Adult Education Center Alsergrund Währing Döbling
| Adult Education Center Alsergrund Währing Döbling | |
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| Founded: | 1934 |
| Address: | Galileigasse 8 A-1090 Vienna |
| Website: | www.vhs.at/alsergrund |
The adult education center Alsergrund Währing Döbling with its houses in Vienna - Alsergrund , Währing and Döbling , offers more than 1000 courses per semester.
history
The adult education center Alsergrund was founded in 1934. The corporate state adult education center was supposed to create an antipole to worker-oriented popular education institutions and appeal to a middle-class audience.
Under the National Socialists, the existing adult education centers in Vienna were completely dissolved in 1938 and incorporated into the German Labor Front, which created the German Volksbildungswerk to look after the people's education system. The entire operation was managed centrally and ideologically oriented courses and lectures were planned and monitored.
In 1945 the Viennese public education and thus also the adult education center Alsergrund with its branch in Währing started operations again. In the winter semester 1945/46, 188 courses were offered, which were attended by around 5,800 students.
At the beginning of the 1970s, after the merger of the adult education center Alsergrund with the adult education association Döbling, the regional adult education center Vienna Northwest was established.
House Galileigasse 8
In 1861, the City Council of Vienna decided to reorganize the orphan education system. Two model orphan colonies were established in Schottenfeld and Matzleinsdorf (also called orphanages I and II ). After the building of a III. The orphanage had been decided on, construction work began on the property at Galileigasse 8 on May 19, 1873. On October 7, 1874 the orphanage , which is exemplary in all its facilities (in the presence of the governor of Lower Austria , Sigmund Conrad von Eybesfelds ), was opened and for this occasion released a marble plaque referring to the municipality and Mayor Cajetan Felder .
The institute was set up for 100 so-called pupils . (Among them was the half- orphan Karl Seitz from 1880–1883 , and later, from 1923–1934, mayor of Vienna .) The orphans lived there until they were 14, then the management arranged for them to be placed at a job.
1920–1923 the building was used as a municipal supply house (for people unable to work and in need of care), 1924–1929 again as an orphanage (for around 80 children in need of secondary school, difficult to educate boys), 1929–1934 as the administration academy of the City of Vienna (advanced training center for magistrate officials), from 1934 as adult education center Alsergrund in the house Galileigasse .
The house was completely renovated from 1962 and reopened on October 25, 1963 by the City Councilor for Culture, National Education and School Administration, Vice Mayor Hans Mandl .
literature
- Erika Swoboda: From orphanage to adult education center. The development of the house at Galileigasse 8 in Vienna . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2012. - Full text online (PDF; 11 MB).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swoboda: From the orphanage to the adult education center , p. 13.
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Opening of the third orphanage. In: Wiener Zeitung , Wiener Abendpost , No. 229/1874, October 7, 1874, p. 1826, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Swoboda: From the orphanage to the adult education center , p. 15.
- ↑ Swoboda: From the orphanage to the adult education center , pp. 13–41.
- ↑ Swoboda: From the orphanage to the adult education center , p. 45.
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Remarks
- ↑ On the day of the opening, the house made a very favorable impression on all visitors . However, the washrooms have been criticized for the pestilential smell of the toilets . - See: Little Chronicle. (...) Opening of the third city orphanage. In: Die Presse , Abendblatt, No. 275/1874 (XXVII. Year), October 7, 1874, p. 2, bottom. (Online at ANNO ). .