St. Josef Children's Home
The St. Josef children's home is located in the district town of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia on the street An St. Bonifatius .
The pastor of Düren's Anna Church at the time , dean Franz Anton Vaßen , founded an orphanage in the city in 1855 , which was able to take in the first children on December 1st of the same year.
In those years there was no adequate way to look after and accommodate children without parents. Vaßen founded such a house for 40 to 50 children with donations and the support of the “Orphanage Association”. He bought the Rentmeisterei located in the southeast of the city in what was then Spülgasse, today's Waisenhausstraße . As operator, he brought Borromean women from Trier to Düren. When Düren was destroyed on November 16, 1944 , the house on Waisenhausstrasse was completely destroyed. After the evacuation to Erfurt and the stopover in the former hospital in Bracht near Viersen , the children and the staff returned to Düren on July 31, 1953. They moved into the newly built house at the current location. There was space for 50 school-age children, 15 toddlers and 20 babies.
Today, refugee minors and single mothers are also accommodated in the children's home with its branches in the city area.
Web links and sources
- Traces , magazine of the Düren history workshop e. V., No. 3, December 2005, "Poverty was a private matter"
- http://www.kinderheim-dueren.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '22.9 " N , 6 ° 30' 4.6" E