page_title: Schulzentrum Marienhöhe
section_title: War Years
hierarchical_section_title: Schulzentrum Marienhöhe / History / War Years
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. 12. Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik, Darmstadt Seminar Marienhöhe (Dozentenhaus und Unterrichtsgebäude) Information added by Wikimedia users.Gebaut 1912 für die Tanzschule von Elizabeth Duncan.
context_page_description: Schulzentrum Marienhöhe or Marienhoehe Academy is a private K-12, co-educational Christian boarding school in Darmstadt, Germany. It is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The school has close ties with Friedensau Adventist University. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
context_section_description: In 1933, the Secret State Police closed the school. Books and money were seized and the classrooms, offices and printing plant was sealed. Students had to go home immediately. After seven weeks, the school ban was lifted. In 1934, the school ended its seminary course, and in 1936 it also ended its general course for higher education. Meanwhile, the number of pupils enrolled fell dramatically. On 1 April 1939, on a recommendation of the state's education department, the school decided to close as the small school roll could not justify its continued operation. Two years later, the site was still owned by the school and one of the school's businesses – mattress manufacturing – was still in operation.
  In 1941, Marienhöhe was seized because of a military law by the military district command in Wiesbaden XII. Units of the armed forces moved into the houses and the site received a military face. Solid bunkers and a series of wooden barracks were built. After the war, the occupying Allies used the site as a camp for displaced people. In the summer of 1948, the school was no longer in the control of the Allied forces. The International Refugee Organization began clearing land and buildings. It became a neglected area with dirty smog covered buildings for many years.
  In August 1948, 25 future students came together. Most were able to do handwork. Immediately, reconstruction, renovation and cleaning work began. On October 1948, the Marienhöhe school was ceremonially reopened after the new education authority gave their approval. The school began with the former seminary courses, housekeeping and nursing preschool. The workshops were later reopened. In the spring of 1949, the "old school house" was thoroughly overhauled. At the beginning of 1949-50 school year, the Hesse state government approved the operation of the school despite Marienhöhe only having one class of 7 students.  On top of that, construction of a new gymnasium began. In December 1949, the foundations for the new classroom buildings were laid.
caption: The main house from 1911, in 1957
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