Reifenberg primary school
The Reifenberg Primary School is a primary school in Niederreifenberg that is responsible for the students from Nieder- and Oberreifenberg . The two historical school buildings in Niederreifenberg are under monument protection .
history
The beginning of the school system in Reifenberg
The Reifenberg students visited a school building next to the castle church. This was too small for the number of students. The steep path from the valley up to the school was also difficult for the Niederreifenberg students in winter. Therefore the division of the school was planned. A new school was to be built in Niederreifenberg. In Oberreifenberg, efforts were made to acquire the Bassenheimer Palais as a school building. After the purchase did not materialize, the government of the Duchy of Nassau decided to build a new building in Oberreifenberg in 1839.
The first school in Niederreifenberg
On May 1, 1840, the order for the new building in Niederreifenberg was placed and the inauguration was celebrated on November 10, 1840. The single-storey school building had a floor space of 45 by 32.5 shoes (one shoe corresponded to about 28 to 32 cm) and a floor height of 12 shoes. In addition to the 23 by 30 shoe sized classroom, the house also contained the teacher's apartment with a chamber and stable.
The Usingen office had advertised the construction work by trade . Were awarded the contract for
- Bricklayer and stone carving work by Carl Rödler from Wehrheim with 629 guilders
- Carpentry Conrad Marx from Arnoldshain with 87 guilders
- Roofing work Jakob Matt from Hasselbach with 216 guilders
- Carpentry work by Johann Philipp Meister from Reifenberg with 299 guilders
- Locksmith work on Wilhelm Mann from Schmitten with 103 guilders
- Glass work on Gerhard Weishar from Usingen with 47 guilders
- Whitewashing work for Joh. Butterwck from Wehrheim with 149 guilders
Together, the construction therefore cost florins in 1930.
The new school in Niederreifenberg was an assistant school and subordinated to the elementary school in Oberreifenberg. The Niederreifenberg teacher (the teaching assistant Wolf) taught 43 boys and 36 girls in 4 grade levels in 1840/41.
The new building in Oberreifenberg
In the same year in Oberreifenberg, teacher Bernhard taught 33 boys and 39 girls in the old school building.
In the autumn of 1846, the construction of the new school building in Oberreifenberg began. The building was not a lucky star. First the roof of the shell was covered in a storm, then a flaw in the masonry was discovered. In 1848 the school building could be opened. As a result, the two schools were also organizationally separated. The Niederreifenberg School was an independent elementary school from January 1, 1849.
The extension of the first school in Niederreifenberg
On March 13, 1875, the Niederreifenberg schoolhouse was covered by a storm. The roof collapsed on the neighboring Gasthaus zur Post and completely destroyed the roof there. Due to the increasing number of pupils, a second teacher was hired in Niederreifenberg in 1878. In 1885/86 the school building was increased by one floor and a second classroom was set up.
The second school in Niederreifenberg
A few decades later, the school building had become too small again. In 1911/12, a new school building - today's old school - was built below the Niederreifenberg school. The inauguration took place in May 1912. This school building, which took up the ideas of the homeland protection movement , is now a listed building . The previous school was used for teachers' apartments. In 1975 it was sold and taken by Dr. Bauer used as a doctor's office. Since the death of Dr. Bauer 2012 it is a residential building. The house is a listed building.
Since 1924, rooms in the Niederreifenberg school were also used as the mayor's office. After the regional reform in Hesse in 1972, the newly formed large community of Schmitten only used the rooms sporadically and transferred them to the school in 1988.
On February 15, 1940, the schools were renamed. This renaming followed the amalgamation of Ober- and Niederreifenberg into one municipality. The Niederreifenberg elementary school became elementary school I and the one in Oberreifenberg became elementary school II.
The new school in Oberreifenberg and the discussions about a central school
In Oberreifenberg, too, the school had become too small for the number of students. In 1960 the new school was therefore completed. The school policy of this time provided for the dissolution of the dwarf schools and the consolidation of central schools, to which the children were taken by school bus . In April and May 1962, the municipal councils in the two towns decided in favor of expanding the two Reifenberg schools into a joint, fully developed school. For this purpose, the Reifenberg School Purpose Association was founded on January 23, 1963 . The 1st to 6th grade should be taught in the Oberreifenberger school and the 7th and 8th grade in the Niederreifenberger school. However, implementation was delayed because the acquisition of the land required for the expansion from the Hessian state forest was delayed.
Since a 9th grade was also to be set up, the district built a pavilion with two classrooms in the schoolyard in 1964 for 50,000 DM . In 1965 a two-story building was added on the other side of the school yard, which accommodated the heating and toilet facilities. It also served as a fire station.
