Heinrich Egli House

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Heinrich Egli House

The Heinrich-Egli-Haus is a homeless shelter for men in Mainz, founded in 1875 by Heinrich Egli . Today it is located at Fritz-Kohl-Strasse 14. Mission Leben is the sponsor of the Egli House, which belongs to the Protestant Homeless Aid Mainz. In addition to the Heinrich-Egli-Haus, the Protestant Homeless Aid in Mainz also offers a facility for women in need, the turning point, as well as the psychosocial counseling center with an integrated day-stay.

history

The Heinrich-Egli-Haus has its roots in the beginnings of Christian poor relief in the 19th century. In 1870, the people's missionary Heinrich Egli took over the management of the first “ hostel for home ” from the Inner Mission in Frankfurt am Main . Five years later he founded a “hostel for home” in Mainz - since no sponsor could be found, from private funds. In 1895, two more facilities followed the house at Rentengasse 3: right next door, at Rentengasse 5, Wilhelm-Friedrich-Egli, son of Heinrich Egli, built a men's dormitory, and at Mailandsgasse 11 a Christian hospice for poor families.

All three houses were destroyed in the war. As the sponsor, the Hessian State Association for Inner Mission organized the new beginning on the Wichernhöhe in Fort Hauptstein. The bunker was the first home for many war returnees and refugees. Initially, Wilhelm Johann Egli - a grandson of Heinrich Egli - headed the facility, and his brother Karl from 1955 to 1966.

In 1960, the Inner Mission built a new "hostel for home" in what is now Fritz-Kohl-Strasse. It was named Heinrich-Egli-Haus. Theodor Egli, qualified social worker and great-grandson of Heinrich Eglis, was initially deputy director of the home in 1961, and from 1966 took over the management of the hostel, dormitory and rehabilitation until his retirement in 1994. The Hessian State Association for Inner Mission was the sponsor. Egli's deputy, Bernhard Schilling, became the home manager. Eckhard Mink has headed the Heinrich-Egli-Haus since 2005. In 2007 the "Inner Mission" became Mission Life.

target group

The social work measures and offers in the Heinrich-Egli-Haus dormitory are aimed at homeless men and couples whose special living conditions are associated with social difficulties and who are unable to overcome these difficulties on their own. These are people for whom full inpatient accommodation and care is required to achieve the help goal according to § 67 SGB XII, because outpatient and partial inpatient measures are not sufficient. The group of people includes B. Homeless, non-sedentary, released from prison or psychiatry, delinquent, socially or personally failed people in acute emergency situations or life crises as well as people with psychosocial problems (§§ 1 ff. Of the regulation on § 67 SGB XII). For a wide variety of reasons, these people have become increasingly caught up in the vortex of social exclusion and marginalization. Your biography is often shaped by home upbringing, difficult childhood and family circumstances, loss of partner or parents, violence, crime, social isolation or other negative or disadvantageous living conditions. A lack of financial, social and / or personal resources stand in the way of these people in overcoming their precarious life situation.

Hostel and dorm

The Heinrich-Egli-Haus consists of two areas, the hostel and the dormitory. The hostel offers 20 beds in single and multi-bed rooms. In addition to basic material supplies, there is a socio-educational offer for the homeless with the aim of providing information, initial counseling and introducing adequate forms of help.

The dormitory as an area of ​​reintegration (rehabilitation) comprises 50 fully furnished places and offers both central and decentralized inpatient living. This offer includes both administrative and pedagogical-supervisory components with the focus on: income security and money management, legal implementation and connection to social law service providers, personal development and life prospects, health and addiction, education and training, daily structure and employment, social relationships, leisure and Participation in social life, as well as practicing and maintaining targeted forms of living. In decentralized stationary living, these offers are made on a visiting basis.

Financing the Egli House

Under Section 67 of the SGB ​​XII , the state undertakes to help “people in whom special living conditions are associated with social difficulties” . This help comes from the Heinrich Egli House, which is financed by the state. Visitors to this facility do not have to pay anything for the socio-pedagogical aids themselves, they only contribute from their income to the usual costs of living based on Hartz IV.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 14.4 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 9.8 ″  E