kuk officer daughter education institute
The purpose of the Austro-Hungarian Officier's Daughter Education Institute was to facilitate the upbringing of their daughters by well-deserved, poor and poor officers or their widows on the one hand, and to give these daughters an education that would enable them to live in families of the higher and wealthy classes on the other to earn a living as educators.
A lecture by the President of the Imperial War Council, Andreas Hadik von Futak, to Emperor Joseph II on March 13, 1775 was the trigger for the establishment of this institution that apparently did not fit into the Imperial and Royal Army and the military institutions in Vienna. Count Hadik pointed out that sons from distressed officer's families could find accommodation with the army or in their schools, but that there was no social security for their daughters.
However, Emperor Joseph II saw the establishment of the Officier Daughter Education Institute as an opportunity to train well-trained educators for the daughters of the higher nobility.
admission
According to the " Regulations for the Hernals Officiers-Daughter-Education Institute " from 1859, Aryan, class and private donors, as the female pupils are called in these regulations , were accepted. 63 of the then 70 places in the institute were Aryan, i.e. financed by the military and were reserved for pupils selected by the military.
Only daughters of active officers between the ages of six and eight were accepted as military pupils. The family circumstances were decisive for the admission. Preference was given to orphaned girls - fatherless girls - motherless girls - both parents are alive. In order to be appointed by the emperor as an "arial congregation", the father's military merits also played a role, and the girls had to be Roman Catholic .
This restriction is seems to be departed from during a major reform, because from 1878 was Protestant military superintendent and university professor Dr. Johann Sebernig also mentioned as a religion teacher and between 1880 and 1891 the Greek-oriental Archimandrite and ministers in Vienna Philarates Iannulis (successor from 1891 : Savas Poppoviciu, military archpriest and consistorial councilor ).
In 1877 the admission rights were revised. So now there were girls who were orphans - fatherless half-orphans (father died or had a fatal accident while on duty) - fathers who had become disabled - motherless half-orphans - poor parents. In addition, “pay stations” and “semi-free spaces” (nothing is known about the cost of a pay station) were introduced. Girls between the ages of seven and thirteen were accepted.
In 1891 the two locations had a total of 234 free places through a wide variety of foundation places. The number of paying places and the number of semi-free places is not known.
financing
In order to finance the newly founded institute , 60,000 guilders were withdrawn from the soldiers' children fund with the approval of Emperor Joseph II and invested in a separate fund . The places were financed from the interest on the invested capital . Through donations , savings and additional profits , the share capital was increased again and again, which made it possible to gradually increase the number of places for the pupils.
The purchase of the house in Vienna in 1785 and its adaptations were financed by Emperor Joseph II.
Under Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth , the Hernals Institute experienced a significant financial improvement thanks to a donation campaign initiated by the Empress.
The institutes
The older of the two institutes and from the beginning under military supervision is the one in Hernals (founded in Sankt Pölten ). The Ödenburg Institute was founded by a private association and later taken over by the state military . Both institutes thus fell into the complex of military schools and educational institutions and the Hernals Institute is one of the military institutions in Vienna .
kuk Officierdaughter-Educational Institute Hernals
ierdachter-Bildungs-Institut was originally founded in 1775 in Sankt Pölten , but ten years later it moved to Hernals near Vienna on the instructions of Emperor Joseph II .
The increasing number of pupils repeatedly made spatial extensions necessary. Originally the girls were trained as kindergarten teachers, from 1877 as teachers and later also as kindergarten teachers.
In addition to Emperor Joseph II, Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth in particular were generous supporters of the institute in Hernals .
Hirtenberg Sanatorium
On December 17, 1879 presented the War Ministry , the 1852 by Viktor of Odescalchi (1833-1880) to the kk Staatsärar sold from 1854 to about 1875 as factory for gun cotton used and then renovated castle Hirtenberg at the Triesting ( Lower Austria ) as a holiday home for the Hernals pupils available. Karl Rosenberg (1861–1936) names the institution Sanatorium Hirtenberg in “The kuk Officier Daughter Educational Institutes in Words and Pictures”, a memory book for former teachers and students .
"The Saffron Princess"
Andrea Olsen's 2005 novel Die Safranprinzessin ( ISBN 3-426-62795-7 ) is partly about the officers' daughters educational institute in Hernals.
kuk officierdaughter education institute Ödenburg
This institute was founded by a private association that had to provide funding and had similar goals to the one in Hernals.
After disputes among the members of the association about the further direction of the association's goals, the institute was dissolved and the War Ministry took over the institute. A short time later, both institutes were organizationally merged.
Sankt Petersberg Castle (Tyrol)
The Sankt Petersberg Castle near Silz in the Inntal of Tyrol is mentioned on the internet as a former rest home for officer's daughters. It has not yet been clarified whether there is a connection with an officer's daughter's educational institute.
literature
- Regulations for the Hernals Officiers Daughter Education Institute . Court and State Printing House , Vienna 1859.
- Adele von Arbter: From the history of the kuk officier daughters education institutes . Publishing house of the institute, Vienna 1892, OBV .
- Karl Rosenberg: The kuk officierdaughter educational institutes in words and pictures . Self-published by the kuk Officier Daughter Education Institute Hernals, Vienna 1896, OBV .
Web links
- The Kalvarienberg technical school
- K. uk officier daughters education institute in Ödenburg - pictures from "The kuk officier daughters education institutes in words and pictures"