Former Marie Valerie Kindergarten, Benedek Elek Pedagogical High School
Former Marie Valerie Kindergarten, Benedek Elek Pedagogical High School
Original function:
day nursery / kindergarten
school
Address:
Piața Márton Áron
Historical Hungarian county:
Udvarhely
GPS coordinates:
46.3029395585, 25.2958032334
History
Between 1910 and 1912, a new Art Nouveau building was built for the Reformed College, designed by Magyar Vilmos, and inaugurated on 10 September 1913. The college closed in 1927 and the new building was later taken over by the teacher training college, which moved from Nagyenyed to the town.
At the town assembly of 13 November 1873, Pastor Zayzon Ferenc raised the idea of establishing a kindergartner. In 1875, permission was sought and obtained from the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I to name the kindergarten after Archduchess Marie Valerie. The princess was born in Buda, the fourth child of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth. Her mother, Queen Elisabeth, who had a great respect for Hungarians, tried to raise her dearest child in the Hungarian spirit, which is why she was later called the 'Hungarian child'. In 1878, the kindergarten started to operate in a rented building. In 1924, the kindergarten was nationalised. After that, a Romanian-language state elementary school for girls and a kindergarten were established in the building. After the Second World War, the building of the former Marie Valerie Kindergarten was used as a training elementary school for teachers. After 1974, when the training of kindergarten teachers was transferred from Csíkszereda to Székelyudvarhely, the former Marie Valerie Kindergarten building was reopened as a kindergarten. The building was renovated for the Benedek Elek Pedagogical Lyceum in 2011.
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