Protestant schoolhouse (Dirmstein)

Former Protestant school house
Today a Protestant parish hall
Data
place	Dirmstein
Builder	Protestant parish Dirmstein
Architectural style	Late classicism
Construction year	1879
Coordinates	49 ° 33 '43 "  N , 8 ° 14' 47.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '43 "  N , 8 ° 14' 47.6"  E

The former Protestant schoolhouse in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein is a listed brick house with a sandstone base that was built in the second half of the 19th century. Because of its representative and standardized design, it is regarded as exemplary for rural school buildings at the time it was built. Today it serves as a Protestant parish hall .

Geographical location

The house is on the southwestern edge of the old upper village . It is located behind a walled front garden in Laumersheimer Straße 2 (once called “Hintere Gass”) at the confluence with the Affenstein street . Its eastern gable wall points to the "fencing school" at the entrance to the basement garden.

building

The building is a eineinhalbgeschossiger classical brick under traufständigem gable roof . The symmetrical facade facing the street has the usual central entrance in school buildings, which is emphasized by a risalit with a gabled dwarf . The rectangular windows are architraved and suspected of being horizontally; the equally designed portal is emphasized even more by its gable roofing. In the attic is the former school master apartment, a both sides of the risalit dormer has. Inside, a wooden staircase to the upper floor and one of the two halls have been preserved from the time of construction.

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, the Catholic schoolhouse , built in 1820, and the smaller Protestant schoolhouse, which was probably built only a little later, replaced the school, which had been operated across denominations for around a hundred years in what was then the town hall . The current building then took the place of the original building, which had become too small in 1879. In the second half of the 20th century it served the Protestant parish as a rectory before it was converted into a parish hall within the Protestant church .

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 .

References and comments

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. ↑ The names Oberdorf and Niederdorf for the two settlement centers of the municipality are derived from the location above and below at the Eckbach , which flows through Dirmstein from west to east.