Eben-Ezer Foundation
| Eben-Ezer Foundation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Protestant foundation under private law |
| founding | 1870 |
| Seat | Lemgo |
| people | Pastor Bartolt Haase (theological director) Udo Zippel (commercial director) |
| sales | 95,800,000 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 1670 (2018) |
| Website | www.eben-ezer.de |
The Foundation Ebenezer based in Lippe Lemgo in North Rhine-Westphalia is a German diaconal institution for people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental impairments.
description
Around 1,000 children, adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities are cared for in the various locations of the facility . Most of the dormitories and workshops of the Eben-Ezer Foundation are located at the two sub-centers "Neu Eben-Ezer" and "Alt Eben-Ezer" in Lemgo. In addition, there are other locations across the urban area of Lemgos and in other cities and communities in the Lippe district such as Lage , Detmold or Kalletal .
Recognition as a legally competent Protestant foundation under private law took place in 1979 through the decision of the regional church council of the Lippe regional church . As a Protestant institution, the foundation is affiliated to the Diakonisches Werk of the Lippe Regional Church and thus to the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Germany as a recognized umbrella organization for voluntary welfare.
The foundation's assets are made up of the property (including buildings), income from care allowances, donations and contributions from third parties and income from other payments for goods or services. The foundation's assets are tied to charitable purposes and must be preserved undiminished.
history
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"Eben-Ezer" is a place in the Old Testament ( 1 Sam 7,12 EU ) and means stone of help (of God) .
The beginnings of the Eben-Ezer Foundation can be traced back to the desert teacher Simon August Topehlen (1832–1904). He was shaped by the revival movement of his time. In the middle of the 19th century, the disabled children and adolescents increasingly came into the focus of the churches and authorities and so it happened that Topehlen was entrusted to a “stupid” girl named Henriette Ludolph in 1862. Topehlen should try to raise Henriette according to pedagogical standards and to give her an appropriate school education.
Despite the help of his sister Lina Topehlen, he was unable to meet the demands of the authorities and the financial resources of the princely loan office were cut.
Nonetheless, Topehlen succeeded in founding the “Institute for the Stupid” in 1870, in which handicapped people were to be brought to school in a pedagogical manner. In 1887 he took over the management of the institution, known today as the "Alt Eben-Ezer" location, from his sister Lina Topehlen.
Until his death in 1904, Simon August Topehlen managed the institution and continued to devote all his energy to the needs of the disabled.
In the following years the institution grew rapidly and in 1912 its own agricultural building was built there, not only to ensure a secure and independent supply of food, but also to give the disabled people a job and thus a "normal" daily routine enable.
time of the nationalsocialism
During the Second World War, the number of residents in the institution increased from 300 to almost 800. The limited space and the desire of the city of Lemgo to settle industry on the area of the old "country courtyard" necessitated the purchase of land on the "Luherheide" in northern Lemgo.
On April 8, 1937, more than 60 residents of the institution were transferred to the Warstein Provincial Sanatorium , which had the function of an intermediate institution, by order of the President of the Provincial Association in Münster . The biographies of some of the patients are known. 36 of them have been shown to have been murdered.
post war period
From 1949 the well-known doctor Max Otto Bruker was medical director.
With the construction of the “Meierhof” on the newly acquired area in 1950, there was a change in the spatial orientation of Eben-Ezer. The foundation stone for the “Neu Eben-Ezer” location was laid in 1957. The main location of the foundation is still located here today. The move, which began in the 1960s, was originally intended to result in the closure of the “Alt Eben-Ezer” location on Lagesche Strasse. However, this was discarded due to the continued high capacity requirements and the location has been retained by the foundation to this day.
Since then, numerous new dormitories, workshops, schools and other buildings for recreational activities and promotion have been built and expanded in various districts around Lemgo.
Areas of the foundation
Housing Foundation
In addition to inpatient dormitories, the residential foundation area also includes outpatient apartments. The foundation's dormitories are spread across the city of Lemgos and beyond. In 2014, a total of around 900 disabled people used the in-patient or out-patient accommodation in Eben-Ezer. 136 people received outpatient care.
