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The Ratsfreischule between Pleißenburg and Thomaskirche, around 1850

The Ratsfreischule was the first municipal primary school in Leipzig that was not dependent on private charity and for children of poor parents .

history

The Ratsfreischule was founded at the instigation of the mayor Carl Wilhelm Müller and the superintendent Johann Georg Rosenmüller and opened on April 16, 1792. Karl Gottlieb Plato was appointed as the first director . The school began with 171 pupils. Since the Pleißenburg was removed from the list of Saxon fortresses in 1764, former crew quarters next to the Pleißenburg could be used as a school building. The adjacent street was named Schulgasse, from 1876 Schulstrasse and since 2000 Ratsfreischulstrasse.

There were initially three classes in which girls and boys aged 7 to 13 were taught. In addition to permanent teachers, theology students at the university also taught. The school gained a very good reputation under Karl Gottlieb Plato and Johann Christian Dolz , who was deputy director from 1800. The growing reputation of the Ratsfreischule in the city also prompted well-to-do parents to apply for their children to be admitted to school, as both discipline and instruction were considered far better than in private schools. For example, from 1820 Carl Friedrich Zöllner held the position of singing teacher.

After Plato's death, Dolz was director from 1833 to 1843. Louis Thomas was director of the facility from 1871 and probably until his death in 1878 .

The Ratsfreischule remained in Schulgasse until 1852. It then had multiple locations until it was incorporated into the city's growing school system and its numbering.

  • 1792–1852 Schulgasse (today Ratsfreischulstrasse) ( → map )
  • 1852–1871 north side of the Thomaskirchhof next to the former superintendent's office and the Küsterei of the Thomaskirche, then there the municipal advanced training school for girls ( → map )
  • 1871–1905 Zöllnerstraße 3 am Rosental (today Emil-Fuchs-Straße), Vereinigte Rats- u. Wendler Free School ( → map )
  • from 1905 Lessingstrasse, United Free School (Annen School), oldest school building in Leipzig built in 1865, today Lessing elementary school ( → map )

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Ratsfreischule, a memorial for its first two directors, the Plato-Dolz memorial, was erected near its first location (Dittrichring / confluence with Ratsfreischulstrasse).

  • The building on Schulgasse

  • At the Thomaskirchhof

  • At the Rosental

  • In Lessingstrasse

  • The Plato Dolz monument

Private free schools

Even before the Ratsfreischule was founded, there were private free schools in Leipzig. The Hohenthal Frey and Arm School was built in 1774 by Peter Graf von Hohenthal -Königsbrück in front of the Hallische Pforte for 60 children. In 1787, the bookseller Johann Wendler from Nuremberg founded the Wendler Armenfrey School for 60 children in front of the Grimmaischer Tor on the corner of Johannisgasse . This was later combined with the Ratsfreischule.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon , accessed on July 24, 2011
  2. ^ Werner Wendt: Contributions to the social history of Leipzig merchants in the 19th century using the example of Johann Marc Albert Dufour-Feronce (1798-1861), Gustav Harkort (1795-1865) and Carl Lampe (1804-1889) , dissertation Frankfurt / Main 2010
  3. ↑ see title page to August Wilhelm Zachariä: Textbook of the description of the earth in natural connection with world history, natural history and technology for school and private lessons. 2. Edition of the Eighth Edition, corrected to reflect the latest political changes . Second part. Edited by Louis Thomas. Ernst Fleischer 1872 digitized
  4. ↑ Multi-image postcard , accessed on July 24, 2011
  5. ^ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi: Leipzig around 1800 . Lehmstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-942473-03-3 , p. 311

literature

  • Johann Christian Dolz: The Rathsfreischule in Leipzig during the first fifty years of its existence. Leipzig 1841.
  • FE Helm: History of the urban primary school system in Leipzig. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Ratsfreischule , Brandstetter, Leipzig 1892
  • Eduard Manger: The Inquisition in the Leipzig Ratsfreischule: A contribution to German school history. To celebrate the centenary of the establishment , Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1892. - Reprint: Verlag Nabu Press 2010, ISBN 978-1141197873
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 487
  • Helge Voigt: Lived faith at the Ratsfreischule around 1800. In: Leipzig calendar. 1999, pp. 147-155.