Rudolf-Sophien-Stift

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Rudolf-Sophien-Stift
Inscription cartridge on the Rudolf-Sophien-Stift

The Rudolf-Sophien-Stift is a facility for the medical treatment, rehabilitation and care of mentally ill people in Stuttgart.

history

The Rudolf-Sophien-Stift emerged from a testamentary foundation of the Stuttgart entrepreneur Rudolf Knosp (1820–1897) and his wife Sophie Knosp, b. Schmid (1825–1905) in the amount of two million marks , which was to be used to set up a convalescent sanatorium - that is, a rest home for people who need to regain their strength after recovering from illness. Knosp was a successful paint manufacturer and co-founder of BASF .

Construction began in 1912 and was completed in August 1914. The design of the building ensemble came from the Stuttgart architects Rudolf Lempp and Hermann Riethmüller ; the construction costs, including furnishings, were 765,000 marks. The house offered space for 82 patients who were accommodated in single and double rooms. The architecture can be assigned to the reform style , but also shows influences of Art Nouveau in the architectural decoration . After the beginning of the First World War , the recently completed monastery was confiscated by the military as a hospital . It was not given its actual purpose until May 14, 1919.

At the beginning of the Second World War , an Air Force headquarters moved into part of the building. At the end of the war, first French and then, for a few months, US occupation soldiers were billeted. Eventually the medical clinic of the destroyed Bad Cannstatter hospital was housed there, it stayed until 1970. In that year the city sold the property to the Foundation for Education and Disability Research of Robert Bosch junior. and Eva Madelung , today's Heidehof Foundation . In 1973 the Rehabilitation Center Rudolf-Sophien-Stift (RRSS) was opened, initially only as a temporary residence for psychiatric rehabilitation patients.

Guidelines

Care for mentally ill people was still considered backward in the Federal Republic of Germany until the mid-1970s, and the Stuttgart facility took on a pioneering role here. It was only with the report on the situation of psychiatry in the Federal Republic of Germany, which was completed in September 1975 - that is the official name of the psychiatry study - that new approaches were broken in the treatment of the mentally ill. In 2006 the Evangelical Society of Stuttgart took over the sponsorship of the monastery.

Occupancy

The psychiatric clinic accommodates 26 patients, the department for medical-vocational rehabilitation has 27 inpatient and 17 outpatient places. Another 24 mentally ill people live long-term in an affiliated dormitory. 16 people are housed in a newly built sheltered shelter. In addition, the monastery offers around 500 workshop spaces for people with reduced working capacity as well as a further 86 dormitory spaces throughout the city.

The facility is financed by health insurances, pension insurance, the employment agency and the city of Stuttgart. The monastery forms a non-profit GmbH under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Society with 366 full-time employees. Jürgen Armbruster, who studied social education, has been managing director since 2006.

Honor

The cooperation project “Inclusion needs space” of the Rudolf-Sophien-Stift (RRSS) with the commercial school in Hoppenlau was awarded the “excellent” prize in 2017. The Federal Association of Workshops for Disabled People ( BAG WfbM ) awards this prize .

literature

  • Jürgen Armbruster, Dirk Behrens, Peter Petersen, Katharina Ratzke (eds.): Spirituality and mental health. Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-88414-551-7 .
  • Wolfgang Kress: A house of convalescence. 100 years of the Rudolf-Sophien-Stift. In: Südblättle , No. 9 (September 2014).
  • Jürgen Armbruster, Anja Dieterich, Daphne Hahn, Katharina Ratzke (eds.): 40 years of psychiatry study. Look back ahead. Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-88414-616-3 .
  • Bundesverband Evangelische Behindertenhilfe Berlin (Ed.): Kerbe, Forum for Social Psychiatry (quarterly, ISSN  0724-5165 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 48, 1914, No. 69 (from August 29, 1914), p. 650. (Note on completion with information on construction time, architects, costs and capacity)
  2. ↑ Eva Funke: By train to the sanatorium. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. January 8, 2014, accessed on February 28, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Psychiatric Clinic Rudolf-Sophien-Stift gGmbH - City of Stuttgart. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 36 ″  E