Schertlinhaus
The Schertlinhaus in Burtenbach was a rural education home for girls (1895-1939), a rural women's school (1939-1945) and a refugee camp (1946). It has been a retirement and nursing home since 1947.
history
In 1895 Pastor Ernst Zech and his wife Louise (née Mehl ) founded a school and home for girls from Protestant circles in Burtenbach (today in the Swabian district of Günzburg ) . For this purpose, the couple acquired the former governor of the noble von Scherte family, descendants of the field captain Sebastian Schertlin von Burtenbach, from the then lord of the castle and majorate Rudolf von Stetten . The school was so successful that it had to be expanded continuously. A large park with a promenade, tennis and sports field, berry, fruit and vegetable garden belonged to the area, as well as a small swimming pool on the Mindel . With Min. Erl. Of April 3, 1924, the training center was converted into a lyceum . A housekeeping and horticultural school followed the 6th grade of the lyceum.
The lessons were divided into the following subjects and teachers:
- Religion; a theologian
- German, history, geography, IV.-VI. Kl .; a Germanist
- English and French; a new philologist u. a seminar. Language teacher
- Mathematics, physics, chemistry; IV.-VI. Kl .; a main teacher
- German, arithmetic, natural history, geography, history, I-III. Kl .; 3 main teachers
- Needlework and gymnastics; a main teacher
- Drawing and painting; a certified subject teacher
- Music: piano, choir singing; 2 certified subject teachers
- Shorthand; a certified subject teacher
- School kitchen; a certified subject teacher.
Great emphasis was placed on education outside of school operations. You can read about this in the school brochure from the late 1920s:
“The schoolgirls are not separated from one another according to their age group, we want everyone to come to everyone in intimate contact, that the solidarity of the class does not set up rigid barriers to specialization and thus prevent the friendship of souls related by choice. This individual interdependence also exists with regard to the two schools combined in the Landheim, i.e. the lyceum with the housekeeping and horticultural school, which is already guaranteed by the fact that often pupils of the last already belonged to the first ... They relate to the little ones of the lowest classes Big as in healthy family relationships the older sisters to the younger ones. They help and guide them as valuable links in the sense of adults. "
In the mid-1930s, the then headmaster and son of the school founder, Markus Zech, tried to convert the girls 'country education home in Schertlinhaus into a Nazi girls' school . In this regard he noted in a memorandum to the government of Swabia:
"In view of the fact that, especially in Bavaria, higher education institutions for girls have to be created which, as public schools, offer an unconditional guarantee for the orientation towards National Socialist educational goals, it must appear desirable that existing private school companies should convert into public institutions Provide. It can only be undertaken if the local and spatial conditions meet the requirements or contain sufficient development opportunities and if teachers and educators correspond to the new tasks professionally and ideologically ... The Nazi girls' secondary school ... is a selection school. She absolutely has to collect the best German girls and give them the best possible training ... The importance of such a school, especially for girls, is greater today than for boys. Everyone who has to do with the education of girls (BDM experience) knows how a school without a home community is largely dependent on the support of the BDM education. But it is precisely this that requires suitable young leaders. It cannot be won through the Nazi school alone, but leaders for all areas of party work must grow up in it. Not as if such students in this Nazi school are to be preferred, but if they have attended such a school, they must be particularly capable of leading in the spirit (worldview) with or without office wherever they go. "
But things turned out differently, the politically responsible preferred a different type of school. On May 1, 1939, the Reifensteiner Verband , founded by Ida von Kortzfleisch , took over the Schertlinhaus and opened a two-class rural women’s school, which in 1940 was recognized as a horticultural training company. 50 to 60 maids could find admission:
“In accordance with National Socialist guidelines, the maids were closely integrated into the village community and were used by farmers to harvest hay and potatoes. French prisoners of war were assigned to work by the rural farmers. Nevertheless, this institution remained a foundation under wartime conditions that could never overcome the usual initial difficulties and achieve almost 'normal' training conditions. "
Schools ceased when the Nazi dictatorship collapsed. In 1946 600 refugees from Reichenberg / Sudetenland came to Burtenbach. Most of the refugees were housed in the Schertlinhaus . Soon after, the Inner Mission acquired the house and built a nursing home. In 1976 the old main building was torn down and replaced by a new building. Today the Diakoniezentrum Schertlinhaus - Burtenbach is located on the extensive area of the former Schertlinhaus .
literature
- Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 101 .
- Ortrud Wörner-Heil: Women's schools in the country. Reifensteiner Verband (1897–1997), Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-926068-12-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schulprospekt, Augsburg n.d., p. 21; archived in the Ida-Seele archive
- ↑ cit. n. school prospectus, Augsburg no year, p. 25; archived in the Ida-Seele archive
- ^ Memorandum on the establishment of a Nazi girls 'secondary school from the Schertlinhaus girls' country education home in Burtenbach; archived in the Ida-Seele archive
- ↑ http://www.reifensteiner-verband.de/Schertlinhaus.pdf
- ↑ Wörner-Heil 1997, p. 166 f.
- ↑ http://www.altenhilfe-rummelsberg.de/standorte_burtenbach.html
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '24.2 " N , 10 ° 27' 2.7" E