The Hausmull factory in Puchheim-Bahnhof ensured that more and more people moved here.
A school had to be found for the children.
And they still exist today.
Puchheim-Bahnhof
- When the Hausmull factory went into operation in 1898, numerous working-class families moved to Puchheim-Bahnhof.
In the mid-1920s there were already 581 residents in the district - including many school-age children.
Often inadequately dressed, they had to travel long distances.
In 1928 the local council decided to build a school building on what is now the Green Market.
The 3400 square meter property was a donation from the garbage factory.
The committee commissioned the architect and later NSDAP mayor Josef Steindl.
He designed a building in the Upper Bavarian homeland style with a representative portal and a protruding hipped roof.
Construction began in the summer of 1929, and the opening was celebrated in January 1930.
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Extension of the school with school children playing in the playground in 1963.
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The construction cost 71,000 Reichsmarks.
The community had to raise the majority itself and take out a loan from the savings bank.
Two classrooms were built on the ground floor and a teacher's apartment and room on the upper floor.
There were physical education classes in the schoolyard.
There was a horizontal bar and a sand-filled jumping pit.
A contemporary witness remembers: “We did some exercises outside in the courtyard.
These were more gymnastic exercises.
Or a race. "
In the first school year, 61 children, who were divided into two classes, attended classes.
In the right classroom, senior teacher Anton Stieß taught the students from the 5th to 8th grade, in the left room teacher Magdalena Hofmann taught the students from the 1st to 4th grade.
After the end of the Nazi regime, all teachers were initially relieved of their duties in the course of denazification.
New teachers were tested for their disposition.
The headmaster was no longer hired.
As a result, there was now only one teacher for 150 children.
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Upper Bavarian homeland style: This is how the school in Puchheim-Bahnhof on today's Green Market was designed.
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And the population continued to grow: in 1954/55 there were already 224 children in the school building.
Part of it was housed in the basement as a makeshift.
In addition, the Puchheim-Ort community office moved into the building after the end of the war.
The schoolhouse was hopelessly overcrowded.
Therefore, the local council decided to build an extension for 337,000 euros.
The building, completed in 1955, had three classrooms, a teachers' room and function rooms on the ground floor as well as a school kitchen, a shower bath and function rooms in the basement.
Community chancellery in the kitchen
The school kitchen was never used for cooking.
Rather, the parish chancellery soon moved in there.
With the help of wooden partition walls, administrative rooms, a mayor's room and a waiting area were created.
Actually, this should be a temporary solution until a town hall of its own could be moved into.
But in the end the community chancellery stayed for eleven years.
Puchheim-Bahnhof got bigger and bigger, new high-rise buildings were built on the outskirts and in 1969 a 16-class elementary school opened on Gerner Platz.
In 1974 the Puchheim-Süd elementary school was inaugurated on Distelweg.
The two buildings on the Green Market had thus served as a school.
The old school house was converted into a youth center in 1979 for 845,000 DM.
Today there is a kindergarten there.
The extension building initially served as an alternative location for the secondary school.
The VHS and a citizens' club have been based there since 1987.
In 2009 the continuation of the old school was on the brink.
The local council decided to demolish the building as part of the redesign of the town center.
In contrast, a citizens' initiative was formed under the direction of Johannes Haslauer.
The "Friends of the old school building at Puchheim-Bahnhof" referred to the high historical and structural value of the building and managed to preserve the old school.
The series
In the Tagblatt, the cultural association d'Buachhamer looks back at the past.
The basis are the 22 stations of the history trail throughout the city.
Also interesting:
the two oldest buildings in Puchheim