Secondary school
In the north and north-west of Germany, secondary schools were local or village schools that were built and maintained by individual localities on their own initiative, but - in contrast to angle schools - with official approval.
Depending on the area, the secondary schools were also called field, branch or peasant schools and, like the local or village schools, were part of the secondary schools because they had the same curriculum. In southern Germany, simultaneous schools were about the same as secondary schools in the north.
Such schools were set up, for example, when the children found it difficult to reach the local school from part of the school district or when it was overcrowded. The secondary schools also differed from the corner schools in that they had their own school buildings and had a secure position. Therefore, the hiring workers, farmers or craftsmen who worked on them as teaching staff could make the lessons their main source of income, thus increasing the social position of these teachers. Since secondary schools had a comparatively small catchment area with usually few children, the buildings were correspondingly small and usually only had one classroom, often only one room in the house.
literature
- Karl Adolf Schmid, Christian David Friedrich Palmer, Johann David Wildermuth, Albert Friedrich von Hauber, Wilhelm Schrader (eds.): Encyclopedia of the entire education and teaching system. Verlag R. Besser, 1865. p. 154 Keyword “Landschule”.