Orphanage (Hamburg)
The orphanage in Hamburg was a home for orphaned children between the ages of four and ten years. It was founded in 1604, destroyed in 1943 and not rebuilt after World War II .
history
The orphanage goes back to a foundation of the Hamburg council and the hereditary citizenship from the year 1604. It was donated for orphaned legitimate children between the ages of four and ten and administered by three council members and eight supervisors. From 1863 a board consisting of two council members and six members of the citizenry took over the administration. In 1892 orphan care in Hamburg was handed over to the orphanage college. The foundation's assets consisted of legacies, donations and collections. In 1646 around 700 children were cared for there.
The orphanage was initially housed at the St. Johannis monastery near today's town hall market . From 1781 to 1785 it was rebuilt in Admiralitätsstrasse, in 1858 it was relocated to Averhoffstrasse on Uhlenhorst , while the house on Admiralitätsstrasse temporarily served as the town hall . In 1908 the orphanage on the Uhlenhorst was given a new building by Albert Erbe , which was expanded in 1915/18 to include a toddler house built by Fritz Schumacher . In 1922 , 200 employees looked after 1,250 children there and in children's homes in Langenhorn and Garstedt . After the destruction in 1943, the orphanage was not rebuilt.
Between 1633 and 1876 the Volksfest Waisengrün was celebrated and donations were collected for the orphanage.
literature
- Friedrich Georg Buek : Orphanage . In: The Hamburg Oberalts, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, OCLC 844917815 , p. 451–454 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed February 25, 2015]).
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 736.
