 She also collected food and clothing.In 1912, using her dowry, her sister, Klara Weimersheimer, founded an orphanage in Herrlingen, where she cared for problem children, as well as those mentally unstable and retarded.In 1925, as her own children and many of the children in care came of school age, she got the idea to turn the orphanage into a "Landschulheim" (boarding school).