Deaconess Mother House Eisenach

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The Deaconess Mother House seen from Karlsplatz

The Deaconess Mother House is a listed building complex in Eisenach in Thuringia . It is the mother house of the Ev.-Luth. Deaconess House Foundation Eisenach .

location

The deaconess house is on the northeast corner of Karlsplatz at the entrance to Nikolaistraße in downtown Eisenach. In front of the deaconess house is the medical memorial , consecrated in 1926, to the south is the monument ensemble of the Nikolaikirche and Nikolaitor , to the east the former deaconess hospital on Schillerstraße.

Deaconess Mother House

The deaconess mother house offers a home and offers for the diaconal community of deaconesses , the deaconal sisters and brothers and the brotherhood and sisterhood Johannes Falk in Eisenach. The mother house is one of the stops on the ecumenical pilgrimage towards Santiago de Compostela . Together with the adjoining Nikolaikirche , it forms a spiritual center for prayer and theme offers as well as for oasis and retreat days in cooperation with the parishes. The building also houses the management and central administration of the Diako Thuringia group of companies as well as the headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakonissenhaus Foundation. The house psalm of the deaconess house is Psalm 23 .

Pilgrim hostel

The Deaconess Mother House is one of the hostels on the ecumenical pilgrimage from Görlitz to Vacha, which was reactivated in 2003 . The sisters of the Deaconess Mother House open up opportunities to talk to the incoming pilgrims and accompany them on their pilgrimage with intercessions.

History of the parent company

Between 1933 and 1935, today's parent house was built at Eisenacher Karlsplatz 27 and 31, which serves as the residence of the deaconesses and the administrative headquarters of the foundation. In the 1990s, the parent company was expanded to include an extension on the corner of Nikolaistraße and Schillerstraße. The parent company is operated by the Ev.-Luth. Deaconess House Foundation Eisenach.

Deaconess House Foundation

Through the individual initiative of Christian Anna von Eichel, the Eisenacher Diakonissenhaus-Stiftung was established in 1872 with a community nurses' station and a small children's station, in which initially only two deaconesses from the Henriettenstift in Hanover worked. The parent company belonged to the Kaiserswerther Association . In 1876, the foundation acquired the former Eisenach Benedictine monastery and expanded its activities to include an infirmary, a children's home and an infirmary. the staff grew to seven deaconesses of the Henriettenstift. In 1891 the Board of Directors approved the establishment of an independent Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Mother House for Thuringia. Five years later, on October 14, 1896, the Diakonissenhaus-Stiftung opened the Deaconess Hospital in Schillerstrasse, which was operated until the end of 1993. From 1994 it was House 1 of the Christian Hospital Eisenach, which was founded at that time . In 2002, hospital operations at the Schillerstraße location were given up after the Christian Hospital was merged with the municipal Wartburg Clinic to form the St. Georg Clinic in Eisenach . In 1916 140 sisters worked in 61 stations for the Diakonissenhausstiftung. Currently (2014) the mother house has 70 diaconal sisters and 26 deaconesses. Regarding the conversion of the former deaconess hospital into a diaconal multi-purpose facility (2013/14), the historian Stefan Wolter complained about the lack of historical awareness of today's company Diako Westthüringen GmbH. The deletion or use of structural identifiers is the outward sign of an insensitivity to the earlier spirit of the house: The mural designed by the Usedom artist Manfred Kandt in 1961 in the entrance area - scratching technique on a cobal blue background - was preserved, but was given due to a lack of respect restored to the artist's ambitions and more than 40 years of appearance with red paint; Fragments of a quotation from the Bible, which symbolized the denominational spirit of the house, were deleted. The history of the Diakonissenhausstiftung, in particular its niche role in the two dictatorships, has not yet been dealt with and is becoming increasingly difficult to grasp due to the dwindling number of eyewitnesses .

gallery

literature

  • Stefan Wolter: The nursing home at Karlsplatz 31 , in: Stadtzeit Spezial. For the 100th German Medical Congress, Eisenach 1997, pp. 125–148.
  • Stefan Wolter: The Christian Hospital and its legal predecessors (history of the general hospitals in the city of Eisenach) 2006 , ISBN 3-8334-3047-8 .

Web links

Commons : Diakonissenstift Eisenach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Johannes Falk Brotherhood and Sisterhood , accessed on April 15, 2017
  2. Weg ( Memento of the original of April 13, 2014 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. , accessed April 9, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diako-thueringen.de
  3. ^ Diakonissenhaus Foundation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 24, 2017 ; accessed on April 24, 2017 (German). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diako-thueringen.de
  4. Origin ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 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. , accessed April 9, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diako-thueringen.de
  5. ^ History of Eisenach accessed on April 11, 2014
  6. Goal ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 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. , accessed April 9, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diako-thueringen.de
  7. Stefan Wolter Confident and undaunted. Reconstruction of the Deaconess Hospital , In: Hallo Eisenach, March 17, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 35.3 "  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 31.5"  E