Holy Spirit Foundation

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Holy Spirit Foundation is a foundation for the care of the elderly in Uelzen ; it is the oldest foundation in Uelzen, it was founded in 1321/22. Originally there was the "Great" and the "Small Holy Spirit". In order to keep both foundations alive, they had to be merged into one foundation in response to the currency reform in 1948 .

Location and history

The foundation deeds have not been preserved. The foundation of the “Rectorate of the Holy Spirit Chapel ” in the Lüneburger Straße in Uelzen by the church and city council can be recognized from documents of the city archive from 1321 . The first provost of Uelzen, provost Raven, donated a benefice in the chapel. With these funds a house was bought and later turned into a hospital. Since then, it has always been the main task of the foundation to maintain a home for people in need. The Uelzen City Council exempted the house from tax as long as it was used for its original purpose. In the Middle Ages, the hospital for the care of the elderly and the sick was run in a monastery-like form; the care was taken over by beguines . During the plague time , the beguines are said to have taken care of those suffering from the plague in Uelzen in a self-sacrificing manner. During the Second World War the home was moved to Brauerstrasse 32. In 1966, the old building was given up and the newly built nursing home Uelzen, Heiligen-Geist-Stift, moved into at Waldstrasse 9.

Social facility

The Heiligen-Geist-Stift continues the traditional task of caring for the elderly according to the principles of Christian diakonia . The composition of the foundation's board of directors, which is based on the Ev.-luth. Provost von Uelzen and the main administrative officer of the city of Uelzen. In 1973 the Holy Spirit Foundation was given the legal status of an independent church foundation under civil law in accordance with Section 20 of the Lower Saxony Foundation Act through the District President of Lüneburg.

literature

  • Thomas Vogtherr , Uelzen. History of a city in the Middle Ages, Uelzen 1997, pp. 98-106, 113-114 (on the medieval history of the Great and Small Holy Spirit).

Web links

  • Website Holy Spirit Pen
  • Statutes of the Holy Spirit Foundation Uelzen, festival magazine for the 500th anniversary of the fief

Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 23.4 ″  E