At Marktheidenfled there are five well-equipped municipal day care centers for small children. We want the families to be happy, therefore we offer a place in kindergarten for each of our children! Every child of at least six month of age can be registered.

The kindergarten year starts on September 1st and ends on August 31st of the following year. During the holiday month of August, at least one day care center is open, so childcare is provided at all times of the year.

The opening hours of each kindergarten are different; generally they are Monday to Friday between 7.00 am and 5 pm. On holidays the kindergartens will be closed.

Since 2011 the municipal daycare centers of the core city (at Baumhofstraße, Edith-Stein-Straße, Kolpingstraße, Lohgraben) provide specially trained teachers, who promote the linguistic development of all children within the framework of the federal program "Early chances - Language and integration on childcare centers".

The children are registered directly at the daycare centers. You can register you child for the next kindergarten year during March of the previous year. You can select your preferred kindergarten, but children up to 2 years have to go to either Edith-Stein-Straße or Baumhofstraße, because those two centers have the facilites for smaller children.

Please note: For each year in kindergarten you have to fill in a registration in the daycare’s logbook (each year for the follwoing year).

The parents will determine the booking hours when the children are registered. The average minimum is 4 hours per day for children of three and more years of age. For children under three the minimum is 3 hours per day.

For the second child of a family you only pay half of the parental contribution. For the third child (and more) the place is free, but only as long as all three children are registered in daycare.

Cost calculation goes like this: The sum of the hours booked per week are added and divided by four.

Example:
A four year old child will stay 7 hours on Monday, 5 hours on Tuesday, not on Wednesday, 5 hours on Thursday and only 4 hours on Friday. This adds up to 21 hours per week. So we have an average time of 4,25 hours per day. Fractions of hours are rounded up.

So the monthly rate for this child is: 5 hours per day x 10.50 Euro = 52.50 Euro.

For children of 3-6, until school:
10.50 Euro each month per weekly hour

For children under 3  (over six months):
16.00 Euro each month per weekly hour