Historic Sites of Manitoba: Kronsthal School No. 2133 (Municipality of Rhineland)

The Kronsthal School District was established in July 1925 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at the southeast corner of SE19-1-2W in what is now the Municipality of Rhineland. A $4,000 debenture was issued in July 1927 to finance the purchase of a school site along with construction and equipping of a schoolhouse. In 1949, two debentures of $3,500 and a further $600, were issued to finance the purchase and overhaul of a building into a teacherage for the district. In 1958, the district was consolidated with the Exeter School District No. 1994 and Aesop School No. 2132 to form the Kronsthal Consolidated School District No. 1994, with a school building in the village of Kronsthal about a mile to the southwest. In 1959, students were transferred to the Kronsthal Consolidated School and classroom use of this site was discontinued.

Among the teachers who worked at Kronsthal School were Peter Aron Rempel (Fall 1925 - Spring 1927), Annie F. Friesen (Fall 1927 - Spring 1928), Tene “Tina” Buhr (Fall 1928 - Spring 1929, later married John Warkentin), Mary F. Friesen (Fall 1929 - Spring 1930), Dora Suderman (Fall 1930 - Spring 1931), Eva Janzen (Fall 1931 - Spring 1935), Anna Hendricks (Fall 1935 - Spring 1937, Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Elmer Peter Braun (Fall 1937 - Spring 1938), [Jacob/Jakob] Jacob Peters (Fall 1938 - Spring 1943), Lina P. Krahn (Fall 1943 - Spring 1945), Irene Koop (Fall 1946 - Spring 1947), William Peters (Fall 1947 - Spring 1948), Peter Paul Giesbrecht (Fall 1948 - Spring 1952), Lawrence Giesbrecht (Fall 1952 - Spring 1955), Bernard Wiebe (Fall 1955 - Spring 1956), Jake Giesbrecht (Fall 1956 - Spring 1958), and Martha Elizabeth Tiessen (Fall 1958 - Spring 1959).

The original Kronsthal School building was used for a time as a private residence but no vestige of it remains at the site today.

The original Kronsthal School building (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 100.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.04560, W97.70781
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #50 School District of Kronsthal, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.

Municipal borrowing files (MA 0039), Kronsthal School District #2133, GR1799, Archives of Manitoba.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Kronsthal School District No. 2133 - Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Kronsthal School District No. 2133 - Account Books, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.

Altona East topographic map, 62H/4 East, Edition 1 ASE, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.

We thank Frank Kehler for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 1 April 2026

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