Großheppacher sisterhood

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The Großheppach Sisterhood in Weinstadt is a church foundation under civil law and a member of the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg eV Stuttgart. It has existed in Großheppach since 1856 and was founded by Wilhelmine Canz . The Großheppach sisters were mainly active in kindergarten work .

history

Wilhelmine Canz had set herself the goal of training sisters for childcare services. When the first two trainee nurses moved into their children's school in May 1856, Canz founded the educational institution for nurses and an associated parent company for the sisters who worked there. Together with her non-nanny Amalie Rhode, the daughter of her step-sister, the community initially lived on the small fortune that Wilhelmine Canz had earned by selling the second edition of her anonymously published novel 'Eritis Sicut Deus'. From October 17, 1855 to February 1, 1860, the "first" motherhouse served as a home and hostel for the small community of sisters, followed by the move to the former Gasthaus zum Löwen, where Wilhelmine Canz rented her sisters until 1863 - with the help of the committee of the central management of the charity - the house was bought. This house was the mother house until a new mother house was built in 1956.

The regular care of children meant both a great relief for the families and an important educational preparation for school. The caring efforts were aimed primarily at children from disadvantaged social backgrounds who otherwise threatened to go neglect. Still, the sisters were poorly respected and paid, but over the years the energetic founder gained some recognition. Queen of Württemberg visited the facility in 1870 and supported the work. In 1881 the educational institute for nurses in Großheppach was recognized as a legal entity by the royal king .

In 1901, the year Wilhelmine Canz died, the sisterhood already numbered 333 sisters. In 1934 the community peaked with 672 sisters.

A house in Bad Teinach was bought in 1909 to allow the sisters to relax. A house was purchased for the retired sisters in 1926 as a so-called after-work home and a second house in Gaildorf in 1933.

The work with children was increasingly developed and deepened, which was expressed in the change in education. In 1931 the mother house for Protestant child care became the mother house for Protestant child nurses .

In 1933, after the National Socialists came to power, the number of entries in the sisterhood fell.

“The NSV (National Socialist People's Welfare) had long been a thorn in the side of our sisters to instruct children in the Christian faith. She learned: What a nurse forms into the impressive hearts of the little ones, ten Nazi teachers and Hitler Youth leaders can no longer bring out. That is why she set herself the task of removing even the pre-school age children from the influence of the church and our sisters…. In 1941 the NSV asked the Evangelical Church to voluntarily hand over all church kindergartens to them. "

- Forty-first statement of accounts of the mother house for Protestant child sisters in Großheppach (1940/1947)

In 1950 the Großheppach Sisterhood joined the Kaiserswerther Association of German Deaconess Mother Houses . In 1957 there was a kindergarten teacher seminar and a nanny school in Großheppach. From 1965 both schools were also opened to applicants who did not want to belong to either of the two forms of sisterhood (deaconess or union sister) after completing their training. When the parent company moved to Beutelsbach in 1971, the kindergarten teachers' seminar became the Protestant college for social pedagogy . In 1989 the Protestant College for Elderly Care was added as a further branch . In 1994/1995 the Wilhelmine-Canz-Haus nursing home was opened in Großheppach . The foundation also operates the Kinderhaus am Sonnenhang , a day-care center for children from one year of age and a boarding school for young women studying and training. In 2011 the ECKSTEIN community grew out of the community of diaconal sisters. The head office in Weinstadt-Beutelsbach is the administrative seat of the foundation.

meaning

The Großheppach sisters distinguished themselves from the start by promoting work with children. In many cities and municipalities, they took over the work in kindergartens, crèches and children's homes and can enter up to 100 children alone. You have shaped generations of children in Württemberg.

people

swell

  • The educational institute for nurses in Großheppach. First report from Wilhelmine Canz, housemother. Stuttgart, G. Hasselbrink'sche Buchdruckerei, 1863.
  • Wilhelmine Canz: Is there a living God? Answer with certificates. Dr. Hahn'sche Druckerei, Mannheim 1896.
  • Wilhelmine Canz: Eritis sicut Deus. Anonymous novel, Hamburg, Rauhen Haus agency, 1855.
  • Child and sister; Greetings from the Großheppach Sisterhood. Annual journal.

literature

  • Helmut Bornhak, Elfriede Rappold: Follow me. One hundred years of the Großheppach parent company. Hochwacht-Druck, Stuttgart-Rohr, 1956.
  • Helmut Bornhak: Wilhelmine Canz. The founder of the parent company in Großheppach. A fight for the personal God. Golden Words publishing house, Stuttgart Sillenbuch (no year).

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