page_title: Diakonissestiftelsen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Diakonissestiftelsen / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The former building of DiaconisseStiftelsen in Smallegade in Frederiksberg, Denmark
context_page_description: Diakonissestiftelsen is a large site in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark, owned by the Danish Deaconess Community and used for various social and healthcare-related activities, including a home for the elderly and training of nurses.
context_section_description: Diakonissestiftelsen was founded in 1866 at the initiative of Crown Princess Louise, consort of the later king Christian IX. She instigated Louise Conring to make a study trip to Sweden, where the order had been active for ten years, and to Germany where pastor Theodor Fliedner had opened the first Deaconess motherhouse in 1836 in  Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth in 1836. A building in Smallegade near their current site, contained a small hospital and residences for the Deaconess sisters.
  Their current site was inaugurated in 1876. Their hospital in Smallegade closed in 1880.
caption: Diakonissestiftelsen's former building on Smallegade in 1865
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