Builders' School (Baugewerkschule) (1929)

Motto: red clinker bricks

Description

With the red clinker it should be presented, that the young builders are learning how to work with clinker and bricks. The building is characterized on the outside with areas of various use. On the west part are the main entrance, the teachers' rooms, the caretaker's apartment and at the top the auditorium with the large windows. A similar construction was built in Chemnitz, Germany.

In the middle of the school are set back the class rooms. In the far east, emphasized with a winter garden and a terrace, once the director had its own apartment with a separate entrance.

History

This school was built in 1929 and 1930 as an extension of the Builders's school at the street Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 39. The builders at this time were only male. Not far away was built a Girls' School.

Today the school is used as a kind of Gymnasium, called Oberstufenzentrum (Konrad-Wachsmann-Oberstufenzentrum).

Sources

• Denkmale in Brandenburg Baugewerkschule Frankfurt (Oder)
• Zalewski: Die Gunst der Stunde: Architektur der Weimarer Republik in Frankfurt (Oder) / Wielka szansa: Architektura we Frankfurcie nad Odrą w czasach Republiki Weimarskiej, 2018