ABSTRACT
In the autumn of 1939 Mr Christian Jørgensen, a carpenter from the village Sjunkeby on the island of Lolland, was busy. He had been asked by the Kappel parish council to design and build a school for ten children at the tip of the Albue peninsula (The Elbow), located at the western end of Nakskov Fjord. In those days the peninsula was almost an island, since the ocean had cut a wide passage across it.1 Only a narrow and dangerous strip of land was left to walk on, and most people made the crossing by boat (see Figure 10.1). Building materials for the school were also taken by boat to the isolated site, where about ten families, headed by pilots and fishermen, were living. It was expected that the school building would be finished at the beginning of 1940, at which stage the existing school could move from the attic of one of the pilot’s homes, where The Elbow’s children had been taught for the previous four years (Aalbæk Jensen 1981: 34-64; Nellemann 2000).2
