Losheim elementary school

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Elementary school in February 2013

The former elementary school Losheim is under monument protection standing monument in Losheim , in the municipality of Hellenthal in North Rhine-Westphalia , Prümer Str. 16, on the corner of Hüllscheider way. The current schoolhouse was built in 1928 and 1929 as a replacement for a previous single-storey building that replaced the future schoolyard. Losheim had its own elementary school from 1861 to 1968 .

history

In earlier times, the local church was responsible for informing the village population. It is known that Vicar Schommers, who died in 1836, was also employed as a teacher. At that time Losheim belonged politically to the Manderfeld mayor in the Malmedy district and also to the local Catholic parish there. This was only to change after the First World War , when Losheim came back to Prussia and Germany in 1921 from Belgium , to which the Malmedy district had fallen , and was assigned to the Schleiden district.

After Schommers' death, the vicarie in Losheim became orphaned , the right to bury fell to the mother parish and the parsonage fell into disrepair and finally closed in 1858. In 1861, Peter Simons from Golkrath became the first trained teacher to come to Losheim. With 46 years of service, he was also the one who worked here the longest.

The place, located on the road connection from Aachen to Trier ( B 265 ), with its branching connections to St. Vith ( N634 ) and Jünkerath ( B 421 ) was a traffic junction. In 1835 the post office moved from Schönberg to Losheim. Now craftsmen, postilions and service staff settled in the village, which resulted in the formation of an independent school in Losheim, which also included school children from the surrounding towns of Allmuthen , Hergersberg , Hüllscheid and Losheimergraben . After the lessons initially took place in Heinrich Balter's house, the simple school building, newly built for this purpose, could be used from 1865, which had a classroom and an apartment for the teacher. In some years the school hall took in more than 100 students from eight years, who had to teach the only teacher.

A few days before the municipality of Losheim was handed over from Belgium to Germany on October 1, 1921, the mayor of Manderfeld forced the school inventory to be handed over, had it loaded onto wagons and removed. Losheim had become a border town through the separation and was also separated from its grown environment. The station, Losheim had had a railway connection since 1912, albeit a remote one , had become a border station and because of the low traffic as a result of the new demarcation, lost its importance, as did the Losheim traffic junction in general, which resulted in the dismantling of a railroad track . Losheim was now dependent on considerable help in order to be able to cover his household. During this time, from March 1920 to March 1922, classes were largely canceled. First because of the handover from Belgium to Germany, then a lack of teaching staff and finally the lack of school furniture. From December 15, 1921 to March 15, 1922, lessons took place in the hall of the Balter restaurant with a board borrowed from Udenbreth , before it could be held there again after an oven was installed in the school building. However, the schoolhouse remained closed when the inn needed the tables and chairs for an event itself, as they came from this until the new purchase in the summer of 1922. The number of pupils had meanwhile halved since the pupils from the towns of Allmuthen, Hergersberg and Hüllscheid were no longer enrolled in Losheim.

To replace the outdated and now inadequate school, construction work began in May 1928 for a new building. It was already available to the children after the Christmas holidays 1928/29. It had two classrooms, one of which had a teaching kitchen, bathroom facilities in the basement with showers and bathtubs, a teacher's apartment and a caretaker's apartment. At the request of the teacher, a small stable was also built for keeping livestock, which was later converted into a garage. While the old school was demolished in the spring of 1929, the new building was inaugurated on July 12, 1929.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Losheim was severely damaged, the infrastructure suffered severe damage, and the railway bridges were destroyed. After the evacuation to the west at the behest of the advancing American troops, in the direction of Malmedy and St. Vith, only ten Losheimers lived in the village on October 6, 1944, before it was finally completely evacuated on November 19. At the same time, the school operations that had last been maintained by a teacher went out. With the start of the Ardennes offensive on December 16, 1944, individual Losheimers returned to their hometown, but the Americans took Losheim again in January. The village remained on the immediate front line before most of the evacuees were able to return to Losheim in March and April 1945. At the end of the war, the parish church was also destroyed and the school damaged, and lessons could not start again until April 1946. By July 1946 the school children from Kehr also attended the Losheim school for the first time. Finally, Losheim came under Belgian contract administration for the second time on April 1, 1949 and remained so after the practical completion on April 23, 1949 until the reintegration to Germany on August 28, 1958. Immediately after the handover in 1949, the German teacher had to leave the school, two Belgian women followed him to the recently renovated school. Now the Belgian school system was applied and the pastor was only allowed to take catechism lessons in the presence of one of the Belgian teachers. Losheim was again cut off politically, economically and in terms of transport from its German hinterland.

After returning to the Federal Republic of Germany, classes resumed on September 11, 1958 in a newly renovated building, the inauguration of which was celebrated on December 5. After three changes of teachers in quick succession until 1965, the Losheim elementary school was dissolved at the end of the 1967/1968 school year due to a changing school policy.

description

The former school building is opposite the local parish church. The two-storey L-shaped building is made of masonry on the ground floor and half-timbered on the upper floor . Top it is with a gable roof completed.

See also

literature

  • Alois Krings (ed.) On behalf of the parish with the assistance of Hubert Jenniges: 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. Festschrift on the occasion of the 500th return of the Chapel Foundation in Losheim by Georg von Vírneburg on June 24, 1486 , PRO D&P, St. Vith 1986, without ISBN.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 104 and 105.
  2. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 16 (picture).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 91.
  4. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 25.
  5. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 96.
  6. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 85.
  7. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 92.
  8. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 101.
  9. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 97.
  10. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 103.
  11. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 102.
  12. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 104.
  13. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 111 and 112.
  14. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 109.
  15. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 114.
  16. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 115.
  17. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 117.
  18. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 118 u. 119.
  19. ↑ Alois Krings (Ed.): 1486 1986. Losheim between yesterday and today. , P. 120.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 38.4 "  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 19.3"  E