Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach

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The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach is a social economy company with a focus on disabled people, medicine, vocational rehabilitation, education, youth and elderly care based in Mosbach . It employs around 3,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Neckar-Odenwald district .

Its around 40 locations are spread across the entire Baden region from Wertheim in the north to Lahr in the south. The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach supports and supports several thousand people with intellectual disabilities and mentally impaired people in the areas of housing, employment and health. As a diaconal institution, it also provides everyday assistance to many other people who live in families or in their own apartments. To this end, the Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach maintains various forms of accommodation, open aids, workshops, schools, kindergartens, medical facilities such as clinics and a vocational training center .

The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach is a corporation under public law and a member of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Baden .

history

The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach was founded in 1880 by committed citizens and clergy from Mosbach and Karlsruhe as an "institution for feeble-minded children". With 16 girls and boys, the facility moved into what was then the “Bruckmannsche Estate” in Mosbach. This makes the Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach one of the oldest institutions for disabled people in southwest Germany. As the number of people cared for grew rapidly, several additional buildings were built around the turn of the century, including a hospital. In 1905 it was renamed “Educational and Care Institution for the Mentally Weak”. By 1936 the number of those cared for had increased to over 300.

In September 1940 and July 1944, a total of 262 residents were picked up from Mosbach and Schwarzach as part of the " euthanasia " murders and, among other things, murdered in the Grafeneck killing center . The director of the institution, Pastor Robert Wilckens, tried in vain to prevent the death transports.

After the Second World War, the facility was gradually expanded as the “Johannes Anstalten der Innere Mission”, initially at the main locations in Mosbach and Schwarzach. From 1964 it was called Johannes-Anstalten Mosbach. In February 2010 it was renamed Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach.

Guiding principles

The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach is a social service company within the Diakonie . It is based on the guiding principle that people with different talents and abilities live with each other on an equal footing and learn from each other.

The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach advocates the idea of inclusion .

deals

The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach makes offers in the areas for people with mental or emotional disabilities or other support needs

  • Living and leisure
  • Work and employment
  • Health and clinic
  • Education and rehabilitation
  • Youth welfare
  • Elderly care

The facility has outpatient and inpatient housing options, schools, workshops, clinics and is the sponsor of the Mosbach-Heidelberg vocational training center . Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach follows the guiding principles of the conventions on the rights of people with disabilities and also develops community-based housing and employment offers for people with disabilities outside of the main locations in Mosbach and Schwarzach.

Locations

The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach has locations throughout the Baden region, for example in:

  • Mosbach
  • Schwarzach
  • Wertheim
  • Tauberbischofsheim
  • Bad Mergentheim
  • Walldürn
  • Book
  • Eberbach
  • Neckarbischofsheim
  • St. Leon-Rot
  • Heidelberg
  • Mannheim
  • Karlsruhe
  • Meckesheim
  • Offenburg
  • Lahr
  • Simmersfeld

literature

  • Reinhard Adler: A social service company in diakonia: opportunities and risks of future challenges; 125 years of Johannes-Anstalten , Mosbach 2005, ISBN 3-00-016183-X
  • Hans-Werner Scheuing: "... when human life was weighed against material assets". The history of the educational and nursing home for the mentally weak Mosbach / Schwarzacher Hof and its residents 1933-45. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 3-8253-1607-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.johannes-diakonie.de/ueber-uns/historie/
  2. ^ Albrecht Ernst: Yearbook for Baden Church and Religious History 1. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-170-19791-6 , p. 239 ( limited preview in the Google book search).