School system in Dorweiler

The school system in Dorweiler shows the school system at that time in the small town of Dorweiler , a district of Nörvenich in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Düren .

The first school lessons were given in Dorweiler as early as 1822. A school building was only built around 1860. In 1967 the Catholic elementary school was closed .

In the early days of compulsory schooling for children from six to twelve years of age, which had been compulsory in the Kingdom of Prussia since 1794, the sextons mostly taught the children. The children from Dorweiler had to go to the school there about 1.5 km to Pingsheim every day . Consider the road conditions at that time, as we understand today that there were only dirt roads . It took many years for compulsory schooling to prevail in the villages. The children mostly only attended classes from April to the end of October, as they were used in the other months for field work and housework on their parents' farms. There were around 100 school-age children for Pingsheim and Dorweiler, of which only 80 attended classes .

In 1822, lessons began with the then 25-year-old farmer's son Johann Degenhard Anton. He taught in a room in his parents' house. It is not known whether he was trained as a teacher . At that time it was enough to be able to read and write. It is possible that the pastor of the Hochkirchen parish gave him the job . Anton did not receive a state salary until the mid-1800s, but lived on the school fees of his parents and the poor. It was not until 1852 that he received an annual salary of 130 thalers from the local council . At today's rate that would be almost 200 euros a year. For health reasons, Anton stopped teaching in 1857. He died in 1870 at the age of 73.

In 1858 the royal government decreed that Dorweiler had to be separated from the previous Pingsheim school association . For this, a teacher's salary of 180 thalers per year had to be paid and a school building with an apartment and garden had to be made available.

In 1865 a teacher named Wolfgarten was named as the successor to teacher Anton. Before that, the children went to school again in Pingsheim. In 1867 there were even knitting and sewing lessons at the Dorweiler School. By 1883 there were five candidates for a school leaving office, one school graduate student and a teacher in Dorweiler. Then teacher Jakob Müller taught the children for the next 40 years. He was followed by Georg Seifert, who stayed until 1940. Teacher Johann Wiese was his successor. After his military service, Wiese stayed until April 1, 1957. The last teacher until the school closed on July 31, 1967 was Gerhard Geßner, after whom a street in the town was named. He continued teaching after his retirement on March 31, 1964.

In October 1859 the town council decided to buy a house as a school building. In the 1870s the school building was demolished and a new school built. The reasons are not known. The schoolhouse still stands next to the Schützenhalle and was sold to a private person after the toilets had been used for the Schützenhalle for years.

literature

• 145 years of school in Dorweiler 1822-1967 by Karl Heinz Türk in Dürener Geschichtsblätter No. 87, Düren 2009, pp. 223–229