Citizens Hospital (Sélestat)

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Citizens Hospital in Schlettstadt

The Civic Hospital (fr. Hôpital bourgeois de Sélestat ) in Schlettstadt , a French city in the Bas-Rhin in the region Alsace , was built in the 1760s. The former hospital at No. 1 place du Vieux-Port has been classified as a monument historique since 1995 .

history

The three-storey building was built according to plans by the architect Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Chassain from Colmar . The hospital has a chapel which was consecrated in 1768.

In the middle of the 19th century the hospital was temporarily used as a prison. It was then converted into a residential building.

Web links

Commons : Bürgerspital (Sélestat)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ancien hôpital bourgeois in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 24 ″  E