Kaiserswerther Diakonie
| Kaiserswerther Diakonie | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Legally responsible association under old law |
| founding | 1836 |
| founder | Theodor and Friederike Fliedner |
| Seat | Dusseldorf |
| precursor | Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth |
| Chair | Klaus Riesenbeck and Holger Stiller |
| sales | 175,344,000 euros (2017) |
| Employees | 2400 (2017) |
| Website | www.kaiserswerther-diakonie.de |
The Kaiserswerther Diakonie is a company in Kaiserswerth , a district of Düsseldorf , which is active in the social, health and education sectors. The Diakonie was founded in 1836 by Theodor and Friederike Fliedner as the Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth . With around 2,500 employees, it is one of the largest diaconal companies in Germany . The Florence Nightingale Hospital with twelve specialist clinics and several certified centers is just as much a part of it as elderly care and care facilities, offers for youth and handicapped aid, various vocational schools with around 1,900 training places, the Fliedner University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, an extensive range of advanced training courses at the Kaiserswerth Seminars Bookstore, the Fliedner Cultural Foundation with library, archive and the first care museum in Germany, the Hotel MutterHaus Düsseldorf GmbH and the Kaiserswerther Sisterhood with 80 members. The legal form is an association. Pastor Klaus Riesenbeck and hospital director Holger Stiller currently make up the board.
history
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The parish pastor of Kaiserswerth Theodor Fliedner (1800–1864) got to know the social needs of the beginning industrial age first hand. His Christian faith led him, together with his wife Friederike (1800–1842) and after her death with his second wife Caroline (1811–1892), to search for answers on how to help the needy people who were marginalized. The care of prisoners , the upbringing and education of children as well as the care of the sick and the elderly were and are the fields that shape the work of many diaconal mother houses to this day.
Since the establishment of the first deaconess house in Kaiserswerth in 1836 26 houses were mother after whose by the year 1861 a total of emerged throughout Europe, including Russia and the United States were deaconesses institutions established. While the Kaiserswerth form of institutional diaconia was widely used in Scandinavia, for example, this model could hardly prevail in England - although the Kaiserswerth institution was widely received in English circles and individual deaconess institutions were also established. The most prominent English visitor is Florence Nightingale , who stayed in Kaiserswerth for a few months in 1851 to study here. The hospital has had her name since the 1970s.
In 1861, numerous delegates from the deaconess institutions that had been established to date met for the first “Conference of the Deputies” (Kaiserswerther General Conference) in Kaiserswerth to exchange experiences. This general conference took place every three years after 1861. In 1901, the representatives drafted a basic order based on the Kaiserswerth model and decided to introduce it at all affiliated parent companies.
In 1916, the German parent companies formed their own interest group, the Kaiserswerther Association, within the conference .
Deaconesses
The deaconesses are not “Evangelical nuns” as sometimes described. While they form on the basis of their Protestant faith in Kaiserswerth motherhouse a living and service community that perfectly performing with a Catholic seems comparable religious community, however, there is officially no comparable with a Catholic religious life vows and therefore no celibacy .
The idea of the motherhouse diakonia spread rapidly at the end of the 19th century. Protestant women received qualified training to become nurses, community nurses, educators and teachers. Women from all social classes found meaningful work, their livelihood and a spiritual community. At the height of the 1930s, around 2000 deaconesses were organized in the Kaiserswerth motherhouse alone. Their locations reached far beyond Germany, to the Orient, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
The deaconesses from Kaiserswerth worked in the Evangelical Hospital in Cologne-Kalk , founded in 1904, until 1947. In 1904 the Kaiserswerth Diakonissenanstalt sent six sisters to Kalk. Deaconess Hilda Rühle was the first matron until her death in 1928. The other locations outside of Kaiserswerth included a number of hospitals, but also their own facilities dedicated to promoting people. This included, for example, the Marthashof in Berlin, founded by Theodor Fliedner in 1854, which came into being as a "servants rental comtoir" on the initiative of some deaconesses working at the Charité .
In the years 1852–1973 the sisters of the Kaiserswerth deaconesses were responsible for nursing at the German Hospital in Istanbul (Turkey). In the evangelical part of the Christian cemetery Feriköy in Istanbul there are some graves of these sisters.
