Museum of Education, Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve

The Middelhagen School Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of educational development on Mönchgut, a peninsula on the island of Rügen, in Middelhagen. It is located in the center of the village next to St. Catherine's Church and opposite the old jug. It was opened on August 1, 1986 in the former sexton's house.

In 1747, the predecessor building of today's sexton's house was first mentioned in a file note. It was a chimney-less smoke house, typical of the local farm and fishermen's houses of the time. Around 1825, the building that has been preserved until today was erected. The priest from Middelhagen also used this house for his official duties until the parsonage was built in the village itself.

In the museum you can see a classroom of a one-class school, where up to 60 children were taught from the 1st to the 8th grade. Children from 6 to 14 years old were thus accommodated in a single room. Still at the end of the 19th century, the subject matter was thus primarily limited to writing, arithmetic and reading as well as religion.

Until 1962, this sexton's house housed the one-class feeder school - at that time, however, already limited to grades 1 to 4 - for the Mönchgut Central School, which had been built in the meantime and was located on the road to Gager.

In the classroom you can see wall scrolls, learning to read boards, the calculating machine "abacus" and taxidermied animals as teaching aids of that time.

In addition to the schoolroom, it was also common that the apartment of the sexton, cantor and village schoolteacher with living room, bedroom, office, study and kitchen were located there at the same time. It can still be seen in the museum.