The Werkschulheim Felbertal is a private grammar school with public rights, combined with a boarding school for girls and boys. The educational concept, which has been tried and tested for more than 70 years, combines a high level of general education, manual labour and social learning. This interplay of theoretical, practical and human education is education with vision and opens up the best opportunities for the future.
The pupils conclude the programme with the AHS-Matura, which entitles students to study at any university or university of applied sciences. Furthermore, our graduates complete the Final apprenticeship examination in the respective craft.
The Werkschulheim Felbertal is a private grammar school with public status.
The school is run by the Verein zur Förderung von Werkschulheimen.
Our school is committed to Christian values.
Education, as we teach it, results from the comprehensive and lively unity of the areas of school, crafts and home life.
This combination of broad general education, technical training and social learning enables a unique interplay of theoretical, practical and human education. As a result, our students gain a deeper understanding of the cultural, economic and social contexts of our world.
Pupils, pupils, teachers, parents and all other staff at our school see themselves as partners. We treat each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Young people are at the centre of our joint activities and efforts.
We offer a broad general education and promote the cognitive, sporting and artistic skills of our pupils, while also using modern teaching methods and teaching in a way that is relevant to life.
Our target group is gifted pupils who are willing to perform. We offer individualised support when learning problems arise.
We are increasingly teaching interdisciplinary and project-orientated lessons in conjunction with craft lessons. In this way, we promote „learning for life“ and the flexibility to help shape the rapid developments of the future.
We develop the creative and practical skills of our students through intensive work lessons in the lower school and in-depth training as a carpentry technician, mechanical engineering technician or mechatronics technician in the upper school, enabling them to enter the world of work directly.
Through this practical training, we also teach teamwork, accuracy, perseverance, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Our students gain an insight into the professional world of tradespeople, gain an understanding of their concerns and acquire the foundations for management tasks in the business world.
We offer a family-like education in small groups in which the pupils can feel comfortable. We attach great importance to co-operation with parents.
Through the intensive life in the community of the boarding and half-boarding school, our pupils acquire a high level of social competence.
The educator is also a teacher and lives with his group in his own house. The pupils value him as a direct reference person and he supports them with his individual skills.
We offer regular and differentiated learning support as well as meaningful leisure activities with teachers and educators. We promote the sporting and artistic development of our pupils in a targeted and broad-based way.
Particularly important to us are the adventurous activities that the group and teachers organise together outside the home, such as our traditional camp and hiking week.
Our graduates complete their 9-year training programme with a final apprenticeship examination (journeyman's examination) and the AHS Matura. This attractive dual qualification entitles them to study at any university and fulfils the requirements for the master craftsman's examination.
Werkschulheimstraße 11, A-5323 Ebenau
Chairman of the association
Function | Name |
|---|---|
Chairman | Christoph Paulweber |
Honorary Chairman | Wolfgang Saliger |
Deputy Chairman | Josef Resch |
Secretary | Waltraud Ablinger-Ebner |
Treasurer | Gerhard Haggenmiller |
Assessor | Manfred Pammer Irene Schulte Jakob Steinkogler-Caesar Anita Wautischer |
Auditor | Rupert Hengster Wolgang Hoffmann |
Co-opted assessors | Herbert Bachler Hans Bigenzahn Heinz Edenhofner Hannes Fürstaller Tanja Graf Hans Gruber Stefan Idinger Ludwig Kofler Winfried Kogelnik Peter Jesch |
In August 1951, at the 7th World Jamboree in Bad Ischl, the idea was born to establish a work school home in Austria based on the Bavarian model. Just one month later, the foundation stone was laid with the founding of the supporting organisation.
The first school year began on 14 September 1951 in Felbertal near Mittersill with 25 pupils and six adults. Even in the early years, the Werkschulheim developed successfully and quickly gained national and international recognition. In 1954, the school was granted public status and was able to issue state-recognised certificates for the first time.
Due to growing student numbers and space restrictions, the decision was made to relocate at the beginning of the 1960s. The ideal conditions were found in Ebenau near Salzburg, and the school moved into its new buildings in 1964. The school type „Werkschulheim“ was enshrined in law in 1962.
In the decades that followed, the school continued to grow: new branches of education, modern workshops, additional boarding and school buildings and the introduction of the half-boarding school characterised its development. In 2001, the Werkschulheim celebrated its 50th anniversary as one of the most successful public schools in Austria.
The full boarding school has also been open to girls since 2011. Further modernisations - most recently the renovation of the boarding school buildings - have ensured the school's future viability.
From the very beginning, the Werkschulheim Grammar school education with vocational training. Project weeks, learning in small groups and scouting values characterise school life to this day. The original camp gate from the 1951 World Jamboree on campus is a reminder of the founding history - as is the school's own scout group, which actively continues this tradition.
Construction of a car park deck with 39 parking spaces to improve the parking situation. Planning work for the school remodelling was carried out in parallel.
The refurbishment of the boarding school continued and was completed in 2016 with the finalisation of House 8.
In 2011, the Werkschulheim opened the full boarding school for girls. A total of around 320 boys and girls attended the school, of which around 180 attended the boarding school.
The next modernisation steps took place in 2008 with the opening of the new gymnasium and the new half-boarding school, and a year later with the opening of the new boarding school building, House 7.
At the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2001 (speech: Dr Erhard Busek), the Werkschulheim presented itself as one of the most successful public schools in Austria with around 290 pupils. Numerous pedagogical innovations (European Comenius project, introduction of an upper secondary school, computer driving licence in the lower school, restructuring of craft training, etc.) ensured the high attractiveness of our school for the future.
