Evangelical Christophorus Sisterhood
The Christophorus Sisterhood - Ev. Sisters and carers community e. V. in Bad Pyrmont is an evangelical community of sisters for sick and elderly care . It belongs to the Diaconal work of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional Church of Hanover .
history
The sisterhood was founded in Berlin in 1907 by Frida Gräfin zur Lippe under the name "Evangelische Landpflege-Schwesternschaft" to support the rural population in domestic emergencies and to counteract rural exodus through the training of rural nursing sisters. The training, which initially included nursing, child care, rural housekeeping and biblical studies, took place in six rural nursing schools and befriended deaconess hospitals. After completing their training, the sisters were assigned to parish wards. In addition to nursing the sick and the elderly in emergencies, her field of activity also included the care of entire households, including cattle. By 1917 there had already been 65 stations across Germany.
In order to strengthen the cohesion of the sisters with one another, there were annual meetings in Berlin and regular visits by the foster mother. Contacts were intensified in 1926 when the parent company was founded in Sangerhausen , where the previously decentralized rural nursing schools were merged into a single facility. In 1938 the Sisterhood took over the district hospital in Rinteln and set up a nursing school there. The mother house in Sangerhausen was confiscated in 1945 and served first as a Soviet barracks, later as a state hospital in the GDR . The rural maintenance training (now nurse preschool) was continued in a leisure home in Bad Sachsa provided by the Diakonisches Werk Magdeburg . The part of the sisterhood residing in the GDR was integrated as a separate group into the deaconess mother house Cecilienstift in Halberstadt.
In 1950, the city hospital in Lehrte was taken over . In 1953 the sisterhood moved into the "Haus Hoheneck" in Bad Sachsa, which was acquired by inheritance, as a substitute motherhouse and preschool. From 1962 the sisters also worked in the Bathildis Hospital in Bad Pyrmont, which later also became the motherhouse and seat of nursing training. The three-year training included courses in anatomy, physiology, pathology, drug theory, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, rehabilitation and first aid. Since the land maintenance thus increasingly faded into the background in the range of tasks in favor of the care of the sick and the elderly, the sisterhood in 1965 adopted the name "Christophorus sisterhood". Since 1988 the sisterhood has also accepted nurses and nursing students and therefore officially called itself from May 1991 "Christophorus-Sisterhood - Ev. Sisters and carers community e. V., Bad Pyrmont ”.
In August 2006 the sponsorship for the nursing school was transferred to the hospital in Bad Pyrmont. At the end of 2006, the sisterhood for the hospital and the elderly care Bethesda and Bethanien also ended.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sisterhood missing the proceeds , Pyrmonter Nachrichten, September 22, 2006
literature
- 125 years of the Bethesda Bad Pyrmont Foundation 1848–1972 , Bad Pyrmont 1973
- Evangelical Christophorus Sisterhood - 75 years - Evangelical Land Care Sisterhood , o.O. 1982