Catholic schoolhouse (Dirmstein)

Former Catholic school house
Data
place	Dirmstein
Builder	Catholic Church
Architectural style	classical plastered building
Construction year	1820
Floor space	264 m²
Coordinates	49 ° 33 '45.94 "  N , 8 ° 14' 51.37"  O coordinates: 49 ° 33 '45.94 "  N , 8 ° 14' 51.37"  O

The former Catholic school house in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein is a historic stone house that was built at the beginning of the 19th century. It is a listed building .

Geographical location

The house with the address Affenstein 9 stands at 103  m above sea level. NHN diagonally to the street where, since the Middle Ages, the castle square belonging to the Affenstein castle , which was later abandoned,  was located. Today the building forms the eastern end of an approximately 300 m² triangular open space, which extends in front of the south portal of the baroque Laurentius Church. It is paved and is used as a so-called church square for parking purposes.

building

The building is a one and a half storey white plastered building under an eaves-standing half- hip roof . The simple facade of the ground floor with the entrance in the middle has rectangular windows like the entire house.

The top floor initially only contained a small schoolmaster's apartment. It was later expanded and provided with dormers , five of which face the street and two to the rear.

Building history

When the Palatinate came under Bavarian administration in 1816 after the Wars of Liberation , the school system was also reformed. This meant in particular the establishment of denominational schools . In Dirmstein in 1820 the Catholic and, a little later, the Protestant school building replaced the school, which had been operated across denominations for around a hundred years, mostly in what was then the town hall . Today the building of the former Catholic school serves as a residential building.

literature

• Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim . 2006.
2. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
3. ↑ Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . Chronicle of the Dirmstein community. Self-published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 461-463 .