Bonhoeffer House (Friedrichsbrunn)

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Bonhoeffer House
Bonhoeffer House Friedrichsbrunn (Waldstrasse 7)

Bonhoeffer House Friedrichsbrunn (Waldstrasse 7)

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place Friedrichsbrunn
Coordinates 51 ° 41 '26.3 "  N , 11 ° 2' 9.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '26.3 "  N , 11 ° 2' 9.1"  E

The Bonhoeffer-Haus Friedrichsbrunn is the former holiday home of the Bonhoeffer family . Since 2014 it has housed an information and meeting place with the permanent exhibition The Bonhoeffer Family in Friedrichsbrunn .

History of the house until 1945

Karl Bonhoeffer and Paula Bonhoeffer (born von Hase) bought the house in 1913 as a holiday home for themselves and their eight children Karl-Friedrich (1899–1957), Walter (1899–1918), Klaus (1901–1945), Ursula (1902– 1983), Christine (1903–1965), Dietrich (1906–1945), Sabine (1906–1999) and Susanne Bonhoeffer (1909–1991). The house served as a holiday paradise for the children and grandchildren, as a starting point for hikes, as a meeting place for the family and as a retreat for discussions and studies. Such was particularly important in the time of National Socialism .

Two sons and two sons-in-law of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer took an active part in the plans to overthrow Adolf Hitler. Hans von Dohnanyi (Christine Bonhoeffer's husband) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were arrested on April 5, 1943, Klaus Bonhoeffer and Rüdiger Schleicher (Ursula Bonhoeffer's husband) in 1944, after the failed assassination attempt on July 20 . In April 1945 Hans von Dohnanyi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Klaus Bonhoeffer and Rüdiger Schleicher were executed.

History of the house after 1945

The house was occupied by refugee families from 1946, but remained in the possession of the Bonhoeffer family until 1998. Since the Bonhoeffer family was part of the anti-fascist resistance , the house was not expropriated. Dieter Zehnpfund , the former district administrator in the district of Quedlinburg from Friedrichsbrunn , initiated the first exhibition in 2006 in the village community center with photos that had remained in the house. Since 2008 the Halberstadt parish ( Evangelical Church in Central Germany ) has rented some rooms in Waldstrasse 7 in order to keep the memory of the Bonhoeffer family alive; a Bonhoeffer café was set up. In 2010 the first exhibition on the Bonhoeffer family was shown in the house. 2012 was club Bonhoeffer House Friedrichsbrunn founded, which has rented the premises in succession of the church district, 2014. In 2014 the permanent exhibition "The Bonhoeffer Family in Friedrichsbrunn" opened.

exhibition

On August 31, 2014, the permanent exhibition The Bonhoeffer Family in Friedrichsbrunn was officially opened as part of the 17th Bonhoeffer Day. It was professionally designed by Günter and Helene Ebbrecht and Ruth Ziemer and was created in cooperation between the “Bonhoeffer-Haus Friedrichsbrunn” association and the Harz University of Applied Sciences . It documents the time from the purchase of the holiday home in 1913 to the death of the four members of the Bonhoeffer family in 1945. Original historical documents and memories of the Bonhoeffer children Susanne and Sabine as well as their son-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi transport you into the world of this special family.

society

The Bonhoeffer-Haus Friedrichsbrunn Association for Sponsors and Sponsors was founded on June 9, 2012. In addition to the memory of the Bonhoeffer family in Friedrichsbrunn, one of the concerns of the association is to “gain impulses for our current life in family and society” from the life of this family and to “bring people into conversation about it”. The association lives from voluntary work and is dependent on donations for rent, maintenance of the exhibition and other activities.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eberhard Högerle: Bonhoeffer exhibition opened in Friedrichsbrunn. In: medieninformatik.de. October 8, 2014, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Günter Ebbrecht: August 31, 2014: 17th Bonhoeffertag in Friedrichsbrunn. August 31, 2014, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Homepage of the exhibition .
  4. ^ Website of the association .