Individual Swiss Schools: Alphabetical Listings--A-L
Here you can search through our archive of Swiss schools alphabetically. Here you can easily check on a specific school. Many schools did not have names, but took on the name of the neigborhood or village where they were located. Some city schools took the names of the street where they were located. We have several schools archived, but of course is only a small fraction of Swiss schools. We incourage readers to contrinute any information they can recall about their schools. Here photographs are wonderful, but not absolutely required. These individual school pages help expand our coverage and understanding both about the academic program as well as school fashions in the many different schools around the country. Raders who find their schools in our archive are incouraged to add information about the school.Some information is available on individual Swiss schools, showing both the various styles worn by the boys and available information on the school regulations. The information is abstracted from the available images, but some information is available on the several different schools. We have archived schools from both the French- and German-speaking catons. It is likely that boys in the Italian catons also wore smocks, but HBC at this time does not have any information on these schools.
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The Adliswil School look to be a primary school. It is town in the district of Horgen in the Zürich Canton. Adliswil is located in the Sihl River valley. Adliswil is the only town in the Canton which has a cablecar (Felseneggbahn) connecting the town to the Felsenegg. The school has the named of the town. We have impages showing the classes in three different periods.
This photograph shows a group of 16-year-olds standing outside their secondary school in Zurich. The school is called "Sekundar Albisrieden" (Albisrieden secondary school). It is located, I think, in a prosperous part of Zurich. The photo was taken on Janurary 28, 1930. You can see the children's teacher, Herr Reiser, standing on the left. The class seems to be very small, possibly elite--only three girls and six boys. All the children seem to be very sportily and fashionably dressed. The boys wear pullover sweaters with white shirts, some of the shirts open, others with neckties. One boy wears a belt around his sweater which seems to have no function other than fashion since it is not holding up his long trousers. Four of the boys wear short trousers with either knee socks or long black stockings. Notice the boys sitting on the railing of the fence, one of whom wears long stockings and two of whom wear knee
socks. We can't see what sort of trousers the boy sitting at the extreme left is wearing, but they are probably shorts, the style of the majority. The school seems to be Christian, perhaps Lutheran, since a cross is part of the decorative motif in the iron fence. The two boys at the right--one with long trousers and the belted wool sweater, the other with a sporty V-necked pullover, shirt and tie, with short trousers and long black stockings, seem to be dressed in the height of 1930s Swiss teenage fashion.
This class portrit was taken November 5, 1928 at the Andelfingen School in Switzerland (Zurich canton). This is a relatively small class, perhaps because the town of Andelfingen is rather small. All the boys wear short trousers or knee pants, but none of the boys wears a tie. Two boys wears knee socks (one of these seems to be dressed for rugby
or soccer with his striped jersey); the others wear black long stockings. Notice that most of the girls wear pigtails.
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The Bäretswil School was located in the town of Bäretswill. There were two schools there in 1944. One with the
same name as the town, the other known as the Oberglatt School. We do not know if these schools still exist. Now there is a Kinfderkaten, primary, and secondary school at Bäretswil. We note various portraits at thec
Bäretswil School. Bäretswil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in Zürich Canton. We know virtually nothing about the town at this time. Perhaps our Swiss readers will be able o provide some information.
Bauma is a village in the Zurich canton. It must be fairly small because there is only one public school there with the same name as the town. The picture was taken on November 17, 1947. The children seem to be about 10 years old (4th graders, probably). Their teacher was Frau M. Egli, standing in the back row. Most of the children seem to be wearing long stockings, both boys and girls. But one boy kneeling in the front row wears plus fours with knee socks. The girls wear pinafores for the most part, but the boys wear pullover sweaters and short trousers. Two of the boys are wearing suit jackets. Notice the boy in the second row, fifth from the right, who is wearing short trousers that are a little too short to cover the gap between the tops of his brown cotton stockings and the hem of the trousers. He is obvious wearing supporters.
