School

Schule

No-one knows exactly when the school was founded, but the first Dean had already been appointed in 1539. Up until October 1938 church and school were combined.
In 1896 the old school building was torn down and rebuilt, although still with only one classroom: a second was added in 1909.

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Kinderchor

In 1957, shortly before the coalmine Schlabendorf-North went into production, the pupils from the 5th to 8th classes and the 10th class were moved to the Central school in the neighbouring town of Luckau. In 1960 the whole school was closed, and all pupils were sent to Görlsdorf. After the reprieve, the school building became the village cultural centre.

Village green

Teich

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Up until the 1970s, the water level in the village pond was much higher than now: the land was pumped dry to enable the surface-coalmining, and the former level has still to be reached. With hindsight, life in the DDR had both good and bad sides, but the political changes of November 1989 gave the Schlabendorfers new hope for the future: hope enough to fight for the survival of their village.