Reyherschule

Reyherschule rises in Germany as a four-storey schoolhouse built from massive red brick. Seeberger sandstone columns frame its formal entrance, while the steep roof gives the building a strong, civic presence. The school opened in 1900 with separate west and east wings for boys and girls. Each side had its own entrance and classrooms, reflecting the educational customs of that period.

Inside, thirty-two classrooms were designed for sixty pupils each, alongside teachers’ rooms and a caretaker’s apartment. A cellar bathhouse with showers and changing rooms added a modern feature for its time. During the 1930s and the Second World War, as many as 1,400 pupils studied here each year. The structure suffered little damage, allowing lessons to resume in October 1945.

Over the decades, the school changed from separate institutions to a large polytechnic school, then divided again. After German reunification, it became a primary school and a Regelschule, while continuing its connection with Andreas Reyher, a seventeenth-century educational reformer. Today, children learn and play behind the historic brick walls. The west and east entrances still preserve the building’s original division in a single, memorable façade.