Translations:Die Familie Eckart in Poing/2/en

The Old Schoolhouse in Poing

Several things connected the families of Otto and Fritz Eckart to the municipality of Poing. The two brothers, both passionate hunters, had taken a lease on the hunting grounds in Poing and Grub. Their father Johannes Eckart’s former estate, which supplied the canning factory "Johs. Eckart Konservenfabrik" with farm produce, was in Grub near Poing. While walking through Poing in the summer of 1910, Otto and Anita discovered an old, vacant house. There was an old pumping well in the garden, two chestnut trees in front of the house, a few ash trees in the west, and the south-facing side of the house was overgrown with a wildly growing real grapevine. This spacious house no. 40 was the former schoolhouse of Poing. It had been built in 1873 by master builder Johann Baptist Haydn. A new one was built in 1908 as the number of pupils had tripled over the decades and the house had become too small. The old schoolhouse remained vacant for two years.