Hope Valley Foundation Lobetal
The Hope Valley Foundation Lobetal (until the end of 2010: Hope Valley Establishments Lobetal ) is a legally independent organization of the Diakonie and is located with its center, the village Lobetal , 15 km northeast of Berlin . Today there are around 3,950 places in geriatric care , handicap care , help for people with epilepsy with an epilepsy clinic, in addiction care , in outpatient and inpatient hospice work, in child and youth welfare , in workshops for disabled people , in a diaconal education center and in Daycare available. There is also a conference center, a clothing collection with a second-hand shop, two farms, a mini market and an organic dairy.
history
On March 28, 1905 , Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh founded the “Hope Valley Association for the Homeless in the City of Berlin”. V. ". From 1872 he headed the institution Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel near Bielefeld, an institution for people with epilepsy founded in 1867 by Bielefeld merchants. Von Bodelschwingh, who has been a member of the Prussian state parliament for over a year , did not let the images of the stray homeless people rest in the streets and asylums of the big city. While he fought during the day at the lectern of the state parliament for a law for the benefit of migrant workers, many evenings he went to the homeless asylum on the outskirts of the city (e.g. the asylum "Palme" in Fröbelstrasse, now a hospital, Prenzlauer Allee / corner of Danziger) Street) to advertise his hope valley there.
As early as the summer of 1905, von Bodelschwingh leased a farm in Rüdnitz near Bernau in order to build a first workers' colony on the outskirts with his "Brothers of the Landstrasse", as he lovingly called the homeless and Tippelbrothers . Moved in in November 1905, it became apparent in the spring of 1906 that additional buildings would be necessary due to the great popularity of Berlin's homeless asylums. In 1906 the Lobetal workers' colony was established .
During the time of National Socialism, the Hope Valley Institutions refused to give patients to the state hospitals because they would have been murdered there as part of the euthanasia ( Action T4 ). This is mainly due to the great personal commitment of the then head Paul Gerhard Braune , who was also in Gestapo detention for three months . In 1939, the Hope Valley institutions in Lobetal had to provide a site for the naval command of the navy 1.5 km northwest of the town (code name " Coral ").
When the SED wanted to take over the Hope Valley Institutions in Lobetal on May 18, 1953 , the leader of Braune was able to persuade the occupiers to withdraw and thus prevent the expropriation. The facility became the largest disabled facility in the GDR with 1200 residents and 550 employees. From January 30th to April 3rd, 1990 Margot and Erich Honecker were given accommodation in the house of the then manager Uwe Holmer .
The Hope Valley Foundation Lobetal today
Today, the 23 locations of the facility are distributed in the four federal states of Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in addition to Lobetal : Dreibrück near Nauen , Neuruppin , Zehdenick , Eberswalde , blossomsberg near Lichterfelde , Groß Schönebeck , Klosterfelde , Biesenthal , Ladeburg (district of Bernau ), Bernau , Elisenau near Ahrensfelde, Erkner , Werneuchen , Strausberg , Reichenwalde , Storkow , Cottbus , Spremberg , Berlin-Mitte (Bernauer Strasse 115–118), Waltersdorf - Neue Sorge and Bad Kösen . They still belong to the institutions of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church in Germany .
The foundation is not to be confused with the institution for socially neglected children named Lobetal, founded by Erna Biedermann in 1928, from which both today's Lobetal gGmbH in Lübenheen and Lobetal in Celle der Lobetalarbeit eV emerged, which also belong to the diakonia.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about change of legal form / fourth foundation of the v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel, January 12, 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Information about name change, accessed on January 24, 2011
- ^ Honecker ante portas. faz.net January 27, 2013, accessed January 27, 2013
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: The enemy in my house
- ↑ Lobetalarbeit History ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 48.5 " N , 13 ° 35 ′ 24.2" E