Red School (Gehrden)
The so-called Red School is a listed building in the Gehrden district of the city of Gehrden in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony .
The former school building at Nedderntor 15 now houses a day-care center, among other things .
history
A school in Gehrden is first mentioned in 1630. The schoolhouse burned down in a major fire during the Thirty Years War . For a few years a room for teaching lessons and a bedroom for the teacher were rented from a farmer.
In 1646 work began on a new schoolhouse. The building, located between the rectory and the organist's house , was completed in 1652. This building also burned down before 1683. It was rebuilt at an unknown later date.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the school building was no longer sufficient for the increased number of students. According to the master builder Conrad Friedrich Wedekind, the building offered space for a maximum of 100 students. In 1791 there were 130 to 140 school-age children in Gehrden. In 1715 there were over 200. According to the teacher, he and the pastor were happy that about a third of them were regularly missing, since otherwise students would have had to be sent away.
The building later served as a poor house and was then demolished.
Old school
In 1820 a two-story half-timbered house was built as a new school building on Pfarrstrasse opposite the rectory.
Since the classroom soon became too small again, benches and stoves were set up in the sacristy of the Margaret Church. Classes for around 50 to 60 students took place there.
The half-timbered house on Pfarrstrasse housed the Gehrden School until 1874. Then the old school became the town hall. Meetings of the council committees took place in the former school room. The building was later demolished.
White school
Between 1872 and 1874 a spacious new schoolhouse was built at Nedderntor . The building with four classrooms and side rooms was also called the “White School” because of its paintwork.
The building was occupied from autumn 1872. First the middle class moved, these were classes 3 and 4, which were taught together. At that time, all Gehrden children attended this school. They were taught by a total of four teachers. The Protestant Church had the school supervision. From 1878, Pastor Justus Wilhelm Lyra was also the local school inspector .
In 1972 the "White School" was demolished.
Red school
In the years 1902 to 1904 an additional school building was built right next to the “White School”. Red bricks were used as building material , one of the first Gehrden industrial companies was the Seemannsche Ziegelei , which was established in 1872 on Gehrdener Berg . The new building was also called the "Red School".
Years 1 to 4 were taught in the “Red School” and years 5 to 8 in the “White School”.
Due to the population growth in the post-war years of World War II , there was again a lack of space. In 1952/53 a single-storey extension was built at the “Red School”. It contained six classrooms, a staff room and sanitary facilities.
In 1953, another school building was built in Gehrden on Am Castrum . It houses a primary school with 18 classes and around 400 students. There is another elementary school in the Langes Feld development area that was developed in 1990 .
For older school classes there is the Oberschule Gehrden and the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium Gehrden .
Until 2016, the “Red School” housed a municipal day-care center and the Gehrden branch of the Calenberger Land adult education center . In order to make space for another daycare group with 30 daycare places at short notice, the adult education center then had to move to other rooms on Hornstrasse .
description
The school building was built turnkey by the master mason Krull from Gehrden in autumn 1901. Krull had also drawn the building plans approved by the school board. The cost of the building without land or furniture was estimated at 40,000 marks .
The two-story building, which was erected parallel to the street, was 27.64 m long and 13.40 m deep. The brick walls of the building were erected on a quarry stone foundation made of Deister sandstone . The outer building surfaces were black glazed red bricks blinded . The off-center entrance area was accentuated by a portal and a single-axis bay porch. The roof with half hips on both sides of the gable was covered with red roof tiles.
In the building there were two classrooms each for the Gehrden primary school on the ground floor and first floor . A staircase described as an iron construction with wooden fittings led from the hallway behind the entrance portal to the upper floor. Iron stoves were provided for heating. To save money, the building was only partially basement. There were two schoolyards in front of and behind the building . Toilets and urinals were housed in a separate building in the schoolyard.
Two rooms for the private school , a conference room and a two-room apartment for a teacher were also planned on the ground floor . On the upper floor was a five-room apartment with ancillary rooms intended for a family of teachers. In the attic there was a large drying floor and a pantry for storing supplies. A separate wooden staircase led to the teacher's apartment.
In September 1902 a description of the Gehrden school building appeared in the Baugewerks-Zeitung .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans-Herbert Möller (ed.), Henner Hannig (arrangement): District of Hanover. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 202, as well as p. 107 (map) and p. 302 ( Index)
- ↑ History. City of Gehrden, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Rainer Piesch: Red School. www.gehrdener-ansichten.de, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Dieter Mahlert: Gehrden zu Lyras times. Heimatbund Gehrden, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ^ Rainer Piesch: Neuwerk and the brickworks. www.gehrdener-ansichten.de, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Friedrich Nölke: Good morning Mr. Teacher! Memories of former students from Gehrden, Leveste, Lemmie and Northen. Heimatbund Gehrden, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Our school. www.gs-am-castrum.gehrden.de, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ^ History. Primary School Am Langen Feld, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ About us. oberschule-gehrden.de, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Ingo Rodriguez: Crèche expansion: VHS and social station move. www.neuepresse.de , April 10, 2016, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d School building with teacher's apartment in Gehrden near Hanover. Master mason Ms. Krull in Gehrden , Baugewerks-Zeitung of September 24, 1902. In: Red School. www.gehrdener-ansichten.de, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 50.6 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 18.8" E