Old School (Serkowitz)

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The old school , the former village school in the Serkowitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul , is located in today's Strasse des Friedens 35. It was the first school in the village of Serkowitz, after the students had to attend the church school in Kaditz for over 250 years . After 25 years the school was already too small, after a new school building it was made a municipal office and a short time later it was rededicated as a private residence. The listed building was built in 1874/1875 by the local builders, the Ziller brothers .

Old school Serkowitz
Entrance portal of the old school Serkowitz

description

The two-story and five-axis building is traufständig the street, above a knee Stocks is a gable roof . In the street view there is a three-storey risalit with a triangular gable in the middle . In the risalit there is a coupling window made up of small windows on the top floor , including a normal window, under which there is an entrance portal on the ground floor above a flight of stairs from the schoolyard. The portal consists of a sandstone triangular gable with a round arch, which rests on two romanized columns. Above the arch is the inscription THE Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom . Set back in the portal there is a new, "poorly designed [...] arched door".

All window openings show the original arches, the new windows used there today, whose "original shape [...] was unfavorably changed by narrow bezels", have a rectangular format.

The facades have been simplified over the decades, "all jewelry has been lost." The formerly smoothly plastered surfaces and their structure "had to give way to monotonous spray plaster." "Round arch friezes on the gables and on the jamb [...] should be similar to the Althaus Bethesda [...] existed. ”The syenite quarry stone plinth with sandstone surround is plastered.

Two “beautiful linden trees” stand on either side of the stairway access to the former, elevated schoolyard area.

history

A school building has been documented in the village of Kaditz since 1617 , in which, as a church school, the parish, which is also responsible for Serkowitz, teaches not only the Kaditz and Serkowitz children but also those from Pieschen , Trachau , Mickten and Übigau as well as those from Radebeul and the later Oberlößnitzer Flur were. In 1835 the elementary school law was introduced in Saxony, which on the one hand introduced compulsory schooling and on the other hand enabled the municipalities to train from the previous school association by building their own elementary school.

In 1853, 79 Serkowitz children attended school in Kaditz. Since the daily way to school was quite long and the Kaditz school was overloaded with over 300 students, the Serkowitz community took the death by drowning in the Elbe of four children on the way to school as an opportunity to apply for their own school to be built. In August 1874 the Royal Ministry of Culture and Public Education approved the construction of this school. In the same year the community acquired a building plot and in November 1874 the foundation stone was laid. The local builders, the Ziller brothers , built the new school building by June 1875.

The building was consecrated on June 11, 1875, and 115 children took possession of their new school. The building had cost 27,200 marks , of which the ministry contributed 3,000 marks. In 1883, 270 children attended this elementary school. In May 1900 the local council decided to build a new school ( Rosegger School ) because of the increased number of pupils .

After the students moved to the new school, the Serkowitz municipal office , which had previously been in Albertschlösschen since 1891, was located in the building . After the incorporation of Serkowitz into Radebeul in 1905, the building was used for a short time until the new school building was finished, the secondary school with the Progymnasium for the Lößnitz as a transition building, then it was rededicated as a residential building.

literature

  • Markus Hansel; Thilo Hansel; Thomas Gerlach (epilogue): In the footsteps of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul . Architectural considerations. 1st edition. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-940200-22-8 .
  • Gert Morzinek: Historical forays with Gert Morzinek . The collected works from 5 years “StadtSpiegel”. premium publishing house, Großenhain 2007.

Web links

Commons : Old School  Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 35 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Markus Hansel; Thilo Hansel; Thomas Gerlach (epilogue): In the footsteps of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul . Architectural considerations. 1st edition. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-940200-22-8 , p. 146/147 .
  3. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 125-126 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 41 ″  E