The Kleinstadt School District was established in March 1893 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW14-2-1W in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland. In 1967, the district became part of the Altona Consolidated School District and later the Rhineland School Division.
Among the teachers at Kleinstadt School were John M. Friesen (Fall 1893 - Spring 1901), Abraham/Abram Buhr (Fall 1900 - Fall 1901), Peter J. Hooge (Spring 1905 - Spring 1906), Abraham P. Friesen (Fall 1906 - Spring 1909), Peter J. Dyck (Fall 1909 - Spring 1910), Jacob U/A? Friesen (Fall 1910), Heinrich A. Miller (Spring 1911), Jacob H. Hiebert (Fall 1911 - Spring 1914), Peter J. Unrau (Fall 1914 - Spring 1917), Jacob J. Janzen (1917-1918), P. P. Kehler (Fall 1918 - Spring 1919), school closed due to influenza (11-29 November 1918), Peter D. Reimer (Fall 1919 - Spring 1921), John S. Schellenberg (Fall 1921 - Spring 1922), Bernard D. Loeppky (Fall 1922 - Spring 1925, Fall 1926 - Spring 1929), school closed due to impassable roads (16-27 April 1923), William Friesen (Fall 1925 - Spring 1926), Martin James Hamm (Fall 1929 - Spring 1936), Katharina Wiebe Peters (Fall 1936 - Spring 1941), Henry Friesen (Fall 1941 - Spring 1943), Frank F. Enns (Fall 1943 - Fall 1945, January-March 1946), Susann Enns (April-June 1946), John Irving Warkentin (Fall 1946 - Spring 1947), Isaac A. Enns (Fall 1947 - Fall 1948, January-May 1949), Edward Enns (June 1949), Jacob N. Giesbrecht (Fall 1949 - Spring 1953), Peter Hildebrand (Fall 1953 - Spring 1956), Tony Wiebe (Fall 1956 - Spring 1959), A. Schmidt (Fall 1959 - Spring 1960), I? G. Klassen (Fall 1960 - Spring 1961), Mary Froese (Fall 1961 - Spring 1964), Alfred Stephan Klassen (Fall 1964), Helen Schulz (Spring 1965), and Melvin Henry Klassen (Fall 1965 - Spring 1967).
Kleinstadt School (circa 1913)
Source: Education Department Report, 1913, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Kleinstadt School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 125.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.11864, W97.50422
denoted by symbol on the map above
Altona East topographic map, 62H/4 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Kleinstadt School District No. 781 - Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.
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: 26 March 2026
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