Coppel pen

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The Coppel pen

The Coppelstift is the psychosocial counseling center in the Bergisch city ​​of Solingen . The facility was designed by the Solingen business family Coppel, mainly due to the financial support Gustav Coppels , in 1912 donated and handed over their destiny as a consulting and recreation center for mothers and the sick.

location

The facility is still in its original location on Wupperstrasse on the edge of the Kannenhof in downtown Solingen, which is spread over several buildings. To the south joins the Gustav-Coppel-Park , the old botanical garden of the city.

history

prehistory

The Jewish Coppel family achieved some wealth early on when Alexander Coppel founded the cutlery company Alcoso (for Al exander Co ppel So lingen) in 1821 and in the early days made typical Solingen products with scissors and pocket knives. Alexander Coppel's son Gustav was born in Solingen on July 17, 1830. When he was old enough, he became a partner in his father's company and later also chairman of the Siegen-Solingen Gussstahl-Aktien-Verein am Weyersberg and a member of the supervisory board of Gummiwerke Continental in Hanover . In the years 1877 and 1878 he held the position of President of the Solingen Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Gustav Coppel was also politically active in his hometown. He was 1867-1910 more than 40 years a city councilor and from 1892 to 1912 for 20 years of volunteer councilor of the city of Solingen. The focus of his long-term policy was the school and welfare system.

Establishment of the Coppel pen

In 1906 the Coppel family donated 90,000 marks to help improve the welfare system in Solingen. At the time, this amount would have corresponded to around one sixth of the entire city budget. The occasion was the golden wedding of Gustav Coppel and his wife on November 3, 1906. The amount donated was made up as follows: 40,000 marks came from Gustav Coppel, another 40,000 from his brother Arnold and 10,000 marks from other members of the family came from. In the years up to the First World War , Gustav Coppel brought in further foundation funds; documents from that time mention a sum of several hundred thousand marks. The money was to be used to set up a counseling and recreation center for mothers and a medical welfare center for people with tuberculosis , alcohol and cancer . The institution, named Coppelstift after its founders, was opened on May 15, 1912.

War years and post-war years

Gustav Coppel, who was granted honorary citizenship on October 18, 1908 for his charity and political commitment in his hometown , died on December 25, 1914. The Coppel family, including Gustav Coppel's son Alexander Coppel , was disempowered and persecuted under the Nazi regime . From 1933 to 1945 the Coppelstift was converted into an air and sunbathing facility, a children's hospital and a military hospital. On August 8, 1934, a maternal convalescent home opened that was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944. Otherwise the buildings were largely undamaged. After the Second World War , the municipal educational advice center was housed in the buildings. The family education center opened there in 1958 and later moved to the Villa Lindenhof in Höhscheid . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Coppelstift, a memorial plaque for Gustav Coppel was attached to one of the foundation buildings in 1962 . In 1966, a curative educational day care center was added.

Todays use

Today the psychological services of the city of Solingen are housed in the buildings of the Coppelstift, including the school psychological service, psychological family and parenting counseling, as well as counseling for pregnant women and pregnancy conflict counseling. Due to austerity measures by the city of Solingen, the 2010 and 2012 participatory budgets included the abandonment of the buildings on Wupperstrasse and the spatial merging with the city's social service in the town hall. However, the city ​​council repeatedly decided against it due to the insufficient savings potential and dubious foundation law issues.

literature

  • Herbert Weber: Representative of the Jewish community and benefactor: Coppelstift, Wupperstraße 80 . In: Klaus Goebel (Ed.): Historical scenes in Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid. 2nd Edition. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-87093-043-8 , pp. 103-105.

swell

  1. ↑ Overview of the history of the Alcoso company on alcoso.com , accessed on December 30, 2015
  2. ^ Coppelstift - the forgotten museum , Solinger Morgenpost from April 16, 2012, accessed on December 30, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Herbert Weber: Representative of the Jewish community and benefactor: Coppelstift, Wupperstraße 80 . In: Klaus Goebel (Ed.): Historical scenes in Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid. 2nd Edition. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-87093-043-8 , pp. 103-105.
  4. ↑ Coppelstift auf bildung-und-begabung.de , accessed on December 30, 2015
  5. ^ Report of the Solinger Tageblatt from September 23, 2014, accessed on December 30, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 38.1 ″  E