Housing association for children and young people
The residential community for children and young people was used by around 100 handicapped children and young people in 2014.
eeWerk
The work areas of eeWerk, a workshop for disabled people WfbM , are divided into woodworking, industrial and electrical assembly , agriculture and housekeeping. Many of the products can be viewed and bought directly on site in the main workshop on the Neu Eben-Ezer site. The agricultural branch of eeWerk is mainly covered by the "Meierhof". This farm, which has been focusing on controlled organic cultivation since 1999, not only supplies the central kitchens in Eben-Ezers with food, but also sells its products at weekly markets or directly on the Neu Eben-Ezer site. In addition, dairy products in particular are also offered in numerous supermarkets in the Lippe district.
Another branch of eeWerk is "Liemer Lilie gGmbH". This horticultural company serves as a transitional aid for people with disabilities in order to be able to integrate more easily into the primary labor market.
eeWerk was called WfbM (workshop for disabled people) until March 2015. The desire for a new name came from the ranks of employees with disabilities and this new name was created in a joint process, which contains the terms Eben-Ezer and Werkstatt as an abbreviation.
Topehlen School
The school, named after the founder of Eben-Ezers, Simon August Topehlen, is a special needs school with a special focus on "intellectual development". The building, which was newly constructed in 2006, is currently (as of 2014) visited by 130 schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities.
Medical-psychological-therapeutic area
The medical-psychological-therapeutic area is a service integrated into the facility, which, among other things, has a special outpatient clinic for disabled medicine. This service can also be used by people with disabilities who do not belong to the Eben-Ezer Foundation.
There is also a clinical department in the buildings, which can provide an interim solution between hospitalization and staying in a dormitory in the event of illness.
The area also includes general medicine , psychology , neurology and also the offers of a funding facility to enable disabled people who are not working to have a regular daily routine.
Vocational college of the Eben-Ezer Foundation
The Eben-Ezer Foundation has its own vocational school, which is the training for special educators , support workers serving and healing education assistants. In addition, training to become an educator combined with the general higher education entrance qualification ( Abitur ) is offered there. This training lasts four years. The vocational college is currently (as of 2014) attended by 440 pupils and students.
House of Diversity
The House of Diversity is a building that opened in 2010 and is home to an art workshop and the “Café Diversity”. In the art workshop, among other things, therapeutic projects for the residents of the Eben-Ezer Foundation are offered. Café Diversity is a public café that employs both disabled and non-disabled people.
Day care centers
Since 2012, 18 day-care centers have been run by the Eben-Ezer Foundation. These are integrative daycare centers in which around 900 handicapped and non-handicapped children are cared for.
Others
- The quality of the Meierhof's organic raw milk was recognized as excellent at BioFach 2010.
- The medical-therapeutic-psychological area has its own " Snoezelen center", which is also used nationwide by non-members of the foundation.
- With the "animal project ANIMAL", the Stapelage residential association has a therapeutic riding facility which can also be used by non-members of the foundation.
- The procedure for the organization of care for people with disabilities (GBM) is used. The POB & A / GBM user meeting 2010 took place in the foundation.
literature
- Irmgard Wiel: Simon August Topehlen and his work - A contribution to the history of the health education and care facility Eben Ezer in Lemgo (Lippe); Erich Breschel (Ed.), Writings on Special Education, Dortmund, 1970
- Living in diversity: Mission, principles and goals for the services of the Eben-Ezer Foundation, Lemgo
- Annual report 2014, Diakonie for a life in diversity, Eben-Ezer Foundation
- The orphanage from 1759 in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and the Blödenanstalt Eben-Ezer from 1871 in the County of Lippe; Konrad Krimm (Ed.), Poverty and Welfare in the Early Modern Era, Sigmaringen, 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Annual Report 2014, Diakonie for a life in diversity, Eben-Ezer Foundation, pp. 16–20.
- ↑ Irmgard Weil: Simon August Topehlen and his work - A contribution to the history of the health education and nursing home Eben Ezer in Lemgo (Lippe); Erich Breschel (Ed.), Writings on Special Education, Dortmund, 1970
- ^ Scientific background - Eben-Ezer Foundation. In: www.eben-ezer.de. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Digital Memorial Book - Eben-Ezer Foundation. In: www.eben-ezer.de. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Eben-Ezer faces the past - Eben-Ezer Foundation. In: www.eben-ezer.de. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 3, 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. (Last accessed: September 15, 2011)
- ↑ Homepage Eben-Ezer Foundation , GBM / POB & A user meeting: Experts met for three days in Eben-Ezer April 30, 2010 (as of July 28, 2014).
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 1.4 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 19.4 ″ E