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Picture on the left: Schildergasse in Cologne. On the right of the picture is the old police headquarters, built in 1808, at no. 84. © Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln mit Rheinischem Bildarchiv, rba_117449
Picture on the right: © Joshua Esters / LVR-Zentrum für Medien und Bildung
The municipal ‘Israelite elementary school’
A school with a state curriculum
Schildergasse 82, 50667 Köln
The Israelite elementary school was located here from 1875. Around 1909 it moved out of the building and in the following years occupied various sites in the old town centre. In 1922, it moved into a new building in Lützowstrasse, where it remained until October 1938, when the Nazi authorities evicted it. While a number of documents from the time in Lützowstrasse have been preserved, virtually no records exist of the school’s early years in Schildergasse.