Children's home Sülz

Sülz children's home, 1914

The children's home Suelz was an establishment of residential care in the Cologne district Sülz , district Cologne-Lindenthal . At times it housed 1,000 children and was Europe's largest orphanage .

The approximately 40,000 square meter site in Sülz was moved into in 1917.

During the Third Reich , Friedrich Tillmann was director of the house, who had been the office manager of the T4 central office in Berlin from 1940 to 1942 . In 1944 the house was destroyed.

The house was rebuilt in the post-war period. For the 50th anniversary of the children's home, a commemorative publication was published in May 1967 by the German Provincial Mother House of the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus .

Later the house was called "Youth Educational Institution". In 2009 it was closed; the move to the new kids center at Aachener Weiher took place . Parts of the property were demolished in 2010. Between 2010 and 2012, the first six multi-family houses built by joint ventures in Cologne were built on two of the seven building sites into which the site was divided . The Church of the Holy Family , parts of the reception building and the Elisabeth House are under monument protection and have been preserved.

A total of 22,500 children and young people lived in the facility.