Upper Riedhof

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The Obere Riedhof was a care facility in Grimmelfingen , today a district of Ulm .

history

The Obere Riedhof was an urban estate with a castle-like main building.

The facility was founded in 1892 as a “poor employment and preservation institution” by the Württemberg State Poor Association, in which homeless, old, sick and disabled people were housed. The institution cooperated with the brother institution Karlshöhe in Ludwigsburg , from which the nurses and gardeners also came. The institution was characterized by strict, religious house rules. The inmates had to work as far as they were able to work.

When the institution was transferred to the Landesfürsorgeverband in 1924, it was renamed "Landesfürsorgeanstalt".

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1937 the facility had 360 places.

The medical officer Eduard Schefold visited the institution every year. He examined the fosterlings of the Riedhof hereditary and recommended as an expert, if necessary, the sterility. The head of the Riedhof was Robert Herschlein. Against the background of three pregnancies among the inmates, Herschlein asked the other sanatoriums and nursing homes in 1936 to render the patients sterile before they were transferred to the Riedhof. Inmates with intellectual disabilities had little chance of avoiding forced sterilization .

In the Riedhof, 121 mentally weak people were counted before the T4 campaign . On August 23, 1940, 40 residents were transferred to the Grafeneck killing center and murdered there; Bertha Rabausch was one of the residents, for example . On November 19, another 15 residents were brought to Grafeneck and murdered there. Three residents suffering from typhus were temporarily transferred to the Weissenau sanatorium and later gassed in Grafeneck.

Another 27 people were relocated to Zwiefalten from July 1941 .

After the "useless eaters" had been removed, the institution became a retirement home.

post war period

The Upper Riedhof had its own cemetery where hundreds of deceased residents were buried.

In 1974 the Riedhof was closed and replaced by the Tannenhof Ulm . The citizens of Grimmelfingen try to preserve the cemetery of the Upper Riedhof, which is located on a plot of land owned by the city of Ulm, as a memorial.

In 2004, a stele was erected in memory of the murdered at the former location of the Riedhof at the Ratiopharm logistics center. The tabooing of the place and the topic still has an effect today.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberer Riedhof - up - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c d e f g Walter Wuttke: The Inner Mission and its role in the forced sterilization and the National Socialist murders of the sick. The example of “Oberer Riedhof” in Ulm. Lecture on October 19, 1999 at the Volkshochschule Ulm.
  3. ↑ a b c d Jakob Resch: Grimmelfinger want to keep memories of the welfare institution alive. SWP, September 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Hans Laehr: The institutions for the mentally ill, nervous, feeble-minded, epileptic, alcoholic, etc. in Germany, Austria and Switzerland including the psychiatric and neurological scientific institutes. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 1937, ISBN 978-3-111-64860-6 , p. 94 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Rudi Kübler: Names for the victims. SWP, December 30, 2015
  6. ^ Südwest Presse online services: Vergast in Grafeneck. In: swp.de. November 24, 2015, accessed November 12, 2017 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 45.2 "  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 1"  E