City Mission Nuremberg
| City Mission Nuremberg | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1885 |
| founder | Karl Heller |
| Seat | Nuremberg |
| motto | Help in life |
| main emphasis | social services |
| Action space | Bavaria |
| Employees | circa 1800 |
| Website | www.stadtmission-nuernberg.de |
The Nuremberg City Mission is a diaconal company organized as a registered association and a member of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Bavaria .
Structure and structure
The Stadtmission Nürnberg e. V. was founded on November 22nd, 1885 as the "Association for Inner Mission in Nuremberg" and is today an independent association and sponsor of numerous social institutions and services. As a district office of the Diakonisches Werk Bayern, the Nuremberg City Mission works closely with various diaconal services in the Nuremberg Deanery . The Nuremberg City Mission brings together a total of 67 institutions and eleven subsidiaries under one roof. In 2007 the HILFE IM LEBEN foundation was founded to support the work of the Nuremberg City Mission.
The management of the association is taken over by a two-person executive board, which is currently occupied by Gabi Rubenbauer and Matthias Ewelt. The supervisory board elected by the association's members monitors and supports its activities.
As a diaconal employer, the Nuremberg City Mission complies with the employment contract guidelines ( AVR ) of the Bavarian Diakonie and currently employs around 1800 people in the entire corporate group.
Fields of activity
The social services of the city mission are located in a wide variety of fields:
- AIDS prevention and counseling (AIDS counseling Middle Franconia with assisted living)
- Unemployment and poverty relief (e.g. all kinds of consumer goods stores, church general social work (KASA), ecumenical warming room and ecumenical unemployment center)
- Asylum and migration counseling (counseling services, youth migration service)
- Help for people with autism (autism outpatient clinic, Autism Competence Center Middle Franconia gGmbH, school support)
- Child, youth and family support (e.g. crèches and daycare centers, sexual and pregnancy counseling, support and remedial classes, Martin Luther House)
- Crisis and emergency aid (e.g. train station mission, crisis service in Middle Franconia, telephone counseling)
- Elderly work and care (e.g. care centers, outpatient care service)
- Help for people with mental illness (e.g. social psychiatric service, therapeutic workshop, assisted living)
- Assistance to criminals (e.g. rehabilitation work group, psychotherapeutic outpatient clinics for violent criminals and sex offenders)
- Addiction support (e.g. aftercare and addiction support center, inpatient therapy centers)
aims
Under the motto Help in Life , the Nuremberg City Mission does its diaconal service. The association not only fulfills a legal but also its Christian mission. The Nuremberg City Mission takes care of human need in word and deed, bowing, advising and helping, according to its statutes. The task is to support the disabled, youth welfare, elderly care, public health , welfare and education and upbringing. In addition, the Nuremberg City Mission serves to promote church purposes such as pastoral care, preaching and diakonia .
In its mission statement, the Nuremberg City Mission acknowledges the Christian image of man and formulates ethical principles for its work. In it she explains u. a .: Everyone has the right to live in dignity, regardless of their situation. Through its social and advocacy work, the Nürnberg City Mission is committed to ensuring that people on the fringes of society can live with equal rights and dignity. With its social services, the Nuremberg City Mission accompanies and advises those seeking help and advice. The aim is to encourage them to lead their lives independently and individually. The Nuremberg City Mission sees itself as a political and societal actor: The Nuremberg City Mission pleads and designs (for) an integrative, equal opportunity and solidarity urban society in which everyone has an equal and self-determined place.
financing
In addition to donations, foundation contributions and membership fees, the Nuremberg City Mission is financed by performance fees from various cost carriers . It is also subsidized by church funds.
donate
As a registered association, the city mission is dependent on donations, which can be made in the form of monetary or material donations.
Foundation HELP IN LIFE
On 22 November 2007, was Foundation HELP IN LIFE established to the offers of the City Mission Nuremberg to promote itself and to supplement. In order to fulfill the purpose of the foundation, not the foundation's assets are used, but only its income.
history
Beginning and construction from 1885 to 1914
With the beginning of industrialization in the first half of the 19th century, Nuremberg became an industrial metropolis. The dark side of the economic boom was increasing social impoverishment.
Since the church paid too little attention to these developments, city dean Karl Heller founded the “Branch Association for Inner Mission Nuremberg” on November 22, 1885, together with 68 socially committed Nuremberg evangelical pastors and parishioners, which later became the city mission. Practical social work should help people in need and at the same time carry out popular missions .
Over the next three decades, the Nuremberg City Mission opened up many fields of work in which it is still active today. For almost 100 years, deaconesses from the mother houses in Augsburg and Neuendettelsau did the main work of the Nuremberg City Mission .
The focus of early work was on caring for women. The Mägdeherberge, founded in 1887, and the Martha House, inaugurated in 1891, were intended to serve as a “home and shelter for ordinary girls”, not as a “rescue facility for the fallen”. Young women looking for work in Nuremberg found accommodation in both houses. In 1899 the first old people's home of the Nuremberg City Mission was founded with the “Home for Elderly Servants” also in Martha House.
In 1901 the Nuremberg City Mission expanded its field of work to include homeless assistance and rehabilitation with the refuge house, a home for exempted, homeless or “fallen” women . From 1909 this help was also directed in the form of a clerk's office to jobless and exempted merchants.
The station mission was the first to start work in Bavaria in 1894. It was soon operated in ecumenical cooperation with Catholic and Jewish welfare organizations.
