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[9] Station 9 - School building Schulstraße

Condition in 1901
after completion of the extension
The class of 1923/24 in the Schulstraße school building
with teacher Aichele in the classroom
Building Schulstraße 5
Since 1993, there has been a community kindergarten on the entire ground floor (Kinderhaus Sonnenschein). A general refurbishment in line with listed building requirements was carried out in 2022, and the new flats were handed over in 2025.

Description

First building planned and constructed as a school building.

The school building, completed in 1885 in the Swiss chalet style common at the time, was used as a school until 1956, then rented out commercially (Silenta curtain rail production), and in the 1970s the school rooms were reactivated as alternative classrooms. Since 1993, a municipal kindergarten has occupied the entire ground floor.
The decision to build was postponed in 1879 due to a lack of funds, and the building application was submitted in 1881. The addition of a third classroom was planned, but not until 1900.
A general refurbishment in line with listed building requirements was carried out in 2022, and the new flats were handed over in 2025.

The old school building in Dorfstraße is now used as a residential building.
Link to ward 16

Extract from the building description in the 1881 building files:

Ground floor:
Symmetrical floor plan with a classroom on either side of the centre corridor. The school desks and the teacher´s desk are arranged so that the light from the large windows comes from the left. The bright rooms with a high ceiling supported by pillars are reminiscent of the workrooms in a contemporary industrial company. Each room has space for over 70 children. They are grouped according to age: children aged 6 to 10 in the eastern room and older pupils aged 10 to 14 in the western room. A large tiled stove in each room provides warmth in winter.
Floor plan I. Floor plan first floor (upper floor):
Symmetrical floor plan with two identical flats for two teacher families with windowed flat end to the common staircase corridor. Each flat had 3 heatable rooms and a kitchen with pantry.
Attic floor plan:
Four rooms for the assistant teachers, four wood rooms for the large demand for firewood.


1901 Extension plan by chief architect Gutekunst.

Single-storey extension in plastered half-timbering at the rear of the school building: a hall for 85 children aged 6 to 10. The possibility of raising the hall extension by one floor had already been planned.

1901 Plan for the construction of a school lavatory
A new toilet building is also built together with the extension.

The old one had to make way for the extension. (Municipal archive A 102 school documents).

The increasing population made another school building necessary, which was completed in 1911.

See ward 17