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This photograph shows a group of children about 13 year-olds standing outside their secondary school in Zurich. Note that many Swiss secondary schools were coed in the 1930s. The school is called "Sekundar Albisrieden" (Albisrieden secondary school). It is located, I think, in a prosperous part of Zurich. The photo was taken on Janurary 28, 1930. You can see the children's teacher, Herr Reiser, standing on the left. The class seems to be very small, possibly elite--only three girls and six boys. All the children seem to be very sportily and fashionably dressed. The boys wear pullover sweaters with white shirts, some of the shirts open, others with neckties. One boy wears a belt around his sweater which seems to have no function other than fashion since it is not holding up his long trousers. Four of the boys wear short trousers with either knee socks or long black stockings. Notice the boys sitting on the railing of the fence, one of whom wears long stockings and two of whom wear knee socks. We can't see what sort of trousers the boy sitting at the extreme left is wearing, but they are probably shorts, the style of the majority. The school seems to be Christian, perhaps Lutheran, since a cross is part of the decorative motif in the iron fence. The two boys at the right--one with long trousers and the belted wool sweater, the other with a sporty V-necked pullover, shirt and tie, with short trousers and long black stockings, seem to be dressed in the height of 1930s Swiss teenage fashion.
The school here is the Sekundar Albisrieden (Albisrieden secondary school). Sekundar means "secondary school. And Albisrieden is the town outside Zurich where it was located. We are not sure what the age of entry was, but we suspect it was about 11 or 12 years of age. A "Sekundarschule" in Switzerland is for elder pupils. Before World war II, most children did not continue on to secondary school. Many children did not continue their education beyond the primary level.
Albisrieden is a suburb of Zürich, located to the Southwest at the side of the Albis mountain, the well-known peak above Zürich ("albis" is related to the Latin word for "white", with snow in winter). There better situated people were (and are) living. The children seem smartly dressed which preflects their prosperous suburb.
This photograph shows a group of children about 13 year-olds standing outside their school. Note that many Swiss secondary schools were coed in the 1930s. You can see the children's teacher, Herr Reiser, standing on the left. The class seems to be very small, possibly elite--only three girls and six boys.
The photo here was taken on Janurary 28, 1930. The cold weather is onecreason most of the students wear long stockings.
All the children seem to be very sportily and fashionably dressed. The boys wear pullover sweaters with white shirts, some of the shirts open, others with neckties. One boy wears a belt around his sweater which seems to have no function other than fashion since it is not holding up his long trousers. Four of the boys wear short trousers with either knee socks or long black stockings. Notice the boys sitting on the railing of the fence, one of whom wears long stockings and two of whom wear knee socks. We can't see what sort of trousers the boy sitting at the extreme left is wearing, but they are probably shorts, the style of the majority. The two boys at the right--one with long trousers and the belted wool sweater, the other with a sporty V-necked pullover, shirt and tie, with short trousers and long black stockings, seem to be dressed in the height of 1930s Swiss teenage fashion.
Schools in Switzerland were strongly influenced by the educational systems in neighboring France and Germany. That influence largely followed language lines. And religion was not excluded from the state schools. Notice the cross which is part of the decorative motif in the iron fence. Here there is a difference between Germany and Switzerland. The principal Protestant sect in Germany was Lutheran. Zürich was Protestant, but inlike Germany not Lutheran. The great Reformer of Zürich was Ulrich Zwingli (1494-1531). From the Swiss Reformation (centered in Geneva and Zurich) grew the Reformed Church. there were diffeences between the Reformed Church and the Lutheran Church in northern Germany. The churches in southern Germany were more influenced by the Reformed Form. The Lutheran Church became very important in Ameruca because of all the German immigrants, but as there were relatively few Swiss immigrants, the Redormed Church is not very important.
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