Langenlois Horticultural School

Langenlois Horticultural School
	Logo Horticultural School Langenlois
founding	1947
place	Langenlois
state	Lower Austria
Country	Austria
Coordinates	48 ° 28 '9 " N , 15 ° 40' 21" E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '9 " N , 15 ° 40' 21" E
carrier	Province of Lower Austria
student	about 150
Teachers	about 30
management	Franz Fuger
Website	www.gartenbauschule.at

The Langenlois Horticultural School is an educational center for horticulture in Langenlois, Lower Austria . It includes the Langenlois horticultural vocational school , a horticultural college and the horticultural master’s training.

history

In the period from 1903 to 1945 the wine-growing winter school in Langenlois was set up in the old farm yard in Haindorf with the bush garden - orchards, in the Vögerl wine garden and cut wine garden with underlay vines for practical lessons. It served as a branch of the Krems viticulture school , which at that time was still located in the Piarist building on Hohen Markt in Krems. 1938–1945: Accommodation of the viticulture winter school in the house of the school sisters in Haindorf. In 1948, on the initiative of Mayor August Kargl, the new state course center for fruit, wine and horticulture was built on the area of the Langenlois shooting club on the Rosenhügel. In 1951 the Johann Steinböck course center and the course and school operations with the relocated horticulture vocational school of the Lower Austrian State Chamber of Agriculture with the teaching nursery on Rosenhügel opened.

After the Second World War, there was a lot of catching up to do with the schooling of those involved in the war in agriculture, viticulture and fruit growing, which was offered in the form of courses (one to two weeks). Furthermore, during this time the agricultural training schools were organized in the larger towns, which were mostly run by elementary and secondary school teachers. The technical lessons were given twice a week by agricultural advanced training school teachers. The visit was initially voluntary. 1952, following the enactment of the Agricultural and Forestry Vocational Training Act of July 16, 1952, in agreement with the Lower Austrian Apprenticeship and Technical Training Center of the Lower Austria Chamber of Commerce, the multi-week courses with 240 course hours for apprentices and masters training for viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture were carried out, as well as the subsequent assistant, skilled worker and master craftsman exams. In 1960, with the introduction of compulsory vocational training, the courses at the horticultural vocational school in Langenlois were organized and carried out with a duration of 8 weeks. The courses at the vocational school for viticulture lasted until 1970. In 1969, upon request, the representative of Lower Austrian horticulture with chairman Alfred Kossak and horticultural director Hans Süß began with the agricultural school department of the state of Lower Austria and Dir. Ernest Ettenauer, as well as Dir. Helmut Hanten with the preparatory work for the organization and the curriculum of the horticultural school Landtag of Lower Austria created the legal basis. In 1970 the horticultural vocational school of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture was taken over by the Province of Lower Austria and subordinated to the agricultural school department, Department VI / 5. In 1971, the four-year horticultural school began with the 1st grade with students from all over Austria. It was the first four-year technical school with ten months of compulsory internship in a foreign teaching company, which was scheduled between the 2nd and 3rd school year. After this form of organization had proven itself in practice, the other agricultural technical schools in Lower Austria were also converted to this form of organization. In 1976 the training nursery was established in the area of the fruit growing test facility in Langenlois - Haindorf. Due to the steadily increasing number of pupils, the boarding school became much too small, so that the girls from the vocational school had to be accommodated in the abandoned advanced training school in Ravelsbach. In some cases, students from the horticultural school also had to be accommodated in the Weingartner inn and in private quarters in Langenlois. Due to these circumstances, a new boarding school and the redesign of the old building were absolutely necessary. In 1984 the foundation stone was laid for the new boarding school with Governor Siegfried Ludwig . In 1985 the construction of the boarding school began on the site of the former Stadtheuriger. In 1988 the new boarding school with 200 beds was built. In 1988/89 the rebuilding and renovation of the old boarding school followed in school classes, teacher's offices and practical workshops. In 1990, further expansion work and a redesign of the nursery and the construction of the green house in the boarding school followed. As part of the “Kamptalgärten” campaign by the Province of Lower Austria, the gardens on the Rosenhügel were expanded and modernized. In 1991, in cooperation with the State Horticultural Association and the chairman of the education committee of the Federal Association of Commercial Gardeners Austria, Rudolf Dallhammer, the master school began, which was initially carried out for one year and later for two winters. In 1996 the "Education and Graduate Association of Horticultural Professions" (BAV) was founded as the provider of professional training opportunities. 1997–1999 a training yard for gardening a. Landscaping on the site of the old nursery school on Rosenhügel, a greenhouse in the boarding school area for interior greening and as an event room, and the Haindorf training nursery expanded. In 2006 the gardens on the Rosenhügel became publicly accessible teaching and training facilities. Show gardens with observation tower expanded.