page_title: Open air school
section_title: Open-air school movement
hierarchical_section_title: Open air school / Open-air school movement
caption_attribution_description: English: The picture of 1904 shows the first school building of Waldschule für kränkliche Kinder (translated: Forest school for sickly children) in the borrough of Westend, in the city of Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Germany. The very first open-air school worldwide was meant to prevent children from tuberculosis. It was located in the outskirts of Grunewald forest, since 1920 part of Germany's capital. Deutsch: Das Foto aus dem Jahr 1904 zeigt das erste Schulgebäude der Waldschule für kränkliche Kinder im Westend der Stadt Charlottenburg bei Berlin. Die weltweit erste Freiluftschule war zur Vorbeugung gegen Tuberkulose und andere auf Immunschwäche zurückzuführende Krankheiten bei Kindern gedacht. Sie war im Westend der Stadt Charlottenburg bei Berlin am Rande des Grunewalds angesiedelt, seit 1920 Teil Berlins.
context_page_description: Open air schools or schools of the woods were purpose-built educational institutions for children, that were designed to prevent and combat the widespread rise of tuberculosis that occurred in the period leading up to the Second World War. The schools were built to provide open-air therapy so that fresh air, good ventilation and exposure to the outside would improve the children's health. The schools were mostly built in areas away from city centers, sometimes in rural locations, to provide a space free from pollution and overcrowding. The creation and design of the schools paralleled that of the tuberculosis sanatoriums, in that hygiene and exposure to fresh air were paramount.
caption: Waldschule für kränkliche Kinder (Forest school for sickly children) in Charlottenburg near Berlin (1904)
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