Friday, May 15, 2015

Vic Loewen, on behalf of the team at West Park Motors, presents a cheque to Joe Braun in front of the Bergthal School in Neubergthal.

The funds will be used for the restoration work that is ongoing at the school. The exterior part of the restoration (roof, siding and windows)  was completed last year and now work is underway on the interior of the building.

This building, originally the Altbergthal School, was constructed in the late 1800’s / early 1900’s on a site three miles west of Altona. In 1982 the building was moved to Altona and more recently it was moved again to Neubergthal to be preserved as a historic building. The hope is to use one of the original classrooms as such while the other smaller room will house an interpretive display depicting the rural school experience.
In addition to the school project, work is on-going at the Eddie Schmidt Education Resource Centre as well as on another private house barn that is being restored at the south end of Neubergthal.


Neubergthal is one of the best-preserved single street Mennonite villages in North America. The village layout and architecture was developed over centuries of Mennonite life in Europe and Russia. For more information on the village itself, visit their web site at http://www.neubergthal.com/

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