Figure 1.--This is the Smiricích School in 1922. Smiricích is a Czech village about 120 east from Prague. It seems a typical Czech village school. The boys seemed dressed similarly to German children. Click on the image to see the rest of the school. |
We do not know much about Smiricích School at this time. It looks to be a primary school. We have a few images from the school. Some images from the Smiricích School in what is now the Czech Republic were taken just before World War I. This is interesting, because we have an image from the same school just after the War after which Czechoslovakia had achieved its independence. Smiricích is a Czech village about 120 east from Prague. It seems a typical Czech village school.
Smiricích is a village about 120 miles east from Prague. This would have placed it in or near the Sudetenland. Thus there were presumably Germans in the school. I am not sure what the language of instruction was before World War I. After the War schools were taught in Czech, but I think the Germans in the Sudetenland were allowed to have their own schools. I am not positive about this. Hopefully our European readers will know more.
We do not know much about Smiricích School at this time. As with many village schools, it was a coed school. It seems a typical Czech village school.
It looks to be a primary school. It must have been a firly large school. One class was quite large and there must have been several different classes for the various age groups.
We have a few images from the school. Some images from the Smiricích School in what is now the Czech Republic were taken before and after World War I. This is interesting, because we have an image from the same school just after the War after which Czechoslovakia had achieved its independence.
We see the a class of the school in 1897. Most of the boys wear suits. A few boys wear shirts and a few have bows. Most of the suits are knee pants suits. A few boys have long pants. Some boys are barefoot. Several boys have stripped long stockings. Many but not all boys have close-cropped hair. The girls wear different styles of dresses.
The image here was taken just after the War in 1922 when Czechoslovakia was a new independent country (figure 1). The boys seemed dressed similarly to German children. The image shows an all boys group. I'm not sure, but it seems that the Czechs after independence may have separated boys and girls in the schools.
A reader writes, "The Germans in the Sudetenland were allowed to have their own schools. It is possible that some German children attended the Smiricich School as well (where the language of instruction was Czech). After all, Germans lived not only in the Sudetenland, but the country was interspersed with German-speaking Czech citizens. The actual "Sudetenland" where the majority of the population was German, was located in the West, North and South of Czechslovakia. East of Prague (Bohemia) we had Moravia and further East Slovakia, areas with less Germans. The people today in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia are of mixed ancestry, like the typical Viennese who is of German/Czech/Hungarian/Croatian and Slovenian descent."
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