Another field of activity of the Kaiserwerth sisters was the Tannenhof Foundation in Remscheid - Lüttringhausen , where there was a mother house where the deaconesses spent their retirement after leaving active service.
Diaconal grounds
Between 1883 and 1903 a number of buildings were built on the so-called “Fronberg” at the gates of Kaiserswerth, which form a campus. Fliedner's son-in-law and successor Julius Disselhoff (1827–1896) was responsible for the planning. The Hotel MutterHaus , the Mutterhauskirche, the Disselhoff Park with its old trees and the buildings of the old hospital still make up the charm of this listed ensemble.
The Crown Prince Monument on the grounds of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie, created by Paul Disselhoff , grandson of the Diakonie founder Theodor Fliedner, commemorates the visit of the later Emperor Friedrich III. as Crown Prince on September 21, 1884 and shows him with the four-year-old children's hospital patient Wilhelm Kroll in his arms. The inscription at the bottom refers to the Crown Prince's visit to the deaconess hospital in Jerusalem on November 6, 1869. Translated it means: "Jerusalem, I love you".
Foundations
Support foundation
Donations and funding have been indispensable in the Kaiserswerther Diakonie since the beginning of its history and have contributed significantly to its creation and development. Since 2008, the work of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie has been supported by a special foundation established for this purpose.
Fliedner Cultural Foundation
In 2002 the archive, library and museum were transferred to an independent foundation, the Fliedner Cultural Foundation . Theodor Fliedner brought the most famous exhibit, the "Kaiserswerther Mummy", an original Egyptian mummy, back from a trip to the Orient in 1857.
literature
- Ruth Felgentreff: The Diakoniewerk Kaiserswerth 1836–1998: from the Diakonissenanstalt to the Diakoniewerk - an overview (= Kaiserswerther contributions, 2). Heimat- und Bürgererverein Kaiserswerth, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 1998, ISBN 978-3-925680-28-1 .
- Ernst Klee: The SA of Jesus Christ: The churches under the spell of Hitler . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-596-24409-6 .
- Silke Köser: Because a deaconess cannot be an everyday person. Collective identities Kaiserswerth deaconesses 1836–1914 (= historical-theological gender research, 2). Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-374-02232-8 .
- Heide-Marie Lauterer : Charitable activity for the national community: the Kaiserswerther Association of German Deaconess Mother Houses in the first years of the Nazi regime (= work on contemporary church history / series B, representations, 22). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-55722-1 (also dissertation at the University of Heidelberg from 1989).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Margit Herfarth: Life in two worlds. The American deaconess movement and its German roots (= publications of the diaconal science institute at the University of Heidelberg, 53). Leipzig 2014.
- ↑ The most important institution is the North London Deaconess Institution, founded in 1861 . Cf. on this, as well as on the reception of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie in England: Michael Czolkoß: "I see some things that could damage the success of the deaconess thing in England" - English Ladies and the Kaiserswerther motherhouse diakonia in the 19th century . In: Between Enlightenment and Modernity. Awakening movements as a historiographical challenge (Religion - Culture - Society. Studies on the cultural and social history of Christianity in modern times and modern times, 5), ed. v. Thomas K. Kuhn and Veronika Albrecht-Birkner . Münster 2017, pp. 255–280.
- ↑ Florence Nightingale: The institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine: for the practical training of deaconesses, under the direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner, embracing the support and care of a hospital, infant and industrial schools, and a female penitentiary. Eyre and Spottiswood, London, 1851.
- ↑ a b R. Boeckler: Kaiserswerther General Conference / Kaiserswerther Association . In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 2 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-417-24642-3 , p. 1031 .
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↑ Remembering the Marthashof in Berlin - an institution of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie . Archive Brunnhilde e. V. Berlin, accessed on March 30, 2017 (PDF; 78 kB).
Pictures on: Memory of the Marthashof in Berlin - an institution of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie . ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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. AnliegerInitiative Marthashof, April 10, 2008, accessed on March 30, 2017. - ↑ About us. Fliedner-Kulturstiftung Kaiserswerth, archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; accessed on March 30, 2017 .
- ^ Museum. Fliedner-Kulturstiftung Kaiserswerth, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on March 30, 2017 .
