Historic Sites of Manitoba: Strassberg School No. 757 (Municipality of Rhineland)

The Strassberg School District was established in May 1893 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE11-1-1E in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland.

Among the teachers of Strassberg School were Abram J. Friesen (Fall 1893 - Spring 1895), Gustav B. Toews (Fall 1895 - Fall 1896), Jacob Buhr (Spring-Fall 1897), did not operate? (Spring 1898), Oscar Stewart (Fall 1898 - Spring 1899), G. K. Hamm (Fall 1899 - Spring 1901), Adolphus M. Lewish? (Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Heinrich Enns (Spring 1905 - Spring 1906), Marie I. Wiens (Fall 1906 - Spring 1907), Henry Vogt (Fall 1907 - pt Spring 1908), Abraham L. Toews (pt Spring 1908 - Spring 1909), Emil Klein (Fall 1909 - Spring 1912), Peter H. Voth (Fall 1912 - Spring 1915, Spring 1916 - Spring 1920), Jacob J. Janzen (Fall 1915), Bernard D. Loeppky (Fall 1920 - Fall 1921), did not operate? (Spring-Fall 1922), Tina Warkentin (Spring 1923), Gerard P. Goosen (Fall 1923 - Spring 1925), Abram D. Friesen (Fall 1925 - Spring 1926), Bernhard D. Klippenstein (Fall 1926 - Spring 1930), Eva Hiebert (Fall 1930 - Spring 1932), Abram Jacob Friesen (Fall 1932 - Spring 1934), Henry Penner Giesbrecht (Fall 1934 - Spring 1936), Elizabeth D. Dyck (Fall 1936 - Spring 1937), Tony Henry Funk (Fall 1937 - Spring 1940), Ernest Abram Kroeger (Fall 1940 - Fall 1942), Erma Nickel (Spring 1943), Mary Falk (Fall 1943 - Spring 1945), Helen Penner (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Tiena Victoria Warkentin (Fall 1946 - Fall 1947 & pt Spring 1948 [January-?]), Harold Arthur Bathgate (pt Spring 1948 [?-June]), Agatha Gertrude Wiebe (Fall 1948 - Spring 1949), Irene Koop (Fall 1949 - Spring 1950), John B. Reimer (Fall 1950 - Spring 1951), David A? Froese (Fall 1951 - Spring 1952), Jacob “Jack” Isaac (Fall 1952 - Spring 1953), Bernhard Loeppky (Fall 1953 - Spring 1954), Orlando Jake Sawatzky (Fall 1954 - Fall 1956 & January-c.May 1957), Rodney Siemens (c.May-June 1957), Abram Peters (Fall 1957 - Spring 1958), Peter Isaac Friesen (Fall 1958 - Spring 1960), Ronald John Hoeppner (Fall 1960 - Spring 1963), and Elvin John Klassen (Fall 1963 - Spring 1966).

In January 1967, the district was dissolved into the Gretna Consolidated School District No. 330 and students transferred there. Its catchment area became part of the Rhineland School Division in 1968. The former schoolhouse was sold and moved away, leaving nothing at the site.

Strassberg School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 120. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.02269, W97.34746 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Halbstadt Monument (Municipality of Rhineland)

Sources:

“The Indian famine fund,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 March 1897, page 4.

Emerson East topographic map, 62H/3 West, Edition 2 ASE, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.

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

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.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer, Gordon Goldsborough, and Jake Rempel.

Page revised: 16 August 2025

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