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The Orbishöher Kreis was an association of Protestant Christians active in the field of youth education in the 1950s. The group named itself after its first venue, the "Orbishöhe" house of the Diakonisches Werk in Zwingenberg an der Bergstrasse . Members included the future Federal President Johannes Rau and the Protestant theologian Ernst Lange .

literature

  • Hermann Gunkel: House Orbishöhe in Zwingenberg an der Bergstrasse - From the Protestant girls' recovery home in 1926 to the diaconal youth welfare facility in 1998. Zwingenberg 1998, ISBN 3-922781-65-9 .
  • W. Simpfendörfer: Ernst Lange. Attempt a portrait. 2nd Edition. Berlin 1997.