Catholic schoolhouse (Affaltrach)
The Catholic school in Affaltrach , a district of the Obersulm community in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built between 1911 and 1913. The building, also known as the village castle , is one of the town's distinctive structures and served as a denominational school until immediately after World War II .
history
Beginnings of the catholic school in Affaltrach
The beginnings of the Catholic school in Affaltrach go back to 1811, when the Catholic parish planned to set up a school in the extension of the former Capuchin guest house (predecessor of the old Catholic rectory ). A Catholic teacher who was already working on site taught up to 50 children in his apartment at that time. The guest house extension was ultimately too small, so that the Catholic community finally rented a house in the center of the village. When the numerically larger Protestant community in the village wanted to open its own denominational school, the Württemberg government approved money in 1829 for the construction of a schoolhouse for both denominations. Instead of a new building, however, the two parishes then acquired an old building, on the ground floor of which the Catholic school and apartment of the Catholic teacher and on the upper floor the Protestant school and teacher apartment were set up. In 1894 the Catholic community acquired the entire old school building. A rented apartment and the teacher's apartment were set up in the basement, the school hall and another rented apartment on the upper floor. The structural maintenance of the building turned out to be costly, so that the Catholic community acquired a tree meadow east of the village in 1909 for a spacious new school building.
Catholic school house from 1913
The new Catholic school house was inaugurated in 1913, the previous school house was sold to the winegrowers' cooperative in 1929.
In 1936, the Württemberg denominational schools were transformed into elementary schools through a National Socialist school reform. The Affaltrach Catholic elementary school remained a voluntary school for some time, but was then closed in March 1937.
After the Second World War, pastor Adolf Staudacher reopened a private Catholic denominational school in the building in 1945 after the primary school was initially closed due to the effects of the war. The denominational school was dissolved with the resumption of teaching at the elementary school in the second half of the school year 1945/46. The bourgeois community rented the property from 1949 and finally acquired it in 1967.
Today the office of the Evangelical Youth Welfare Office in Weinsberg is housed in the building at Dorfbergstrasse 24.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Text of the Evangelical Youth Weinsberg about the village castle
literature
- Martin Ritter: Affaltrach - a cath. Parish. Catholic parish of St. Johann Baptist Affaltrach, Obersulm 1999
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '4.4 " N , 9 ° 23' 7.8" E