Rhenish Welfare Association for the Blind 1886 Düren
The Rheinische Blindenfürsorgeverein 1886 Düren is a German association for the support of blind, visually impaired and people threatened by blindness.
history
In 1842 the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV wanted to visit the Rhineland with his wife Elisabeth ( Elisabeth Ludovika von Bayern ). Thereupon a fundraising campaign was called, with the proceeds of which a Rhenish institute for the blind was to be opened in honor of the queen. The donated 42,000 thalers were handed over to the Queen and with this capital the Elisabeth Foundation for teaching the blind was set up in the Rhine Province on June 18, 1844 . The purpose of the foundation was to “educate the blind people of the Rhine Province who are capable of education and to make them useful citizens of the state through school lessons and the acquisition of skills” .
The Institute for the Blind was opened on November 13, 1845, the Queen's birthday. Due to constant financial difficulties, the foundation was elevated to the rank of provincial institute on December 8, 1862 by resolution of the 16th Rhenish Provincial Parliament. Under the new name Elisabethstiftung, Rheinische Provinzialbildungsanstalt and with changed statutes, the tasks grew with constantly increasing numbers of childcare providers.
The reason for the establishment of the Rheinisches Blindenfürsorgeverein was - at the suggestion of the then director of the institute for the blind, Wilhelm Mecker, to the state director Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Klein - the necessary assistance for from the " Provincial Blindenanstalt dismissed professionally trained blind and the procurement of the necessary funds by the Kiel model" . The regional director of the Rhine province, supported by 16 friends of the blind, issued an appeal in 1886 “to found an association for the care of the blind in the Rhine province and for the benefit of the discharged pupils” . In nine months, 6,140 joined as members. Dr. Klein, his representative for Provincial Councilor Peter Klausener .
The first general assembly took place on March 4, 1887 . The association initially saw the main tasks:
- to increase the support fund of the provincial institution for the blind for the released,
- to assist the Provincial Facility for the Blind with the accommodation and employment of blind people and
- to set up and maintain suitable employment institutions for the blind and to give older, as yet untrained blind people in the Rhine Province the opportunity to train and work.
In the same year the association was able to set up its first workshop for the blind in Cologne.
After the name was changed to Association for the Welfare of the Blind in the Rhine Province of Düren on April 4, 1894 , the association was granted the rights of a legal entity on November 12, 1894 by the highest cabinet order.
On January 2, 1899, the Düren carpet manufacturer and patron, Kommerzienrat Philipp Schoeller and his wife Anna gave the association a piece of land in Düren and at the same time the means to build and set up a blind asylum, the Rhenish blind asylum - Annaheim , which was named after his wife. On July 25, 1899, the association's catalog of tasks was supplemented by the care of the blind people unable to work because of “old age or other disabilities” . J. the Annaheim was opened.
In the first years of the 20th century, a workshop home was opened in Cologne (1904) and the home for the blind in Meckerstraße (1912) . In 1932 the association founded the Rheinische Blinden Arbeitshilfe as a new department.
On November 16, 1944, 474 Royal Air Force bombers dropped 2,751 tons of bombs over Düren in a 36-minute attack. In this heaviest and most devastating of a total of 51 documented air raids on Düren by the Allies in World War II, the city was completely destroyed. Only a few of almost 10,000 houses remained intact. 3,106 people died in the hail of bombs and under the rubble. The Annaheim and the home for the blind were also badly affected.
In October 1949, the association was a co-founder of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtverband as the umbrella organization for independent welfare . Almost a year later, on June 13, 1950, the Annaheim, which was damaged in the war, and the home for the blind can be reopened.
In 1960 the association set up the Rhenish retraining center for later blind people in Roonstraße . The traditional blind professions such as telephone operator, brush maker, basket weaver and typist were trained there. In 1965, the RBV opened the first residential group for children in Alte Jülicher Straße, which, as a forerunner of the boarding school for mentally handicapped children and young people, moved into rented rooms in the manufacturer's Villa Schoeller in Veldener Straße from 1967 .
