Elementary school

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The elementary school is in German school history a form of primary school . It is a used during the imperial period the previous term to our usual today elementary school . This term was often used synonymously for “elementary school”, but z. Sometimes it also stands for institutions that only allowed lessons in the elements of knowledge and ability and were therefore called elementary schools. The pre-schools of the grammar schools and other higher schools, including numerous private schools, were also called elementary schools. Upswing i. General Primary schooling took place especially in the period after the Reformation and the earliest schools of this type can be found in Wittenberg and Gernrode .

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Individual evidence

  1. student directory resp. Progress book for the elementary school in Obertiefenbach from 1862 to 1883
  2. student directory resp. Progress book for the elementary school in Obertiefenbach from 1883 to 1911