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This photo was taken October 28, 1950 in Winterthur, Switzerland. It is located in the Zurich canton, but is a large enough town to have several schools. This particular school is called the Eicheliacker School. The class shown here are Kindergarteners or first graders, about 5-6 years old. Notice the toys on the floor, dolls and
a small dog. This probably means that it was a Kindergarten. The boys wear short trousers with long cotton stockings, mostly beige or light brown in color. Notice the hose supporter clasps on the stockings of the boy kneeling at the extreme right. The garter buttons are close together on both legs, which means that he is wearing
supporters with double pendants similar to those worn by American children but less common in Europe. The teacher standing at the back to the left is Frau Weber. Some of the girls are wearing pinafores. One boy in the third row (five children from the right) seems to be wearing a pinafore as well. This also suggests that it is a Kindergarten. (In the French cantons it was more common for boys to wear pinafores.) This could be a girl with short hair, but I think it is a boy. Notice his pullover sweater with a chest pattern underneath. Or, possibly, he is wearing bib shorts like the boy in the first row (third from the left). The boy with the hose supporters
showing at the right wears suspenders with his short pants and a sweater tucked into them.
The Evangelische Lehranstalt i a private school located in Schiers. A reader writes, "At age 12 in 1948 I began boarding school and went to the same school for 8 years. This was not as common in Switzerland and other European countries as it was in Britain so I thought I write you a few notes about my years at the boardingschool. It was an all boys' school. It was called "Evangelische Lehranstalt, Schiers." There were about 350 boys boarding there from the ages of 11 to about 19 years old. We were housed by age. I was about 11 years old when I got there and I had to share my room with three other boys. Discipline was strict and our daily schedules were coordinated from morning utill bed-time. This was a dramatic change for me. Surrounded by 350 boys from all over Switzerland, far away from home, required considerable adjustment on my part."
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This is the Glattfelden Secondary School in Glattfelden, Switzerland, a village in the Zurich canton. The photo was taken on November 19th, 1942, in the middle of World War II. There are two teachers, Herr Jean Thalmann (in the bow tie) and Herr Leuthold (in the four-in-hand tie). The class seems to be of mixed ages, which may account for the fact that two teachers appear in the same photo. Some of the children are at least 12 and maybe even 13, while others look younger, perhaps eleven. Two girls in the second row look as though they could be as young as ten. Most of the boys wear long stockings with short trousers, but at least two of the boys wear knee socks. One boy (front row) seems to have on baggy knickers or plus fours. Many of the girls wear pinafores, but not all of them. We see a few suit jackets among the boys, but most of them wear sweaters with shirts underneath. Some of the boys wear boots (like the boy with bare knees sitting at the extreme right), while others wear low cut dress leather shoes (like the two boys with long stockings sitting or kneeling at the extreme left in front). Most of the children, both boys and girls, seem to wear brown long stockings rather than black or tan. Notice the zipper sweaters that open to half way down the chest. The boy kneeling on one knee at the left illustrates how long stockings had to be to cover the leg when the style was for rather brief short trousers. Notice that the shorts no longer seem to have the ornamental buttons that were common in the 1920s and 1930s.
Figure 1.-- The Haslen school is a state primary school located in the village of the same name. It is Appenzell Innerrhoden Canton. We see the children in 2008 coming to school in comfortable trendy clothing. This has been a trend since the 1970s in Europe, including Switzerland. Many children wear coloful "T'-shirts and shorts when the weather turms warm. Sandals are popular and a few children come to school barefoot. That is something you do not see in the rest of Europe and in the French-speaking cantons.
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Haslen School (Appenzell Innerrhoden Canton)
The Haslen school is a state primary school located in the village of the same name. It is Appenzell Innerrhoden Canton. We see the children in 2008 coming to school in comfortable trendy clothing. This has been a trend since the 1970s in Europe, including Switzerland. Many children wear coloful "T'-shirts and shorts when the weather turms warm. Sandals are popular and a few children come to school barefoot. That is something you do not see in the rest of Europe and in the French-speaking cantons.
