Our Facilities
The SOS Children's Village idea crossed the border from Austria to neighbouring Germany at the beginning of the 1950s. Soon a German SOS Children's Village association was founded and in 1958, the first SOS Children's Village was officially opened in Diessen at lake Ammer (Ammersee).
A total of thirteen more SOS Children's Villages were built in Germany within the following forty years: Schwarzwald, Pfalz, Saar, Württemberg, Harksheide, Worpswede, Oberpfalz, Sauerland, Lippe, Schleswig-Holstein, Niederrhein, Sachsen and Brandenburg.
Additionally, many ancillary facilities were launched, e.g. youth care facilities, vocational training centres, social centres, counselling centres for mothers and families, homes for mentally and physically handicapped people, etc.
Websites (available in German)
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