Kreuznach Diakonie Foundation

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The kreuznacher diakonie foundation is a church foundation under public law and was founded in Bad Sobernheim in 1889 . Today the foundation is based in Bad Kreuznach and supports institutions in Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland and Hesse .

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founding

It was founded in 1889 by Pastor Hugo Reich in Bad Sobernheim .

1933-1945

In 1984 the foundation (at that time still Diakonie Anstalten Bad Kreuznach) published a declaration on the events in the Diakonie Anstalten Bad Kreuznach, which are related to the National Socialist program of annihilating life unworthy of life . The head of the day, Rev. Dr. Karl-Adolf Bauer wrote in his foreword to the open door , the journal of the kreuznacher diakonie, in March 1985: “ We are reminded of the so-called relocation of 240 of the then approximately 900 residents to the Kreuznach Diakonie-Anstalten in 1943 and 1944 prompted them to follow their path on the basis of existing files and in conversation with surviving witnesses of that time. This is how a declaration was made, which the board of trustees, board of directors and management of our institutions adopted on September 25, 1984. In a service of worship on November 24, 1984 in the Diakonie Church in Bad Kreuznach, we remembered the dead residents and presented the above declaration to the public. ”For the centenary of the kreuznacher diakonie in 1989, first in Bad Kreuznach, then in 1993 also at the Asbacher Hütte in the Hunsrück a memorial or a memorial was erected. It reminds of the people who were transported away and murdered.

The kreuznach diakonie was once again confronted with its history when the city of Vienna carried the remains of people who were murdered in Spiegelgrund between 1941 and 1945 in a central commemoration ceremony. Preparations from the brains of people with disabilities were only released for burial at that time.

On behalf of the Evangelical Church, the historian Dr. Uwe Kaminsky with the situation of forced laborers in church institutions in the Third Reich. Kaminsky noted that the kreuznach diakonie also employed forced laborers from the Soviet Union in their factories. In 1943 the kreuznach diakonie carried out forced abortions on women working in the East.

Areas

Diakoniekirche and mother house

The diaconal-social foundation includes hospitals, hospices, apartments, workshops and rehabilitation departments for people with physical and mental disabilities and / or mental illnesses, housing and care offers for the elderly, child, youth and family welfare as well as assistance for the homeless.

There are inpatient and outpatient offers in all work areas. In addition, the kreuznacher diakonie offers around 750 training, further education and training positions in nursing, educational and diaconal-theological professions. Around 8,000 people use the services of kreuznacher diakonie every day. The foundation employs around 6,700 people.

Deaconess Mother House

Bronze statue of a deaconess by Gernot Meyer-Grönhof

The 2nd Rhenish Deaconess Mother House was founded in Bad Sobernheim in 1889 as a community of faith, life and service. The deaconesses form a spiritually and diaconally oriented community of women who are committed to the gospel and commission of Jesus Christ. Since their founding mandate, deaconesses have been promoting and shaping the diaconal office and the common life of the Evangelical Church and the objectives of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation.

Hospices

  • Eugenie Michels Hospice , Bad Kreuznach
  • Paul Marien Hospice, Saarbrücken
  • Aenne Wimmers Hospice, Simmern
  • Fliedner Hospice, Neunkirchen

Hospitals

Diakonie Hospital Bad Kreuznach
  • Diakonie Krankenhaus : The Diakonie Krankenhaus with locations in Bad Kreuznach and Kirn is an academic teaching hospital with 501 beds in 14 specialist departments, including eleven main departments and three affiliated departments. It is one of the hospitals funded under the Hospital Financing Act (KHG) (planned hospital in accordance with 108 No. 2 SGB V). The new building in Bad Kreuznach, inaugurated in 1996, offers patients and employees all the space required for a modern hospital. The Bad Kreuznach location has special tasks in the area of ​​perinatal / neonatal, orthopedic and cardiological care. The Kirn location with 109 beds has been modernized with considerable resources in recent years and has three departments. Spinal surgery is a special focus.
  • Hunsrück Clinic in Simmern : The Hunsrück Clinic Simmern is a general hospital with standard care with 268 beds / places and is one of the hospitals funded under the Hospital Financing Act (KHG). Currently, over 10,500 patients are cared for annually in the five main departments of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, anesthesia and intensive care medicine, as well as psychiatry and psychotherapy, and in the two separate departments, ear, nose and throat medicine and urology. The health and nursing school at the Hunsrück Clinic offers 60 school places.
  • Saarland Kliniken: The Evangelical City Hospital Saarbrücken , together with the Fliedner Hospital Neunkirchen, belongs to the hospitals and hospices division of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation. Together, the two locations form the Saarland Kliniken Kreuznacher Diakonie with the specialist departments of surgery, internal, intensive medicine and pain therapy / intensive medicine (all at the Protestant city hospital) as well as internal, psychiatry and psychotherapy, diabetology / endocrinology and intensive medicine (all at the Fliedner hospital).
  • Diakonie Klinikum Neunkirchen: In addition, the Kreuznacher Diakonie took over the former municipal hospital of the city of Neunkirchen, which is now run as the Diakonie Klinikum Neunkirchen non-profit GmbH . The following specialist departments are available there: anesthesia and intensive medicine, general and visceral surgery, vascular surgery and interventional radiology, orthopedics / trauma surgery, internal medicine, neurology, urology, ear, nose and throat medicine (ENT department), oncology and pathology. A nursing school is also operated. The Diakonie Klinikum Neunkirchen gGmbH is an academic teaching hospital of the Saarland University Hospital.

