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. 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

• Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
• Gause, Fritz (1968). Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg. Band II: Von der Königskrönung bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs (in German). Köln: Böhlau Verlag. p. 761.