Busch House (Hagen)

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Haus Busch is an old mansion of the noble family of Syberg for Busch in Hagen - helping that since 1974 the Society of publicist education as a so-called journalists center of borne by society as a seat and the German Institute for journalistic education , short- Haus Busch served, . In November 2019, insolvency was filed . The house was closed at the end of 2019.

history

manor

Journalism center
Old farm buildings

The former manor had been owned by the von Syberg family since 1369. The manor house, which is still preserved today, with its impressive vaulted cellar, was built around 1700 on the site, which is still characterized by a park garden with old trees. It is the birthplace and parents' house of Georg von Vincke . From 1920, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon was a landlord. At the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Hagen acquired the house and the surrounding areas.

German Institute for Journalistic Education

The Society for Journalistic Educational Work was founded in Düsseldorf in 1960, primarily by Emil Dovifat and Karl Bringmann , who in the 1950s opened the first advanced training course in newspapers as a forerunner of the volunteer seminars that are common today . In 1974 the German Institute for Journalistic Education , which had meanwhile been founded, moved to Haus Busch in Hagen. In the institute journalists were trained in short-term courses.

The institute administration with offices, smaller seminar rooms and a reference library were located in the old building. The vaulted cellar was used as a Buschkeller pub . The modernized and expanded outbuildings housed lecture halls and the canteen, as well as the hotel business belonging to the journalist center.

Haus Busch was also the seat of the Vogel Foundation founded by the former Handelsblatt publisher Friedrich Vogel and the German-speaking section of the Society for News Design (SND).

In June 2005 it became known that Haus Busch, after the subsidies from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia had been cut and the publishers' associations ( Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers BDZV and Newspaper Publishers Association of North Rhine-Westphalia) announced that they were facing bankruptcy , which was also filed in July. Above all, the drastic decline in the number of participants for the one-year training course to become a press journalist or multimedia news designer, which costs around 9,000 euros per person, was named as the cause of the financial difficulties. The reason for the decline was the lack of state funding due to Hartz IV , in particular the assumption of the housing costs in Haus Busch.

The journalism center announced on November 15, 2019 that it would cease operations on December 31. According to the press release, on the one hand, the user agreement with the city of Hagen expired and , on the other hand, the sponsoring association is ceasing to operate. According to the press release, the background was a high demand for funds to be returned from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010–2017, which the association could not afford in this amount.

On January 1, 2020, the newly founded Journalist Center Herne in Shamrockpark Herne started operations as the de facto successor.

Web links

Commons : Haus Busch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Newsroom of December 3, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ Press release from November 15, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Press release from November 15, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ Journalism Center Herne. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 46.6 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 35 ″  E