Special educational institutions

The curative educational institutions kreuznacher diakonie offer individual participation services (integration assistance) in the form of differentiated housing and assistance offers for people with a mental disability. The basis is the individual need for participation of the individual. Depending on the needs, the offer ranges from outpatient assistance, support and advice, care, support and care of different intensities, within the framework of assisted living and / or a personal budget, to community-based offers and inpatient care in the facilities. Locations of the facilities are

  • Asbacher Hut
  • Bad Kreuznach
  • Bad Sobernheim
  • Kirn
  • Meisenheim
  • Rhaunen
  • Mainz-Gonsenheim

In Meisenheim there are offers for adults as well as inpatient housing for children and young people and a special school with a focus on holistic and motor development. It is a state-recognized substitute school and is open to both students from the facility at the Meisenheim location and students from the region. A competence center is available in Bad Kreuznach for people with autism. Depending on individual needs, advice, outpatient assistance in the region, help with day-to-day structure, therapy and in-patient care are offered. The curative educational institutions kreuznacher diakonie also offer outpatient assistance services for people with mental illnesses in the region - especially in Kirn.

Bethesda Rehabilitation Center

The Rehabilitation Center Bethesda (RZB) Kreuznacher diakonie comprises the rehabilitation facility for people with physical disabilities (residential area), the rehabilitation medical service, the Bethesda school, the mobile rehabilitation service, a counseling center for assisted communication and the social pediatric center.

In the rehabilitation facility for people with physical disabilities in Bad Kreuznach there are 162 physically handicapped young people and adults with a wide range of physical disabilities, including severe and multiple disabilities. As an inpatient facility, it is used for living, support, care, therapy and social and educational support in the sense of holistic care. The Rehabilitation Medical Service Bad Kreuznach is the institute outpatient department of the Rehabilitation Center Bethesda.

The mobile rehabilitation service in Bad Kreuznach works with the aim of improving rehabilitation medical care close to home for patients in need of treatment and rehabilitation.

Bethesda School

The Bethesda School Bad Kreuznach, as a school with a special focus on motor development, is a state-approved replacement school for internal and external students. There are 150 school places available. They serve to support physically handicapped children and young people of school age, mainly from the Bad Kreuznach, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld districts and the residents of the Bethesda kreuznacher diakonie rehabilitation facility. The Bethesda School has primary and secondary schools, schools with a focus on learning, and schools with a focus on holistic development, in which people with the most severe disabilities are also supported. The degrees of the individual courses correspond to the degrees of public schools.

The Bethesda School is a state-approved replacement school with a focus on motor development. It is visited by 150 physically handicapped children and young people from the Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld and Rhein-Hunsrück districts.

Advice center for assisted communication

The advice center for assisted communication and electronic aids advises and treats people with communication impairments and provides them with aids if necessary.

Social Pediatric Center

The Social Pediatric Center (SPZ) cares for children and adolescents and their families with developmental problems, disabled children and those at risk of disability. Treatment in the SPZ includes medical, psychological, therapeutic, socio-medical and educational help and advice. The SPZ is characterized by the interdisciplinary cooperation between different professional groups (pediatricians, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, curative teachers, etc.)

Diaconal workshops

Approved workshop for disabled people

The Diakonie Werkstätten kreuznacher diakonie are a recognized workshop for disabled people according to § 142 SGB IX. They consist of five workshops, a support workshop, an external workshop and two day support centers and provide jobs for around 1,000 people with disabilities and mental illnesses. They are one of the largest workshops for the disabled in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Participation in working life

The workshops offer disabled people the opportunity to participate in working life through a wide range of work content. In addition to work, professional, personal development and therapeutic measures are offered. Depending on their ability and inclination, the employees find their tasks in the manufacture of their own products, services and assembly work for clients from industry and trade.

Quality management

The quality management system is structured according to the requirements of ISO 9001: 2000. In the Meisenheim, Asbacher Hütte and Bad Sobernheim factories, certification audits have confirmed the implementation of the requirements according to DIN EN ISO9001: 2000. The certificate was issued for the scope “Participation of people with disabilities in working life through integration in the production areas of assembly, packaging, packaging and logistics”.

