The Landwirtschafts- und Haushaltungsschule Schwand-Münsingen (English: Schwand-Münsingen Agricultural and Housekeeping School) was an agricultural school on the Schwand hill in Münsingen, Switzerland.
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The school was founded in 1908 by the authorities of the canton of Berne as a branch of the Rütti agricultural school.[1] During the 1930s and 1940s in particular, it was an agricultural research and training center of national importance under the direction of Werner Daepp.[1] In 1945, the school issued the first Meisterlandwirt (master farmer) diplomas in Switzerland.[1] Its name was later changed to Landwirtschaftliches Bildungs- und Beratungszentrum Schwand and then to Inforama Schwand.
It was closed in 2005[1] as a consequence of the constantly declining number of student farmers. The buildings have since been used by the cantonal administration; a number of projects to reuse them as a private university campus or as an organic farming training center have failed.
The campus is listed as a heritage site of national significance in the November 2008 review draft of the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance.
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- ^ a b c d "Findmittel des Bestandes Nr. 141: Landwirtschafts- und Haushaltungsschule Schwand-Münsingen" (PDF) (in German). Archives of Rural History. 24 September 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2009-04-12.