Anna von Sprewitz

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Anna von Sprewitz (born September 12, 1847 in Güstrow , † January 26, 1923 in Göppingen-Jebenhausen ) was a German deaconess and founder of the foundation.

origin

Anna von Sprewitz comes from the noble family von Sprewitz , who came from Mecklenburg . Her father was Adolph von Sprewitz (1800–1882) and her mother Bertha Knappe von Knappstädt (1818–1885). She was the youngest of six children.

Life

Anna von Sprewitz's childhood was strongly influenced by her father, who worked as chief inspector of the state workhouse in Güstrow and looked after homeless people, beggars and criminals there. She became a deaconess and worked first as a community nurse in Güstrow and later as a trainer for deaconesses. A career change took her to Hamburg, where she looked after so-called " fallen girls " on the Reeperbahn .

A serious illness brought Anna von Sprewitz to Bad Boll in 1889 , where she met Pastor Christoph Blumhardt . From 1895 on, Anna von Sprewitz worked in the Bad Boll Kurhaus, first in the care of the sick, then in economic management. She then also ran the household of Pastor Blumhardt, who lived with her in Jebenhausen from 1906 until his death in 1919, while his wife stayed in Bad Boll. Both were very close in their faith and in their way of life and advocated an improvement in social conditions. The unusual arrangement still served Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum a generation later as a point of reference and demarcation.

Anna von Sprewitz and Pastor Blumhardt set up the "Wieseneck Children's Home" foundation on December 30, 1913 in Jebenhausen near Göppingen. Since men and women were working in the workers' suburb of Jebenhausen at the time, the children were not cared for. The foundation established a kindergarten and after-school care center for schoolchildren to take care of the children. Anna von Sprewitz had decreed that after her death further capital (30,000 marks) should flow into the foundation from the estate so that a neighboring farm could be bought. These material assets prevented the foundation from going under during the inflationary period, and so the foundation celebrated its centenary in 2013.

After the death of Pastor Christoph Blumhardt, Anna von Sprewitz published his writings. She also campaigned for the Moravian Brethren to take over the Boller facility.

On June 23, 1913, the Jebenhausen community made Anna von Sprewitz an honorary citizen. Von-Sprewitz-Strasse in Jebenhausen is named after her.

Fonts

  • Anna von Sprewitz: On Eternal Path - Handwritten CV Gnadau 1926
  • Blumhardt, Christoph, Eugen Jäckh and Anna von Sprewitz: From the kingdom of God. Berlin 1925

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Blumhardt's "wild marriage" , Göppinger Kreisnachrichten from February 25, 2012, accessed on April 12, 2015
  2. ↑ See Barth's letter of February 28, 1926, in: Rolf Joachim Erler (ed.): Karl Barth-Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Correspondence: 1925-1935. (Karl Barth Complete Edition 45) Zurich: TVZ 2008 ISBN 9783290174361 , p. 28
  3. ↑ The Wieseneck Foundation is 100 years old ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the City of Göppingen from August 20, 2013, accessed on April 12, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goeppingen.de
personal data
SURNAME Sprewitz, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sister Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deaconess and founder of the foundation
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1923
Place of death Jebenhausen