Schiffer's children's home
As Schiffer orphanage one is children's home called, in the school-age children of professional skippers of inland navigation are housed. Some skippers' children's homes have their own schools, others serve as boarding schools with school attendance at local schools.
history
Barges are often run as family businesses. Both spouses are involved in operating the ship and managing the household on board and sail all year round. These ships only stop briefly at berths to unload and load their cargo. Therefore it is not possible to go to school at different locations. It is certainly not possible to take teaching staff along, as is the case with circus schools, since too few school-age children belong to a ship. As long as the children are not yet of compulsory schooling, they go with the boatman's family. As soon as a child is required to attend school, a choice of location must be made for the sedentary school attendance. For this purpose, the child either lives with relatives (mostly grandparents) or the mother has to go ashore. Because the replacement of family workers on board is expensive, the only other option is accommodation in a home or boarding school .
The first skippers 'children's homes were founded by skippers' associations and charitable institutions of the church. In 1907 the Berlin Evangelical Schifferfürsorge opened a Schiffer's children's home on the Teltow Canal , which initially had 35 children. The Luise-Stephanien-Stiftung established a skipper's children's home in Mannheim , which was one of the first of its kind. There were also such homes in the GDR , Switzerland and the Netherlands. Most of the skipper's children's homes have now been closed or are mainly used to accommodate children who do not come from skipper families. Demographic development is usually cited as the reason for this (fewer children per family), and fewer staff have been required since the introduction of the push units.
Individual (former) skipper's children's homes
Basel
The Schiffer's children's home, located at the Rhine port in Basel-Kleinhüningen ( ⊙ ), was opened in 1958. At the beginning of the 1980s, the number of occupants fell sharply, and the home was continued as a children's home.
Duisburg (St. Nikolausburg)
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The St. Nikolausburg ship's children's home in Duisburg-Ruhrort ( ⊙ ) was built from 1923 based on a design by Gustav von Cube and was inaugurated in 1927 as a boarding school for inland skipper children of school age. The home was originally run by the Catholic Order of Our Lady, and since 1981 it has been run by Caritas . Today children and young people from socially disadvantaged families are housed in the home.
Fürstenberg / Oder (Eisenhüttenstadt)
In 1913 the Fürstenberg merchant Thielenberg bought a building plot in Gubener Strasse and had the boys' house built. The Schiffer's children's home in Fürstenberg an der Oder (today Eisenhüttenstadt ) was inaugurated in 1920. From 1957 on, the children's home was operated by the VEB inland shipping company. In 1990 the “ Fiete Schulze ” skipper's children's home was closed.
Mannheim
In 1913 the Schifferkinderheim Mannheim was founded by the Diakonie , the first housefather and ship's missionary was Deacon Hoffmann from the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg.
Up until the end of the 1970s there were two skipper's children's homes in Mannheim on the Rhine , separated according to girls and boys. The girls 'home was in Mannheim B6 and the boys' home in Mannheim D7. These two homes were merged into one home in Almenhof .
In 2013 the Schiffer children's home was closed.
Wurzburg
The Schifferkinderheim Würzburg ( ⊙ ) is located in the Zellerau in Würzburg , directly on the Main . The Schifferkinderheim was built in 1957 according to plans by Georg Eydel . At first it had 54 seats. A short time later it was expanded to 72 seats. At first, the children were looked after by the poor school sisters of Our Lady . The nuns left the Schiffer's orphanage in 1973 and were replaced by secular staff. In 1974 Barbara Stamm took over the management of the home. She held this until 1989 and was then a member of the board. In the 1980s, due to demographic change, the home was divided into a children's group, a boarding school for apprentices and a hostel . The boarding school for apprentices is now also open to other vocational students, mostly apprentices in rare professions such as watchmakers who complete block lessons in Würzburg.
Until 2012 the association Schifferkinderheim Würzburg e. V. In 2011 the Schifferkinderheim Foundation was founded with its headquarters in Würzburg. This was confirmed by the government of Lower Franconia as a public foundation with legal capacity under civil law and is non-profit. In 2013 she took over the sponsorship of the Schiffer children's home.
Hörstel
At the end of 1948, planning began for the construction of a ship's children's home in Hörstel, near the so-called “wet triangle”. The association Schifferkinderheime Westfalen e. V. was founded, which administratively resided in personal union with the Westphalian Herbergs Association in Münster. On February 18, 1949, the Wilke restaurant on the Harkenberg in Hörstel was bought and converted into a home in autumn 1949 with the simplest means, which in future was to accommodate 48 boatmen's children. The first children were admitted from November 15, 1949, the official inauguration took place on November 30, 1949 with 12 children. The head of the Bethel asylum, Pastor von Bodelschwingh, gave the festive sermon. After initial considerable difficulties, the home developed well and from the mid-1950s onwards could no longer consider all registrations. In 1955/1956 the old house was converted and a spacious new building was built. During this time, large parts of the children were “outsourced” to a children's home in Soest. After the end of the construction work, the house had 75 places, for several years it was operated with 80 children housed and was always fully occupied until the end of the 1960s. From the second half of the 1960s, the number of boatmen's children steadily decreased, and the places were filled with children placed by the youth welfare offices. From July 1949 to August 1970 the house was under the direction of Deacon Sander and his wife.
literature
- Hans E. Brandhorst: The Protestant Schiffergemeinde and the Schifferkinderheim in Minden . In: Jutta Bachmann (Ed.): Shipping, trade, ports: Contributions to the history of shipping on the Weser and Mittelland Canal . Mindener Hafen-GmbH, Minden 1987, pp. 419-422.
- Joachim Schroeder: Schools for Difficult Life Situations: Studies on a Social Atlas of Education . Waxmann, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2737-2 .
- Where do inland navigation children actually go to school? In: Rhein-Magazin Düsseldorf on May 17, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joachim Schroeder: Schools for difficult situations in life . Waxmann, Münster 2012, pp. 49–52 .
- ↑ Hannegret Biesenbaum: The stuff Berlin is made of: journeys of discovery to the industrial monuments of Brandenburg . Stattbuch Verlag, Berlin 1994, p. 233.
- ^ The welfare institutions of Greater Berlin together with a guide for the practical exercise of poor relief in Berlin: An information and manual . Springerverlag, Berlin 1910, p. 42.
- ^ H. Herold, A. Osthues: 25 years Schifferkinderheim Basel: Chronik . Schifferkinderheim Foundation, Basel 1983. (Festschrift)
- ↑ Basler Stadtbuch , Volume 121, pp. 116f. Christoph Merian Foundation, 2001
- ↑ GDR inland shipping
- ^ History on the website of the Schiffer Children's Home Mannheim
- ↑ Waltraud Kirsch-Mayer: The last group of boatmen's children dissolved. In: Mannheimer Morgen , July 29, 2013
- ↑ Welcome. Schifferkinderheim Würzburg Foundation, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
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