Sankt Josefshaus Herten

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Josefshaus Herten

The Sankt Josefshaus Herten , also: St. Josefshaus or St. Josefs-Anstalt, is a Catholic institution that helps people with disabilities in the German state of Baden-Württemberg . The main location is in the Herten district of the city of Rheinfelden (Baden) . The Sankt Josefshaus is one of the earliest disabled assistance facilities in the region, one of the largest in southern Baden today and the oldest and largest in the Lörrach district as well as one of the largest employers in the district. The Sankt Josefshaus Herten employs around 1300 people. Since 2005, the Sankt Josefshaus has also been involved in elderly care. Around 900 people with disabilities and senior citizens are cared for at a total of eleven locations .

history

Karl Rolfus with four of his fosterlings, St. Josefsanstalt Herten, around 1900

The Sankt Josefshaus was founded by the Herten village pastor Karl Rolfus at the suggestion of the then superior of the Ingenbohl sisters , Maria Theresia Scherer , to take care of the " cretins " (mentally handicapped due to iodine deficiency) in Herten and the surrounding area. The Karl Rolfus School, which belongs to the Sankt Josefshaus, is named after Rolfus, and the Theresia Scherer School after Scherer.

In 1879 the nucleus of the facility was opened, the “Maria Hilf” house. Karl Rolfus was able to acquire the former farmhouse with property at a reasonable price with the help of the Säckingen pastor Daniel Danner and the support of patrons and Basel craftsmen. Initially, three severely disabled children lived there, and by the end of the year there were already 20 foster children. They were looked after by three foster sisters from the mother house of the Ingenbohl congregation. Pastor Rolfus soon realized that his "fosterlings" also have a right to education. After schooling at the local elementary school failed, he founded his own school in 1880 (just one year after it opened) - one of the first special schools in southern Baden. This has had his name since 1992 (Karl-Rolfus-Schule) and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2005 (with the presence of the Minister for Culture. Youth and Sport in Baden-Württemberg).

A few years later, Rolfus and Danner, as future owners and bearers of the house, founded the “St. Josefsverein ". From 1884 to 1889, the association built the new house “St. Josef ”, which now offered space for 200 residents. At the end of 1889, the number of residents was already over 300. As a result of a flu epidemic, the “St. Elisabeth ”, which was finished in 1893. The “Laurentiushaus” for epileptic boys followed from 1898 to 1899 .

After the death of Karl Rolfus on March 2, 1907, Prelate Franz Fünfgeld took over the management of the facilities, which at that time already looked after 550 residents. He bought the “Markhof” farm, located between Herten and Wyhlen , to supply the facility for the disabled. In 1913 the next extension was completed, the "Franziskushaus" for mentally handicapped children and epileptic girls. In order to better meet the needs of the increased number of carers, a central kitchen with a nurses refectory and classrooms was built in 1925 and the Rotbergsche Schloßgut in Bamlach (today part of Bad Bellingen ) was acquired and converted. In 1928/29 the St. Josef Church in Herten was built and in 1929/30 a separate building for the school for epileptic and mentally handicapped children was built. In 1930 the St. Josephs-Anstalt presented itself on its letterhead as follows: “Private, teaching and educational institution for the mentally weak and epileptic Catholic denomination, hearing, deaf and hearing-mute, speech-impaired, blind and physically crippled children, school leavers for work and Vocational training. Care institution for the uneducated of all denominations, ages and genders ”.

In 1931 Karl Vomstein took over the management of the St. Josef House. In 1939, when the National Socialists were in power in the meantime, the 856 residents in St. Josefshaus had to be reported to the Reich Ministry of the Interior, which announced the "relocation of prison inmates as part of special planned economy measures". Between July and December 1940, 345 men, women and children were deported in five transports from the St. Josefshaus to the Grafeneck Castle killing center and murdered as part of the Nazi euthanasia program (" Aktion T4 "). Name plaques at the entrance to the Herten Josefskirche and a memorial created by the Rheinfeld sculptor Leonhard Eder as the result of various commemorative events from 1997 to 1999 and 2010 commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 345 murders during the Nazi dictatorship. Pupils from the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Rheinfeld took part in the history competition of the Federal President and the Körber Foundation with a research project on Wilhelm Grein, who was the main teacher at the Karl Rolfus School during the euthanasia program and who was able to save several dozen residents for this a sponsorship award in 2009. Despite Grein's efforts, there were only 421 residents in St. Josefshaus in 1949; in 1939 there were 856.

