Stilklassen

The Berndorfer schools is an elementary and high school in the Lower Austrian town of Bern village, there are the so-called Berndorfer style classes. At the time it was built it was intended as a boys school ( today's secondary school ) and as a girls' school ( today's elementary school ).

History

They were opened in the year after two years of construction in 1909. The special feature of the two schools is the establishment, which was funded by Arthur Krupp. The architectural advice is provided by the architect Ludwig Baumann. Here, each classroom ( " teaching room") is built in a different style. Krupp wanted to give the workers' children knowledge of history vividly.

The Teaching Room

In each of the two schools, there are eleven classrooms, which are modeled on certain architectural styles in elementary school beyond even a twelfth. The architectural styles are also read in large letters in the respective rooms. Originally belonged to each classrooms and student benches, a teacher's desk and a cupboard in the same style, but not all are in use. The two school buildings are symmetrical on both sides of also financed by Krupp Margaret Church, and also the style classes in each school more or less the same. Smaller differences are found, for example, in the position of the door, or about the fact that the Egyptian room the boys warlike motifs have been reasonably expected, while the girls got to see the field and household chores.

The twelve style classes were modeled twelve styles of architecture. So there are:

• The Egyptian classrooms: The entrance to the class is a faithful imitation of the false door in the grave chamber to Eimisi in Dendera in Upper Egypt. The ceiling and wall paintings have typical Egyptian motifs.
• Doric classrooms: the bronze portal shows the gate at the Tower in Mycenae.
• The Pompeian classrooms: Theophil Hansen has delivered for designs in the style of Pompeii.
• The Moorish classrooms: The ceiling is an imitation of the old Moorish wooden ceiling in the University Church in Alcala de Henares in Spain. The door is a replica of the golden gates on the west side of the Mezquita - Catedral ( Mosque and Cathedral ) to Cordoba. The door pillars are borrowed from the Alhambra.
• The Byzantine classrooms: The model was Sergios and Bacchus Church in Constantinople Opel, now Istanbul.
• The Romanesque classrooms: Here the St. Procopius' Basilica in Trebitsch, today Třebíč, in Moravia was the model.
• The Gothic teaching room: with a beamed ceiling in the Tyrolean Gothic. The door frame is church in Steinakirchen designed based on the model of St. Michael the forest and the Church in Ptuj in Slovenia today.
• The teaching rooms in the style of Roman Renaissance: a replica of the coffered ceiling in the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne by Baldassare Peruzzi in Rome. The door frame is a side altar in the St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Pecs, today's Pécs, modeled in Hungary. The inlaid woodwork ( intarsia ) are those of the Certosa ( Carthusian monastery) of Pavia modeled.
• The teaching rooms in the style of Louis XIV: after models from the Palace of Versailles in France.
• The Baroque teaching room: with an input as it exists in Vienna Belvedere Palace.
• Rococo teaching rooms: located only in elementary school and is oriented to the interior of Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna.
• The Empire classrooms: modeled after the Palais Modena in Vienna.

Interesting Facts

With the establishment of the school by the way, critical voices have been raised that the children would be distracted from the lessons.

Krupp made ​​sure that the school has a central heating system was installed. In addition, there were showers for the kids - with the period a tremendous luxury, on the did not have the working population of the town in their homes. In addition, Krupp took care of what you would now call school health care: In the girls' school there was a Krupp paid dentist who inspected regularly the teeth of the students and possibly repaired.

Today the schools are in addition to the teaching continues to be a tourist attraction that can be visited in outside school hours.

Since they are intended for use in the first place, the schools are free to use the interior. In particular in elementary school today instead of the original furnishings, or in addition to set up modern furniture; the original, discreet lamps were replaced by large modern lighting fixtures 2008.