This class portrait was taken at the Hemelshausen School in Hinwil, Switzerland, a village close to Zurich. This is a third-grade class, which means that the children would be about eight years old, although the boy sitting on the ground on the extreme left looks more like nine or ten to me. The young teacher standing at the back and wearing horn-rimmed glasses is Herr Widmer. The date of the photo is 25 November 1938 just before
World War II started. The boys are wearing mostly sweaters with their short trousers. All the children are wearing long stockings since it is a chilly fall day (no leaves on the trees outside the school). Two
of the boys in the front row and two others in the second row are wearing short trousers suits with matching jackets and short pants. The older-looking heavy-set boy sitting at the extreme left is a bit
more dressed up than the others with a shirt, sweater and necktie under his jacket. All the children wear long woolen stockings with Strapsleibchen. Some of the stockings are black, but the newer fashion for brown stockings is already observable. Notice the pigtail hairstyle of many of the girls, with white ribbon bows at the ends.
One of the girls wears a halter style skirt over her pullover. One boy in the second row on the right wears a plaid pullover with a collar. Some of the sweaters have fronts that button from the middle chest to
the neck.
Here we see the a class at the Hinwil Schoolin Zurich canton (February 1, 1955). The girls and boys here look about eleven or twelve years old to me. Most of the boys wear baggy knickers, but three boys in the lower right hand corner wear long stockings. Two of the boys are obviously brothers, and they look to me like identical twins. Notice that they are dressed identically in the same color of shorts, with identical pullover sweaters and tan or grey long stockings, pretty clearly heavy woolen stockings obviously worn with a Strapsleibchen for supporters. Note that the third boy from the right (second row), who is wearing knickers, has on ankle-length long underwear since the season is winter. The boys all wear sweaters. The girls mostly wear pinafores, usually on top of sweaters. The teacher standing at the rear left with glasses and a plaid woolen blouse is not named, but the young man with jacket and tie at the right is Herr M. Zimmermann. Again we see the style of woolen ankle socks worn over other hosiery and turned down over hiking boots.
Hombrecthtikon was a town near Zurich in the Zurich canton. The photos were taken at Hombrechtikon School in Hombrechtikon. Swiss scholls did not normally have names unless there was more than one comparable school inthe town or village. These children are in the 6th-year class, which would make them about 11-years old. The teacher, standing at the back on the right, is Herr A. Moser. The class portrait was taken on February 27, 1941. The happy faces reflect very little sense that World War II was by then in full progress. Nearly all the boys wear pullover sweaters but a few wear suit jackets. Most of the boys wear short trousers with long stockings--some black, others dark tan or brown stockings. Notice that many of the boys wear hiking boots, a few with additional woolen ankle socks on top of the long stockings for extra warmth. One boy sitting on the ground (at the left) wears a short pants suit with sweater underneath. Another boy, second row left, wears a belted jacket that seems to be made of canvas or some non-woolen material. The majority of the boys wear pullover woolen sweaters, some with zipper opening half-way down the chest. Many of the girls wear pigtails. One boy, second row right, has cropped hair while most of the other boys wear their hair parted. One brave girl in the second row wears knee socks, but nearly everyone else has on long stockings, probably worn with stocking shirts (or Strapsleibchen).
This is the Höngg School in Zurich. The photo was taken on 5 February 1932, obviously a chilly day. This is a sixth
grade class, the children being about ten or eleven. The teacher's name was Herr Strickler. Three of the boys are wearing knee socks with their short trousers (despite the cold), but all the others are wearing the more common long stockings, which is true also of the girls. One boy wears a jacket in the first row (extreme left), which seems to be part of a suit, but he wears no tie and has a sweater on underneath the jacket. The others boys wear sweaters with collars or open-necked
shirts underneath their sweaters. The long stockings are of dark colors--either dark brown or black. Most of the boys seem to be in high-top hiking boots, although a few have regular low-cut Oxford-style shoes. Notice one boy who wears a belt over his sweater. This was a style that we have seen in other Swiss photos during the 1920s and 1930s. Notice that the long stockings here are already quite long, necessarily so to come up under shorter-style trousers, and obviously
held neatly in place by supporters, probably attached to a Strapsleibchen. A number of the girls wear their hair in pigtails but there seem to be no pinafores in this photo.
