Study home St. Pirmin

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Study home St. Pirmin
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type of school Boarding school
founding 1958
closure 1994
place Dahn
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
carrier Diocese of Speyer
student initially 150, last under 50
management Rudolf Nether (1958–1965)
Robert Schwegel (1965–1969)
Georg Greiner (1969–1971)
Wilfried Mayer (1971–1972)
Father Hans Lamers (1972–1982)
Clemens Nikolaus (1982–1994)

The St. Pirmin Student Home was a German boarding school in the Speyer diocese in the Palatinate Forest in the Dahn community , 20 km southeast of the city of Pirmasens , 55 km south of Kaiserslautern . The house was named after St. Pirmin . The idea to found the house came up in 1953, when the Diocese of Speyer celebrated the 1200th anniversary of the death of St. Pirmin. The boarding school was completed and started operations on August 14, 1958. In 1957, the Karlsruhe architects Hirsch & Bohne were hired as the architect.

From the beginning, only boys were admitted to the St. Pirmin Student Home and until the end. The founders Rudolf Nether and Prelate Dr. Phillip Weindel had developed a number of further developed principles for the St. Pirmin study home based on their reform pedagogical conviction . The tranquility and seclusion of the natural Dahn rock country played an essential role in the selection of the location. The main goal of the boarding school was to recruit young people for the priestly profession for the Diocese of Speyer.

history

After it was founded, the St. Pirmin Student Center had a capacity of 150 students, all of whom attended the Otfried von Weißenburg High School in Dahn . The desired school leaving certificate was initially the Abitur , later secondary school students who completed their secondary school leaving certificate at the Dahn school center were also accepted . In the denomination , too , only students from one Catholic diocese, above all from the dioceses of Speyer, Trier and Mainz, were initially accepted. Later students with Protestant denominations also joined. The facility had its own house chapel with an organ, in which in the first decade the service was held every morning and later on Sunday services . Also confirmations of boarders by the bishop of Speyer Friedrich Wetter (1968-1982) and later by his successor Anton Schlembach (1983-2007), and its representative, the auxiliary bishop Ernst Gutting (1971-1994), were performed here. Every year on November 3rd the patronage festival was celebrated in memory of the namesake, St. Pirmin.

The boarding school had three sports fields, a lawn, a paddock, an outdoor swimming pool with a three-meter diving platform, a tennis court, a carom billiards , three table tennis tables, an auditorium , its own disco , its own music band and several music, photo and work rooms . The students could take instrumental lessons. In the 1960s, housekeepers from the surrounding area were also trained in the in-house large kitchen . Between 1958 and 1994, more than 550 pupils attended the study center, 90% of whom finished school with a qualified school leaving certificate, high school diploma or secondary school leaving certificate. The school fee in 1985 for a boarding school student was 420 DM per month. The fee for siblings at that time was DM 280.

Due to the declining number of enrollments, the number of students fell to below 50 in the 1990s, which caused the institution, the Diocese of Speyer, to close the study home. In the last year, eight students graduated from high school. In 1994 the study center was closed after 36 years. The remaining boarding school students were able to continue their schooling in the Johanneum boarding school, which is also run by the Diocese of Speyer . At the end of the 1990s this boarding school was closed due to a lack of traffic. The Johanneum was continued as the Johanneum Gymnasium.

