The Gruenthal School District was established in October 1884 within the Rural Municipality of Douglas, however it received no provincial grant funding towards either the operation of a public classroom within the district nor payment towards the wages of any accredited school teacher. By 1905, both the district No. 331 designation and name were discontinued from Department of Education registers and the district considered effectively defunct.
In June 1911, the Gruenthal School District was re-established as School District No. 1592. In a similar initial pattern to the earlier entity, the district again operated no public school classroom (and received no provincial grant funding) until 1921, when the district issued a debentures to finance a $5,000 loan, which was used to construct both a teacherage and one-room schoolhouse at NW19-1-1W in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland. During this early period, the adminsitration of the district was taken over by Official Trustee John F. Greenway, lest the district have lapsed into obscurity as its forerunner had.
Among the teachers at Gruenthal School were Peter A. Loeppky (Fall 1921 - Spring 1923), J. V. Neufeld (Fall 1923 - Spring 1924), Adalph Guse (Fall 1924 - Spring 1927), Kate Klassen (Fall 1927 - Spring 1934, Fall 1947 - Spring 1951), Eve Friesen (Fall 1934 - Spring 1935), Henry D. Dyck (Fall 1935 - Spring 1936), Jacob Heinrich Reimer (Fall 1936 - Spring 1940), William Frank Derksen (Fall 1940 - Spring 1942), Peter David Matthies (Fall 1942 - Spring 1947), John Wiebe Driedger (Fall 1951 - Spring 1952), Henry W. Hildebrand (Fall 1952 - Spring 1955), John B. Wiebe (Fall 1955 - Spring 1957), John Krahn (Fall 1957 - Spring 1959), Henry Krushel (Fall 1959 - Spring 1960), Jacob Elias Neufeld (Fall 1960 - Spring 1962, Fall 1963 - Spring 1967), and Henry Neudorf (Fall 1962 - Spring 1963).
In 1967, the district was divided between the Altona Consolidated School District and Gretna Consolidated School District. The area later became part of the Rhineland School Division.
Gruenthal School (no date) by J. B. Morrison
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 145.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.05935, W97.59364
denoted by symbol on the map above
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #23 School District of Gruenthal, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Gruenthal School No. 331, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Gruenthal School No. 1592, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-in-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council #31140 & 37340, GR1530, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Gruenthal School District No. 1592 - Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Gruenthal School District No. 1592 - Cash Books, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.
Altona East topographic map, 62H/4 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 25 April 2026
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