Wilhelm Schramm pen
The Wilhelm Schramm pen was a retirement and nursing home in Offenbach am Main in private ownership , which ceased its operation in April, 2015. It goes back to a foundation of the Offenbach industrialist Wilhelm Schramm from 1910. The building used by Wilhelm Schramm Stift , the design of which was designed by the architect Hugo Eberhardt , is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Foundation, endowment
The Offenbacher Wilhelm Schramm (born June 20, 1846 in Offenbach am Main; † May 5, 1909 ibid) came to considerable prosperity as a co-owner of Schramm'sche Lack- und Farbenfabrik AG . Marked by early illness, he saw a social and charitable obligation in the wealth he had earned himself. With his will he therefore designated a Wilhelm Schramm Foundation to be established as the heiress of around 90 percent of his assets, with the condition that an old people's home be built and maintained. The will provision for this read: “In the old people's home, needy old people from the city of Offenbach am Main, who have passed the age of 60 and enjoy a good reputation, regardless of religion and gender, should receive free admission, food, food and treatment in healthy and find in sick days. "
The foundation was established when the Hessian Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig approved it on October 22, 1910.
From the estate of 1,135,735.23 gold marks , around one million gold marks were donated to the foundation. This corresponds to around 5,830,007 euros based on today's purchasing power.
However, the foundation's assets did not last long. The inflation after the First World War sapped the ability for the first time largely on. The foundation's board of trustees was forced to lease the home to the city of Offenbach for ten years (1922 to 1932). After that, the foundation's finances had recovered so much that the old people's home was able to reopen. Due to the low foundation funds, free admission and care of the residents was no longer possible. However, since the residents' contributions to costs were not sufficient, the assets were again reduced and, as a result of the currency reform of 1948, were reduced to just around DM 10,000, in addition to the capital invested in the home itself, corresponding to around EUR 25,874 in today's purchasing power. In the following years, however, the profitable sale of real estate and the inflow of further inheritances enabled the foundation's assets to be built up again to a modest extent, which is still in place today.
Board of Trustees
According to the will of the founder, the board of trustees of the foundation is made up of the following group of people: A senior official of the city of Offenbach, who is proposed by the city of Offenbach; an industrialist based in Offenbach who is proposed by the IHK ; one based in Offenbach master craftsman who from the Kreishandwerkerschaft is proposed; a doctor from Offenbach, who is freely chosen, and another respected person from Offenbach.
The current members of the Board of Trustees (as of November 2013) are:
- Stefan Grüttner , Minister of State (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
- Gabi Clouth, clerk (deputy chairwoman of the board of trustees)
- Harald E. Balló, oncologist
- Wolfgang Kramwinkel, managing director, district master craftsman
- Günter Stier, Sparkasse Director i. R.
The nursing home
building
The building was built on Buchrainweg between 1912 and 1913 based on a design by Hugo Eberhardt . It consists of two wings connected to each other at right angles and has two floors. Built in a country house style, it shows a combination of modern and neo-classical architectural elements . In the front part of the building there are day rooms and rooms on the ground floor, the dining room and visiting room in the rear. The residents' rooms are arranged on the upper floor and the sick room on the garden side. The street facade is dominated by a central, pillar-supported balcony and a dwarf house above it in the hipped roof .
The building is probably the only remaining residential building designed by the architect Hugo Eberhardt in Offenbach. For historical and artistic reasons, the complex is a listed building . There is a spacious garden behind the house, which is directly adjacent to the forest.
history
On December 1, 1913, the retirement home went into operation with initially 20 places. In addition to bedrooms, it contained hospital rooms, day rooms, a dining room and an electric elevator, making it progressive for its time.
However, the First World War quickly ended the intended use. The home was requisitioned during the war as accommodation for the recovery of returning soldiers. Even after the end of the war, the facility could not be used as intended for long. In order to protect the foundation's assets, which had been consumed by inflation, on the one hand, and to increase income on the other hand, the building was rented to the city of Offenbach from 1922 to 1932, which it used as accommodation for convalescents and babies. Afterwards the house was used again without interruption according to the original dedication.
In 1948 the building was fully expanded by expanding the attic to a maximum of 42 living spaces.
In 1984 the entire first floor of the house was converted into a nursing ward with a capacity of 20 beds. Previously, an extension of a side wing planned in 1982 to build a care department had failed due to a lack of subsidies from the State of Hesse .
In 2000 one of the largest renovations of the house took place. To increase security, it was modernized in terms of fire protection. The entire roof space was converted to make it fire-retardant, the corridors were fitted with new fire protection doors and each room was fitted with a fire alarm.
As the Foundation's Board of Trustees announced in a press release on February 22, 2015, the nursing home closed on April 30, 2015. The reason given was that the facility was not economically sustainable.
The monastery last offered space for about 40 residents; half of these places were aimed at people in need of care. Six geriatric nurses, three nursing assistants, two cooks, six domestic workers and a caretaker worked in the facility.
literature
- 75 years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation . Ed .: Wilhelm Schramm Foundation, self-published, Offenbach am Main 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 75 years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation , page 10 f.
- ^ A b Lothar R. Braun: 1910: Schramm Foundation - a brilliant testimony to citizenship. From: offenbach.de , accessed on April 21, 2016.
- ↑ 75 Years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation , page 11.
- ↑ a b Automatic calculation according to price index development; annual update; compare overall template: inflation .
- ^ A b Madeleine Reckmann: A retirement home with a sense of home. fr-online.de, October 19, 2010, accessed on November 5, 2013 .
- ↑ a b 75 Years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation , page 15.
- ↑ a b 75 Years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation , page 16.
- ↑ a b history. In: wilhelm-schramm-stiftung.de. 2013, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved April 14, 2015 .
- ^ Board of Trustees of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation. In: wilhelm-schramm-stiftung.de. 2013, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved April 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Offenbach Open Monument Day. From: tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de , accessed on November 4, 2013.
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Buchrainweg 135 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ↑ 75 Years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation , page 14.
- ↑ 75 years of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation , page 18 f.
- ↑ Stefan Grüttner: Wilhelm-Schramm-Stift closes operation of the nursing home. (PDF; 63 kB) Press release. In: wilhelm-schramm-stiftung.de. Board of Trustees of the Wilhelm Schramm Foundation, February 22, 2015, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on June 16, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 29.3 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 33.5" E