Reckahn School Museum
The Reckahn School Museum is housed in the schoolhouse that Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow had built in 1773. It was the first two-class village school in Prussia and became a pedagogical model in Europe.
History of origin
School and school house
The landowner Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow wanted to make agricultural production more profitable through reforms. When he discovered that the educational level of the peasants and farm workers was insufficient to carry out reforms, he decided to improve the social and economic situation of the rural population through schooling. In 1773 Rochow founded a village school on his estate in Reckahn, south of Brandenburg an der Havel , which soon became a model school for similar institutions. (Another school followed in 1779 in the neighboring village of Krahne , where Rochow also owned a manor.)
He found essential support in Heinrich Julius Bruns , whom he had appointed as a teacher in Reckahn , and whom he later honored with the grave inscription: “He was a teacher!”. Numerous educators visited Reckahn and were inspired by the lessons practiced there.
The two-class system was new at the school. The first class was for the beginners who learned the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. In the second class, the advanced students were then also taught other subjects.
The schoolhouse was designed according to the most modern and progressive principles. The design probably comes from J. CH. F. Keferstein , who worked as a mathematician at the Brandenburg Knight Academy .
There is a large and high classroom on the ground floor . The other rooms were the teacher's living and utility rooms.
This house was used as a school for over 170 years until the end of 1945. From 1946 the school was housed in Reckahn Castle. The school house was inhabited by refugees.
In 1955 the school house became a day nursery. To achieve this, a number of changes were made to the building over the next few years. From 1980 the number of children steadily decreased. The crib was then closed in 1991.
Creation of the school museum
On behalf of the district of Brandenburg , the teacher Otto Günter Beckmann set up a first exhibition on the occasion of Rochow's 250th birthday to honor his achievements in school reform in Reckahn Castle. This exhibition was expanded in autumn 1989, so that the Rochow Show 1990 had 3 rooms, including a historical classroom. This became the nucleus of the school museum, for which the Reckahn community made the old schoolhouse available from 1991.
On February 26, 1992, the Reckahn School Museum was opened in the old school building . In one room has since discussed the ideas and historical impact of the school reformer of Rochow, the far greater detail the 2001 Castle opened Rochow Museum Reckahn received. Since 1996 the Potsdam-Mittelmark district has been the sponsor of the museum, which is run by the “Historisches Reckahn” association (chairman: Otto Günter Beckmann).
The school museum
In the former classroom, a school situation of a rural school in the first half of the 20th century has been reconstructed. Learning and teaching aids document the content of the lesson. Historical projectors document the use of visual teaching media.
Today the teacher's living room shows an exhibition about the life and work of Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow.
The classroom
Projectors as they were still in use 20 years ago
The calculator has not been part of everyday life for 40 years
On the upper floor there is an exhibition on the life and work of the first teacher at this school, Heinrich Julius Bruns .
In other rooms, exhibits from the history of the school, such as the equipment for physical, biological and chemical specialist cabinets, are presented.
Finally, the museum dedicates a room to the Great Army Camp from 1741. Maps, dioramas and other objects document this camp, which was a great burden for the villages and goods around Reckahn.
literature
- Förderverein Historisches Reckahn e. V., Reckahn community (ed.): Reckahn. The Rochowsche Gutsdorf in the Mark. History and stories from the village of Reckahn, written on the 650th anniversary of its first mention 1351–2001 . Self-published, Reckahn 2001, without ISBN.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/12335253/60889/Mit-der-historischen-Neuorientierung-der-Republik-bekam-Reckahn.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Heiko Hesse: "Suddenly Junker Rochow was a fine guy"
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 10.8 " N , 12 ° 32 ′ 38.6" E