Black earth (school)

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Schwarzerden is the name of the state-approved school for occupational therapy and physiotherapy and the Rhön Academy in Gersfeld . The birthplace is in the Rodholz district of Poppenhausen , Schwarzerden settlement, where the school was founded in 1923. It has existed continuously to the present and was a women's project for a long time.

The settlement yard in Schwarzerden is one of the alternative settlement projects in the early Weimar Republic with the goals of a youth-driven lifestyle reform . In 1922 Elisabeth Vogler and Marie Buchhold , who knew each other from their studies in Darmstadt , came to Poppenhausen after a failed project in Frankenfeld near Gernsheim, began with health care for working people, leased the black earth farm for agriculture and manufactured handicraft products with Marta Neumayer (Bastmatten and baskets). In 1925 they bought the farm, founded a cooperative and also started a children's air bath . In 1927 the gymnastics school opened , for which Rudolf von Laban was the brainchild of a “dance farm”. The gymnastics should be integrated into the social work, unlike in the parallel settlement Loheland . In 1928/29 the facility moved to the larger Bodenhof near Gersfeld. The state-approved school also grew during the Nazi era, partly in cooperation with the NSV . The feminine grooming approach was valued. The importance of agriculture receded completely.

In 1946 the school was allowed to run again and constantly expanded or reformed to become one of the leading schools for gymnastics teachers in Germany. However, the program often switched to new content. Until 1951 it was sponsored by the Schwarze Erde women's settlement ; today it is a sponsoring association.

In 2020 the school announced that it would move to Fulda . The old location in the Rhön is to be taken over by the Sonnerden cooperative for a multi-generation project .

literature

  • Ulrich Linse : Back, oh human, to mother earth. Rural communes in Germany 1890-1933. dtv, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-02934-X .
  • Ortrud Wörner-Heil: From utopia to social reform. Frankenfeld youth settlement in the Hessian Ried and the Schwarze Erde women's settlement in the Rhön 1915-1933 , sources and research on Hessian history 104. Darmstadt and Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-88443-196-X .
  • Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe: "The New Man": Physical culture in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . Würzburg 2004 (esp.p. 90f), ISBN 3-8260-2772-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Petersen: After almost 100 years: Physiotherapy school Schwarzerden is moving away from the Rhön . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , June 17, 2020.
  2. ^ Daniela Petersen, Jessica Vey: Bullerbü in the Rhön - Genossenschaft Sonnerden is planning a multi-generation project in Schwarzerden . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , June 14, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 12.2 "  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 38.4"  E