Stephansstift
The Stephansstift is a foundation established under civil law in 1869 and a church foundation based in Hannover-Kleefeld . It is a member of the Diakonisches Werk in Lower Saxony and is active in various social areas, in particular in youth and elderly care as well as vocational training , further education and training . On January 1, 2011, the Stephansstift was merged with the Diakonische Heimen Kästorf in the Diakonie umbrella foundation .
history
founding
The Stephansstift emerged from the "Evangelical Association of Hanover", which was founded in 1865 by Gerhard Uhlhorn , Theodor Lohmann , Julius Freytag and Karl August Grote , among others . The association organized a series of lectures to raise funds for diaconal work. In 1866 the clergyman Freytag (1835–1926) founded the “Hannoversche Sonntagsblatt”, whose income, which went to the club's treasury, allowed him to be paid a fixed salary. The Sunday newspaper provides information about the activities of the association and the diaconal institutions in the city of Hanover.
At the general meeting of the Evangelical Association on November 9, 1868, the establishment of a house of brothers was planned. The Hanoverian deacons had previously been trained by other, uniate regional churches and there was now a need to train their own deacons according to the Lutheran confession. The theologian Helmut Grütter describes this need a few weeks after the general meeting in his essay “We must have brothers” as follows: “To export raw materials and buy them dearly as a product from a neighboring people is a bad economy. We must have brothers who have grown out of our people, who are nourished with our food, who stand in the Lutheran creed, who want to serve the needy without their own will. "
After an appeal published by Freytag in December 1868, five young men initially volunteered. On Ascension Day in 1869, the Stephansstift was founded in a rented apartment on Breiten Strasse in Hanover.
Development until 1900
Postcard with a Voege plan, around 1910
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, Freytag published an appeal in the Hannoversche Sonntagsblatt, in which he pointed out the need for a foundation's own premises at the gates of the city. Based on the model of the Rauhe Haus , a brother education was to take place in connection with a rescue house for neglected boys. But something like that is not possible in the city. At Freytag's request, the factory owner, Consul Schwemann, gave St. Stephen's monastery a narrow meadow behind Kleefeld. This plot of land was able to be quickly enlarged through further inexpensive acquisitions of neighboring plots. In 1872 the first house on the site was inaugurated and opened. The building (today's main building) was built with the proceeds of the regional church collections and with the help of master craftsmen from the youth club. After the opening, the prospective deacons lived there together with twelve boys, a gardener, a cook and the headmaster's family. In the following years, the Stephansstift expanded under the new chairman Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke (1840–1899) appointed in 1873 . In addition to numerous land acquisitions (arable land, forest and meadows) that were managed by the monastery, new buildings followed, such as the boys' house from 1874 with the infirmary for men added in 1877 (old term for today's nursing homes).
In the years that followed, further new buildings were built in connection with the rapid expansion of the Stephansstift. The newly established work areas of the Knabenhof and the infirmary should represent a practical training field for the young deacons in addition to the theoretical training. About half of the fully trained brothers, as the deacons were called (and are sometimes still called today), remained as "home brothers" in St. Stephen's monastery and were entrusted with new tasks there. The other half was sent to the diaconal institutions of the regional church as so-called “sending brothers” to work there. In 1892 the collegiate church was built according to plans by Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand and inaugurated three years later. The construction was financed by a large donation from the nobility. All of the glass windows were created in the glass painting studio of Alexander Linnemann and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt.
In 1897, when the monastery comprised around 350 brothers and 100 school-age and 50 school-leavers (boys), Pastor Paul Oehlkers (1862–1922) became head of the Stephansstift.
At Christmas 1900, 25 foreign deacons held the first Brothers' Day. On this day the “Brotherhood of St. Stephen's Foundation” was officially founded. There was already talk of a fraternity, but this did not yet have an official framework.
20th century
In 1901 the second pastor's position was established in the monastery and in 1910 the third. With the expansion of the monastery, new teaching companies (carpentry, bakery, etc.) for the school-leavers as well as homes were added. In 1902, for example, the apprentice dormitory was built for the apprentices employed in the institutions. In addition, an auxiliary school for the “weakly gifted” was founded (today's Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke School). In 1913 the Brothers House was inaugurated.
During the First World War the facilities of the Stephansstift were partly used as military hospitals .
From 1922, Pastor Johannes Wolff (1884–1977) took over the responsibility as headmaster. At this time around 400 boys, 130 old men, 84 brothers and 241 employees lived and worked on the main site of the monastery. But the monastery did not only develop in Kleefeld, it also had facilities in the rest of the city and in the suburbs (for example Gut Kronsberg ).
In 1927 the welfare school was opened. Here the deacons of the deacon school were able to obtain a state qualification in addition to their church qualifications. From 1938 the training institute for church music was located on the grounds of the monastery.
Second World War
The Stephansstift survived the Third Reich largely unscathed thanks to the contradicting commitment of Pastor Wolff. Although Pastor Wolff was inspired by loyalty to the political line during the Nazi era, he did not want to hear about it in the post-war period . He suppressed and denied his former National Socialist attitude until his death.
