Diesterweg School

Linz, Oberösterreich, Österreich

Linz contemporary history: The Diesterweg School was built in 1931 according to the latest pedagogical ideas.

In the uprising of February 1934 the Diesterweg School, built in 1931 to incorporate the latest pedagogical ideas, was a fl ashpoint in the armed confl ict between the Republikanischer Schutzbund on one hand and the Federal Army and the police forces on the other. In the end the building was taken by the military. In the authoritarian corporatist state, the former Social Democratic City Council’s model school was renamed
“Dollfuß School”.