Bad Wildungen American School History
Opened: 1946
Closed: 1958
Bad Wildungen American School was located in the eastern foothills of the Kellerwald region, thirty-five kilometers southwest of Kassel. The school was one of the original schools in the Frankfurt district. The entire district had 163 students enrolled in schools in eleven different locations.
The Bad Wildungen area is known for the Monument Men, who found two concrete bunkers specially designed and built for the purpose of storing cultural property in the city. There were approximately 2,500 paintings, Greek and medieval sculpture, famous musical instruments, and other objects of great cultural and artistic value found in the bunkers.
The school opened October 17, 1946. When the school opened there were four students. Thirteen more students in grades one through eight arrived by January 1947. The building used had been previously used for one of Hitler’s trade schools.
The principal for the school in the 1953-54 school year was John Yelisek, and there were forty-six students in grades one through six.
The school was closed in 1958 when the military mission in the area was completed.
Information from websites and the AOSHS archives