Day funding facility

Two day care centers enable adults with severe physical and mental disabilities to participate in social life.

Workshop Council

The workshop council works councils and the general workshop council represent the interests of people with disabilities. They represent the interests of the employees vis-à-vis the management, the operations management and externally.

Child, youth and family aid

  • Niederwörresbach

The child, youth and family aid offers differentiated services in eight inpatient groups, including three mother-child groups, as well as in the semi-inpatient and outpatient area. Taking care places, socio-educational care centers, educational offers and school social work in schools in the Birkenfeld district, as well as vocational preparation measures, are part of the overall concept.

  • Rechtenbach
The facilities in Niederwörresbach and Rechtenbach offer outpatient, semi-inpatient and inpatient help for children, young people and families. The offers include systemic family therapy , educational assistance and socio-educational family help .
  • Bad Kreuznach
Integrative day-care center, crèche, crèche, family relief services

Help for the elderly

Elisabeth Jaeger house

Inpatient facilities in Rhineland-Palatinate

  • Sophie Scholl residential complex (Bad Kreuznach)
  • Elisabeth Jaeger House (Bad Kreuznach)
  • House Bergfrieden (Kirn)
  • Martin Luther Abbey (Bingen)
  • Pastor Kurt Velten Nursing Home (Sohren)
  • Dr. Theodor Fricke Nursing Home (Simmern)

Inpatient facilities in Saarland

  • Caroline Fliedner House (Neunkirchen)
  • Karl Ferndinand House (Neunkirchen)
  • House at Steinhübel (Saarbrücken)
  • Wichernhaus (Saarbrücken)
  • Luise Deutsch House (Schwalbach)

Outpatient facilities in Rhineland-Palatinate

  • Diakonie welfare station Bad Kreuznach
  • Diakonie welfare station Kirchberg
  • Diakonie-Sozialstation Simmern
  • Diakonie welfare station Traben-Trarbach
  • Café in search of traces of Büchenbeuren
  • Café search for traces Riesweiler

Homeless assistance

Bad Kreuznach district

At the Hermitage in Bretzenheim , homeless people receive accommodation, food, medical care and advice.
The Café Bunt in Bad Kreuznach is a facility for homeless women or women at risk of homelessness .

Birkenfeld district

Idar-Oberstein : day stay horizon, blackboard, housing offers

academy

The Kreuznach Academy offers advanced and advanced training, especially for nurses from the health and nursing sectors as well as the elderly.

Diaconal Community Paulinum

In addition to the parent company, the Diakonische Gemeinschaft Paulinum supports the objectives and work in the foundation. The Diakonische Gemeinschaft, an association of deacon employees of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation, supports and shapes the diaconal office and the common life in the Protestant church.

Deacon School

Vocational schools

  • Technical school for social affairs
  • Higher vocational school for social assistance
  • Technical school for elderly care
  • Training center for health and care professions

Well-known employees of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation

literature

  • Uwe Kaminsky: Force to serve. Studies on foreign workers in the Evangelical Church and Diakonie in the Rhineland during the Second World War (= publication series of the Association for Rhenish Church History 155). (With a contribution by Ulrike Winkler). 2nd improved edition. Habelt, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-7749-3129-1 .
  • Stiftung Kreuznacher diakonie (ed.): Realities of life - founder and builder. 150th birthday of Rev. D. Hermann Hugo Reich. 100 years parent company in Bad Kreuznach. 100 years of the Kreuznach Diakonie Kantorei. Ess, Bad Kreuznach 2004, ISBN 3-935516-23-1 .
  • Stiftung Kreuznacher diakonie (ed.): Realities of life - people in the center. Ess, Bad Kreuznach 2004, ISBN 3-935516-20-7 .
  • Ulrike Winkler : The use of forced labor in the facilities of the Kreuznach Diakonie from 1940-1945. In: Kreuznacher Diakonie (Ed.): People among people (= realities of life 2). Kreuznacher Diakonie, Bad Kreuznach 2002, pp. 85-88, online .
  • Ulrike Winkler: Male diakonia in World War II. War experience and war experience of the Kreuznach Brotherhood Paulinum from 1939 to 1945 as reflected in their field post letters (= Forum German History 15). M-Press Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-650-0 , (also: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 2006).
  • Ulrike Winkler: "It was a narrow world": people with disabilities, children in care and employees in the kreuznacher diakonie foundation, 1947 to 1975 , publishing house for regional history, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89534-942-3 .
  • Ulrike Winkler: 125 years of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation. Change and Persistence. Publishing house for regional history, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89534-985-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forced labor in the EKiR and its Diakonie: Around 1200 people were forced to serve. In: ekir.de. March 19, 2007, accessed March 18, 2020 .