Franziskuswerk Schönbrunn

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Building of the Franziskuswerk with the monastery church of St. Joseph and the neighboring church of St. Cross

The Franziskuswerk Schönbrunn is a company for social work with headquarters in Schönbrunn , Röhrmoos municipality in Bavaria . 850 people with intellectual disabilities live in the facilities of the Franziskuswerk Schönbrunn . It employs around 1400  people . Its legal form is non-profit limited liability company . Schönbrunn Palace is one of the properties .

history

In 1861 Viktorine von Butler-Haimhausen founded a poor girl's house in Haimhausen . In the following year she bought the Schönbrunn Castle, which was in dire need of renovation. There she started work with five sisters in 1863 with the aim of creating a home for old women in need of care and enabling young women from poor backgrounds to be educated and trained. Even in the early years, more and more people with intellectual disabilities came to Schönbrunn. In 1864 a school was established in Schönbrunn in which all of the residents who were capable of learning were taught the elementary subjects of the elementary school. In 1866 a prayer room was built on the upper floor of the former Schönbrunn Palace. The facility developed and expanded over the years and the number of so-called foster people increased. In 1880 a church was built.

In 1911 a Franciscan religious order was founded in Schönbrunn under episcopal law, the Congregation of the Servants of Divine Providence. With the help of the associated agriculture, the supply of the facility could be ensured even during the First World War . Today's St. Georg monastery church dates from 1922 and was extended by 8 meters in 1932. Between 1920 and 1936 the facility was expanded, the infrastructure, water supply and roads expanded, and the number of residents rose from 475 to around 1200.

Children in the Schönbrunn sanatorium, 1934. Photograph by SS photographer Franz Bauer

During the National Socialist era, many residents were victims of forced sterilization . From 1940, 905 residents were mostly transferred to the Haar District Hospital . At least 546 of them were killed in the course of the Nazi murders , at least 200 of them in the Nazi killing center in Hartheim . In the Haar District Hospital itself, there was a " children's department " for killing with Luminal and "hunger houses". One of the individual fates is that of 13-year-old Edith Hecht, who was brought to Eglfing-Haar on June 2, 1944; her parents were informed of her death on December 23, 1944. The director Joseph Steiniger cooperated. From 1944 onwards, evacuated patients from Munich could be accommodated in the institution.

The post-war period was marked by the reconstruction of the facility. From 1972 onwards, secular workers were hired due to the decreasing number of sisters. In the following years the facility was constantly expanded and diversified. The Schönbrunn Asylum developed into one of the largest facilities for people with mental and multiple disabilities in Bavaria.

In 1984/85 the church was completely redesigned inside and out.

In 1992 the leadership of the Franciscan congregation initiated an organizational development process. In 1994 the institution was renamed Franziskuswerk Schönbrunn, with secular management and various facilities for the disabled.

structure

The facilities include:

  • Schönbrunn homes (living-leisure therapy)
  • Johannes Neuhäusler School (private school for individual coping with life, curative educational day care center, integrated kindergarten)
  • Schönbrunner Werkstätten (recognized workshop for the disabled, funding center)
  • Schönbrunn businesses (craft businesses, service businesses)
  • Academy Schönbrunn (technical school for curative education care, vocational school for geriatric care, occupational therapy and social care, specialist academy for curative education).

7 Monasteries Way

The monastery is also a stop on the 7-Klöster-Weg , a cycle path that connects seven existing or former monasteries in the Dachauer and Wittelsbacher Lands . The aim of this 100 km long bike path is to bring the monasteries back to consciousness and make them tangible. The seven monasteries: Monastery Palace, Monastery Weichs , Kloster Indersdorf , Kloster Petersberg , altomünster abbey , Kloster Maria Birnbaum in Sielenbach and monastery taxa in Odelzhausen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rita Huber-Sperl: Countess Viktorine von Butler-Haimhausen. In: Journal for Bavarian State History Volume 62 Issue 1, 1999, p. 182.
  2. ^ Sr. M. Benigna Sirl: The Association Institute Schönbrunn and the National Socialist euthanasia program. Writings from the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, 2011
  3. ↑ Anna Schultes: Shocking knowledge. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 26, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.pressreader.com/germany/abendzeitung-m%C3%BCnchen/20110127/282067683395672
  5. ↑ Helmut Zeller, Schönbrunn: In memory of the victims of the Nazi "euthanasia". In: sueddeutsche.de . January 29, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://franziskanerinnen-schoenbrunn.de/geschichte/
  7. ↑ St. Josef Monastery Church in Schönbrunn - (Hans Schertl)
  8. ↑ http://www.roehrmoos.de/gemeinde-roehrmoos/ortteileegeschichtliches/schoenbrunn/
  9. ↑ The "7 Klöster Weg" in the Dachauer and Wittelsbacher Land ( Memento from 23 May 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Odelzhausen , accessed on 23 May 2015)