KP 15

EST: KP15. Tartu Reaalkooli ilmajaam 

Tartu Reaalkool oli saksakeelne õppeasutus, mis asutati Tartu Kreisikooli baasil 1877. aastal. Kümme aastat hiljem läks kool üle vene keelele ja jäi venekeelseks 1918. aastani. Kooli lõpetamine oli prestiižne – see andis näiteks õiguse pääseda eksamiteta õppima Riia Polütehnikumi. 

Kool asus Riia ja Kalevi tänava nurgal hoones, kus hiljem tegutses Tartu Tütarlaste Gümnaasium. Koolil oli ilmajaam, kus tehti vaatlusi, mille andmed avaldati aastatel 1903–1907 trükistena. Ilmaandmed ilmusid ka Postimehes, tänu millele oli ilmajaam teada-tuntud ka linnarahva hulgas. 

Tartu Reaalkooli ilmajaama väljaande tiitelleht 

Reaalkooli ilmateade Postimehes 8. mail 1904 

ENG: CP15. Weather station of Dorpater Realschule 

Dorpater Realschule (Tartu Science School) was a German-speaking educational institution, founded based on the local provincial school, Dorpater Kreisschule, in 1877. Ten years later, the school switched to Russian, which remained its language of instruction until 1918. The school was considered prestigious – for example, graduates had the right to be admitted to Riga Polytechnicum without entrance exams. The school was located on the corner of Riia and Kalevi streets, in a building that later housed the Tartu Girls’ Gymnasium. The school had a weather station where observations were conducted; the observation data were published in print from 1903 to 1907. The weather data were also published in the daily newspaper Postimees, which made the weather station well known among the residents of Tartu. 

Title page of a publication of the Dorpater Realschule weather station 

Weather information from the Dorpater Realschule weather station in the Postimees on 8 May 1904