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The School in Dolni Adrspach
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Until 1869, Adrspach’s one-class primary school was located in house No. 69 . As the number of pupils was increasing from year to year, the municipality had a new school building built in 1877. In 1894, the two-class primary school had three teachers and 108 pupils (62 girls and 46 boys). In 1930, two teachers taught 72 pupils. An important role in the teaching at the school was played by senior teacher Antonin Tolg, a chronicler and local historian. In 1921, after a lot of protests by local people and people from the immediate vicinity, an attempt to establish a Czech school failed. Only on the 24th of May, 1936, teaching in a Czech class in the local German school building was commenced. The class consisted of nine children (three from Dolni Adrspach, three from Libna and three from Horni Adrspach).
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From April 24, 1936 to July 16, 1936, the school was administered by temporary teacher Bohuslav Tosovsky. On July 16, 1936, Rudolf Novak was appointed new headmaster. The opening ceremony was held on September 20, 1936 in the presence of about 900 people who had come from far and near. At 2 p.m. there was a procession from the train station to the school accompanied with a brass band from the village of Machov. Then the celebration was opened by Mr. J. Barnet who made a formal speech. The celebrations continued in the hotel near the train station with music and singing performances. On December 10, 1936, the first Czech St. Nicholas Eve party was held here. The next day, the school children were given small presents sponsored by Baroness Nadherny, by the companies of Bata and Barton and by some other Czech citizens. On December 1, 1937, the post as a national history and geography teacher was taken up by Ms. O. Kocarova who also taught at primary schools in Chvalec and Teplice nad Metuji.
1945
Until liberation in 1945, the school had not been used for teaching for many months. At that time, the school served as a place for refugees’ overnight stays. After liberation, its ground floor was used as a barrack unit for part of the Adrspach garrison until the beginning of August when it moved to Horni Adrspach.
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The school year of 1945/1946 was commenced with 12 children in a one-class school on September 3, 1945. The headmaster was then Ladislav Rejchrt who was, however, transferred to the village of Martinkovice u Broumova during the 1946 summer holidays at his own request. His post was taken up by Antonin Sejvl, a primary-school teacher in Horni Adrspach. The school year of 1947/1948 was commenced on September 9, 1946 with 32 pupils.
The school year of 1947/1948 was commenced with 45 children in two classes. The teachers in the new class were Bozena Regnerova from Mezimesti and Ruzena Vackova (household chores). Starting from September 1, 1947, the ground floor of the school building served as the People’s School of Agriculture. The classes of this school were regularly on Wednesdays. Agricultural subjects were taught by chief forester Vaclav Lochman, girls’ subjects were taught by Libuse Komarkova from Teplice nad Metuji.
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The school year of 1949/1950 was commenced as a one-class school with 39 pupils. As from February, 1950, the post of headmistress was taken up by Bohumila Matoulkova who had been transferred here form the North Moravian Region. The present teacher – Jan Vejr – was transferred to the village of Vernerovice near Mezimesti. After the school year finished, Bohumila Matoulkova was transferred to her place of residence in Horni Adrspach and the post of headmistress was then taken up by Vlasta Javurkova who had moved to the school along with her family.
From the first of January, 1954 onwards, the post of teacher at this school was taken up by Vera Martinkova but she started her maternity leave the year after, on the fifteenth of March, 1955. The teaching in that school year was completed by Vilem Selichar who commuted to Adrspach from the town of Police nad Metuji.
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A newly-appointed headmistress and teacher in the school year of 1955/1956 was Helena Matejkova who had been transferred here from the Hradec Kralove District at her own request. In the school year of 1957/1958 it was Zdenka Hlavsova who had come from the Bilina District was appointed headmistress of the one-class primary school in Dolni Adrspach. That school year was commenced with 23 pupils.
On the twentieth of November, 1960, the school in Horni Adrspach was closed down and it was decided that its pupils would go to the primary school in Dolni Adrspach which would be changed into a two-class school. The first and third grades were taught by Zdenka Hlavsova while the second and fourth grades were taught by Vera Pavlova.
Antonin Tolg(1873 – 1963) of the village of Horni Drevic studied at the Educational Establishment for Teachers in Trutnov and as a young teacher he came to Dolni Adrspach in 1892 where he also worked as a member of the local council for two decades. Having been very interested in his native region, he kept the chronicle of Adrspach (until 1945) and published the results of his historical research in the Broumov Newspaper (The Tale of the Middle Mill (1922), About the Grave from the Swedish Wars (1926), About the Change of the “Rock Town” into a Tourist Area (1936), About the Pillory in Zdonov (1937).
The School in Horni Adrspach
1945
On the 13th of September, 1945 after carrying out the necessary repairs, teaching in Horni Adrspach was commenced by Antonin Sejvl who had been transferred here. The class consisted of two Czech pupils. On the sixteenth of December, 1945, Sejvl and 12 pupils organized a Christmas performance in the “U Horaku” Inn. After a short opening speech made by the teacher, all the 12 pupils took turns on the stage at reciting poems. After the performance, they were given some small presents. Antonin Sejvl worked successfully at this school until the 8th of September. As of that date, he was transferred to the school in Dolni Adrspach and replaced by Vlasta Zlatnikova who had been transferred here from Zacler.
On January 14, 1946, a kindergarten was opened in Horni Adrspach. The teacher there was Miss Jidnriska Vackova from Hradec Kralove who was however transferred to another village in this region in summer 1946 because of scarcity of teachers. Due to this transfer, the kindergarten in Adrspach was temporarily closed down. On the 15th of June, 1947, it was reopened in the local primary school building. The teacher was Mrs. Jirina Hinulova and the kindergarten was attended by 15 children. Nevertheless, it was closed down again as early as the end of July.
On the first of October, 1947, the number of pupils increased to 45 and it was necessary to open a two-class school in Horni Adrspach. The headmaster at the school was Josef Malek and the second lady-teacher was Zdenka Kratochvilova. In February, 1948, Malek was transferred to Martinkovice u Broumova and replaced by Ladislav Hlousek. The post of manual work teacher was taken up by Marta Krizova from Krinec near Nymburk. Due to scarcity of teachers in this region, she was transferred to the village of Janovice and the two-class school was changed into a one-class school again.