St. Elisabeth Foundation (Bad Waldsee)

St. Elisabeth Foundation
Legal form:	Church foundation under private law
Purpose:	Organizers of social institutions, services and companies
Chair:	Matthias Ruf (board member) (2020)
Consist:
Founder:	Franciscans of Reute
Number of employees:	2500
Seat:	Bad Waldsee
Website:	www.st-elisabeth-stiftung.de

The St. Elisabeth Foundation is a church foundation under private law established in 1999 by the Franciscan Sisters von Reute , based in Bad Waldsee in Upper Swabia .

Foundation, endowment

The Franciscan Sisters of Reute are the founders of the St. Elisabeth Foundation

An important focus of the St. Elisabeth Foundation is in Heggbach. Here the historic monastery gate.

One of the roots of the foundation is also in Ehingen. In the immediate vicinity of the Ehinger Franzikuskirche (left) is now the St. Franziskus residential park.

The Franciscan Sisters of Reute founded the St. Elisabeth Foundation in 1999 and brought their social works to the foundation in 2000. Around 2,500 employees work between Ulm and Ravensburg for people in need. The following business areas belong to the St. Elisabeth Foundation: the two Heggbacher facilities, Heggbacher Wohnverbund and Heggbacher Werkstattverbund , then the areas of care for the elderly, child-youth-family, Jordanbad and commercial operations. The foundation belongs to the "Foundation Forum in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart gGmbH" and is involved in vocational training by participating in the institutes for social professions in Ravensburg and Stuttgart . The St. Elisabeth Foundation is also involved in the Biberach Hospice Foundation.

Business areas

Heggbacher Wohnverbund

In the Heggbacher Wohnverbund, adults with mental and multiple disabilities up to old age will find individually suitable housing in residential groups and residential buildings, in outpatient assisted living, in assisted living in families, in short-term living. The residential group for people with acquired skull-brain damage represents a special housing offer.

Heggbacher workshop association

The Heggbacher Werkstattverbund consists of the workshops for people with disabilities in Biberach, Ehingen, Maselheim-Heggbach and Laupheim and the workshops for mentally ill people in Bad Buchau and Ehingen. The workshop network also includes the vocational training center (BBZ) in Laupheim. The BBZ opens up career opportunities for people with disabilities and people with placement obstacles through a wide range of job promotion offers. Products from the workshops can be bought in the workshop shop in Bad Buchau.

Elderly care

Residential parks

Nine residential parks in the districts of Alb-Donau, Biberach, Ravensburg and Lake Constance belong to the elderly. The nursing home, assisted living (living with service) and social station are located here under one roof or so close together that round-the-clock care is guaranteed:

Residential Park St. Josef, Altshausen
Residential park St. Vinzenz, Aulendorf
Residential park Am Schloss, Bad Waldsee
Residential park St. Martinus, Blitzenreute
Residential park at the Jordanbad, Biberach
St. Klara residential park, Schemmerhofen
St. Franziskus residential park, Ehingen
Residential park at Rotbach, Mittelbiberach
St. Georg residential park, Meckenbeuren

hospice

Aid for the elderly also includes providing support for people with terminal illnesses. This takes place in the Haus Maria hospice in Biberach, in the Schussental hospice in Ravensburg and from July 2019 in the Ursula hospice in Leutkirch. In these hospices, terminally ill people and their relatives receive extensive support. The St. Elisabeth Foundation wants to enable seriously ill people to live in dignity and without pain, make their wishes the center of attention and involve their families in the process.

Social stations

The St. Elisabeth Foundation is involved in the following social stations :

Good Beth Bad Waldsee
St. Josef Altshausen
Catholic welfare station Biberach

Children-youth family

Since the major renovation of the Oberschwabenklinik Ravensburg (picture 2010) there are several facilities of the St. Elisabeth Foundation from the business areas child-youth-family and geriatric care , including an SPZ, a day care center and the Schussental hospice.

In the area of child-youth-family, the St. Elisabeth Foundation offers children with and without disabilities and their families a wide range of care and support options:

since 2010: Interdisciplinary early intervention centers in Blaubeuren, Ehingen and Langenau

Curative education service in Ehingen

School kindergarten St. Maria in Riedlingen: For children with mental and / or physical disabilities, in cooperation with the regular kindergarten of the parish St. Georg

Casa Elisa day care center in Ravensburg: This day care center works on the principle of Montessori pedagogy .

School St. Franziskus in Ingerkingen: Catholic free all-day school for children and young people with a mental or multiple disability. As a state-recognized all-day school, it works according to the educational plan of the schools for the mentally handicapped in Baden-Württemberg and is based on the so-called Marchtaler Plan .

since 2012: a social pediatric center (SPZ), affiliated to the Oberschwabenklinik Ravensburg

Living and accompanying Ingerkingen: Housing offers for children and young people with mental or multiple disabilities (student housing, short-term accommodation, transitional, training and apartment accommodation).

Jordanbad

View of the Jordanbad from the south

In 1889, the Franciscan Sisters of Reute opened the first medically managed Kneipp hydrotherapy facility in Germany in the Jordanbad . Today the Jordanbad location includes:

Jordanbad thermal baths
Jordanbad Academy
Sense world
JordanFit
Parkhotel

Business enterprises and gastronomy

Carpentry at the monastery
Central kitchen Heggbach
Guesthouse St. Theresia, Eriskirch
Martinus monastery café, Weingarten