Service to others: 115 years of the Dominikus ring iron factory, Ursberg - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1999 - 110 Pfennig

In 1997, the St. Josef Congregation Ursberg celebrated its 100th anniversary. Reason enough to look back on the time of its foundation by the priest Dominikus Ringeisen and on the development of a facility for the care of people with disabilities, which today is one of the largest in southern Germany. In 1884 Dominikus Ringeisen, priest of the Diocese of Augsburg, founded a disability facility in the former Premonstratensian Abbey of Ursberg. Disabled people should be united in a "big family". He set up branches and founded a sister community, the St. Joseph's Congregation. This led after his death in 1904, his great work within the Catholic Church on. Since 1996, as an ecclesiastical foundation of public law, the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk still follows its main concern, the care and care of disabled people. In particular, the foundation is dedicated to the educational and vocational training of disabled children, adolescents and adults as well as the care and support of elderly and sick people. The design for the commemorative stamp represents a sequence from a tapestry embroidered by Sister M. Ermentraud Kirchenmaier. The embroidery depicts people who sew, carpenter and weave a basket - all three work areas of workshops for the disabled in Ursberg. The graphic also shows the ring-iron tree as a badge. From an iron ring grows a branch with seven branches, a symbol of seven bodily and spiritual works of mercy.