Old Anatomy (Ingolstadt)
The old anatomy is a baroque secular building in Ingolstadt , which was built between 1723 and 1736 according to plans by the Eichstätter court building director Gabriel de Gabrieli on behalf of the medical faculty of the University of Ingolstadt . The building, structured by pilasters and cornices, has a mansard roof , with the tower-like raised central pavilion being surrounded by a largely reconstructed arcade .
History of origin
As early as the 16th century, the premises of the high school were no longer sufficient and the medical faculty moved to other buildings, for example, for sections . In 1685, a botanical garden was also created for the medical professionals to cultivate various medicinal plants. After a completely new university building was rejected, not least for cost reasons, at the end of the 17th century, the medical faculty acquired the property between the high school and the city wall. The court building director of the Bishop of Eichstätt , Gabriel de Gabrieli, was entrusted with the design . Plans were made for a building in the style of an orangery or a small castle, in the middle of which is the large lecture hall . The construction was financed largely through donations . Since the wings were raised compared to the initial plans and further additions were made, construction dragged on until 1736, when the amphitheater-like lecture hall with the baroque ceiling fresco by Melchior Puchner was completed.
University building
The old anatomy was used as a university institute until 1800. Professors like Johann Leonhard Obermayr and Heinrich Palmaz von Leveling taught there . During the War of the Austrian Succession , the building, which was only ten years old, was badly damaged in 1745, and the worst damage was not repaired until the 1750s. In 1777 the botanical garden was redesigned according to the Linnaeus system before the University of Ingolstadt was relocated to Landshut .
Further use
After the university moved away, the building fell into disrepair and was even used as a farm, among other things. At the beginning of the 1970s, the city of Ingolstadt bought Alte Anatomie on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the university's foundation and restored the building, including restoring the original spatial structure. In 1971 the Ingolstadt city council decided to house the German Medical History Museum in the ancient anatomy, which it still houses today.
literature
- Karlheinz Hemmeter: The old anatomy in Ingolstadt - there, where death bites into the grass . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.): Monument Preservation Information , No. 157, March 2014, pp. 31–34 ( online edition ) [not evaluated]
- Siegfried Hofmann: "The building. History and architecture" in: "Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt", pp. 10–21.
Web links
- Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments about the ancient anatomy.
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 45 " N , 11 ° 25 ′ 9.5" E