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This is Ilinau Primary School in Ilinau, Switzerland, a town in the Zurich canton. There is only one public there so it has the same name as the village. These children 4th graders, about ten years old. The photo was taken on 12 November 1954. There teacher, standing in back at the right, is Herr H. Straub. All the children seem to be wearing long stockings since it is late autumn and therefore chilly, although the children don't seem to be uncomfortable out of doors without overcoats or outer jackets. There are still leaves on the trees. All the children appear to be wearing long stockings neatly supported by garters undoubtedly attached to a Leibcchen, sometimes referred to colloquially as "stocking shirts" (sleeveless bodices with four supporters attached, two for each leg). Most of the boys wear pullover sweaters with their short trousers.
These students belong to the Ilnau Secondary School, a village near Zurich. There was only one secondary school in the town, so it merely takes its name from the village. The very proper-looking teacher, Herr Ernst, stands in the rear wearing a wing collar and tie with a watch chain on his waistcoat. The photo was taken November 27, 1934. Most of the boys seem to be wearing heavy woolen sweaters with short trousers and long stockings, black or brown. One boy in the second row wears heather-style of speckled wool stockings that go well with the figured knit of his sweater. At least three of the boys have graduated to long trousers, but they seem to be in the minority. Many of the girls wear braided pigtails.
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We note a Swiss school photo from the village of Kilchberg in the Zurich canton. There was only one school there so the
school name is the same as that of the village. The class portrait was taken March 25, 1944 over a year before the end of World War II, but these well dressed children, who are about 12 or 13 years old, seem to show no signs of deprivation. The girls all wear long stockings, and the girl at the right in the first row is wearing argyle long stockings,
which I don't think I have seen before in Europe--very sporty. Perhaps we should have a link here to patterned long stockings, of which we have other examples (but mostly, I believe, in America). I think this is clearly a secondary class, given the age of the students, but I suspect that in Kilchberg one school served for both primary and secondary students. The boys are mostly in the baggy knickers with knee socks that were popular in the 1940s and 50s in Switzerland during
the winter months. One boy, however, is wearing long stockings with short trousers with a sporty sweater. Notice the woolen ankle socks that he wears on top of the long hosiery with the tops turned down over his boots--a style we see a lot in Switzerland for mountain hiking and additional warmth for the feet. Notice, also, the double-breasted
cardigan sweater that the boy in the center of the front row wears.
This is a portrait of a primary class at the Kolbrunn School taken December 10, 1943. The teacher is Herr Staub. These children are third graders (8 years old). The girls wear pinafores. The boys wear mostly sweaters, short trousers, and long stockings--black, tan, or brown. One of the boys in the front row wears socks rolled down over the tops of his high shoes. It is clear that the boy at the extreme left, front row, is wearing a Strapsleibchen or bodice with supporters attached.
This photo was taken in the midst of World War II, but there is no sense of stress on the faces of the children, and there seem to be no serious clothing shortages in Switzerland. By this time the danger of a NAZI invasion had largely past.
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This is a a group of 10- or 11-year olds from Leimbach School in the city of Zurich. The photo was taken on March 11, 1940 when the weather was still quite chilly. One boy in the front row has already changed into knee socks and therefore has bare knees, but the other children seem to be mainly in long stockings. One girl with a pinafore wears knee socks with her dress. but the other girls (like most of the boys) are in long stockings. Mostly they also wear sweaters. The trees are green, but I suspect the tree in the bckground is an evergreen, not desiduous, since it is only March 11th. The children's teacher is Frau Hefti, who stands at the rear on the right. Notice the hair styles. At least four of the girls wear pigtails. The boys' hair is normal length for the 1940s but not cropped very short. Two girls wear pinafores but they are not the dominant style. Two boys sitting in the front wear hiking boots, but most of the children are wearing low-cut city shoes.
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