Old Oak Foundation from 1596

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The Old Oaks Foundation from 1596 , which is based in Bremen , is considered the oldest youth welfare organization in Germany. Its headquarters are at Horner Heerstraße 19. It goes back to the foundation of a Neapolitan . In 2008 the foundation had over 100 employees. She is a member of the Diakonisches Werk Bremen .

The institution maintains residential groups for children and young people, special educational residential groups, advises and looks after families, children and young people and foster children. In association with other institutions, it participates in education centers, mobile care and family crisis services. The foundation has a total of eight locations in Bremen.

The foundation was created through the donation of Tarquinius Molignanus , a wealthy Neapolitan nobleman, and in 1599 a building was made available, the Reformed Orphanage on Brill. This was known as the "Red Orphanage". There were also two other orphanages in Bremen, namely the "Blue Orphanage" founded in 1684 and, as a third orphanage, one for Lutherans , which was founded in 1692 and from which the St. Petri Orphanage Foundation emerged . The “Blue Orphanage”, founded in 1684, was founded because the conditions for admission of many children were not met, as admission was restricted in the “Red Orphanage”. There, Bremen citizenship and marital birth were conditions for admission. The Red Orphanage was rebuilt in 1756.

Detlev Busche was the director until November 30, 2010, followed by Barbara Suchland and Matthias Spöttel. The division heads are Sandra Harjes and Dieter Söker. In 2010, 95 children received inpatient care, around 120 outpatients, whereby Detlev Busche (who worked for 30 years in the institution) and Matthias Spöttel put the number of children in need in the city at around 6,700. Of the 990 children in the home, around 40% are housed in Bremen. In 2008 the foundation only looked after around 160 children.

In March 2010 the housing association GEWOBA , TuS Huchting and Alten Eichen signed a cooperation agreement to initiate the Huchtinger boxing ring project. A boxing studio was built in the Robbenplater row of shops for this purpose. The Gewoba provides the rooms rent-free, the sports club takes on the sporting support, Alten Eichen the educational one. The building department contributed 250,000 euros to the renovation.

Every year in the run-up to Christmas , the foundation organizes a raffle , the so-called “ calf raffle ”, whose prizes include beef, poultry and coffee. The income from the sale of tickets is used by the foundation to buy Christmas presents for the children, young people and families it cares for. In 2011 the “381. Edition of the traditional calf raffle ”.

literature

  • Marlies Christofzik: The Bremer Kinderbewahranstalten in the 19th Century , in: Wiltrud Ulrike Drechsel, Joachim Ebbecke (Ed.): Contributions to the social history of Bremen , Issue 1: Childhoods , Part 1: Institution education in the 19th century , Bremen 1981, p. 111– 226.
  • Angelika Timm : 400 Years - From the Red Orphanage to the Old Oak Foundation 1596-1996: the story of a Bremen children's home , Bremen 1996.
  • Michael Koppel: Horn-Lehe-Lexikon , Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012. ISBN 978-3-8378-1029-5

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Remarks

  1. ^ Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Art of Architecture in Bremen , Vol. 1, HM Hauschild, 1964, p. 54.
  2. ↑ Philipp Cornelius Heineken : The free Hanseatic city of Bremen and its area described in topographical, medical and natural historical terms , Geisler, 1837, p. 102 f. Heineken assumed that Tarquinius Molignanus was a Dutch person who fled for religious reasons (p. 102).
  3. ↑ The Old Oaks Foundation soon under new management , in: Weserkurier, November 8, 2010.
  4. ↑ Preventing Criminal Careers Early , in: NWZ online, January 10, 2008 , archive.org, December 22, 2010.
  5. ↑ Clear the ring for slapping and finishing , in: Weserkurier March 18, 2010.
  6. ↑ Prize drawing in the calf raffle ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Report on the website of the Alten Eichen Foundation from 1596, Bremen, from December 16, 2011; accessed on January 31, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alten-eichen.de