Kolping House
The Kolping Houses were originally Catholic journeyman's hospices ( journeyman's hospice ) that were established in the 19th century and offered basic care to wandering journeymen.
history
The Kolping Houses were founded by the Catholic priest and social reformer Adolph Kolping , who, in view of the dissolution of the so-called master families and the loss of family and religious values, developed a charitable hospice system that served as a supplement to the journeyman's associations previously founded by Kolping . The world's first Kolping House was moved into on April 17, 1853 in Linz on Gesellenhausstrasse, expanded in 1903 and supplemented in 1930 with a listed building with a cinema in Langgasse, now the Kuddelmuddel children's cultural center. In 1938 the association was banned, the Kolping House was confiscated and its gable mosaic with around 10 m² was destroyed. In 1946 the association was re-established and over the years the house was completely restituted. In 1975 a new building was opened.
present
In the meantime the Kolping Houses have adapted and developed to the different expectations of guests. The approx. 260 Kolping Houses in Germany offer a differentiated range. Many Kolping Houses serve young people as youth residences during their training period for accommodation, food and pedagogical support. The Kolping Houses often work together with Kolping Educational Institutions to enable young people with limited training opportunities to enter the world of work. Students, employees, senior citizens and socially disadvantaged people are also offered living space in Kolping Houses.
Numerous Kolping houses serve as club houses for the local Kolping families and other church and communal groups for educational and social purposes.
Kolping houses are also used as Kolping hotels and restaurants of medium standard. You are legally and economically independent. As a rule, the property has its own legal entity in the form of a registered association, a foundation or a GmbH . Kolping Houses are open to all interested parties - including non-members - regardless of their religious and / or political orientation (based on the Basic Law).
In addition to the Kolping Houses in Germany, there are also houses in numerous other countries that are sponsored by the Kolping Society .
In 2009 Kolping-Jugendwohnen gGmbH was founded in Cologne. This offers young people who want to take up an apprenticeship position away from home the possibility of accommodation, food and socio-educational support and the experience of community life. The simultaneous provision of accommodation, meals and socio-educational support results in access from various social law laws ( SGB II , III , VIII , IX , XII , BAföG ) for youth living or the differently accentuated needs of young people . Associated with this are different objectives and technical requirements for the service to be provided. A central role is played by child and youth welfare , which not only contributes to the realization of the right of all young people to promote their development to a self-sufficient and socially competent personality, but is also supposed to protect young people from dangers to their well-being ( § 1 para . 3, No. 1 and 3 SGB VIII). Accordingly, it is their task to ensure that youth housing facilities are adequately equipped, especially for minors , through operating permit procedures according to ( Section 45 of Book VIII of the Social Code) as well as performance, remuneration and quality development agreements according to Section 78a ff.
The Kolping Jugendwohnen gGmbH is based on the model of Adolph Kolping and works on the basis of standards that result from the guidelines of the Kolping Houses in the Association of Kolping Houses as well as from the 13 quality promises of the youth residences in Germany, which are united within the initiative AUSWÄRTS ZUHAUSE to have.
The aim of the gGmbH is to lead youth living at Kolping professionally into the future in terms of content and structure. The aim is to offer the owners of Kolping youth residences nationwide the offer that Kolping Jugendwohnen gGmbH will take over the operation of this youth residence so that the management of the property (here: property Kolpinghaus) and operation (here youth living in the Kolpinghaus) are separated from each other .
Web links
- List of all Kolping houses on kolpinghaeuser.de
- List of all Kolping Hotels on kolping-hotels.com
- List of all Kolping family vacation spots on kolping-urlaub.de
- Official homepage of the Kolping Society at kolping.de
- Auswaerts-zuhause.de: Forum for youth living
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kolping Linz, No. 4, December 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on home.pages.at
