Fliedner Cultural Foundation
| Fliedner Cultural Foundation (FKS) |
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| legal form | Church foundation under private law |
| Seat | Zeppenheimer Weg 20 40489 Düsseldorf - Kaiserswerth |
| purpose | Collection and preservation of the intellectual and cultural heritage of the deaconess mother houses and their successor institutions |
| Managing directors | Norbert Friedrich |
| people |
Kaiserswerther Association Kaiserswerther Diakonie (founder) |
| Website | fliedner-kulturstiftung.de |
The Fliedner Cultural Foundation was founded in 2002 - on the occasion of the 200th birthdays of Theodor and Friederike Fliedner - as a legally independent foundation in Düsseldorf - Kaiserswerth . Previously, the archive, library and museum were part of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie .
Tasks, activities and structure
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The Fliedner Cultural Foundation collects and preserves the intellectual and cultural heritage of the deaconess mother houses and their successor institutions in the evangelical world. The foundation thus contributes to the current profile of "Diakonie in Gemeinschaft". Their activities include advising and accompanying research projects in the library and archive, organizing scientific colloquia, but also presenting objects in the Kaiserswerth care museum.
In 2009 the statutes were adopted in their current form. There is a board of directors, which performs management tasks, and a foundation board, which has supervisory functions. The founding donors are the Kaiserswerther Association and the Kaiserswerther Diakonie. There is also a scientific advisory board. The head of the foundation is the historian Norbert Friedrich .
archive
The archive of the Fliedner Cultural Foundation preserves the “cultural memory” of the mother house diakonia and makes it available for scientific research and general use. It includes collections on the history of diakonia since the 19th century. Particular mention should be made of the estate of Theodor Fliedner's family and the extensive tradition of the Kaiserswerther Diakonissenanstalt . In some cases, complete archives of existing or expired facilities are also available. The archive stores documents with a volume of around 800 linear meters (in addition to the estate, mainly sister files) and more than 20,000 photos.
Library
The specialist library with over 20,000 volumes contains many rarities and is a research library, scientific research institute and center, especially for the areas of nursing history, nursing research and the history of female diaconia as well as the history of social Protestantism . It promotes historically oriented public relations.
The specialist library was built up in 1931 by the deaconry scientist Martin Gerhardt , who conducted research in Kaiserswerth between 1932 and 1937 and wrote a large biography of Fliedner. His successors were the two deaconesses Anna Sticker (1937–1969) and Ruth Felgentreff (1969–1995).
It is a special library that documents the history of female diakonia as well as the many national and international foundings of Theodor Fliedner in great unity. A particular focus of the collection is on the publications of the parent companies of the Kaiserswerther Association and the Kaiserswerther General Conference .
museum
Opened in 2011, the museum presents the history of nursing in the 19th and 20th centuries. The history of the museum begins in the middle of the 19th century when the Kaiserswerther Diakonissenanstalt started working on the Orient. As a teaching collection of the teachers' seminar founded in 1844, it was intended to make teaching vivid and lively. Today it is the first German care museum.
In addition, an exhibition on the life and work of the long-time director of the parament workshop, Kurt Wolff, can be viewed , as well as parts of the famous ethnological collection with an Egyptian mummy .
literature
- Norbert Friedrich: The Kaiserswerther. How Theodor Fliedner gave women a job. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88981-297-1 .
- Norbert Friedrich, Martin Wolff (Ed.): Diakonie in Gemeinschaft. Perspectives for a successful motherhouse diakonia. Neukirchener Theologie, Neukirchen / Vluyn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7887-2524-2 .
- Norbert Friedrich (Ed.): Care Museum Kaiserswerth. Catalog for the permanent exhibition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0949-6 .