Alt-Hanauer Hospital

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View from Hospitalstrasse to the west of the hospital building

The Alt-Hanauer Hospital was a medieval care facility for the needy in the city of Hanau .

history

The hospital's first location was on Marktgasse, near Kinzdorfer Tor . In the course of the first urban expansion, the suburb , which began in the 15th century, it received a new building there from 1501–1505 under the government of Count Reinhard IV. Von Hanau-Münzenberg . The keystone above the gate of the new hospital indicated the inauguration at Quasimodogeniti in 1505. After a Renaissance fortification was built around Hanau in the 16th century , the suburb and with it the hospital came to be located within the wall ring. The Hospitalstrasse in the suburbs got his name from him.

The hospital financed its work from donations and foundations . In addition to the already mentioned care of the sick and the elderly, his tasks also included caring for the poor.

The buildings of the Alt-Hanauer Hospital stood until the Second World War , when they fell victim to air raids along with almost the entire city center . The remaining assets continue to exist as the "Althanauer Hospital Foundation", whose task it has been since 1965 to provide apartments for older people. Today the foundation has 195 socially bound , elderly-friendly apartments. The management of the foundation, as historically come jointly by the magistrate of the city of Hanau and the two from the old town emerged Protestant churches , the Virgin Mary and of St. John parish perceived.

After the establishment of the Neustadt Hanau , its citizens built their own hospital. The last one was in Leimenstrasse. This is how today's Hanau Clinic emerged .

chapel

In addition to the rooms for the sick and elderly , the hospital had its own chapel , which was consecrated to the Holy Spirit . After the Marienkirche and the chapel consecrated to St. Martin in the castle, it was the third place of worship in the city. After 1809 this was made available to the small Roman Catholic community of Hanaus, which previously only had a small prayer room on Gärtnerstrasse. Whether she used the Hospital Church, however, seems doubtful, as the Roman Catholic service was still held in Gärtnerstrasse in 1811.

literature

  • Gerhard Bott : The Alt-Hanauer Hospital . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home . Hanau 1954, p. 430f.
  • Heinrich Bott : The old town of Hanau. Building History House Directory Pictures. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau. Hanau 1953 p. 39.
  • Heinz Kurz: The Althanauer Hospital in the past and present. In: 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , pp. 75-83.
  • Karl Schäfer: The foundation of the Hanau old town hospital through the ages. In: Stadtzeit 6. 700 years of city rights, 400 years of Jewish existence. Hanau 2003, ISBN 3-9806988-8-2 , pp. 150-156.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , p. 155.
  2. ^ Fried Lübbecke : Hanau. City and county. Cologne, 1951, p. 367.
  3. ↑ Hanauer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): With Hebelius Potter around the old Hanau - A journey back in time to the year 1810. = Hanauer Historische Hefte 1. Hanau 2010, p. 34ff.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 13.8 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 47.4"  E