools typical of the profession as well as local natural resources. In addition, there are objects from religious work, from expellees as well as representations and documents on the ruins of the Beselich monastery . Personal certificates and documents relating to the deceased honorary citizen and former Federal Minister Georg Leber are in a glass showcase, including the certificate of appointment as Minister of Defense .
literature
- Georg Wagner : Obertiefenbach in its past . Obertiefenbach community, Wiesbaden-Dotzheim 1954.
- Marie-Luise Crone: The seven boys in Obertiefenbach . Sheets about the Freudenberg Movement, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-928966-05-7 .
- Franz-Josef Sehr : 140 years of the school building in Obertiefenbach . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2014 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2013, ISBN 3-927006-50-5 , p. 95-98 .