Landfrauenschule Metgethen

Symbol of the Metgethen school
The school in the 1920ies

Landfrauenschule Metgethen was a German women's school in Metgethen, which became part of Königsberg in 1939.

History

Founded by Elisabeth Böhm-Lamgarben, chairwoman of the Landwirtschaftlicher Hausfrauenverein Ostpreußen (agricultural housewives' association of East Prussia),[1] the women's school opened in April 1912 and served the province of East Prussia.[2] Its original name was the Kronprinzessin-Cäcilie-Schule; its namesake, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, visited the school in 1913.[2] Its directors included Irene Freiin von Gayl until 1919 and Marie Goetz from 1926-45. Although the school closed in 1945 amidst World War II, the structure survived the war and is now in Kaliningrad, Russia. The school had been associated with the Reifenstein schools.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gause II, p. 724
  2. 1 2 Albinus, p. 193
  3. ↑ Ortrud Wörner-Heil: Adelige Frauen als Pionierinnen der Berufsbildung: die ländliche Hauswirtschaft und der Reifensteiner Verband kassel university press GmbH, 2010

References

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