Alexander Asylum

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The Alexander Asylum was a charity institution founded in Sarata in the Russian Empire in 1864 . It was in the historical landscape of Bessarabia . The self-help facility looked after old, sick and handicapped people as well as orphans from the ranks of the Bessarabian German ethnic group. The name was given in honor of the then ruling Tsar Alexander II.

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The Alexander-Asyl was founded by the six pastors Becker from Hoffnungstal , Moritz Georg Busch from Klöstitz , Gottfried Wilhelm Walker from Alt-Elft , Georg Behning from Sarata, Herbord Julius Bienemann from Arzys and Rudolf Faltin from Kischinew . Nursing work began in a private home in Sarata in 1864 and was continued in a new building built in 1867. The facility was financed from the church collection as well as material and food donations from German villages in Bessarabia.

As early as 1867, sick people were admitted to a hospital department, which was expanded by a hospital built in 1883. In 1903 an old people's home was added and in 1926 a house for sisters in need of relaxation was added. In the first 70 years of its existence, a total of 1200 people were cared for and around 26,000 sick people were cared for. In 1936 the home was permanently occupied by around 120 foster children. When the Bessarabian Germans were resettled in 1940, the sick and cared for people were also resettled to the German Reich , but the work of the facility was lost in the chaos of war. After the Second World War , the Bessarabian German pastor Albert Kern continued to look after his compatriots in an empty church home in the Großerlach district of Neufürstenhütte. From 1979 until it was taken over by Diakonie Stetten in 2008 , the institution was called Alexander-Stift .

literature

  • Albert Kern (ed.): The Alexander Asylum in Sarata in: Heimatbuch der Bessarabiendeutschen . Aid Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church from Bessarabia, Hanover, 1964, pp. 29–32
  • J. Fiechtner: The Alexander-Asyl zu Sarata, A memorial sheet for its 70th anniversary (1866-1936) , in: Deutscher Volkskalender für Bessarabien 1937 , S. 88-92 ( Online S. 88 , S. 89 , S. 90 , p. 91 , p. 92 )

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