Sale of the property, corruption scandal and new use

In 1994 the property and building were sold for 6.0 million DM to Wesbau Baubetreuungsgesellschaft mbH, run by the married couple Wilfried and Leonore Gaul . In 1997, Gaul, then President of Waldhof Mannheim , sold the property for DM 13.25 million to Caritas Trägergesellschaft Trier , which converted the house and used it as a mother convalescent home for mother-child cures . The Koblenz public prosecutor's office put the value of the property at DM 6.9 million at this point in time. The then managing director of ctt Hans-Joachim Doerfert , who was also president of Eintracht Trier at the time , had paid around 6.35 million DM too much for the property. The surplus funds were embezzled by Doerfert and Gaul and flowed partly through the Trier Medical Settlement (ÄAT) to the 1. FC Saarbrücken , Waldhof Mannheim and Eintracht Trier clubs, when the two merchants presided over the clubs in Trier and Mannheim . The payments made to 1. FC Saarbrücken in this context led to the resignation of Federal Transport Minister Reinhard Klektiven , then President of 1. FC Saarbrücken and the Saarland Minister for Interior and Sport Klaus Meiser . Gaul was sentenced to two years probation and a € 50,000 fine by the Koblenz district court for illegal business and aiding and abetting in breach of trust. Gaul resigned as President of Waldhof Mannheim on March 18, 2002 from his office. Doerfert was sentenced in civil proceedings by the Trier regional court to pay ctt DM 3.6 million, and on February 1, 2001 by the Koblenz regional court in criminal proceedings for corruption to 7 years and 3 months and on July 4, 2001 by the Munich regional court Sentenced to 10 years and 6 months. On January 20, 2005, Doerfert was released from custody in the Diez correctional facility after having served half of his early sentence on probation for good conduct, taking into account the special circumstances under Section 57 of the Criminal Code .

On August 12, 2004, the building complex was sold to the Cologne-based Josefs-Gesellschaft ggmbH through the mediation of the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister Malu Dreyer . On September 30, 2004, the St. Pirmin Mother-Child Therapy Center ceased operations. The 40 permanent employees received a job offer in another ctt facility on request. After the handicapped-accessible renovation in spring 2005, the former St. Pirmin student home has been used as the Conrad-von-Wendt House , a facility for the disabled by the Josefs Society , since September 1, 2005 . In five residential groups of 10 people each, a total of 50 physically and mentally disabled people have the opportunity to live handicapped-accessible in a supervised living concept. The offer is supplemented by a day care center for 20 severely disabled people. A total of 30 slightly disabled people are regularly employed in the Pirminius workshops in Pirmasens, an institution of the Heinrich Kimmle Foundation . A total of 98 full-time and part-time employees are employed in the Conrad-von-Wendt House to look after the 50 residents.

In addition, the Conrad-von-Wendt House offers seminar and group rooms as a conference center for companies as well as overnight accommodation as a guest house for private individuals.

Long-standing Prefect of the St. Pirmin Student Center

  • Richard Fritzinger (1962–1965)
  • Paul Völter (1958–1986)
  • Otto Schüßler (1965–1969)

Former well-known students of the St. Pirmin student residence

(Selection)

literature

  • Klaus Gröschel: "(V) educated in the Palatinate", Wellhöfer Verlag. (In it approx. 150 pages about the time between 1961 and 1966)
  • Alexandros Stefanidis: "How are the boys from Gottesacker", Rowohlt Verlag 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The history of the St. Pirmin Student Home ( Memento from September 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Festschrift for the inauguration in 1958 ( Memento from September 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.focus.de
  4. ↑ (ctt, renamed in 2009 to Cusanus Trägergesellschaft Trier mbH)
  5. ↑ KLAUS MEISER (CDU) RESIGNED / SUCCESSOR WILL BE ANNEGRET KRAMP-KARRENBAUER Saar minister stumbles over soccer affair
  6. ↑ KLAUS MEISER (CDU) RESIGNED / SUCCESSOR WILL BE ANNEGRET KRAMP-KARRENBAUER Saar minister stumbles over soccer affair
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ [2]
  9. ↑ Gaul resigns as Waldhof President ( Memento from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Doerfert in custody ( Memento from February 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ The Doerfert file and Tabellion 4 ( Memento from August 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ [3]
  13. ↑ August 12, 2004: Re-dedication of the ctt mother-child facility St. Pirmin in Dahn to a facility for disabled people's aid of the Josefs-Gesellschaft ( Memento from June 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jg-gruppe.net
  15. ^ Conrad-von-Wendt House ( Memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Christiane Müller-Lobeck: From a not so good family. In: taz.de. September 12, 2014, accessed July 17, 2020 .