Hephata (Schwalmstadt)
| Hephata Hessisches Diakoniezentrum | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | 1901 |
| founder | Hermann Schuchard |
| Seat | Treysa ( ⊙ ) |
| motto | Active with people |
| purpose | Diaconal institution |
| Chair | Maik Dietrich-Gibhardt, Klaus Dieter Horchem |
| Employees | 3120 (2018) |
| Website | www.hephata.de |
Hephata Hessisches Diakoniezentrum eV is an establishment of the Diakonie in Schwalmstadt - Treysa . There people in the areas of handicapped assistance (for people with different disabilities ), youth welfare , elderly assistance , social psychiatry , addiction assistance , homeless assistance , neurological clinic and the academy for social professions are looked after, supported and trained. In the last few decades a network of differentiated services has been established in Hesse , Thuringia and Northern Bavaria . The association is based in Marburg .
Hephata goes back to an Aramaic word and means open up . According to Mark 7:34 ESV , Jesus said this word to a man who was deaf and dumb to heal him.
Areas of activity
Hephata provides its services in the areas of disabled assistance, youth, family and professional assistance, special schools and day care centers, social rehabilitation, clinics and in the academy for social professions.
The facility employs 2,659 people, 1,887 women and 772 men. This corresponds to 1731 full-time employees (annual report 2012/2013).
Disability assistance
Since the end of the 19th century, people with disabilities have been supported in the facility in residential facilities and workshops. While in earlier times people lived and worked mainly in the central area of the facility, today they often live in outdoor living groups and in assisted living in the city and the region. As a result of the ongoing process of decentralization , more will follow.
Hephata Academy for Social Professions
The Hephata Academy is the institution's own training facility for social professions. Here are nationally recognized geriatric nurse and elderly care workers , educators , support workers , deacons and special educators trained in technical college and college level. In cooperation with the Evangelical University of Darmstadt , you can study social work at the Hephata location . Employees from the facility as well as interested parties from outside can receive further training. In addition, specialist conferences are held on topics from the social field.
The academy maintains international partnerships, including with the French University of Montpellier III , the IRTS in Lille and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian University of Sarajevo .
Hephata special school
The Hephata special school works as a supra-regional advice and support center; it is sponsored by the Hephata Diakonie and includes schools for educational assistance, learning assistance, the practically educable, the sick and the physically handicapped. The Friedrich Trost School is also affiliated as a vocational school for the practically educable, physically handicapped, for learning and educational assistance.
history
The history of the facility goes back to the middle of the century before last. In 1864 Franz von Roques, pastor and metropolitan, founded the Kurhessisches Diakonissenhaus in Treysa , which later moved its headquarters to Kassel. In 1901 the Hessian Brethren House was established as a training center for deacons by Pastor Hermann Schuchard in the former mother house of the Kurhessisches Deaconess House.
During the Third Reich, people from Hephata with cognitive and physical disabilities were first relocated to other facilities as part of the T4 campaign and later killed in the Nazi killing center at Hadamar, among others . With the erection of a memorial in front of the Hephata church, the institution reminds of the victims and acknowledges their responsibility.
In 1945 at the church conference in Treysa , which met in Hephata, the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Evangelical Relief Organization , the predecessor organization of the Diakonisches Werk , were founded.
After the Second World War, the home education in Hephata suffered from the miserable financial and personnel conditions and a repressive educational ideal of the time. In 2010, 15 former children in care who lived in facilities of what was then Hephatas between 1950 and 1970 raised massive allegations against the upbringing at that time. The allegations include violence as a means of education, in the form of beatings and imprisonment. Young people were also used for work without pay.
In a study by the medical historian Volker Roelcke on around 2000 files from patients and "nurses" Hephatas from the 1950s to the 70s, it was found that Willi Enke , who was Hephatas chief physician until 1963, inflicted a so-called PEG on patients out of pure research interests , without a medical indication for it. Enke's successor Werner Grüter (from 1963 to 1968) also used the PEG in part for research purposes.
Diaconal community
To this day, deacons and members of the Church affiliated to the Hephata Diaconal Community are organized. The community gives impulses to the perception of the diaconal mission and the spiritual life in Hephata and at the places where the members work.
Others
Color house
In the color house, people with disabilities create works of art and paint pictures together with people without disabilities. Her art received great attention in exhibitions throughout Hesse (including in the LWV Hessen and at Frankfurt Airport ).
music
Music plays an important role in the interior. A cantor is employed in the parish , who among other things leads a handbell choir . The band Jukas plays cover versions of well-known hits and their own songs with German lyrics. The band Katrin and the Quietschboys also appear nationwide with cover versions of rock 'n' roll songs.
sleep-laboratory
The first sleep laboratory in Germany was opened in the early 1970s in the neurological clinic of the Hessian Diakoniezentrum Hephata. The German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM) is also based here.
Holidays
The Hephata festival is celebrated regularly on the second weekend in September. This is where the different areas of the facility are presented, along with the festival market and an integrative tent camp, where people from Hephata and guests from outside the city live and celebrate together for three days, are integral parts of the program. A number of action artists, theater and music groups, whose repertoire ranges from folk music to Schlager to pop and rock, perform. In the final concert, traditionally well-known show greats have their appearance, who are also the patron of the event. In 2007 Roberto Blanco took over this part, in 2008 the duo Astrid and Freddy Breck performed (in one of his last guest performances).
literature
- Oswald, Philipp: The Brotherhood of the Hessian Brethren House . Treysa? 1978 (brochure with numerous historical sources).
- Thormann, Helmut E .; Göbel, Peter: Relocated, destroyed, forgotten ...? Paths of suffering of people from Hephata in the Third Reich; a documentation . Hephata (self-published), Schwalmstadt-Treysa 1985.
- Thormann, Helmut E .: Transported from Hephata - murdered in Hadamar, Eichberg, Weilmünster, Idstein, Herborn ... The memorial and warning sign in Hephata - a documentation . Hephata, Schwalmstadt-Treysa 1992.
- The beginning of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in Hephata in 1945. Treysa Church Conference from August 27 to 31, 1945. Meeting on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treysa Church Conference, June 23, 1995, June 24, 1995 . Hephata Hessisches Diakoniezentrum, Schwalmstadt-Treysa 1995.
- Schöpner, Erwin; Braun, Ingelore; Mauch, Gerhard: 1901–2001: Challenges and Answers. 100 years of fellowship of the brothers and sisters of the Hessian Brethren House . Community of Brothers and Sisters of the Hessian Brethren House, Elisabeth-Seitz-Str., 34613 Schwalmstadt, Schwalmstadt 2001.
- Lies, Jan Martin: 100 Years of the Church in Hephata 1906–2006 . Hephata Diakonie, Schwalmstadt-Treysa 2006, ISBN 3-9808942-3-1 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the Hephata Diakonie
- Specialist clinic and addiction clinic in Weibersbrunn / Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hephata.de/impressum.php
- ↑ Hephata asks former children in the home for forgiveness: [1]
- ↑ Brain examinations on former home children: [2]
- ↑ Hephata Klinik (patient flyer). (PDF; 165 kB) Hephata Diakonie, p. 2 , archived from the original on October 7, 2009 ; Retrieved August 26, 2008 .