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Although this community unfortunately has no denominational school, there was nevertheless one like that from the beginning.  The Catholic school was built close to the church in the year 1820. According to the report of the “Visitatio Canonica,” there was only 1 reading room at first, but in the year 1835 it was not able to hold all those required to attend school. At first, there was only one teacher dwelling near the school, with 2 rooms, 1 larder and stable.

Regarding the endowment of the first teacher, we find the following note in the “Visitatio Canonica”: “The choirmaster/teacher—who is the bell-ringer at the same time—holds a half session in 4 fields; from the community, he receives 60 Imperial Guilders,[121] 6 cords of wood for personal use, 5 cords for school heating and 24 Viertel of crops;[122] at the same time he also has meadow pasture privilege. Since the teacher had to perform choirmaster service at the same time, surplice payments were also established for him.”

The first choirmaster/teacher was Vencel Cserni, who worked here from 1823-1858 (died 9^th of January 1858). He was married and the father of 9 children. After his death, 2 teachers were employed. Anton Kampis, who was choirmaster at the same time, was appointed as headmaster. He worked until the 6^th of April 1879, until the highest teacher and master called him away to eternity.

The subordinate teacher was Johann Cserni, the son of the first teacher, who occupied himself with all the other things only not with teaching, though. When in the year 1863 on the 10^th of May His Excellency the diocesan bishop visited the school at the same time at the time of the confirmation but did not find the teacher in his class, he suspended him immediately and dismissed him. Filipp Schill came in his place, who became headmaster and choirmaster at the same time after the demise of the headmaster in the year 1879. He worked here until the Catholic school was nationalized (1898). The subordinate teacher was Franz Takàcsy, later Franz Kempfer who then even worked as a teacher in the government school until he went into retirement in the year 1910.

The Catholic school existed in this community until 1872. In this year on the 1^st of September, the community representation declared the Catholic school to be a community school without consulting the church authorities and, what is more, at a time when the local pastor was staying at the spa. The land register book transfer only took place in the year 1882, according to which the community was put down as the owner of the Catholic school. This land register book alteration was obviously a legal offense since the same was carried out without the consent of the bishop’s palace. Now after nothing had taken place for the restoration of the violated land register book title, the community representation decided to hand over the so-called community school of Panatulnou to the government on the 20^th of January and on the 13^th of June of the year 1898.

The nationalization really happened as well in the year 1899 and accordingly the right of use regarding the school was secured in favor of the government in the land register book on the 28^th of July 1899. Therefore since this time, the government school operated here in the building of the Roman Catholic school. The present pastor raised a complaint against the injustice of this nationalization with a court in the year 1907. And indeed still in the same year, the “Community School” note in the land register book formerly written in an unjust way was erased and “the Catholic school” recognized as the owner of the school on the part of the royal panel.[123]

However, this decision of the royal panel had no practical result so to speak; after all, the school building was also ceded to the government for use in the future on the part of the episcopal authorities and consequently the government used the building of the Catholic school here with full right.

The list of government teachers cannot be given here since one like that does not exist. At any rate, it can be observed that at the time of the change of dominion the principal of the school was Johann Fàbrik but the following were teachers: Michael Làng, Friederika Kilchön, Helene Reck and Adelhaid Hans. After none of them was inclined to swear the required government oath, all 4 teachers moved to Hungary. In their place, Franz Löffler was appointed as principal; Karl Bernatz, Josef Unterreiner, Anna Chencinski and Arnold Chencinski became teachers.

The present principal of the government school is Anton Steger. Barbara Wirth, Mrs. Anton Steger, Katharina Schäfer, Aurel Subescu and Petru Halmagean are teachers.

As far as the choirmaster service is concerned, this was combined with the teacher position in the beginning. The headmaster was the choirmaster at the same time. For that reason, the salary was always established for the choirmaster/teacher then as well. When the nationalization was carried out, the community took no care at all to cover the choirmaster position in the scope of the teacher appointment. Consequently, it is a really difficult task to find an appropriated choirmaster although 8 yokes[124] of agricultural field are guaranteed to him on the part of the parish and established surplice payments on the part of the episcopal authorities.

Up to now, the choirmaster of our parish were: 1. Vencel Csernyi 1823-1858; 2. Anton Kampis 1858-1879; 3. Filipp Schill 1879-1898; 4. Jakob Molnàr 1898-1903; 5. Franz Kempfer 1903-1910; 6. Michael Lang 1912-1920; 7. Peter Jung 1921-1923; 8. Josef Unterreiner 1923-1927; 9. Anton Zuber 1927-1929; 10. Jakob Kirch 1929-1934; 11. Since1935, Johann Wolf, farmer, performs the choirmaster service, who can play the organ entirely correctly with the help of a transpose apparatus from Germany.

In the first days of the parish, there was no bell-ringer (sexton). This duty was combined with the choirmaster position as it even says in the “Visitatio Canonica” in the year 1835: “In this parish, the choirmaster/teacher performs the work of the bell-ringer for a wage set for this service.” When at last one recognized the untenability of this situation, one took on a bell-ringer, to whom 20 Viertel[125] of wheat and ½ cord of firewood were promised and the use of the hand garden which was always allotted for this purpose. The bell-ringers in this parish were: a) Benedikt Harbecke (died 2^nd of January 1871); b) Johann Gantner (died 16^th of April 1873); c) Anton Putschler 1873-1897; d) Leonhardt Freisinger 1897-1901. Because nobody came forward for this service for the stated payment, one fixed 288 Kronen[126] as a replacement sum instead of the wheat and a 128 Kronen[127] salary. Then in exchange for this payment, the bell-ringer job was looked after by: e) Sebastian Schmalz 1901-1918; and f) Bernhard Rippel 1919 to 1922. Because this pay also appeared to be insufficient, the church committee voted him an annual salary of 1000 Lei,[128] 1 cord of wood, the use of one yoke[129] in the clover garden and of the hand garden which hitherto he also used. For this payment, Peter Völker performs the bell-ringer service since the 17^th of January 1923 to this day.

The father of the church position was always a position of honor and was never paid anything for this service, nor today either. The first father of the church was Andreas Tropfenbaum; Jakob Zahn (died 22^nd of July 1864) followed him; after his death, Josef Schleich took over the position, who was in charge of it until his death (20^th of July 1903). His successor was Franz Leptich from 1905-1907. At present, Michael Hoffmann is the father of the church of this parish and so far held this position of honor since 1908.

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