The first public building to be constructed after Alsace joined the 2nd Reich in 1871, and in accordance with the German law on compulsory education, the building was extended in 1903. Its construction was made possible by a donation from Yvan Zuber, a wallpaper manufacturer and mayor of the commune from 1859 to 1872 and from 1886 to 1902. A little further on, at the beginning of rue Saint Jean, there is a statue of Saint Jean Népomucène, patron saint of bridges and rivers.