Forest School (Lauchhammer)

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Primary school "forest school"
Forest school, Lauchhammer-Ost, Germany 04.jpg
type of school primary school
founding 1931
place Lauchhammer-Ost
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 30 '5 "  N , 13 ° 47' 23"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '5 "  N , 13 ° 47' 23"  E
carrier Lauchhammer
Teachers 11, school year 2011/12
management Regina Otto

The Lauchhammeraner Waldschule is located in the Lauchhammer-Ost district . The building, which was erected from 1930 to 1931, is a listed building and is entered on the Brandenburg State Monument List.

history

After the merger of the municipality of Naundorf with the Lauchhammer manor district to form the new municipality of Lauchhammer in 1929, their representatives decided to build a central school that should take “all modern requirements” into account. The elementary school designed by the architect Heinrich Otto Vogel from Senftenberg combined functionalist ideas (built-in cupboards, display cases and washing facilities) with an objectified and neo-Romanesque-inspired historicism (round arches, window arcade, bell tower) and local style (saddle roofs, Lausitz clinker brick).

The school was built as a representative three-wing complex in a quiet, yet centrally located pine forest. The building should crown the landscape on the wooded ridge as a “school palace” and complete the village image. The facade was clad with red-brown Lausitzer Ilse clinker bricks . A classic schoolyard was not planned, instead the surrounding forest was to serve as a recreation, exercise and play area.

The auditorium and a drawing room were located in the east wing above the gymnasium . In the basement the kitchen, a handicraft room, the caretaker's apartment and a swimming pool were created. The science classroom, the rectors 'and teachers' rooms and the preparation room were located in the middle wing. The main entrance with the canopy supported by four pillars stood out like a portico . The central staircase was illuminated by a large flower window. The west wing contained a total of ten classrooms on the ground floor and first floor . Over the east wing and the colonnade, terraces offered opportunities for outdoor lessons.

After a 15-month construction period, the school started operating on December 20, 1931 and initially had twelve teachers. The first principal of the school was Mr. Hellwig. As a result of the steady influx of workers who were needed for the constantly expanding industrial operations in the area, the number of students soon increased considerably. In Lauchhammer-Ost alone, the population had risen from 4,333 in 1933 to 5,179 within six years. After a temporary standstill of school operations during World War II, the end of which was connected with looting of the school building, classes began again on October 1, 1945. The influx of expellees from the former German eastern regions brought a further increase in the number of students . The population of the place increased to 6401 by 1946 and so the number of students was 973 at times, who were taught in 27 classes by 28 teachers. Only a new school building on Naundorfer Straße in Bockwitz (today Lauchhammer-Mitte ) in 1954 was able to defuse the situation, which was associated, among other things, with an acute shortage of teachers and the loss of numerous lessons.

In the course of its history the school changed its status and name several times. The Lauchhammer-Ost primary school was located here from 1945 to 1985 . In 1985 it was briefly renamed Middle School Lauchhammer-Ost and in the following year, after a reform of the education system in the GDR, it received the status of a Polytechnic High School (POS) and was henceforth POS VI Lauchhammer-Ost . In 1976 the name Ernst Thälmann was added in honor of the communist politician who was murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 , but which the school dropped again after the fall of the Wall in 1991. Since then it has had the status of a primary school again. The name was finally given to "Forest School" on May 7, 2004.

Well-known former students and teachers

Web links

Commons : Forest School  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ a b School castle in the country . In: lr-online.de of May 8, 2004.
  3. ↑ a b Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on August 12, 2015 .
  4. ^ City administration Lauchhammer (ed.): Lauchhammer - stories of a city . Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-857-7 , p. 126 .
  5. ↑ School chronicle on the Waldschule website , accessed on May 12, 2020