!!!Werkschulheime

Werkschulheime, type of boarding school combining a 9-year course of 
studies at a Realgymnasium secondary school with training in 
handicrafts, originally private experimental schools. In 1951, a 
Werkschulheim was established at Felbertal, and today there are such 
schools at Ebenau near Salzburg (students take the 
"Reifepruefung" exam required for university entrance as 
well as apprentices´ final examination in wood or metal 
processing or as radio technicians) and at Reutte (Plansee School, in 
1968 transformed into a Bundesrealgymnasium secondary school, one 
branch continues to offer the combination of "Reifepruefung" 
exam and apprenticeship in metallurgy). Werkschulheime are classified 
as advanced-level boarding schools  Internatsschulen.

!Literature
C. Plankensteiner, Das Werkschulheim Felbertal, doctoral 
thesis, Salzburg 1990.


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