Sorsum village school

Former village school and today's village community center

The Sorsum village school is a monument in the Wennigsen community . Today it is used as a village community center for the residents of Sorsum and is owned by the municipality.

It was the third school building in the village. The first was built around 1680 and burned down in 1720. Around 1730 it was replaced by a half-timbered building. The current building was built in 1891/92 by master mason Seemann from Wennigsen in red brick, which is typical of the area. The third school building had become necessary due to the strong growth of the village and cost the community at that time 16,001 Reichsmarks.

The school consisted of a large classroom and a teacher's apartment. When the Second World War broke out , the only teacher in the school in the neighboring community of Lemmie was drafted into the Wehrmacht and the Lemmier students had to attend the Sorsum school. Up to 240 children from Sorsum and Lemmie were educated there. The Lemmier schoolhouse was bombed in 1943 and Lemmie only got a new school building in 1949.

In 1946 two courtyard rooms in the teacher's apartment in Sorsum were converted into another classroom. The school was closed on December 1, 1955, and Sorsum children have been attending schools in Wennigsen ever since. Further renovations followed in 1957 and 1958. Between 1973 and 1979 a children's play area was housed in the building. Under the mayor Fritz Gevecke (author of the chronicle of the village of Sorsum) it was converted into a village community center and is still used as such today.

literature

• Fritz Gevecke: Chronicle of the village of Sorsum 850 anniversary 1130 - 1980 . Self-published by Fritz Gevecke, Sorsum 1982; P. 205 ff.

supporting documents

1. ^ Historical Association Lemmie: From 1677. The Lemmier Schools (accessed January 13, 2015)

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 48.3 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 48.4"  E