!!!Burgenländisches Schulwesen

Burgenland School System, was only gradually adapted to Austrian 
standards on account of that fact that Burgenland had belonged to 
Hungary up to 1921; German was introduced as the official school 
language in German-speaking municipalities in 1921; compulsory 
education was gradually extended from six to eight years in 1923 and 
in 1929; secondary schools (Hauptschule) were established; a 
mathematics-oriented selective secondary school (Realgymnasium) was 
founded in Eisenstadt; a federal schools inspectorate was established; 
old school buildings were restored, new ones were built, etc. 
Regulated by Hungarian law dating from 1868, primary education in 
Burgenland remained basically denominational (in 1937 Burgenland had 
23 public primary schools as against 342 denominational primary 
schools). The Burgenland Education Act of 1937 provided for public 
financing of denominational schools and their adaptation to Austrian 
national standards. The special status accorded to schools in 
Burgenland was finally abolished under Nazi rule in 1938. Despite 
great efforts by the Church and by parents, denominational schools 
were not reestablished after 1945.


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