Country orphanage Grovesmühle

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The Hermann-Lietz-Schule Landwaisenheim Grovesmühle was a rural education home for orphans in Veckenstedt founded in 1913 , which continued as a boarding school after 1934 and was finally closed in 1953.

history

After the reform pedagogue Hermann Lietz , who had already founded several educational homes and schools, was able to overcome his financial hardships and raise the necessary funds to buy it, in 1913 he acquired the “Grovesmühle” paper mill on the Ilse near Veckenstedt , near the Ilsenburg powder mill. There he set up another rural education home, which was specially designed for orphans, as he wanted to give non-privileged children the opportunity to use his educational program. He had already founded a first country education home on April 28, 1898 in the powder mill in nearby Ilsenburg .

The first head of the new facility, Theo Zollmann , was a Lietz student himself and closely connected with the ideals of Hermann Lietz. In a contemporary report it says: “It was a motley crowd of 14 children between the ages of 4 and 11 who arrived in Ilsenburg on April 27, 1913…. After arriving in their new home, the old Groves or paper mill near Veckenstedt ... they told about their experiences as they were children. "

Financial reasons led to the closure or conversion of the rural orphanage in 1934. The "Grovesmühle" was then continued and used as a lower school in the association of rural education homes until 1953. In order to secure the long-term existence of his homes, Lietz had to repeatedly increase the education contributions for his students in the early years, as the income from his homes could only cover a small part of the orphanage's expenses. After successful years of development as a pedagogical institution, however, in 1953 it was impossible to continue the school for political reasons. The administration of the German Democratic Republic withdrew the state aid from Grovesmühle in order to force a closure.

Only after the reunification could the property be taken over by the Lietz Foundation again and was sold in 1994. The family KG in Marburg is the owner of the ten hectare school site . When it reopened in 1995, the Grovesmühle country school home as a reform school in the sense of Lietz's pedagogy became a member of the Association of German Landerziehungsheime , an association of 21 boarding schools , which have committed themselves to a common model and educational principles.

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The list of heads of the rural orphanage is taken from the relevant file in the school archive.

  • Theo Zollmann (1914-1935)
  • Hans-Martin Johannsen (1935–1939)
  • Herbert Andreesen (1939–1940)
  • Hans Jacoby (1940)
  • Hans-Martin Johannsen (1941–1952)

Web links

literature

  • Ralf Koerrenz : Country education homes in the Weimar Republic. Frankfurt 1992.
  • Theo Zollmann: Dr. Andreesen 25 years in the homes. In: Leben und Arbeit , 1933/1934, pp. 184–187.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuscript Chronik Schloss Gebesee 1923–2003 , Gebesee 2008, p. 1.
  2. ^ Theo Zollmann: Annual report from April 1913 to February 1915. In: Leben und Arbeit , number 1 1915, p. 65 f.
  3. ↑ Archive Hermann Lietz-Schule, folder list of persons, senior manager, attachment to inquiry Doris Janssen.