Praunheimer workshops

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Praunheimer Werkstätten non-profit GmbH
legal form gGmbH
founding 1928
Seat Frankfurt / Main
management Wolfgang Rhine
Number of employees more than 500 employees
Website www.pw-ffm.de
Status: 2017

The old Praunheimer workshops at the Praunheimer Brücke, now refugee accommodation "AP2"

The Praunheimer Werkstätten non-profit GmbH (pw °) is a workshop for people with disabilities in Frankfurt am Main that has been established far beyond regional borders .

history

On December 6, 1928, the city council of Frankfurt am Main decided to open a training workshop for boys and girls who were not mature enough to attend school. This decision was implemented on July 3, 1929 with the opening of a training workshop for boys in the garden of the Vocational School VI in Frankfurt-Niederrad and a training workshop for girls in Frankfurt-Oberrad . This is the beginning of the history of the Praunheim workshops. Fritz Lennig was the head of the training workshop for boys. In 1930 the training workshop moved to the former Euler aircraft production hall in Niederrad. However, in 1932 the workshop was moved back to the gym of vocational school VI for cost reasons.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the workshops for boy according Magistrate resolution passed by April 10, 1933 the Welfare Office attached. In the summer of 1933, the work of the apprenticeship workshop for girls was ended for financial reasons.

Fritz Lennig, who in the meantime worked as a welfare worker for district office 8a of the municipal welfare office in Griesheim, was able to reopen the training workshop for male youths in Bäckergasse 17 in July 1938. The carrier was now the near-town association Arbeits Ailfe für Jugend . The official justification for the reopening was the “making part and remaining workers suitable for work” . In May 1939, the association reopened the training workshop for young women in Einhorngasse.

During the Second World War , the association's workshops were destroyed or badly damaged in the Allied bombing raids in 1943 and 1944 . The only remaining location were rooms on Sandweg . At the end of the war in 1945, the training workshop had to stop working.

In June 1949 Fritz Lennig was able to start rebuilding the Praunheim youth farm with a training workshop and girls' dormitory on the site of the Praunheimer Mühle (right next to the Praunheimer Brücke ). The site was made available by the city as a heritable building right. In 1957 a protective workshop for the mentally handicapped was set up as a partition in Rödelheim. Fritz Lennig retired on October 31, 1963. In 1965 Peter Lennig, Fritz Lennig's son, took over the management of the Praunheim workshop. The new construction of the workshop in the same year was financed by the Orphanage Foundation. The city rented the building from the foundation and made it available to the Praunheim workshops. At that time there were 200 jobs.

In 1968 the Praunheimer Mühle was converted into a dormitory for 25 male, mentally disabled residents and in May 1973 the Fechenheim branch with 100 jobs for the disabled was opened in Gründenseestrasse. In 1976 the second dormitory at Am Wendelsgarten in Frankfurt-Bonames was ready for occupancy and in January 1982 the Höchst workshop began operations.

In 1983 the Praunheimer Werkstätten was converted into a non-profit GmbH.

In 1985 the daily production facility of the Höchst workshop was opened. In 1986 520 people were looked after. In 1960 there were only 61.

Further development steps were:

  • February 1988: Foundation of the first outdoor residential group in the Roman city
  • April 1989: The Fechenheim workshop moves to Wächtersbacher Strasse
  • 1991: The Hohemarkstrasse dormitory opens in Niederursel
  • 1992: The Starkenburger Straße dormitory opens in Fechenheim

In September 1993 Wolfgang Rhein became managing director. Expansion also continued under the new management. In 1994 the outpatient services were founded, and in 1995 the workshop shop was opened in the rooms of the citizen advice center on the Römerberg. In the summer of 1997, the renovation and expansion of the dormitory on the Praunheimer Mühle was completed.

Recent development steps:

  • May 2003: Expansion of the Fechenheim workshop including its day-care facility.
  • Summer 2003: Move into the West residential complex in Höchst.
  • Autumn 2005: Part of the rooms in the Starkenburger Strasse residential complex was converted to provide a daily structure for elderly disabled people.
  • Autumn 2005: Founding of the integrated large kitchen "Cook Company" in Bergen-Enkheim.
  • 2007: Foundation of the integration assistance to support disabled students in Frankfurt.
  • April 25, 2008: The daily funding facility of the Höchst workshop was expanded by 15 places.
  • 2013: Move into the new day funding facility in Alt-Praunheim 4c
  • 2015: Moving into the new workshop including another day care facility at the Praunheim location on Christa-Maar-Straße

Friends' association and foundation

To support the Praunheimer Werkstätten, a support association was founded in 1992, mainly by the parents concerned. In 2000 the Praunheimer Werkstätten Foundation was established. Since its inception, the foundation has raised more than 2.5 million euros in assets to this day.

Personalities who worked at pw °

  • Theo Walter , managing director of the “Arbeitshilfe für Jugend” association, was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, in 1959 for his social work
  • Boris Rhein , community service provider as a supervisor (1997–1998)
  • Willi van Ooyen , from 1997 to 2008 he was department head, authorized signatory and educational director

Location information

literature

  • Helmut Ritzel, Jean H. Rothammel: Pictures to the Praunheimer story . 3rd edition, Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt 1988. Therein: Chapter Praunheimer Werkstätten, pp. 108–111
  • Bruno Müller (Ed.): Foundations in Frankfurt am Main: History and Effect, 2006, ISBN 3-7829-0565-2 , pp. 218, 273

Web links

Commons : Praunheimer Werkstätten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 533-534 .