Association for the education of morally neglected children
The association for the upbringing of morally neglected children was a social institution founded in Berlin in 1825 for the upbringing of children and adolescents who had committed criminal offenses, whose parents had tried in vain to improve or who had been withdrawn from their parents by order of the authorities.
history
The association was founded on May 1, 1825 on the initiative of the cloth and silk merchant August Karl Friedrich Hollmann (1776-1858). The association was funded with state funds by the minister Christian Rother , who also took over the chairmanship of the association.
Members were Lord Mayor, Government Councilor Friedrich von Bärensprung , City Court Director , Privy Judicial Councilor Beelitz, banker and manor owner Benecke von Gröditzberg , City Councilor Hollmann, Privy Upper Finance Councilor Kayser, and Privy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rust, Privy Finance Councilor Wollny and Rendant Zander. The foundation's capital was 5000 thalers as a gift from Hollmann and other small contributions. A plot of land at Tempelhofer Ufer 1 was acquired. The purchase sum of 10,000 thalers and 1,050 thalers for the first three years for the salaries of teachers were paid by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. reliant. The opening took place with the admission of a child. On May 1st, 1826 there were 33 children. From May 5, 1828, there was also a girls' department with five pupils in the house on Hoffmannstrasse. After the death of State Minister Rother, from 1849 to 1851, the secret governing councilor Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick , then Minister Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and from 1856 the President of the Royal Maritime Trade, Otto von Camphausen . In 1863 a plot of land on the western edge of the Hasenheide (later Am Urban) was acquired. A new building was erected according to a design by the Secret Government and Building Councilor Gustav Möller . Construction began on October 1, 1863 under Möller's construction management, and later under the management of his deputy town planning officer Hermann Blankenstein . The opening took place on March 20, 1866. The new building could accommodate up to 180 pupils. In the same year, Queen Augusta took over the protectorate.
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The Am Urban house was used until 1896, when it became a maternity home and was taken over by the city of Berlin in 1905 (later used as a hospital and by the health department, destroyed in World War II). From 1895 to 1896, A. Bohm in Berlin-Zehlendorf at Dorotheenstrasse 5 (today Gimpelsteig 9) was built by the association "Am Urban" for morally neglected children. The reform home was closed in 1920, the property acquired by the city in 1925 and then converted into a hospital by 1927 (demolished in 1995).
literature
- B. Kossatz: The educational home "Am Urban" in Zehlendorf near Berlin: the realization of socio-educational and socio-political ideas . Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1905.
- The association for the education of morally neglected children in Berlin . In: Schulblatt for the Province of Brandenburg . tape 41 , 1 and 2, 1876, pp. 49 ff . Electronic edition : Library for Research on Educational History of the German Institute for International Educational Research, 2012
Web links
- Möller: Education house for morally neglected children on Urban zu Berlin . In: Journal of Construction . Jhrg. 18, 1868, p. 147 ff . Digitized
Individual evidence
- ^ Detert / Ballenstedt: Architecture 1900, Volume 2 . Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag, Mannheim, ISBN 978-3-86656-160-1 , p. 250 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Dorotheenstr. 5 owners: association z. Upbringing morally safe Children . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1825, part 4, p. 1439. last entry
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List Behring Hospital, accessed on July 15, 2020