Fritz Reuter School (Demmin)
The Fritz Reuter School (also known as the Red School ) is a listed school building in Demmin in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is after the poet and writer of the Low German Fritz Reuter named.
location
The federal highway 110 runs from the northwest from the city center parallel to the Peene in a southeast direction. To the north-west of Marienhain , the school building stands north of the main road on a slightly east-facing terrain that is enclosed with a fence .
history
The building was erected in 1894 and 1895 as a city boys' school. The first headmaster was Carl Goetze, who also worked as a city chronicler. During the First and Second World Wars there was a military hospital in the building . Mixed classes were set up in 1956. On November 7, 1962, it was named after Fritz Reuter.
Building description
The school was essentially built from reddish brick and is therefore also known as the Red School . It is a three-storey , eleven-axis building. The facade was richly decorated. The craftsmen also used black glazed bricks in the lower area to structure the structure horizontally. The two upper floors were optically separated from the lower structure by a cornice. The central part with five axes protrudes from the rest of the building; the two upper floors are emphasized again by pilaster strips with fighters . On the middle floor there is a medallion on each of the two outer sides . On the left is a mother teaching a child to spin . The allegory is supposed to symbolize domesticity according to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . In the right medallion, a child is being taught by its mother. This symbolizes piety according to Johann Amos Comenius .
literature
- Hanseatic City of Demmin: Stadtwanderwege , 2008, p. 28
Web links
- List of monuments of the Mecklenburg Lake District district
- Fritz-Reuter-Schule , website of the Hanseatic City of Demmin, accessed on December 8, 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '20.8 " N , 13 ° 2' 17.9" E