Since only 80 rehabilitants could complete a retraining at the same time in the Rhenish retraining center for later blind people , but the need was much higher, a change of name was imminent, from which the Vocational Promotion Agency Düren, Center for Vocational Training for Blind and Visually Impaired People was created. By moving to a new building in the south of Düren at the Burgauer Wald, not only 200 rehabilitation candidates could be admitted at the same time from 1975, the range of offers also experienced a considerable expansion. This means that blind people now have a wide range of advice and training opportunities at their disposal.
In 1982 the connecting wing with kitchen and dining room was built between the Anna-Schoeller-Haus and the home for the blind . In 1983 the boarding school for mentally handicapped children and young people moved to the former home for the blind in the immediate vicinity of the Louis Braille School in Meckerstraße. One year after the 100th anniversary of the association, it was renamed the Rheinischer Blindenfürsorgeverein 1886 Düren in 1987 .
In 1993, the professional development agency finally became independent. The non-profit GmbH is sponsored half by the RBV 1886 Düren and half by the Nordrhein-Westfälische Berufsförderungswerk e. V. based in Dortmund, an e. V. of the German pension insurances Rhineland and Westphalia .
In order to be able to cover the need for living spaces with corresponding funding opportunities for blind people with multiple disabilities, the residential and subsidy facility for blind people with multiple disabilities was opened on November 5, 1995 with 64 places in Eberhard-Hoesch-Strasse in Düren.
The home for the blind on Meckerstraße, which went into operation in 1912 and which had served as a boarding school for some of the students at the Louis Braille School since 1983, unfortunately no longer met the current requirements at the end of the 1990s, so it was decided to stay in the immediate vicinity to build a new building. On April 12, 1999 the new boarding school for mentally handicapped children and young people with 24 places was opened.
Unfortunately, the old Anna-Schoeller-Haus in Schoellerstrasse met the same fate as the boarding school. Refurbishment and modernization proved to be not economical during the planning phase and a new building was necessary. This was realized in the park in Roonstrasse and opened on December 4, 2001. Since then, the new Anna-Schoeller-Haus offers 71 places on 3 levels for the blind and senior citizens.
On January 1, 2009, at the request of the LVR , the RBV 1886 Düren took over the sponsorship of the boarding school for children with multiple disabilities on the grounds of the Louis Braille School in Meckerstraße. Thus, the care, supply and support of 84 students of the Louis-Braille-Schule during the non-teaching periods during school time is in the hands of the RBV 1886 Düren.
In order to do justice to the idea of inclusion in the area of living as well, the RBV 1886 Düren expanded its care offer in 2009, in addition to the inpatient forms of living , to include outpatient assisted living for people with disabilities . Care takes place here selectively and specifically in your own form of living. Between 2010 and 2013, the association maintained a regional office of the Schatzkiste e. V., a dating agency for people with disabilities.
A new division in RBV 1886 Düren opened its doors in September 2010: Se-Bli-Mo stands for visually impaired-blind-mobile and is an outpatient facility that provides mobile advice and support for visually impaired, blind and other disabled people and their surroundings perform.
On July 16, 2011, the RBV 1886 Düren celebrated its 125th anniversary with a ceremony followed by a summer party in the park on Roonstrasse.
Facilities and offers
Anna Schoeller House
In the Anna-Schoeller-Haus, a facility for the blind and senior citizens, 71 senior citizens can be accommodated on three levels with 24 (23) places. The facility has 59 single and 6 double rooms with private bathrooms. Moving in with pets is generally possible. In addition to inpatient care, short-term or preventive care is also possible. Around 41 people are employed in the care and housekeeping sector as well as in the social services, supplemented by students of elderly care, interns and employees of voluntary social services.
The old Anna-Schoeller-Haus on Schoellerstraße was demolished in December 2016 after it had been empty since 1998.
