Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim

St. Martini Hospital in Duderstadt

St. Elisabeth Hospital in Salzgitter-Bad

The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim is a society of apostolic life . You are part of the Vincentian family and a member of the Federation of Vincentian Communities .

The congregation has its seat in the mother house in Hildesheim and a number of other branches in the diocese of Hildesheim in eastern Lower Saxony and in Kassel in northern Hesse .

Facilities

The Hildesheim Vinzentinerinnen are responsible for four hospitals, six nursing homes, including the Paulusheim in Hildesheim, and other facilities. The seat of the administration is the mother house of the congregation in Hildesheim.

• St. Elisabeth nursing home, Harsum
• Hospiz Luise and outpatient palliative service, Hanover
• St. Monika day care center, Hanover
• Vincent von Paul Schule, Duderstadt
• Health and nursing schools, Duderstadt and Hanover
• Medical care centers, Salzgitter and Kassel

The Bernwardshof in Himmelsthür was acquired by the congregation in 1904 and initially served as a nursing home for sisters, later until 1987 as a children's home for boys . The buildings then housed administrative areas, a nursing home and, until 2011, the St. Vinzenz education and conference center. In 2015, the Vincentians cleared the building, and the city of Hildesheim then used a part of it to accommodate asylum seekers . In 2016, the Congregation sold the Bernwardshof to a real estate company that wants to convert the building complex into residential use.

Hospitals of the Hildesheim Vincentian Sisters

The first hospital of the Vincentine Sisters in Hildesheim, which was founded by three Paderborn Vinzentine Sisters before the congregation became independent in 1852 , is the St. Bernward Hospital . In 1979 it became a joint foundation of the Hildesheim diocese and the congregation.

Other hospitals of the Hildesheim Vincentians are:

• Vincent Hospital Hanover . It is the academic teaching hospital of the Hannover Medical School .
• Elisabeth Hospital Kassel
• St. Martini Hospital Duderstadt . It is the academic teaching hospital of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .
• St. Elisabeth Hospital in Salzgitter-Bad

Hospitals formerly run by the Hildesheim Vincentians

The sponsorship of the Neu-Mariahilf hospital in Göttingen changed on March 11, 2014 from the Hildesheim Vincentian Sisters to the Evangelical Hospital Göttingen-Weende .

The St. Vinzenz Hospital in Braunschweig ceased operations on December 31, 2016. The building was acquired by the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nursing homes for the elderly ( Memento from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ VDM Bernwardshof GmbH & Co. KG , accessed on September 19, 2018
3. ↑ Bernwardshof becomes a residential area. In: KirchenZeitung. Edition 48/2016 of November 27, 2016, p. 9
4. ↑ The History of St. Bernward Hospital , accessed November 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim (ed.): For the people. 150 years of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim (= Hildesheim Chronicle, vol. 18). Bernward-Verlag, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-89366-559-4 , p. 80, Festschrift 2007 ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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11. ↑ KirchenZeitung No. 13/2014 of March 30, 2014, p. 13.
12. ^ Hospital St. Vinzenz Braunschweig , accessed on November 2, 2018.
13. ↑ From St. Vinzenz in Braunschweig to Ghana to the Holy Family Hospital , accessed on November 2, 2018.