Alerds Foundation
The Alerds Foundation was established in 1786 as the Alerdsche Foundation in Braunschweig by Sophie Marie Alerds, b. Lüdden († 1802), widow of Johann Gottfried Alerds', vicar of St. Blasius , founded as a beguinage . Today the Alerds Foundation operates a senior citizens' home on Donaustraße in Braunschweig's Weststadt .
history
The original purpose of the foundation was to allow twelve single women to live free of charge in a building on Tournamentstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of the Martinikirche . This included free firing and light as well as a weekly pocket money of at least twelve groschen . Women from the city and the state of Braunschweig , but also from the state of Braunschweig , who led a Christian way of life, were entitled to live. In 1800 Sophie Elisabeth Hartken made a donation so that two more conventuals could be accepted. In 1805 the foundation was recognized as a non-profit organization . In 1897, the Alerdsche Foundation housed "18 single women".
The founding building of the foundation, created by the architect Ernst Wilhelm Horn in the tournament street, was destroyed by the bombing of the Second World War.
In honor of her services, a small street in the western ring area of Braunschweig is named Alerdsweg.
Retirement home of the Alerds Foundation
The Alerds Foundation still exists today as a foundation under public law and operates a senior citizens' home in Weststadt . She is a member of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Braunschweig .
On August 4, 1965 the foundation stone was laid for the senior citizens' home on Donaustraße in Weststadt. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 12, 1965. On June 16, 1982 an extension was handed over to its destination.
literature
- Annette Boldt: The welfare system of the city of Braunschweig in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. An exemplary study using the example of the St. Thomae Hospital. Chronicle of the St. Thomae-Hof Foundation for the period from 1705 to the present , in: Braunschweiger Werkstücke , Series A, Volume 24, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-487-09127-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annette Boldt: The welfare system of the city of Braunschweig in the late Middle Ages and early modern times , p. 380
- ↑ Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 12
- ^ Rudolf Blasius (Ed.): Braunschweig in the year MDCCCXCVII. Festschrift for the participants in the LXIX meeting of German natural scientists and doctors. Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, ( digitized version ), p. 426
- ^ Website of the Alerds Foundation
Web links
- Official website of the Alerds Foundation
- Historical photographs of the Alerdschen Foundation on Bildindex.de , accessed on February 23, 2014
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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 46 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 23 ″ E