Youth hostel Leer
The youth hostel Leer , also Rabbi Manfred Gans-Jugendherberge Leer , is a youth hostel of the DJH-Landesverband Unterweser-Ems e. V., one of the regional associations of the German Youth Hostel Association . It stands in the Lower Saxon county seat empty and is in a listed, 2012 converted and refurbished former poorhouse resident.
location
The youth hostel is on the edge of the old town near the Evangelical Luther Church and the Catholic St. Michael Church . The port is about 400 meters away, the Leeraner Miniaturland about one and the train station about 1.5 kilometers.
history
The building was erected in 1788 and used as a poor house, after the Second World War as an old people's home and orphanage. It has been set up as a youth hostel since 1982. In 2012 it was rebuilt with the support of the couple Lore and Günter Prahm and in June 2012 it was named "Rabbiner-Manfred-Gans-Haus" after the Jewish rabbi Manfred Gans (born April 24, 1924 in Leer; died 9. August 2020) who emigrated with his parents from National Socialist Germany to the USA in 1938 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Leeraner Christmas Ball 2013. Accessed on March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Philipp Koenen: A house with a message of reconciliation. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung . June 14, 2012, accessed on March 30, 2019 (full text subject to a charge: € 1.29).
- ↑ Our Jewish neighbors. (PDF) p. 15 , accessed on March 30, 2019 .
Web links
- official website of the DJH
- Memory of Jews in Leer in: Weser-Kurier from June 14, 2012
- Empty old beguinage now a modern youth hostel , newspaper articles circa 1980s
Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 7 ° 26 ′ 46 ″ E