The air raids on Hanover in World War II caused some bomb damage on the main site and Gut Kronsberg. During the Second World War and in the period afterwards, the monastery served as collective accommodation for bombed out and refugees . As a result of this, in 1946 the office of the “aid organization of the Hannoversche Landeskirche” was set up in St. From 1948 to 1956 the damaged buildings and facilities in the monastery were repaired and rebuilt. In 1950 the Zinsdorfer brotherhood joined the brotherhood of the Stephansstift.
Activities since the 1960s
In 1961, Karl Janssen took up the post of head, who had previously worked here as a brother pastor.
In 1962 Gut Kronsberg was sold and, in parallel, Gut Burgdorf was bought and expanded into a new education home, which was inaugurated as Backhausenhof in 1965. The Wichernschule was also opened in 1962.
In 1967 the Heimerzieherschule was founded, later the Evangelical Technical School for Social Pedagogy, Stephansstift, part of today's Diakoniekolleg.
In 1966 the Brüderhaus, renamed the Geschwisterhaus (today: Wichernhaus) in 1985, was inaugurated, in which the students found accommodation during the theory semester. From 1969, the Upper Harz boys' home was opened in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . This is how the Upper Harz Youth Welfare Service began its work as a branch of the Stephansstift.
In 1970 the regional church seminar for church and diaconal professions was opened in the Stephansstift.
In 1972 the "Brüderschaft des Stephansstiftes" was renamed to " Diakoniegemeinschaft Stephansstift eV". This took into account the acceptance of female members into the community. The first chairman of the Diakoniegemeinschaft was the deacon Hans-Jürgen Lange in 1973. He held this post until 1989.
In 1973 the Stephansstift put down the legal ownership for the Wichernschule, which became the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences through the takeover by the regional church. In 1974 the seminar for church and diaconal professions (deacon training) was transferred to the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Hanover (EFH), which was continued there from 1975 as the department of religious education and diaconia .
1973 Harm Alpers became the new head of the monastery.
In 1980 the first day group opened with the Lindenhaus. In 1982 the first coeducational education in youth welfare began in the Borstel branch , where boys and girls were grouped together. In 1984 the first therapeutic residential group was founded. The Backhausenhof estate was also leased that year and closed and sold in the following year.
In 1986 Walter Weber took over the post of head of the monastery.
In addition to the inauguration of an extension to the Stephansruh retirement home, the Marianne-Werner-Haus retirement home was opened. In 1988, the youth welfare service was expanded to include mobile care, and in 1991 the youth welfare service got the Mauna Kea sailing yacht built, which was intended for special projects and educational activities.
After the “ Wende ” in 1989, the Stephansstift founded the Cornelius-Werk as a subsidiary to set up diaconal help in Burg near Magdeburg. In the following two years, a former state youth work center and a nursing home were added.
In 1989 the deacon Doris Jännicke was elected chairwoman of the Diakoniegemeinschaft. She was followed by Deacon Hartwig Laack in 1997, Deacon Jörg Stoffregen in 2001, Deacon Wolfgang Peiker in 2007, followed by Margret Marten as Chairman.
In 1996 mobile support opened in Linden-Limmer . In 1997 a mission statement process took place through which today's mission statement was developed. Furthermore, the youth welfare service was restructured in order to remain sustainable in its structure. In 1998 several day groups in Hanover were converted into youth welfare support points. In 1999 the monastery took over an old people's and nursing home from the garden church and got involved in mobile advice for the elderly through its co-sponsorship in the DiakonieMobil eV association.
The year of Expo 2000 was marked by many exhibitions and participation in the accompanying program. A new reception area with today's information center was also built and a large part of the student housing in the Wichernhaus was dismantled through the expansion of the adult education center ( Heimvolkshochschule ). In 2002 the youth welfare service was expanded to include a mother-child residential group in Misburg and the Katharina von Bora nursing home was opened. Furthermore, the college for social education of the Stephansstift and the college for curative education of the Annastift merged to form the Diakonie-Kolleg Hannover, which functions as a subsidiary of both foundations.
In 2005 the central kitchen and the short-term care (formerly infirmary) closed for cost reasons. The central kitchen building was converted for teaching at the Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke School. The Lemmermannhaus of the former short-term care was converted to offer space for several senior apartments, which were opened in 2005. In the same year the Diakonie-Station Kleefeld-Roderbruch moved to the main site. 2006 was marked by the closure of several of the monastery's own businesses, such as carpentry and painting. The offers of the vocational training center in the area of the basic vocational training and preparation year also took place.
See also
- Diakoniegemeinschaft Stephansstift
- Emmaus boys' education home (Muschaken)
- Karl Schwedhelm (musician)
Fonts (incomplete)
- Stephansstift (Ed.): 125 years of Stephansstift. Hanover-Kleefeld 1994.
literature
- Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Stephansstift. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 603.
Web links
- Website of the Stephansstift
- Literature by and about Stephansstift in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Diakoniegemeinschaft Stephansstift
- Diakoniegemeinschaft Stephansstift: literature by and about Stephansstift in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Veronika Thomas: Pastor Weber says goodbye to Stephansstift. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 29, 2011, p. 22
- ↑ http://www.diakoniegemeinschaft.de/
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 8.3 " N , 9 ° 48 ′ 18" E