Diakonis - Diakonissenhaus Foundation

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Diakonis - Diakonissenhaus Foundation (own spelling: diakonis ) is a Protestant foundation based in Detmold in North Rhine-Westphalia . She is a member of the Diakonisches Werk of the Lippische Landeskirche and is mainly active in the care of the elderly . The foundation was founded in 1899 as a Protestant deaconess house. The deaconess house in Detmold is the only reformed type.

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Diakonis is a Protestant foundation under private law. It functions as the sponsor of nine full and part-time inpatient care facilities for the elderly in Detmold, Lage and Augustdorf . Around 1000 people are looked after by around 630 employees there. Diakonis also runs an inpatient hospice and a specialist seminar for care for the elderly .

Hostel to home

The Herberge zur Heimat Foundation , whose board traditionally consists of representatives of the Diakonissenhaus and the Lippe Regional Church, is a contact point for people in social distress. The hostel was founded in 1885 as a workers' colony , a facility for migrant workers and the homeless . Then as now, it is based in Mühlenstrasse in Detmold.

Today the hostel operates, among other things, a children's soup kitchen , a table or training apartments in which people should learn to live in an apartment again.

history

Historic resting place of the deaconesses in the Kupferberg cemetery

The Deaconess House in Detmold was founded in 1899 with the participation of the Lippe Regional Conference of the Reformed Federation . Far beyond the borders of the later Lippe , the were deaconesses in the county of Bentheim , the Reformed churches of East Friesland and cities such as Bielefeld , Essen or Hannover operates. They worked in hospitals, children's and old people's homes, among other places.

During the time of the church struggle during National Socialism , the house was a refuge for the Confessing Church . The Protestant resistance fighter Martin Albertz wrote in 1949: "Of all the places of refuge that have been given to the Confessing Church, none has grown as dear to us as the Diakonissenhaus in Detmold."

The Detmold deaconesses joined this protestant opposition movement as a unity. Three of them spent some time in prison as a result.

With the participation of Martin Niemöller which met the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany in 1950 in Diakonissenhaus.

After 1953 the number of deaconesses peaked at 321 sisters. Since then there have been fewer and fewer. In total there were more than 430 deaconesses in Detmold. Deaconesses, employees and alumni are now organized in the Diaconal Community .

In 2009 the Protestant Diakonissenhaus Detmold changed its name to diakonis - Stiftung Diakonissenhaus . The new name no longer contains any denominational or regional reference. Since then, all of the Foundation's institutions have operated under this name. Diakonis describes itself as a “modern service provider within diakonia”.

literature

  • Burkhard Meier (ed.). The Evangelical Deaconess House Detmold. A century of reports, pictures and documents. Topp and Möller publishing house, Detmold 1999.
  • Karl Meyer. The deaconess house in Detmold. Memory sheets from the history of the first 25 years. Detmold 1924.
  • Herberge zur Heimat Foundation (ed.). Festschrift: 125 years of the hostel for home. Detmold 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A wide range of help for the homeless Lippische-Landeskirche.de (accessed on March 16, 2012)
  2. ↑ It all started with migrant workers ( memento of the original from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: 125 years hostel to home. Detmold 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / docs.google.com
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Burkhard Meier (ed.). The Evangelical Deaconess House Detmold. Detmold 1999, page 207.
  4. ^ Diakonis - history
  5. ↑ See: Burkhard Meier (ed.). The Evangelical Deaconess House Detmold. Detmold 1999, page 295 f.
  6. ↑ Being there for others Lippischen-Landeskirche.de (accessed on March 16, 2012)
  7. ↑ Press release “Diakonissenhaus with a new name and design”, May 6, 2009.

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 29.9 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 52"  E