Rabenhof Ellwangen
The Rabenhof Ellwangen is an estate from the 14th century in Ellwangen (Jagst) in the Ostalb district in Baden-Württemberg . Today there is a facility for the mentally ill.
location
The Rabenhof is located near the B 290 about three and a half kilometers northwest of the center of Ellwangen.
history
The Rabenhof was first mentioned in a document in 1337. For more than 500 years it was farmed as an estate. In August 1895, the rural poor authority for the Jagstkreis acquired the Rabenhof estate in order to open a “poor employment and preservation institution” there from November 1896 for an initial 170 people with the aim of “people who, especially in winter, have no employment and no accommodation up and down the country find, to house and to give them work in the home farm ”. In 1906 an area of the facility was designated for the mentally handicapped. The capacity of the facility increased to 190 places.
In the course of the global economic crisis in the 1920s, up to 220 people lived in the facility. The construction of a house and a farm building brought little remedy. As from many other institutions for the disabled, foster people were deported from the Rabenhof in the course of Action T4 in 1940 and 1941 during National Socialism ; then 30 people were murdered in Grafeneck on the Swabian Alb and two in Hadamar in Hesse .
After the Second World War , the Rabenhof was occupied by older refugees, displaced persons, social pensioners and war invalids. From 1955, the facility was therefore renamed "Landesaltersheim". The capacity increased to 230 beds.
In the course of changes in the social legislation, the Rabenhof was restructured into a disabled facility specializing in the care of the mentally ill. In the 1970s a new farm building was built. In 1982 further dormitories were moved into.
The facility's capacity has now been expanded to 292 in-patient assisted living spaces for the mentally disabled, 38 in-patient assisted living spaces for mentally handicapped seniors, the care of 50 mentally disabled clients who live with outpatient support, and 186 workshop spaces for the disabled.
245 people with disabilities live at the Rabenhof site and 122 people work in the workshop. In the decentralized offers, 134 people are supported in their living space. In 2012, the workshop offered 64 decentralized workplaces in branch workshops, external work groups and external workplaces.
literature
- Thomas Stöckle: The state welfare institution Rabenhof / Ellwangen in the time of National Socialism and the "euthanasia" campaign T4 1940/41. Ellwangen 2002.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 1.1 ″ E