Lanebach is an alpine hamlet situated on the sunny slope above Ottone (Uttenheim), at an elevation of about 1,500 meters. An access road was built only in the 1980s, and the lives of farming families living there became considerably easier as a result.
The wooden schoolhouse in block design was built in the mid-nineteenth century in order to spare the children of Lanebach a steep and dangerous daily journey to attend school at Ottone. It comprises a classroom and one small teacher’s apartment.
Initially nine children from Lanebach farms attended the school, together with three more from farms in the surrounding areas. Here the students did not come to the teacher, but vice versa. The school shut down repeatedly for lack of pupils and then permanently closed its doors in 1983: by that point, the school transportation service could take the children down into the valley. Lanebach School is South Tyrol’s only Bergschule, or school in an alpine area, which has been fully preserved in its original condition: it has been a protected monument since 2012.
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