With the inauguration of the “Welfare and Educational Institution for School-Leaving Girls in Schafhof” in 1913, the Nuremberg City Mission expanded its range of services for young women. The daily work confronted the city mission with the most diverse social needs, which is why in 1907 it founded the work area “Female City Mission” and in 1909 the “Male City Mission”.
In 1917, the term “city mission” was finally adopted in the name of the association.
Crisis years 1914 to 1933
The increasing neglect of the youth during the First World War as well as numerous war orphans led to an increased need for assisted living places. In 1915 a war children's home was inaugurated, which was located on Wetzendorfer Straße from 1920.
During the war and the post-war period, the city mission organized food donations, clothing, furniture and more for needy Nuremberg residents. She obtained the necessary funds for this, among other things. a. through early fundraising measures. Although the city mission lost much of its fortune due to inflation, it expanded its work in the 1920s:
- In 1924 a new city mission house was opened in Schildgasse
- In 1925 the "Evangelical Prisoners and Released Persons Welfare" founded
- The Pestalozziheim was inaugurated in 1928 and
- the "Male Station Mission" started.
During the Great Depression, the Nuremberg City Mission a. a. Soup kitchens and organized camps for the unemployed.
Second World War
Limitations in work
The rule of the National Socialists and the Second World War brought the Nuremberg City Mission to the brink of existence. Their activities were restricted and financial resources were cut. For example, the " National Socialist People's Welfare " took over the welfare activities. In addition, the city subjected the city mission to taxation. Bomb attacks damaged or destroyed almost all buildings. The city mission switched to other fields of work, such as B. the “Male Midnight Mission”, the “Drinking Rescue” and the “Family Mission”. In her work she was supported morally and financially by the parishes.
Church struggle
In the church struggle, the majority of the Nuremberg City Mission sided with the Confessing Church and therefore separated in 1934 from its clergy who belonged to the German Christians .
euthanasia
As early as 1933, the Nuremberg City Mission set up a psychiatric ward in the Pestalozziheim and opened a “children's home for the feeble-minded” to groups of people who were threatened with death in the Third Reich as so-called “ ballast existences ”. This brought the Nuremberg City Mission into conflict with the National Socialists' euthanasia program . The clergyman Karl Nagengast was able to avert the murder of fosterlings through his courageous intervention.
Reconstruction from 1945 to 1970
Despite the catastrophic situation, the Nuremberg City Mission started its work again in May 1945. On behalf of the Americans, she took over the distribution of aid items and meals for children abroad. Taking care of refugees and children in particular was one of the main tasks at this time.
With the economic miracle, the Nuremberg City Mission began to rise again.
In addition to supporting needy and impoverished parts of the population, youth work with leisure and housing facilities has become one of the main fields of work since the 1950s. Work with senior citizens has also been intensified. Three new old people's and nursing homes were built: the Christinenheim, the Dr.-Julius-Bauer-Heim and the Christian-Geyer-Heim.
New fields of work were added, as an example:
- 1961 Telephone counseling and the youth migration service
- 1962 the advice to the Greeks
- 1965 the marriage and parenting advice center
- from the 1970s drug counseling and therapy
1980 until today
In the 1980s, the Nuremberg City Mission expanded its range of services for people with mental illness in particular, and today it has the most extensive and differentiated range of help for this group of people in the Nuremberg area.
During this time, too, new fields of work emerged, so
- the AIDS counseling
- sexual and pregnancy counseling
- the autism clinic and
- the Ecumenical Unemployment Center
The 1990s were marked by economic and structural problems. The Nuremberg City Mission - as well as all welfare work - was noticeably affected by the drastic financial savings made by the public sector since reunification. In this crisis, the existing organizational structures proved unsuitable. In a process that lasted several years, with the participation of large parts of the workforce, both the financial basis was consolidated and contemporary structures were developed, which resulted in the new association's statutes in 1998 and in the development of a corporate mission statement in 1999. With the appointment of a full-time executive board member in 2002, the transformation of the city mission into a structurally modern diaconal company was completed.
The first decade of the new millennium determined the strategic reorientation of the Nuremberg City Mission.
Newly opened or built were z. B. the elderly care center Hephata and the therapy center Wolkersdorf. The supraregional advice center in the youth welfare association Martin-Luther-Haus and the specialist outpatient clinic for sex offenders were also put into operation, taking into account the needs of different client groups. There are also special offers of help such as B. Addiction counseling for addicts or young people with alcohol problems.
With the signing of the cooperation agreement with the Diakonisches Werk Erlangen in May 2010, the Nuremberg City Mission opened another chapter in its development.
Today, the 48 institutions and services and eleven subsidiaries of the Nuremberg City Mission offer help in life to more than 25,000 people in socially difficult situations every year.
literature
- Katrin Kasparek: Nuremberg City Mission 125 years of helping people in life . Sandberg-Verlag, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930699-65-0 .
- Stadtmission Nürnberg (Ed.): Everything inclusive (e)? The Nuremberg City Mission in 2016 . Nuremberg 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Current statutes Stadtmission Nürnberg e. V. http://www.stadtmission-nuernberg.de/fileadmin/downloads/stadtmission/verein/verein_satzung.pdf
- ↑ Mission statement Stadtmission Nürnberg e. V. http://www.stadtmission-nuernberg.de/wir-ueber-uns/leitbild-und-diakonisches-profil/leitbild/