Vinkel School was a small everyday school located in Vinkel in Højslev parish.
In 1740, the first legislation on compulsory schooling was passed. In the early years, the children from Vinkel went to school in Højslev. From 1833, due to the great distance, a school was established in Stårup, with a small temporary school in Vinkel, both under the same teacher.
It wasn’t until 1896 that an independent school was established in Vinkel and a new school building was built.
The school functioned as an every other day school, where, as the name suggests, the children only had to attend every other day.
In 1937, a new public school reform was adopted, which attempted to create a better and more uniform schooling across the country. However, local resistance to losing the small schools, as well as the high costs associated with setting up a new expensive school, meant that the project stalled until the final establishment of the central school in Højslev Stationsby in 1962, after which Vinkel School was closed down.
In the years between 1937 and 1962, it was well known that the school was living on borrowed time, and there was no will to keep the schools in proper condition, so they stood and decayed, and the sanitary conditions at the school gradually left something to be desired.
Along with the establishment of the central school in Højslev Stationsby, all the other schools in the parish and its annexes, namely Lundø, Stårup, Dommerby and Højslev School, were closed.
In 2024, the old school building still exists at the address Vinkelvej 27, now used for housing.
Sources
- Poulsen, Ejnar, Viborg amts degne og skolehistorie, Forfatternes Forlag 1957, p. 213-15
- Mortensen Niels, Skive kommunes historie bind III, Skive Museums Forlag 2003, p. 281-3