oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2006-10 00032

[Werner Honkomp <werner(a)honkomp.de>]

Hello Margot,

I have the history of the School in Damme, it is a long story, but in German language.

About 1830 was in Damme two main schools (for boys "Knabenschule" for girls "Mädchenschule") each with only one class-room, together 2 teacher and 232 kids! 1863 started the two class system with three teachers, boys and girls are the first three school years together in a class.
In additional to this was there 13 side schools in the Bauernschaften(farm groups) like Borrighausen, Haverbeck, etc.
This was also only one class room for girl and boys, 1830 80-110 kids, but about 1870 only 50-70 kids because a lot of families emigrated to the States. There are trained teachers at the schools since about 1830, but all must have a small farm for live, the income was very bad.
Since 1866 has Damme an additional school "Höhere Bürgerschule" like a high school with several classes. After this school they could go to Münster to the education as a teacher.
I think, also the Heuerleute children could go to the Höhere Bürgerschule.

I hope help,
Werner

> I'm back again with what probably is another simple-minded question but
> the list members have been so generous with their answers to my other
> questions that I'm hoping that perhaps someone can help me out.

> What kind of education would the children of the Heuerleute in
> Oldenburg have had in the middle of the nineteenth century?  My great
> great grandfather (Johann Heinrich Bergmann) was a tenant farmer in
> Damme but only a few years after the family's arrival in the U.S. in
> 1870, he was on the school board in Stearns County MN and his daughter,
> my great grandmother Berardina, was the first teacher in one of the
> small district schools there. She must have had some kind of schooling
> but would it have been enough for her to teach?  I know that there were
> Progymasia all over Germany at the time but am not sure how the
> Heuerleute would have fit into this scheme or indeed whether she would
> have attended such a school.

> I'd be most grateful for any help in this area and/or suggestions for
> further reading.

> Margot King
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