Shepherd School Wettin
| Special school for shepherds Wettin | |
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| Wettin Castle, Upper Castle, seat of the Shepherd School | |
| type of school | professional school |
| founding | 1955 |
| closure | 1991 |
| place | Wettin |
| state | Saxony-Anhalt |
The Wettin Shepherd School was the only vocational school for shepherds in Central Europe.
history
The Central Vocational School for Shepherds emerged in 1955 from the Vocational School for Agriculture. According to state requirements, the educational institutions in splinter professions should be centralized. Since the shepherd pupils had to be permanently with their flock, boarding school places were created. The theory lessons took place at the Oberburg in Wettin , the practical training in nearby Müelte . A stable was specially created in the village for the training of the shepherd students. From 1964 the central vocational school became the special school for shepherds. Up to 300 apprentices were trained per year. In 1991 the school was closed. Today the building is used by the Burg-Gymnasium Wettin.
background
In the GDR were sheep primarily for wool production held. In this way foreign currency for the import of sheep wool from Australia or New Zealand could be saved. This led to the build-up of 6,000 sheep herds with 2.65 million animals (entire Federal Republic of 2018: 1.6 million animals). 90% of the lamb was exported to the Federal Republic and the Arab region. Each LPG was obliged to keep a flock of sheep. Around 6000 shepherds were employed in the GDR, for which the shepherd school trained the next generation of professionals. After the reunification, the economic reason for extensive sheep farming disappeared and the sheep population fell significantly.
Movies
- Lambs for the Reeperbahn - Wettin and his Shepherd School , MDR, first broadcast on August 4, 2020
- GDR magazine 1975/05, DEFA, section on the shepherd's school
Web links
- The shepherd school on the website of the city of Wettin-Lobejün , accessed on August 10, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QA >, accessed on August 10, 2020