Almshouse Vorsfelde
The Vorsfelde poor house is a building erected around 1860 as a poor house in the Wolfsburg district of Vorsfelde in Lower Saxony . The single-storey sandstone building with a central entrance and dormer is used as a residential and commercial building today and is under monument protection .
description
In 1857, the Vorsfeld municipal council decided to build a poor house due to the lack of housing in the village. The construction took place on a community-owned property at the northern end of the village. The estimate for the construction costs amounted to 2,400 Reichstaler . Inside there were five rooms on the street side and eight small chambers on the back of the building. There was an infirmary in the diaphragm and three more chambers in the attic. In 1865 there was a fire in the poor house, which was then rebuilt in its original form.
The building was not only inhabited by the poor , but also by householders . An official report by the Helmstedt district directorate from 1900 describes the poor condition of the poor house. After that it was heavily soiled inside and out and the inadequate sanitary facilities were in poor condition. 10 poor house workers lived in a room that was much too small. The Vorsfeld municipal council then had the bare essentials renovated, since poor welfare was under the auspices of saving and not aimed at securing the livelihood of the needy.
In 1977 the city of Wolfsburg sold the poor house to a private person, through whom the building was renovated. The roof was renewed after a hail damage in 2013.
See also
literature
- History of the apron volume 1 . Wolfsburg City Archives, Wolfsburg 1995, p. 211, p. 229
Web links
- Former Poor house in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- Dieter Polte: From poor house to gem in Wolfsburger Nachrichten of February 25, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 50 ′ 10 ″ E