Albrechtshaus

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Albrechtshaus (1904)

The Albrechtshaus is a former lung sanatorium in the Selketal below Stiege (Harz) , which was planned and built from 1894 by the Braunschweig State Insurance Institute.

history

On June 19, 1897, the Albrechtshaus was opened as a lung sanatorium for initially 40 male patients. When it was built, Stiege belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig ; whose then Prince Regent Albrecht of Prussia gave the home its name. On June 17, 1898, the "Marienheim" for 24 female patients was inaugurated just a few meters in the direction of the street. It was named after the wife of Prince Regent Marie von Sachsen-Altenburg . In the Albrechtshaus, the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis was carried out through a health resort cure with recumbent cures lasting several weeks . In 1905, a wooden church in Nordic style was consecrated on the site of the sanatorium .

In several stages of expansion, the reception capacity was greatly expanded in the following decades. In 1930 100 male and 80 female lung patients were admitted. In the 1930s, a pavilion-like building was also built to accommodate children with lung diseases. In the GDR , too , the Albrechtshaus initially served to combat tuberculosis. The former sanatorium became a specialist hospital. On October 1, 1987, due to the general decline in pulmonary tuberculosis, the specialist hospital for lung diseases became a sanatorium for cardiovascular patients . In July 1991 the clinic was converted into a rehabilitation clinic, which was closed on December 31, 1993. The clinic has been empty since then.

In the meantime, the project has been pursued from the architecturally appealing main building a Kempinski - luxury and - Wellness to give rise -Hotel. The plans for this were well advanced and the demolition of the outbuildings had begun. The project has not been continued since 2009.

Since the fire in 2013, the Albrechthaus has been falling into disrepair.

On the night of August 22, 2013, the entire lung sanctuary burned down. The reason was arson . Since then, the building has been a ruined fire and threatened with demolition.

Trivia

For the pipistrelle bat , the nearby NSG Albrechtshaus is the highest hunting ground in Saxony-Anhalt. The animals have their nursery in the buildings of Albrechtshaus.

The Albrechtshaus has a stop not far from the sanatorium on the Selketalbahn , on which steam trains run daily. The Albrechtshaus on the Selketalbahn used to have its own siding for goods traffic.

Built in 1905, historic stave church on the site to phased out by 2024, according staircase relocated and restored.

literature

  • The welfare institutions of the Braunschweig State Insurance Institute , around 1930
  • Andreas Jüttemann: The Prussian lung sanatorium. Pabst, Lengerich 2016, ISBN 3-958531-38-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rottenplaces - Albrechtshaus
  2. ↑ Major fire in the Upper Harz | Volksstimme.de
  3. ^ Albrechtshaus near stairs: fire was started . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).
  4. ^ Cosima Sophia Hofmann: Stave Church Staircase: Another stage accomplished . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 31.2 ″  E