47 -Infant school Bieber
In the late 19th century, paternal wages were often not enough to support young working-class families and wives had to help out. So-called infant schools were social institutions that relieved working mothers of the supervision of their children who were not yet of school age for a small fee.
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This was also in the interests of industrial companies, who wanted to continue employing their well-skilled female workers even after they had married. Until after the Second World War, however, childcare was not offered. This was left to the municipality or church institutions. In Bieber, the Catholic "Sisters of Divine Providence" took on this care task in a building erected for this purpose in 1893. This was also to bring communist or social democratic working-class families back to the faith.
The infant schools differed from the existing private kindergartens in terms of group size, stricter discipline and the level of fees. Outside the parental home, middle-class and working-class children also grew up separately and were socialized differently. In Offenbach, a comparable infant school was located in the Marienheim in Krafftstrasse. The buildings of other infant schools of this type were destroyed during the Second World War.
Kleinkinderschule Bieber
Am Rebstock 11
63073 Offenbach