Individual Swiss School: Schmidshof School (Thurgau Canton)

Figure 1.-- We see a photo at the well-known Schmidshof School in Switzerland, taken in 1941 during World War II. The school is located in Weinfelden, Switzerland, very near the German border in the northeast of the country and famous as a banking and railroad center. The town is very old. The Schmidshof School may be a private primary school, altthough I'm not certain. Weinfelden is the capital of the Thurgau canton. Only three children are shown here. They are all first graders, which means that they are approximately 6 years old.

We see a photo at the well-known Schmidshof School in Switzerland, taken in 1941 during World War II. The school is located in Weinfelden, Switzerland, very near the German border in the northeast of the country and famous as a banking and railroad center. The town is very old. The Schmidshof School may be a private primary school, altthough I'm not certain. Weinfelden is the capital of the Thurgau canton. Only three children are shown here. They are all first graders, which means that they are approximately 6 years old. The class surely larger than this, however. We don't know why only three children were singled out for the school photograph. The boys wear short trousers with zipper front jackets and long woolen stockings. The girl wears a cotton dress, also with long stockings. There appears to be foliage in the background behind the wall where the children are sitting, so the weather must have been fairly clement (probably either Spring or Fall). The long stockings were standard wear for school children in the the 1930s and 1940s in Switzerland, often worn even in seasons when the weather was not frigid.

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