Rhenish home for the blind
The old Rhenish home for the blind offered space for 47 blind residents in single and double rooms. Since the house no longer met the requirements of the current Housing and Participation Act (North Rhine-Westphalia) , the board decided in 2012 about a new replacement. Supported by the Rhineland Regional Council's incentive program for conversion and decentralization, training measures have already prepared several residents for independent living, even after many years of inpatient accommodation. The new Rheinische Blindenheim, which was opened with a ceremony on June 7, 2019, is a four-story building with 24 places, with four residents each on three floors. There are also nine apartments on the 3rd floor for outpatient assisted living, which are also used by predominantly blind and visually impaired people. All rooms are barrier-free and specifically designed for the blind. Around 20 full-time employees in the therapeutic and domestic areas are supplemented by interns and employees from the voluntary services FSJ and BFD .
Boarding school for blind children with multiple disabilities
The two boarding schools for blind children with multiple disabilities offer space for a total of 84 pupils from the Louis Braille School in 10 mixed-age and gender-mixed groups. The boarding school care refers to the non-teaching times during school time, the permanent living groups are designed for year-round care. Employees of the boarding schools are curative educators, educators, nannies as well as health and nurses in the educational service. A housekeeper is assigned to each residential group. There are also interns and volunteer workers.
Housing and funding facility for the blind with multiple disabilities
64 people live in small groups of 8 residents in single rooms in the residential and funding facility for blind people with multiple disabilities. There are therapeutic offers (e.g. Snoezelen , basic stimulation, work and occupational therapy, exercise / gymnastics) and support (perception, communication behavior, independence in practical life and orientation, mobility and environmental experience). The 68 full-time employees in the nursing, therapeutic and housekeeping sectors are supplemented by interns and employees in the voluntary services.
Outpatient assisted living for people with disabilities
The team of outpatient assisted living for people with disabilities consists of different professional groups. The offer is currently aimed at blind and visually impaired people or people at risk of blindness with a mental, physical or psychological disability as well as adults with a mental disability.
Short-term care Schoellerstraße
The solitary short-term care Schoellerstraße with a total of 20 places was opened with a ceremony on June 7, 2019 . Relatives in need of care are often cared for in the home environment. If this is temporarily not possible, the legislature provides for the possibility of short-term care.
The facilities of the RBV 1886 Düren have a common central administration and are supplied by a kitchen operated by a service provider and a facility management .
Chairwoman of the RBV 1886 Düren
- Foundation - 1903: State Director Friedrich Wilhelm Klein (Governor since 1897)
- 1903–1921: Governor Ludwig von Renvers
- 1921–1933: Governor Johannes Horion
- 1933–1945: Governor Heinrich Haake
- 1945–1947: Provincial Councilor Ferdinand Saarbourg (1888–1977); provisional
- 1947–1954: Josef Gockeln - Minister of Social Affairs and President of the State Parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1954–1975: Country Director Udo Klausa
- 1975–1980: Country Director Helmut Czischke
- 1980–1987: Country Director Bert Fischbach
- 1987–1995: Country Director Dieter Fuchs
- 1995–2001: Country Director Ferdinand Esser
- 2001–2008: Country Director Udo Molsberger
- 2008–2010: Country Director Harry K. Voigtsberger
- since 2010: Country Director Ulrike Lubek
Since 1954, the chairmen of the RBV 1886 Düren have been the state directors of the LVR throughout ; The deputy in the chairmanship of the association has always been taken over by the respective department heads for social affairs in the LVR in the past decades until today.
swell
- Archive of the RBV 1886 Düren
- Dr. Hans Zeißig: Appendix 1 to template 12/3639
- www.rbv-dueren.de: Chronicle of the RBV 1886 Düren
- Various Authors: I was told my eyes were blue! - 125 years of the Rhenish Welfare Association for the Blind 1886 Düren -
- Images: Archive of the RBV 1886 Düren
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Treasure Chest. Current. Rheinischer Blindenfürsorgeverein 1886 Düren, accessed on 23 August 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/anna-schoeller-haus-nach-abriss-soll-schnell-gebaut-haben-1.1450139