In 1966, the state government finally rejected the plans for a center school in Reifenberg. Such a school should also have accepted students from Oberems and Seelenberg . But then neither the premises would have been sufficient, nor could one agree on a plan for a school sports hall. The harsh climate was also an obstacle. From 1967/68 the upper school was relocated to Fischbach or Neuenhain and from 1974 it was combined in the Königsteiner Taunusgymnasium .
The remaining two primary schools were organizationally merged in 1973 to form a common primary school in Reifenberg. However, teaching continued in the existing buildings.
The new school
In 1998, the Hochtaunuskreis as a school authority with financial support from the Schmitten community built the new Reifenberg elementary school on the upper edge of the village. Before the Second World War, the area next to the sports facility and the village community center was used as the town's garbage dump. During construction it turned out that the soil was contaminated and had to be disposed of at great expense. Both children from Ober- and Niederreifenberg are taught in the Reifenberg elementary school.
Today's use of the historic school building
The school in Oberreifenberg, built in 1960, was used as a company building after the end of lessons. Today the Montessori EcoSchool is located at the location , a private elementary school with an attached kindergarten.
The first school in Niederreifenberg is privately owned, used as a residential building and is a listed building.
The old school has been used as the house of the associations since 1998 and is to be sold according to the decision of the municipal council. As Mayor Kinkel explained to the municipal council on February 6, 2013 at the request of the CDU and the Greens, the municipal board is instead suing the state of Hesse for the protection of historical monuments to be lifted in order to achieve a better sales price. As early as 2012, the clubs were banned from using the caretaker's apartment and the tenant was given notice. Since then, the building and the outbuildings have been empty. The Frankfurt Administrative Court dismissed the municipality's action at the beginning of May 2015:
"As a building of central importance for the communal community, the old Niederreifenberg school illustrates key stages in local history."
First school in town (1840, additional storeys in 1886)
Old School (1912)
Old School (1912), view from Brunhildestrasse
Fire brigade / toilet construction (1950) in the schoolyard
Wooden school pavilion (1964) in the schoolyard
Reifenberg primary school
Reifenberg primary school
Today's primary school
In today's primary school, 8 teachers teach about 130 students. The school has 8 classrooms, a computer room with a total of 28 student workstations with internet access, a library, a parent's consultation room, two teachers' rooms, two teaching material rooms, a work room with adjoining material room and a large, separable auditorium. There is also an after-school care center for the supervised elementary school, for which three rooms and a kitchen are available.
Hall and sports facility
In 1968 a sports hall was built by the community, which was used for school sports and also for cultural events. The hall had a large hall, several meeting rooms and a kitchen for management. The cost of the construction was about half a million DM . Attached to the hall is the firehouse of volunteer firefighters Niederreifenberg. The adjacent community-owned sports facility "An der Weilquelle" was built by American occupation troops after the Second World War. The former garbage dump was leveled with heavy equipment, creating a level surface for the sports fields.
In spring 2010 the previous hall was demolished and the Hochtaunuskreis built a modern 2-field hall as a sports hall for the clubs and the school at the same location for 6 million euros.
From 2011 to 2013 the sports facility next to the school was completely renovated. A new cabin wing, a new tartan runway, a new long jump pit and one of the most modern artificial turf pitches in Hesse were created. A large part of the costs for the renovation was borne by the five local clubs JFC Eintracht Feldberg, FC Reifenberg, SG Oberreifenberg, TSG Niederreifenberg and the development association of the Niederreifenberg elementary school. The subsidy from the community of Schmitten in the amount of € 150,000 was a political issue before the local elections in Hesse in 2011 : Mayor Kinkel appealed against the corresponding resolution of the community council, but could not prevent the construction. This facility is also used for school sports.
Old Halle Niederreifenberg
Old hall, side view
Entrance area of the old hall in Niederreifenberg
Newly built Hochtaunushalle
The new artificial turf pitch
literature
- Sandra Kress, Dieter Griesbach-Maisant, State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Monument topography "Hochtaunuskreis". Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , p. 546 (school from 1911/12) and 549 (school from 1840).
- Bernhard Kärtner: The old school of Niederreifenberg, Issue 9 by Philipp Ludwigs Erben, 2012, online
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Old school building In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): New school building In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Reifenberg primary school
- Montessori EcoSchool
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Pieren: Problem case old school. In: Taunuszeitung. 29th September 2012.
- ↑ Does the court revoke monument protection? In: Usinger Anzeiger. March 27, 2015.
- ↑ The old school remains a listed building. In: Usinger Anzeiger. May 12, 2015.
- ↑ From place to place; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 15, 1968, p. 21
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