Neuerkerode
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Neuerkerode
Sickte parish
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 46 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 30 ″ E
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| Postal code : | 38173 | |
| Area code : | 05305 | |
Location of Neuerkerode in Lower Saxony |
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 View of the church
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Neuerkerode is a village in the municipality of Sickte in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony, which was founded in the last third of the 19th century. A whole village for people with intellectual disabilities was built here on an area of 2.49 km².
location
Neuerkerode is a good kilometer east of Sickte on the L625 state road towards Schöppenstedt . A road branches off to the south to Volzum , which runs west of the Lithberg . The honeycomb flows through the settlement north of the main road and approximately parallel to it , on which three water mills were still in operation in the 19th century . Other neighboring towns are Veltheim (Ohe) in the northeast and Lucklum in the east-southeast .
history
The facility goes back to the "Idioten-Anstalt zu Erkerode " founded in 1868 by pastor Gustav Stutzer , doctor Oswald Berkhan and Brunswick citizen Luise Löbbecke to provide a home for sick and disabled people. A little later, on September 13, 1868, the Idioten-Anstalt zu Erkerode was founded at the current location, four kilometers from the founding place of Erkerode , which later developed into the Neu-Erkeröder Anstalten , then the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode .
During the Nazi era , the institution was also the focus of the euthanasia program . In 1933, more than 130 men and women were forcibly sterilized. The head of the facility Beyer and his successor Fehr tried various measures to stop or postpone the forced sterilizations and deportations, but in 1942 the head of the facility, August Ahlborn, who was loyal to the line, was appointed and his predecessor Artur Fehr was drafted into military service. During Ahlborn's tenure until the end of the war, 176 people were forcibly transferred, most of them with the aim of murder.
Todays situation
Today's Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode maintains, in addition to the residential groups with 840 residents (at the beginning of 2007), a technical school for curative education care . With 920 employees, the foundation is the largest employer in the Wolfenbüttel district . The foundation under private law is a member of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig .
Others
The comic artist Mikael Ross wrote the graphic novel Der Umfall , which takes place in Neuerkerode , in 2018 .
Web links
- Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode
- Neuerkerode on the website of the Samtgemeinde Sickte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neuerkerode in the time of National Socialism (document collection PDF). Retrieved January 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Interview with Mikael Ross about his book "Der Umfall". Jetzt.de, accessed on September 24, 2018