“The school house on the Sihlfeldstrasse was passed in the afternoon of last Thursday with a modest Ceremony of the city administration in the hands of the school authorities. Representatives of the city Council, the Central school, the circle school care III, and teachers found themselves with the people who have created the work, in the school house belonging to the gymnasium, where the city councils Kruck and Dr. Bosshardt addresses were given.”

This is the entry of a report, at 13. April 1919 in the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” appeared. If you researched a little far, you find, the almost all-knowing Internet, and you will out of it, that this was a Sunday. Between Sunday and in the newspaper referred to “last Thursday” three days … which means free, according to Adam Riese, that the school house Sihlfeld in the afternoon of the 10th. April 1919 was opened.

And this 10. April, values, readers, marks the anniversary of just in the morning Wednesday to the 100. Time! Believe it would be a little over the top, you enter in corpore to the common Canon sing a birthday ständchens. But to appreciate the building in this column, in all its facets, can and should be.

Fissler also left elsewhere traces

We pass the word to do this, first, again, the “Old aunt” from the Falk road (this is also because we were not in the in-house archive to find it), which is supplied in your article to the opening is also a pretty euphoric architectural arrangement and also a look into the future dared.

But please, read for yourself: “A tour offered the participants the opportunity to visit and admiration of this magnificent building and its impeccable interior, with all modern requirements to the construction of a school building are taken into account. Also from the outside, this Palace makes an excellent impression; it borrows many of the magnificent school-houses Zurich’s worthy of. The district in which it rises, at the former Schrägweg and the hard place, is built of light; this will change in the near time, and also the new school building has to serve a large residential area.”

The architect, is here praised, without attribution, is called Friedrich Fissler. The “buildings” of 1875 in the German Pforzheim-born, and in 1964 in Zurich, deceased ETH graduates and later city architect, dominate certain quarters of the city until today Fissler has also implemented the school-house, Hans Asper, and the orphanage Entlisberg in Wollishofen, the tram depot hardware and the Badi Unterer Letten in the industrial quarter, as well as the research Institute for epilepsy in a circle 8.

Plagued by a school gang

But we go back to the school house Sihlfeld, which not be concealed, despite the anniversary of the dark Phase experienced. Especially the years 1961/62 were no good. Namely, since in Aussersihl, a student gang on the loose. Police investigation revealed that it was the Delinquent to Sihlfeld-students, four of the Sürmel went in the eighth and one in the seventh special class.

In the output from the 13. January 1962 lists the NZZ their deeds meticulously: eleven Cloakroom thefts, six shop thefts, four Burglaries, three creep robberies, nine thefts from cars, eight thefts in school-houses, three of fraud and three thefts from bicycles, nine motor cyclists and seven velodieb steels, distributed in the city districts 3, 4 and 9. Particularly sensitive to cold: A Sihlfeld-comrades, the gang stole the books rack, “the he in the wood course in long himself had made”.

Tempi passati, which attracted 250 pupils in primary education, and 120 children gärtler, the go today in the multi-renovated and modernized Sihlfeld to school, be the majority of probably, you hear. The 100-year-anniversary. by the way, in June with a theme week celebrations, which will be carried out with the circus Pipistrello And finally, the question that arises in every school house: Who is the most famous disciple was? We say (without guarantee): David “Piu” Da Costa, earlier Goalie in the FCZ, today, in Lugano between the posts.

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Created: 09.04.2019, 12:55 PM