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Nové Hrady -The Czech School
Trail "People and their Landscape"
Where now is the school used to be the house # 30, erected by Count Buquoy in 1768. The house was called “The Pierced House“. Originally, the top floor was made out of wood, with the gable end sticking out over the front wall. Large carpenter nails were protruding from the free gable end, giving the house its peculiar name. In 1897, the wooden facade was plastered. At that time, the facade-protruding gable end was removed and with it, its characteristic nails.
Until the year 1918, the school was not split according the nationality of the pupils, despite the fact that the town was bi-lingual with a German-speaking majority. That changed after the declaration of the independent Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. After 1925, a public school with Czech as language was established. .
The facilities in both schools were problematic. Both buildings fell short of the standards for room size, hygienics, and safety. In response, in 1934 the well-known architect Milan Babuška designed a new school building in post-functionalistic style. It was built on the lot of house # 30. During World War II, education was halted. The school building was used as factory to make telephones, telexes, and radio transmitters. Only at the end of the war, elementary teaching was taken up again in the school.
In the year 1948, the Lower Technical College for Agriculture was established. Teaching started on Saturday, 4 September 1948 in the same building. It was announced as „the start of an innovative education for the Czechoslovak rural youth“. 