United hospices
The United Hospices are a non-profit foundation under public law according to Section 2 (4) of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation Act . The foundation is based in Trier .
Foundation purpose
The purpose of the “Vereinigte Hospitien” foundation is to care for the elderly, sick, handicapped and in need of care and, if necessary, to provide living space. In line with its purpose, the foundation has appropriate facilities. The purpose of the foundation is exclusively charitable and charitable. The foundation's statutes were approved on November 15, 1975 by the Trier district government as the foundation's supervisory authority.
Organs of the foundation
The executive body of the foundation is a full-time administration, which has been run for the first time with dual leadership since March 1, 2019. Yvonne Russell (including former MA GV diocese Trier) as foundation director, Tobias Reiland (including former personal ref. OB Leibe) as commercial. Director (as of 2019). The foundation's decision-making and supervisory body is its administrative board, which consists of nine members. Born members are the Lord Mayor of Trier (Chairman) and the Bishop of Trier (Deputy Chairman). The city council sends three members, four seats are held by the citizens of Trier, who are determined by the born members. According to the statutes, all members of the board of directors must be Catholic . The current chairman is Lord Mayor Wolfram Leibe (SPD local politician, 1960) (as of 2018).
Mission statement
"Nursing is based on the Christian image of man. It combines specialist knowledge and action with the basic attitude of respect and personal care", the foundation defines the principles of its mission statement, which is shaped by the Catholic faith. The quality standards of the foundation are constantly adapted to the current state of scientific knowledge. Furthermore, the foundation is obliged to act economically and to conserve resources .
history
Founding history
The establishment of the United Hospices goes back to the decrees of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of October 9, 1804, of May 24, 1805 and the executive rescript of May 3, 1806 supplementing this decree . Up until this point in time, there were a number of hospitals and nursing homes in Trier and its neighboring communities, but they were not organizationally linked. In accordance with the Napoleonic decrees, they were placed under a common administration, but did not lose their own foundation character. The Napoleonic administration was not only guided by unselfish intentions; In the decree of 1804 it was stipulated that in addition to 50 beds for needy Trier sick people, 100 beds were to be provided for wounded soldiers.
The new unit was assigned the domicile of the Katharinenkloster in the vicinity of the St. Irminen monastery . Changes were made as early as 1806, after which the citizen hospital with its 150 beds remained in the Katharinenkloster and the other institutions and hospitals were moved together to the St. Irminen monastery. In 1819, the United Hospices replaced the obligation to maintain 100 beds for the military through a contract change with the Prussian government. Since 1811 all office work and nursing in the United Hospices has been carried out by Borromean women from the mother house in Nancy .
Overview of the individual institutions
The following institutions and hospitals were combined in the St. Irminen Monastery in accordance with the Napoleonic decrees:
- St. Jacob's Hospital from the 13th century
- St. Elisabeth Hospital of the former St. Maximin Abbey, donated by this abbey in 1240
- St. Nicholas Hospital of the former St. Matthias Abbey, donated by Abbot Ludwig in the 12th century
- St. Nicholas Hospital at St. Simeon Abbey. Year of foundation unknown
- Boy orphanage, donated by the Elector and Archbishop Karl Kaspar von der Leyen in 1676; Significant donations from his successor Johann Hugo von Orsbeck in 1712
- Orphanage for girls, donated by Mrs. Kikel in 1754
- Spinning house , donated by Stiftscanonicus Dahlstein, donations by Elector Archbishop Clemens Wenzeslaus and the 4 Benedictine abbeys in Trier
- Leprosen or Infirmary Estrich and the Leprosenhaus St. Jost zu Biewer did not join the United Hospitia until 1817, even though they had been part of the Hospitia since the decree of 1805
- Citizen hospital decreed by Emperor Napoleon for the military and needy sick people in Trier.
Recent history
Over the years, the United Hospices expanded structurally and expanded their tasks further. In 1922 they acquired the Helenenhaus, a building the construction of which was suggested by the Trier Bishop Michael Felix Korum and which was put into operation in 1891 by the “Association of Female Servants”. Deaf and dumb children and older women were admitted to the Helenenhaus. Even today, the Helenenhaus (108 beds) is a residential and nursing home for the elderly. In 1927 the city of Trier built a hospital for female venereal diseases on the site of Sankt Irminen, which later became a maternity home and a midwifery school. The building was completely destroyed in World War II and was never rebuilt.
During the National Socialist period , the United Hospitals, like other Christian institutions, were completely disenfranchised. No new additions were allowed to be made, the daily operation was tolerated by the National Socialist rulers. Towards the end of the war, allied bombing raids destroyed almost all of the United Hospitia's buildings. 71 Foundation employees were also killed in the bombing.
After the Second World War, reconstruction began with the orphanages for boys and girls (1950) and the hospital (1960). In the same year that could Rococo - Collegiate Church St. Irminen to be restored in its entirety, had to be inaugurated. A nurses' home was built in 1962, followed by a boarding school for the deaf in 1963. In 1967 a technical college for elderly care was opened, and in 1978 the "Ruländer Hof", a children's and youth home, was completely renovated. In 1985, the “Echternacher Hof”, a residential and nursing home for multiple sclerosis patients, was opened.
A special focus of the foundation was and still is a tiered care for the elderly, the core of which includes assisted living with different levels of help. In this context, the Jakobusstift was inaugurated in 1981 , followed in 2002 by the Willibrordstift , a dormitory for retired chaplains of the Trier diocese . The last measure so far was the construction of a day nursery in "Ruländer Hof" in 2009 .
particularities
- Baroque building Stift Sankt Irminen (built around 1740)
- Römersaal in the St. Irminen Abbey (" Horreum ", originally a late antique warehouse, today an event location)
- Germany's oldest wine cellar in the Sankt Irminen monastery, under the Roman hall.
- Neumagener Weinschiff , tomb of a Roman wine merchant. Replica of the original which in the Rheinische Landesmuseum Trier is
- Hospitienpark, a 6.5 hectare English landscape park with botanical features
- Viticulture. The Vereinigte Hospitien grow wine under their own name on some of the best Moselle locations and also market it themselves. The wines have a very good reputation worldwide.
Others
Andreas Becker, kitchen manager at the Vereinigte Hospitien in Trier, was elected President of the Association of German Chefs in September 2013 .
literature
- Heinz Cüppers : The United Hospices in Trier. Ed .: Hans Pilgram. Trier: Vereinigte Hospitien, 1980. 183 p., Numerous. Ill.