Schmiedel (diaconal institution)

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Die Schmiedel e. V. , until 2015 Schmiedelanstalten , in Nannhausen near Simmern in the Hunsrück are a Protestant diaconal institution that had its origins in youth welfare . Today they are also committed to helping families , the disabled and the elderly .

history

Pastor Julius Reuss, founder and first director of the institutions

In 1848 the Hamburg pastor Johann Hinrich Wichern gave a spontaneous speech at the Wittenberg Kirchentag to found the Central Committee for Inner Mission of the German Evangelical Church and, subsequently, regional and provincial associations. The Provincial Committee for the Rhineland was founded on July 27, 1849 in Bonn. The Simmern parish was involved through the Simmern pastor and later superintendent Julius Reuss .

The reason was the increasing neglect and impoverishment of parts of the population in Germany in the course of industrialization . On the initiative of Reuss and the vicar Schöler in Horner , Protestant citizens founded an association of the Inner Mission in Simmern in 1849 with the aim of building a rescue house on the Hunsrück for children from neglected backgrounds.

After the first house for twelve children in Michelbach (1850), which was founded by the pastor Bartels from Alterkülz , the work could be relocated between Simmern and Nannhausen in 1851 in a cheaply acquired, swampy area overgrown with Schmielen , hence the field name Auf dem Schmiedel erect the first building there called the “motherhouse”, which was inaugurated on September 13, 1851 for a householder and twelve boys. The funds were obtained by collecting and issuing shares to the value of five thalers . The institution was named after the corridor. After the construction of the second house, girls could move into the mother house, which also housed the institute's kitchen.

Pastor Reuss, as chairman of the association, was also responsible for the institution that he made his life's work. At his request, he was buried in the prison cemetery on February 4, 1883 after his death. His grave is still honored today.

As a result, the institutions were steadily expanded, also thanks to the highest imperial donations - which is why a building from 1854 is named after Crown Prince Wilhelm Wilhelmhaus. From the beginning, the Schmiedel was intended as a joint effort for the church districts of the entire "Rhenish Oberland" and beyond.

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation in the Duchy of Palatinate-Simmern by Elector Friedrich the Pious , a confirmation institution was opened in cooperation with the Gustav-Adolf-Werk in 1857 , which is used for the evangelical education of confirmands between the ages of 12 and 14 served mainly Catholic areas in the Rhineland, the Eifel and, until 1914, Alsace ; since 1879 this work was located in the Gustav-Adolf-Haus.

From 1869 to 1901 there was a private preparatory institute on the Schmiedel for around 20 to 30 pupils to prepare graduates of elementary schools for elementary school teacher training at teacher seminars , such as in Neuwied . Of the 286 pupils taught here, including five girls, twelve later became school rectors . Since 1873 the teacher Friedrich Saynsche (* 1837 in Koblenz), who at the same time was here with the housefather Karl Röhrig (* 1836, † 1907) also teacher for the Protestant children in the smithy establishments and von Nannhausen, directed the preparation institute. He also taught part-time at the agricultural school in Simmern during the winter months.

With the introduction of the state welfare education in 1922/24 in the Reich Youth Welfare Act , which was rarely pronounced , the rescue institution lost part of its importance. In 1939 the church institution was dissolved by the Nazi government as part of the "deconfessionalization" in the end of the church struggle . After the war, one block was used as a colony for French holiday children until 1949. After that it served as a children's rest home.

The blacksmith today

Today the sponsoring association also works decentrally with facilities with residential groups in many neighboring places in the church district.

In 1986 the association decided to build a dormitory for people with intellectual disabilities in Kastellaun. In 1998 the Julius Reuss dormitory was opened.

The kreuznacher diakonie has set up a social pediatric center in a building on the Schmiedel . Another was used for short-term care for several years until the end of 2008 by the Evangelical Altenhilfe und Krankenpflege Nahe-Hunsrück-Mosel , a joint institution of kreuznacher diakonie and the church districts of Simmern-Trarbach and An Nahe and Glan.

Schmiedelpark

After giving up the leased agricultural operation, the plan arose to create an adventure park on 60,000 m² with free entry for the integration of young, old, healthy and disabled people. Play equipment is intended to improve the mobility of people with reduced mobility in a playful way. On May 17th, 2002, thanks to the help of many sources and sponsorship money, a first part of the area was handed over to the residents and the public of nearby Simmern. Since parts of the park remained natural, there are also quiet and “relaxing” corners.

literature

  • Association of Schmiedelanstalten (Hrsg.): Schmiedel yesterday and today. Argenthal, 2007

Web links

Commons : Schmiedelanstalten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information according to article. Friedrich Saynsche: The institutions on the Schmiedel ; in Albert Rosenkranz: The Evangelical Rhineland, a Rhenish parish and pastor book ; Series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, 3; Düsseldorf: Church in Time, 1956; P. 555 f.
  2. ^ Ernst Gillmann: On the Reformation anniversary of the Hunsrück 1557/1957 ; Simmern 1957; P. 40, chap. "The love activity in our homeland".
  3. ^ Walter Göhl (Ed.): A farmer in the Hunsrück, memories and thoughts of the Hunsrück farmer Heinrich Weirich [from Nannhausen]; Simmern, Pandion Verlag 2000 (³2009); P. 135 f., Notes 24 and 25.


Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 46.4 "  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 58.2"  E