Church kate

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A church kate , from Kate , used to be a day laborer's hut or cottage of a parish remote from the parsonage (e.g. for the grave digger). Today the term is often a featured with the absolutely necessary house used, the homeless should help to arrange themselves to begin a new life without homelessness. Church cottages are set up on church properties and made available to the homeless for a small fee. Associated with this is advice aimed at reintegration into society.

A comparable initiative was started by the Vinzenzgemeinschaft in the Vinzenzkirche (Graz) parish in Eggenberg in Graz as Vinzidorf in 1993 and has meanwhile resulted in a number of follow-up and sister projects .

literature

  • Ernst Bahr: The territory of the city of Danzig and the Danzig hospital goods in the Prussian survey of 1793: Bd. Danziger Nehrung, Scharpau, Hela, hospital goods ; Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia, 1986 online .
  • Sabine Kartte: Katen in God's Garden - A resourceful Hamburg churchman mobilizes citizen aid for the homeless ; in: Spiegel special 1/1997. on-line