 There are reports of the beginnings of school in Offenbach from as long ago as the 16th century, according to which the children had to go to a schoolmaster named Johannes Matthias Faber for Lutheran "Kinderlehre" ("child teaching").In 1692, schoolteacher Pauly Schmidt was teaching.Throughout the 18th century there was a winter school (a school geared towards an agricultural community’s practical needs, held in the winter, when farm families had a bit more time to spare).