The former Catholic school and gymnasium

By 1932, the Catholic children of Dunaszerdahely had already started the school year in the new Catholic school built with public donations on the Cemetery Row. At the same time, education in the several hundred-year-old school next to the church was discontinued for health reasons. “The need for a new school becomes apparent year after year,” they wrote in 1935. “The main hall has been converted into two classrooms, so that now teaching takes place in 8 classrooms. The classrooms are healthy and hygienic. However, it must be pointed out that even though the school is new and meets today’s standards, it still has major flaws and deficiencies. It has no running water, no built-in toilets or gymnasium, and the children don’t even have a wash basin.” ; In 1939, a Hungarian grammar school opened in Dunaszerdahely – its location was decided by the Catholic school board, who made the new Catholic school on Temető-sori available to the grammar school, which the village rented. The building, although useful, proved to be too small for the grammar school: “The completely separate, wide-aisled, clean, bright, airy, healthy building is unsuitable for the purposes of a grammar school due to the lack of service rooms, lecture halls, offices, teachers’ rooms, etc. Even in the first academic year, our ninth grade (the 9th grade with 8 students) was confined to a small room measuring quite narrow (3x6x4 m).” In October 1944, teaching ceased, and a military hospital was established in the building. After the war, the building was given to the Slovak middle school, later the Hungarian middle school was also opened here, and from 1953 the building was taken over by the Hungarian-language eleven-year school. From 1957 to 1973 it was used by the agricultural secondary school, and from 1973 to the present day it has housed the halls of the health school.