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We thought that Niedergebraching was an Austrian village, but it isin Bavaria. Here we have the parish school in the village. We are not entirely sure how a parish school differed from a state primary school other than it appearently was operated by the parish church. We have a photogrph of the church and the children with the parish priest in 1937.
A reader writes, "This is not an Austrian village and school picture. Niedergebraching was a rural village to the south of Regensburg in Bavaria. "Parish church / school" is the clerical community
church and school, roman-catholic. May be that in 1936 there already existed a state primary school
or protestantic school, I don't think so. All but about 3 percent of children in such a Bavarian community just near to the "stronghold" of Roman-Catholic confession (the very old bishop town Regensburg) in a rural area certainly were catholics. Children of different confessions probably went 1936 to the same school. Their parents could have taken them every day to a public school in Regensburg, but this was not very likelt. The full photograph shows that there was also a female teacher standing to the very right. It was not so bad as it looks like! Side remark, pupils of rural area in Bavaria and Austria certainly didn't look different in 1936, especially if a priest was also a teacher standing in the class photo! The "Parish school" was approved by the state authorities as an elementary school, not much difference in the curriculum; except strong emphasis on religious education. In 1936 the children there probably still learnt traditional songs and not the NAZI Horst-Wessel-Lied as in the rest of Germany."
Our German reader adds, "The class picture is listed under "Primizfeier H. H. Georg Kindl aus Niedergebraching". This means that the priest, H. H. Georg Kindl, had been introduced to the parish community for the first time. The children probably are the communion children, not a class (which may be the same under the circumstances of a strong roman-catholic community in 1936, who knows)."
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