(German) Public School in Uherský Brod

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Státní okresní archiv Uherské Hradiště

Scope and content:: The fonds contains documents of the German Public School in Uherský Brod, where most of the pupils were Jewish children. This fact was also reflected in school correspondence, e.g. 1876-1877: in matters of tuition of Jewish religion, list of pupils of the Jewish school who want to study at the public school, complaint by the Jewish religious community about youths who overturned several gravestones in the Jewish cemetery, complaint by the headmaster of the Jewish school Lazar Riesenfeld about pupils fighting in the House of God; 1878-1879: exception from transfer of 4th year pupils of the German Jewish school to the 1st year of the public school due to poor knowledge of Czech; 1879-1880: tuition of Jewish religion in German; 1880-1882, 1885-1887: numbers and list of names of pupils moving from the Jewish school to the public school; 1882-1883: epidemic of scarlet fever in the Jewish school; 1890-1891: tuition of Jewish religion, names of teachers. Relevant information may be contained in the class registers and catalogues from 1872-1901, or the school chronicle from 1875-1901.

Archival history:: After dissolution of the school its documents were taken over by the museum in Uherský Brod, from where they were handed over to the district archives in 1955. They are currently kept in the State District Archives Uherské Hradiště. The fonds was arranged in 1969.

Administrative/biographical history:: The school was founded in 1872 as the Primary and Public School for Boys and Girls in Uherský Brod with German and Czech as obligatory languages of tuition . In 1883, it was changed to the German Public School for Boys and Girls in Uherský Brod and the school operated in this form until 1901 when it was closed due to a lack of pupils. A large number of pupils were children from the Jewish communities in Uherský Brod and Uherský Ostroh, but also other Jewish children from the whole district.

Subject terms:: Cemeteries; Cemeteries--Gravestones; Correspondence; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Students; Education--Teachers and professors; Health and medical matters; Health and medical matters--Diseases

Finding aids:: Jašková M.: Měšťanská škola německá Uherský Brod 1871-1901. Inventář, 1969, s. 55, ev.č. 418.