Gauerziehungsheim Jagdberg Schlins

The Vorarlberg homes of the Kinderrettungsvereines (Children's Rescue Association) that were in state ownership were taken over by the National Socialists as a result of the "Anschluss" and, like all other associations, integrated into the umbrella organizations of the German Reich. The home, which was operated since the end of 1939 as the "Gauerziehungsheim" Jagdberg under the Feldkirch NS-district school inspector Franz Ritter, aimed to educate children through ideological indoctrination to become "useful" members of the "Volksgemeinschaft" ("people's community"), with punishments such as arrest and corporal punishment following "deviant" behavior. After 1945, the educational home was continued as a "General Special School," and today the Catholic private school Paedakoop is located there.