Foundation for the Blind Institute

Foundation for the Blind Institute
Legal form:	Foundation under public law
Purpose:	Support for blind, visually and multiply disabled people
Chair:	Johannes Spielmann, Marco Bambach (board members)
Consist:	since 1853
Founder:	Moritz Graf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda
Number of employees:	2350
Seat:	Wurzburg
Website:	blindeninstitut.de

The Blindeninstitutsstiftung is a non-profit foundation under public law based in Würzburg and was founded in 1853. The purpose of the foundation is the education, promotion and care of blind and visually impaired people, with the focus on supporting people with multiple disabilities .

At seven locations in Bavaria and Thuringia, the foundation maintains institutes for the blind with early intervention centers, schools, therapeutic day care centers, boarding schools and year-round living areas, therapeutic offers as well as support and workshops. Blind or visually impaired children and young people in mainstream schools are supported by mobile services. In addition, the foundation offers affected persons and parents with its advice centers contact points for all questions on the topics of vision, blindness and multiple disabilities.

The annual turnover is 107 million euros.

founding

The foundation goes back to the formation of the "Association for the promotion of the district blind institution for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg" by Count Moritz zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda in 1853. On December 4, 1853, the first school for the blind was opened in Würzburg. The support association of the Blindeninstitutsstiftung continues to exist under the name "Blindenobsorgeverein 1853 eV" (Chairman: Willi Dürrnagel).

In 1909 the institute for the blind moved into a new school and home building on Franz-Ludwig-Straße.

Facilities

Institutions are: Institute for the Blind in Würzburg, Institute for the Blind in Munich, Institute for the Blind in Regensburg, Institute for the Blind in Rückersdorf, Institute for the Blind in Thuringia (Schmalkalden and Erfurt), Institute for the Blind in Untermain (Elsenfeld and Niedernberg), Institute for the Blind in Upper Franconia (Kulmbach).

Since the beginning of 2018, the Foundation for the Blind Institute in Würzburg has maintained a Medical Treatment Center for Adults with Disabilities (MZEB).

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Lots of things from the Foundation . Website of the Foundation for the Blind Institute. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
^ Statutes of the association for the promotion of the district blind institution for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg In: Polytechnischer Verein (Würzburg), Agricultural Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (ed.): Non-profit weekly publication. Organ for the interests of technology, trade, agriculture and poor relief for 1853 . 1853, pp. 605-608.
↑ Main-Post: Dürrnagel further chairman .
^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1235.

[Zahlen-1] Lots of things from the Foundation . Website of the Foundation for the Blind Institute. Retrieved September 4, 2019.

[2] Statutes of the association for the promotion of the district blind institution for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg In: Polytechnischer Verein (Würzburg), Agricultural Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (ed.): Non-profit weekly publication. Organ for the interests of technology, trade, agriculture and poor relief for 1853 . 1853, pp. 605-608.

[3] Main-Post: Dürrnagel further chairman .

[4] Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1235.