Princess Pauline Foundation

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The Fürstin-Pauline-Stiftung , formerly Paulinenanstalt , in Detmold is an independent evangelical institution that pursues exclusively non-profit purposes. The foundation is involved in the areas of childcare , youth and elderly care .

history

The founder of the foundation is Pauline zur Lippe (1769–1820), who stated in a document that the foundation should take care of current social issues. During her reign for the minor Leopold II from 1802 to 1820, Pauline took care of social issues in Lippe . So she not only founded the first children's institution in Germany, but also an employment school for neglected children , a voluntary workhouse for adult alms recipients and a nursing home with an infirmary .

After Pauline's death in 1820, Princess Emilie von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1800–1867), the wife of Leopold II, took over responsibility for the social institutions and brought them together under the name Paulinenanstalt . Auguste Mannes founded a women's association in 1844 that actively supported Pauline's work. The doctor Karl Piderit , who owes the construction of the state hospital , continued the work of Auguste Mannes after her death in 1872. After the expropriation in 1918, the princely rent chamber could no longer make payments for the Paulinenanstalt. The proceeds from the sale of a multi-piece diamond jewelry that Tsarina Katharina of Russia had given her niece Pauline was lost in the inflation of 1923 . Even during the National Socialist era, the foundation suffered from chronic underfunding and only survived through the selfless commitment of the Detmold deaconesses .

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the children could only be fed by keeping their own livestock. In 1948 Pastor Friedrich Schnittger was elected to the board and headed the Paulinenanstalt for 30 years. The house in Luisenstrasse (today Bielefelder Strasse), in which the Paulinenanstalt was housed from 1874 to 1950, was sold to the city of Detmold. The day-care center moved to Karolinenstrasse, where the house of the former school for the deaf and mute had been purchased. In 1958 a second kindergarten was opened on Palaisstrasse and in 1965 a third was added on Gutenbergstrasse. The Haus am Weinberg retirement home has been part of the Paulinenanstalt since 1956 . The need for places in old people's homes grew so that in 1965 another old people's home was built on the avenue on the grounds of the Klasingschen Villa. In the 1980s, two inter-company training workshops were set up to train young people in various professions.

Todays situation

Today there are a total of fifteen kindergartens and day-care centers run by the Fürstin-Pauline-Stiftung in the city of Detmold, Lemgo and Bad Salzuflen. In youth welfare , the foundation offers several residential groups, a mother-and-child house, an acute care facility, several open all-day schools and other options. There are two old people's homes with a total of 138 single and 8 double rooms. In addition, day care and assisted living are offered to elderly people .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sweet princess zur Lippe: On the history of the Paulinenanstalt . In: Heimatland Lippe . Issue 3/1991, pp. 81-89.
  2. ↑ Princess Pauline Foundation. Retrieved September 2, 2010 .

literature

  • Sweet princess zur Lippe: On the history of the Paulinenanstalt . In: Heimatland Lippe . Issue 3/1991, pp. 81-89.

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