Nassau Institute of Agriculture

The Nassau Institute for Agriculture was founded in 1818 as the first agricultural winter school.

history

Wilhelm Albrecht (1785–1868) founded the agricultural school in Idstein in 1818 , which was then named Nassau Institute for Agriculture. The Institute for Agriculture had an animal hospital in the Herrenspeicher and an experimental estate, the Gassenbach estate .

Lessons were only given in the winter months, which meant that training could be brought into line with agricultural work. The Duchy of Nassau made the house Obergasse 16 available as the school's headquarters .

In December 1834 the institute was relocated to Wiesbaden. The seat was now the Hof Geisberg in Wiesbaden-Nordost . This was built around 1788 on the then deserted Geisplatz. The building owner was the Nassau Minister Freiherr Karl Friedrich von Kruse (1737–1806). In 1833 Wilhelm Albrecht acquired the farm and moved the Agricultural Institute there the following year.

After 1925, the farm evangelical education home for boys and the agricultural school were closed.

Teacher

• Carl Remigius Fresenius (from 1845)
• Carl Thomae (from 1835)

literature

• Christa Berg, Karl-Ernst Jeismann (ed.): Handbook of the German history of education, Volume 3 of the handbook of the German history of education: from the reorganization of Germany to the founding of the German Empire. 1800-1870, ISBN 9783406324680 , 1987 ISBN 9783406323850 , p. 308, online .
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Printing works Grandpierre In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Hofgut Gassenbach In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
• Geisberg farm. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of September 3, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 3, 2017 .