Director Vomstein's successor was Wilhelm Richard in 1953. At that time, the St. Josefshaus was again looking after 670 residents. 1966 succeeds Richard Monsignore Hans Hauck. In 1966/67 he had the “Maria-Theresia-Haus” built with its own staff wing and in 1968 the technical school for healing and educational care was set up, which was officially recognized in 1971. For occupational therapy , the new "Heinrichsbau" was built, in which the " protective workshop ", the special vocational school and an electromechanical workshop can be found. In 1972 the “Daniel Danner House” was built on the “Markhof” and the “Bernhardshaus” in Herten for eight more groups.

Under the new director Alexander Sagi, a workshop for disabled people was built in 1976, initially with 120 workplaces. Two years later the Rotbergsche Schloßgut in Bamlach was replaced by a new building. After a few years without construction work, a new therapy center with a dormitory was built between 1980 and 1983.

In 1994 Bernhard Späth took up the position as director. Under his aegis, the “Peter und Paul” residential and nursing home was built in 2002 for the elderly and those in need of care. In 2003 the Sankt Josefshaus in Bad Rippoldsau acquired the “Bonifazhof” in order to be able to offer people with disabilities near-home accommodation. In 2005, the Sankt Josefshaus started helping the elderly by taking over the operation of the old people's and nursing home of the Catholic parish of St. Fridolin in Lörrach-Stetten . In 2007 a new nursing home for the elderly in Zell im Wiesental followed. The regionalization was continued with the construction of a house for the disabled in the city center of Rheinfelden. A converted legacy from the Sankt Josefshaus formed the basis of the Rheinfelden community foundation founded in 2006.

A reorganization also took place in the legal area. The operational operation of the facilities was outsourced to a non-profit GmbH in 2007 , while the assets remained with St. Josefshaus KdÖR . At the beginning of 2008 the St. Josefshaus became the majority shareholder of the old people's and nursing home “St. Franziskus ”in Bad Säckingen. In 2010, a newly built house for people suffering from dementia was opened in the "Villa Schwobthaler" in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl .

organization

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.
Note text

The Sankt Josefshaus is legally a non-profit GmbH whose sole shareholder is the church corporation under public law St. Josefshaus KdöR . The board of directors of St. Josefshaus KdöR consists of Rudolf Hammerschmidt (former chairman of the bank for social economy Cologne), the deputy chairman Michael Himmelsbach (former head of the finance department of the Archbishop's Ordinariate Freiburg) and Klaus Eberhardt (mayor of the city of Rheinfelden) as well as the executive board member Birgit Ackermann and Christoph Dürdoth. The chairman of the supervisory board of St. Josefshaus gGmbH is Edgar Kösler (Rector of the Catholic University of Freiburg). The managing directors of St. Josefshaus gGmbH are Birgit Ackermann and Christoph Dürdoth.

The social activities of the Sankt Josefshaus are divided into two areas: assistance for the disabled and assistance for the elderly. The Theresia Scherer School , run by the St. Josefshaus , is a state-recognized technical school for social affairs specializing in curative education care , and has been providing training since 1968, making it one of the first schools in Germany to offer this training.

Locations

literature

  • Werner Muffler: The St. Josefshaus - the first social institution in Badisch Rheinfelden. In: Haus Salmegg, Association for Art and History Rheinfelden eV (Ed.): Who knows how to do good. On the social history of Rheinfeld until 1930. (= Rheinfelder Geschichtsblätter, issue 10), pp. 94–99.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Josefshaus Herten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe , inventory 321: Kreisverband Heidelberg , Nr. 351: Contributions of the district to the operation of the St. Josephs-Anstalt Herten in Baden , application of the St. Josephs-Anstalt of April 12, 1930 ( digitized version , accessed on November 6, 2019 ).
  2. ↑ Board of Directors St. Josefshaus Herten KdöR. Accessed June 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Management and supervisory board of the Sankt Josefshaus. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Management and supervisory board of the Sankt Josefshaus. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 33  '19.9 " N , 7 ° 43' 46.9"  E