Old school shell

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Street view of the old school building (2011)
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The old school house ( hdt . : old school house ) is a listed building in the municipality of Lochau , Vorarlberg , Austria and was built between 1760 and 1775 under the reign of Empress Maria Theresa . The house was adapted as a school house after 1774, when compulsory schooling was introduced.

location

The main side of the building faces west directly on the main road (L 1). To the north and east, the street Spehler leads past the house. In the north past the house, the Oberlochauerbach used to be open. This is now piped and no longer visible in this area.

To the south of the Alte Schulhüsle, directly adjacent (slightly offset to the rear), is the old school and to the west, on the other side of the Landstrasse, a few hundred meters away, the new school center has been for several years.

history

In 1774, Empress Maria Theresa issued the general school system in Austria and introduced compulsory schooling. In Lochau, teaching was first held in private houses until the school could start operating in the school building. In 1806 the building is shown in the Bavarian cadastre as a schoolhouse with a teacher's apartment.

The schoolhouse was used as a school until 1900, after which it was used as a teacher's apartment for a few years. In 1936 the newly built gendarmerie post was quartered in the school building. However, the post was dissolved again on September 1, 1938 after Austria was annexed to the Third Reich . After that, the Raiffeisenkasse Lochau, a tailor's workshop, a youth home, the chaplain accommodation and guest worker accommodation were found there for a few years .

The old school building is the oldest surviving school building in Vorarlberg. 1990 was based on private initiatives, u. a. of the Raithenauer Kulturkreis problematized the preservation of the building and a comprehensive renovation was carried out by the community from 1993 to 1995. The renovated building was inaugurated on June 11, 1995 as part of a village festival.

Today the Lochau local history collection can be found there as well as a cultural venue.

building

The building itself is bricked on the lower floor and designed as a half-timbered house on the upper floor . The very symmetrical half-timbering was only exposed during the renovation from 1993 to 1995. The house is about 14 meters long and 8 meters wide. The saddle roof is covered with old beaver tail tiles.

Originally there was a teacher's apartment on the upper floor and two classrooms on the lower floor.

Web links

Commons : Altes Schulhüsle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ObjektID: 1533, § 2a List Federal Monuments Office of January 23, 2019, GstNr .: .82 / 1.
  2. ↑ 1774 is written on the house itself.
  3. ↑ Address of the house: Landstrasse 25 in Lochau.
  4. ↑ Erwin Bennat: commune Chronic Lochau , Edited by the municipality Lochau 1986, p 75 et seq.
  5. ↑ In 1900 a new school building with four classes was built, which was inaugurated on November 6, 1900. After the Second World War , the population growth and the influx of around 600 South Tyrolean emigrants during the war made this school too small again and a new elementary school was inaugurated in 1966.
  6. ↑ Erwin Bennat: '' Gemeindechronik Lochau '', published by the community of Lochau 1986, p. 112, 115.
  7. ↑ a b c Erwin Bennat: Das "Alte Schulhüsle" , in: Lochau heute , vol. 15, 1995, no. 58, pp. 304–309.
  8. ↑ Sights , website: tourismus.lochau.at.
  9. ↑ Erwin Bennat: commune Chronic Lochau , Edited by the municipality Lochau 1986, p 101, 120, 126, 203rd

Coordinates: 47 ° 31 ′ 42.7 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 6.6"  E