Sometimes a museum itself is part of a story: The local history and peat museum in Gröbenzell is housed in the old school.
The building has a long history and an exhibit was dedicated to it.
On the basis of this, the visitors learn a lot about the origins of the schools and the local history.
Gröbenzell
- The old school is known today mainly because of the restaurant and the local history and peat museum.
Whoever visits it will come across a miniature version of the building in which he is currently located.
The Gröbenhüter present a model of the old school in their exhibition.
It shows the house in 1925. But the school system in the community had an eventful history behind it.
Emergency school in the barrack
After the end of the First World War in 1914, the number of residents in the settlement on Gröbenbach grew steadily.
800 after the war became 1200 within ten years. But Gröbenzell did not become an independent municipality until 1952, at that time it partly belonged to Olching, Puchheim, Geiselbullach, Aubing and Langwied.
Where the children went to school depended on the part of town they lived in.
This is what Albert Meyer wrote in Groebzell's first chronicle in 1931.
So the children's ways to school were long.
After Olching it went along the railway line, not only in sunshine, but also in storms and rain and in winter through thick snow.
The third mayor of Olching, Alois Böhmer from Gröbenzell, therefore campaigned to ensure that the children in Gröbenzell could go to school.
He met with full understanding from the Mayor of Olching, Josef Tauschek.
In the former prison camp in Puchheim, a barrack was converted into an emergency school; it opened on October 1, 1920.
86 children were taught here, divided into groups in the morning and afternoon due to lack of space.
Stammtisch replaced parent consultation
At that time, the teacher Oskar Hartl found accommodation with his family in the Gröbenzeller Hof due to the lack of a teacher's apartment, and then worked not only as a teacher but also as a landlord.
An uncomfortable relationship for many a child, as the regulars' table in the evening always replaced the parent's consultation.
A little later, however, the barrack not only turned out to be too small, it was also dilapidated.
The rain seeped through the roof and a violent storm almost blew the structure over.
A beam would support it from this point on.
In September 1924, construction of a stone school building began, with Alois Böhmer as the client.
On January 3, 1925, 115 schoolchildren could solemnly move into the new building.
The school had cost 52,000 Reichsmarks, 12,000 were taken over by the municipality of Olching, the remaining 40,000 were given as a state grant.
But this building too soon proved to be too small.
At the beginning of the 1930s, the number of students had increased to 185, and in 1934 the 255 students and their four teachers were given four more classrooms in an extension, two of them in the basement.
After the war ended in 1945, the students had to leave the building temporarily; the Americans had confiscated it.
Until September 1945 the children were taught at the Grüner Baum inn.
In 1950 the number of students had already increased to 700 and another floor was added to the extension building.
Building was threatened with demolition
At the beginning of the 1960s, however, students and teachers left the building for good and moved to the newly built Ährenfeld School, which had 15 classrooms at the time.
The Gröbenbach School was added in 1969 and the third elementary school on Bernhard-Rößner-Straße in the mid-1970s.
The old schoolhouse is still standing today. After the students moved, the post office used the building until they moved to Olchinger Straße.
In the 1990s there was a threat of demolition, but thanks to a citizens' initiative the building was preserved and renovated.
The series
In the new series "Treasures from the local museum", exhibits from local museums in the region are presented in loose succession - as a substitute for museum visits that are not possible due to Corona.
When the pandemic subsides and museums are allowed to reopen, the exhibits can be viewed live.
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