Bernheimer Realschule

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The Bernheimersche Realschule is a museum for Jewish history and Jewish-Christian coexistence in Buttenhausen, housed in a former school . The listed building served very different purposes in the course of its history.

Bernheimer Realschule in Buttenhausen near Münsingen

history

Lehmann Bernheimer (1841–1918), who came from the Swabian town of Buttenhausen near Münsingen (Württemberg) and had built up a considerable fortune as a merchant and art dealer in Munich in the second half of the 19th century, founded one in his home town at the beginning of the 20th century small foundation. For philanthropic reasons and in memory of his parents Meier Bernheimer and Sarah Bernheimer, who had a fabric and cloth trade in Buttenhausen, a secondary school for Christians and Jews was established. In the foundation letter of March 6, 1903, a foundation capital of 110,000 marks was set. The school with the teacher's apartment on the upper floor and the teacher's current salary should be paid from this. The house was built in 1903 at Zwiefalter Strasse 30 and inaugurated on April 11, 1904. The lettering Bernheimersche Realschule can still be found on the front of the brick-built building .

The actual school history, however, only lasted almost two decades, because the foundation's funds were already consumed by hyperinflation in 1922/1923 and the four-class secondary school had to be closed five years after the founder's death.

Until 1968 the house was used as a kindergarten which, with the exception of the years 1942–1945, continued to bear the name of the founder. After that the building served the community as a town hall. In 1992 the now listed property was completely renovated and handed over to the public as a village community center. From 1994 there was a small exhibition on the history of Buttenhausen's Jews in two rooms of the former teacher's apartment on the upper floor. In 2012, this permanent exhibition was completely redesigned and significantly expanded. In July 2013 it was presented to the public in a ceremony in the presence of Konrad O. Bernheimer , the great-grandson of the founder, and numerous descendants of former Jewish citizens.

literature

  • City of Münsingen (Hrsg.): Jews in Buttenhausen. Permanent exhibition in the Bernheimer Realschule. Münsingen 1994.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 36.8 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 48.3"  E