20 years of hospice house Celle: emotional photo exhibition starts!

20 years of hospice house Celle: emotional photo exhibition starts!

The Hospiz Haus in Wietzenbruch is celebrating a special anniversary this year: For 20 years, the facility has been ensuring that people are well looked after in the last phase of their lives and can spend time with their relatives. The founder of the modern hospice movement, Cicely Saunders, placed the guiding principle on "life no longer give up for life, but live more to the days" and thus helped an entire movement to her upswing. In these two decades, the hospice in the Glockenheide accompanied numerous dying and supported relatives in their grief, as reported [Celler Presse] (https://cere-presse.de/2025/07/18/foto exhibition-20-jahre-hospiz-haus-ale/).

In the anniversary year, a special photo exhibition is organized, which focuses on the essential work of the hospice in the past two decades. Between August 14 and 29, 2025, interested parties in the foyer of the new town hall can admire 20 impressive photos and associated stories for hospice work.

A look at Cicely Saunders and her vision

Cicely Saunders had a deep influence on care at the end of life. Her career began in 1947 when she took care of a cancer man, David Tasma in the London hospital. His painful experiences led them to work for better care of dying. Tasma bequeathed an amount of £ 500 to found a home for the dying, which increased her drive. 20 years later, in 1967, she opened St. Christopher’s Hospice, which laid the foundation for the hospice movement. Today, more than 100,000 people in Germany already benefit from the hospice and palliative care, which is offered in a network of 236 inpatient hospices and around 1,500 outpatient services, as a report in the [Weser KURIER] (https://www.weserkurier.de/bremen/hospiz movement-die-geschichte-vom-guten-tod-doc7e4ighbh0931fwnv81Sn) occupied.

Saunders had developed the concept of Total Pain, which emphasizes the multidimensional consideration of pain and pursues the goal of enabling the dying person to experience self -determined and painless experience. Only medical measures that patients want or have determined in their living will should be carried out. These values and views have shaped the hospice work to this day.

a look back and forward

The first hospice in Germany was opened in Germany in 1986 and since then the number of institutions and its commitment has increased continuously. The Hospiz Haus in Wietzenbruch is part of this impressive development. It not only accompanies the dying, but also gives the relatives space to find support in the difficult time and to say goodbye together.

With the photo exhibition, not only the 20th anniversary is celebrated, but also drawn attention to the importance of hospice work. It is a good incentive for society to promote sensitivity to dying and grief. All who are interested in the stories and life around the hospice is therefore highly recommended to visit the exhibition.