Johanna Odebrecht Foundation

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House A of the Odebrecht Foundation (2014)

The Johanna Odebrecht Foundation is a church foundation in Greifswald . Its headquarters are located in a listed building complex built between 1902 and 1904 on Gützkower Landstrasse.

history

Johanna Odebrecht (1794-1856), a daughter of the councilor and later Greifswald mayor Johann Hermann Odebrecht (1757-1821), founded a school for the poor in 1828 , which was converted into an educational institution for girls in 1833. Model for them was Johann Heinrich Wichern and his Rauhes Haus . In her will of July 7, 1848, she determined that a capital of 4825 thalers and the income from her two houses on Wollweberstrasse should serve to keep her educational institution going. It also had 4600 thalers to set up a rescue facility for poor girls , 4000 thalers for a poor foundation and 400 thalers each as a premium fund to support girls who have left school and their sponsored children when they get married or in need of help. Her four siblings were compensated with 1,500 thalers each. She appointed her brother-in-law Hermann Theodor Hoefer to be the administrator and executor, but he died a month after her. These tasks were therefore assigned to a committee of four men from the city of Greifswald under the leadership of the future mayor Daniel Joachim Christian Teßmann .

In 1886 the Odebrecht School was abolished in accordance with the will, as the lower social classes were now also promoted in the municipal free schools. The entire school foundation and all premium funds were added to the rescue house fund.

In 1900 the foundation acquired a 7.5 hectare piece of land on Gützkower Landstrasse. In the years 1902 to 1904, an extensive building complex was built here with financial support from the Provincial Government of the Pomerania Province in Szczecin. The brick complex is one of the most important building works in Greifswald after the turn of the century . It combines historicist style elements that are related to the Johann Albrecht style , a Mecklenburg-Pomeranian variant of the neo-renaissance , with early approaches to homeland security architecture . In an almost symmetrical complex, the complex includes buildings for accommodation, practical employment and intellectual training, combined with a farm yard. The first building was completed on October 2, 1902, the main house on April 1, 1903, and the third care house in autumn 1904. The preacher's house, stables and a wash house followed.

120 girls aged between 14 and 18, who came from all over the Pomeranian province, lived in the houses in twelve residential groups under the care of deaconesses from the Bethanien deaconess and hospital .

In 1936 the National Socialist People's Welfare took over the facility on a lease basis and redesigned it. Although the leases provided for further ecclesiastical use, the chapel and parsonage were withdrawn from their ecclesiastical purpose. The chapel was transformed into a National Socialist ballroom. When church opposition arose in 1938, the district president of Pomerania unilaterally abolished the institutional community , which ultimately led to the unsuccessful objection of the Evangelical Upper Church Council in Berlin, which still believed that a solution could be found that on the one hand no entry was made to the evangelical church matters , on the other hand, the aspirations of the NS People's Welfare can be realized. After the end of the Second World War , the Board of Trustees was re-established on May 15, 1945 and the foundation was reorganized according to the legacy.

The Odebrecht Foundation was the only one to avoid the amalgamation of all Greifswald foundations into the Peter Warschow Collective Foundation in the 1950s.

The central building of the foundation (Building A) became the Bethanien Hospital in 1953 , a diaconal facility in the successor to the deaconess hospital of the same name in Stettin , which was run as a specialist hospital for psychiatry from 1984 . After the city council had returned some buildings that had been confiscated in the meantime, a training center for children, community, administrative and business deacons was established here in 1962 with the seminar for church services .

In 1965 an after-work home (old people's home) was added, initially with 25 places, and in 1976 a day care center with 25 places for mentally handicapped children and young people.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and with the reunification of Germany , the foundation was given new opportunities to act, and its work was expanded significantly. Since 1991, the hospital Bethany is part of the hospital plan of the country Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . A school for the mentally handicapped was created (1992), an elderly care center (1996) and a specialist clinic for addiction rehabilitation (1998). The foundation took over the addiction counseling centers in Greifswald, Anklam and Wolgast (1999), Ueckermünde and Pasewalk (2006) and Demmin (2013). The school was named Martinschule and will be run as a Protestant integrated comprehensive school with upper level from 2006.

Work areas and facilities

Since January 1, 2005, the Bethanien Hospital and the Altenhilfezentrum have been legally independent companies in the form of a GmbH .

  • Evangelical Hospital Bethanien
Day clinics
Psychiatric outpatient department
Outpatient psychiatric care
Outpatient home care
Addiction counseling
Specialist clinic "Gristower Wiek" in Gristow ( Mesekenhagen ) - specialist clinic for addiction disorders (mainly alcohol and medication)
Intensive assisted living
  • Evangelical school center Martinschule , 474 students (2013)
  • Medical care center of the Odebrecht Foundation (MVZ)
  • Evangelical Elderly Aid Center Paul-Gerhardt
day care
  • Central Services
  • Odebrecht-Service GmbH

chapel

The chapel is not a separate structure, but a prayer room that occupies the central area of ​​House 1 on the upper floor. During the time of the Nazi People's Welfare, the chapel was profaned and served as a workshop. In 1955 the chapel was consecrated again. Nothing has been preserved from their old furnishings.

  • chapel

  • organ

organ

In 1962, in the chapel an organ of the company Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen established a fully mechanical slider chests -instrument with a sounding brochure from tin pipes . It comprises 10 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I Manual
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Forest flute 2 ′
4th Mixture III
II manual
5. Quintad 8th'
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Principal 2 ′
8th. Sesquialtera II
pedal
9. Covered bass 16 ′
10. Dolkan 4 ′

Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

Remarks
  1. ↑ Labial pipe , funnel-shaped

Bells

On the roof ridge of House A there is a roof turret that serves as the foundation's bell tower. In 1956 he received two chilled cast iron bells from the Schilling (Apolda) foundry in the striking tones es 2 and gb 2 .

In 2011, the chill-cast iron bells, which had since been lost, were replaced by a ring made of three bronze bells from 1963/67, which came from the Maria Magdalenen Church in Hanover-Ricklingen , which was de -dedicated in 2009 . The smallest bell, cast in 1963, weighs 62 kg and has the strike tone h 2 . The middle bell, cast in 1967, weighs 78 kg and has the strike tone a 2 . The big bell, also cast in 1967, weighs 157 kg and has the striking note e 2 . The chilled cast iron bells were placed in front of house A.

literature

  • Willi Griebenow : Johanna Odebrecht and her foundations. Greifswald 1978.
  • Johanna Odebrecht Foundation. Over 100 years in the service of people. 2013 (brochure)

Web links

Commons : Johanna Odebrecht Foundation  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernfried Lichtnau: Architecture in Greifswald from 1900 to the present. In: Horst Wernicke (ed.): Greifswald: History of the city. Schwerin: Helms 2000 ISBN 3-931185-56-7 , p. 477
  2. ↑ See Werner Klän: The Protestant Church of Pomerania in Republic and Dictatorship: History and Design of a Prussian Church Province 1914-1945. Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau 1995 (Zugl .: Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1993) ISBN 3-412-04195-5 , p. 531 f
  3. ^ According to Markus T. Funck: The organs of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald: a contribution to the history of Pomeranian organ building. Schwerin: Helms 2009 (Contributions to the history of architecture and the preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 8) Zugl. Greifswald, Univ., Diss., 2005 ISBN 978-3-935749-93-0 , p. 220; there also the following disposition
  4. ↑ The Maria Magdalena Church in Hanover-Ricklingen will be de-dedicated on June 14th , notification from June 2nd, 2009, accessed on May 12th, 2014

Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 57.6 ″  E