Foundations of the City of Memmingen

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Before the Reformation, the city ​​of Memmingen administered various foundations, including some that were appointed preachers in St. Martin's Church . These were largely lost during the Reformation and were assigned to the city treasury. Ten foundations , some of whose history dates back to the 13th century, are currently run by the city.

They are as follows:

  • Unterhospitalstiftung - “The foundation pursues exclusively and directly charitable and benevolent purposes by selflessly maintaining and running the Bürgerstift old people's home, the kindergarten on Stadtweiherstraße, the youth care center in Nonnengasse and the daycare center on Wartburgweg, and providing donations to old, disabled people in need Residents of the city of Memmingen as well as for children of needy families with many children in kindergartens and day nurseries and finally granted nursing and sick care. ”
    - Memmingen citizens had already donated a hospital in the 12th century. Around 1210, Count Heinrich von Neuffen gave the hospital a donation and placed itunder the Order of the Holy Spirit and has been documented since that time. In 1367 the administration of the hospital was transferred to the city council and the citizens and has been run under the name Unterhospital ever since.
Memorial plaque for the location of the Epiphany Chapel at that time
  • Dreikönigskapellenstiftung - “for the care of the sick and the elderly” - 1399 by the Memmingen citizen Klaus Tagbrecht. This foundation now owns land inside and outside the city. It also owns such significant houses for the building history of the city, such as the so-called Sunken Town Hall at Kempter Tor . Due to the relatively low financial ceiling of this foundation, it was and is currently not possible to renovate such houses, which are of great architectural value but also devour millions for restoration.
  • Large donation care - "promotes education and teaching on a Christian basis in the city of Memmingen" - the priest Heinrich Lumen of the Schottenkloster Memmingen donated 320 guilders, for which the city council established a detailed deed of foundation in 1404. Through donations, the assets grew to 69,367.17 guilders by 1868. Today the property on St.-Josefs-Kirchplatz alone, on which the new Elsbethenschule stands and which belongs to the large donation care, should be worth two to three million euros .
  • United Scholarship Foundation - "Needy schoolchildren and students, but half of the annual benefits must go to Protestant theology students ..." - 1980.
  • Lorenz Steffel'sche Charity Foundation - “Donations and grants to the needy” - 1553 by Lorenz Steffel, pastor of the Frauenkirche.
  • Friedrich and Sofie Haußmann'sche Foundation - "in favor of after-school children for children of needy families - originally for needy large families" - 1989.
  • Sigmund and Marie Honacker'sche Foundation - "in favor of needy, Protestant residents of the city of Memmingen, as well as Protestant orphans" - 1966.
  • Dr. Müller-Jürgens Foundation - "for the benefit of needy and less well-off families with children and sick people in Memmingen ..." - 1988.
  • Karl and Theodora Finckh'schen Wohlt. Foundation - "supports the Memminger Kinderfest, as well as needy and worthy, predominantly Protestant residents of the city of Memmingen" - 1980.
  • Vöhlin'sche Foundation also Vöhlins Klösterle , the Elisabeth Lauginger, the widow of Erhard the Elder . Ä., Donated in 1496 - “today is mainly devoted to outpatient nursing via the evang. Diaconal Foundation. "

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