Station 2: AWO Office as of 1970

Von-Schildeck-Straße 12 Erna Hosemann’s sister moved in with her to help her out. She therefore had to move into the Schildeckstraße 12 in the former Jewish Rabbi’s apartment in 1970. Help for older people, families, social and also bureaucratic help and recuperation care continued to be offered. However at first, only the sewing room, office…

Station 3: Storehouse for Aid Supplies

Vor-dem-Peterstor 4 In the postwar years, needy people had the opportunity to get clothes, shoes and food in this house at Peterstor. This was the storage for the collected items. Furniture was also donated. The furniture was collected on handcarts and driven around! Before Christmas there was a basaar in the City Hall where one…

Station 6: Central arrival point

Bahnhof Fulda AWO was founded immediately after World War 1 in 1946. There were many refugees and homeless people. In that year, 49 trains with almost a total of 60,000 displaced persons arrived at the train station looking for a new home in Hessia. Fulda city’s population suddenly  doubled. AWO helped to distribute food and…

Station 7: L14/2 as a cultural centre

Lindenstraße 2 For more than 20 years the AWO North Hessen Youth Centre was situated in its quarters in the Langebrückenstraße 14.(The offices of the AWO county association were situated there too between 2000-2013 before they moved to Frankfurter Straße 28). Due to a huge building project, the Youth Centre and its work and all…

Station 9: Hunger and Cold

Vonderaumuseum near to Universitätsplatz   The American military government started free school meals after the war for all schools and children due to extreme hunger in the families. AWO took over this task for the  Heinrich-von-Bibra school. All the school children hat to take a pot and cutlery and waited during the break fo get…