Here you are — a detour off Bahnhofstrasse into Schulstrasse/School Street!
I attended classes in every room. Here the teachers changed classes, the pupils stayed put. Where you see the curtains lived Oberlehrer Stapf, the Principal. His son Erhard Stapf and I played together as children and traded stamps. This school was destroyed during World War II.
[Editor’s Note: the small +sign beside a name indicates that this person was dead in 1983, when Manfred reconnected with his school chums.]
[Editor’s Note: the small +sign beside a name indicates that this person was dead in 1983, when Manfred reconnected with his school chums.]
[Editor’s Note: the small +sign beside a name indicates that this person was dead in 1983, when Manfred reconnected with his school chums.]
New school building — the complex now incorporates a former War Memorial from WW I. There were the names of two Jewish boys on the one tablet. They were the sons of our kosher butcher, by the name of Kahn. The Nazis had those names chiseled out.
[Editor’s Note: The names of Fritz and Leonhard Kahn were not chiseled out of the WWI memorial; instead, it is believed, the names may have been blunted as to be rendered illegible; after the war the names were restored and repolished and are to be seen intact in the WWI memorial tablets, which are now housed in the Cemetery Church.]
We lived in the little grey house, my grandparents lived downstairs, and we lived upstairs for many years. Note little door in the red house near the back. The structure on the right of the redhouse was the outhouse for the little house, no indoor plumbing. Pipes ran along the outside of the big house for it, and into the sump. It was emptied by hand by a farmer every so often.
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