Citizens Hospital (Rapperswil)
Bürgerspital (official name: Alten- und Pflegeheim Bürgerspital ) is the name for today's retirement and nursing home in the old town of Rapperswil , a district of the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .
location
The building is located on the Fischmarktplatz in the southern end of the old town of Rapperswil , between Burggasse, Seestrasse and Fischmarktstrasse.
history
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The history of the Hospitium of the city of Rapperswil is closely intertwined with its foundation. As early as the first half of the 13th century, Rudolf III von Rapperswil had a hospital set up at the “ Stadtstedi ” as a hostel for the poor, the sick and pilgrims. Like the hospitals in Zurich, Lucerne and Freiburg that were established at the same time, it was probably given to the brothers of the Order of the Holy Spirit for care and was called the “ Heiliggeist-Spital ”.
It was first mentioned on December 30, 1274 ( tercio kal. Ianuari ) in a document in which Abbot Konrad and the convent of Pfäfers sell goods in Busskirch and Staphill to the hospital in Rapperswil : “ Raproschwil Busskilch vel hospitale, et si ad nichilum devenerit Hospital, ad Monasterium devuntur bon in hac littera contenta ».
In Rapperswil, the first documentary mention took place on May 12, 1276 ( in the intranente maio ) or June 13, 1277 and August 12, 1285, to confirm the decision of Count Rudolf von Rapperswil on the income of the priest in the hospital. Count Ludwig von Homberg and his wife Elisabeth von Rapperswil , together with the Rapperswil parish priest Jakob, confirm a decree made with the consent of Count Rudolf von Rapperswil.
In 1350, Zurich troops destroyed the building during the first siege of the city of Rapperswil . Four years later, Duke Albrecht the Lame of Austria laid the foundation stone for a new hospital building.
In 1489 the "Spital zu Rapperswil" was first mentioned as the "Heiliggeistspital" . Since the 16th century, the hospital served as the municipal poor and benefice house . To “ avoid greater evil ”, the spiritual and secular authorities ordered the sisters of the Wydenklösterli to take up residence in the Rapperswil hospital in 1521 . The still existing chapel of the monastery was demolished after the execution of the last superior in 1563, and the monastery property probably passed into the possession of the city or the Heiliggeistspital. The church set and thus the pastoral care went in 1537 from the parish church of St. Pankratius (Bollingen) to the Rapperswil hospital; it was not until 1827 that a pastor took up residence in Bollingen.
Today's Bürgerspital was built in 1845 by the architect Felix Wilhelm Kubly after the fish market square was created when the old harbor was filled in.
Fountain on the fish market square
With the completion of the fountain on the Fischmarktplatz, an oval basin with a Tuscan fountain pillar was placed on the east side of the building, which has a spout facing Fischmarktstrasse.
tasks
As early as the 17th century, the hospital had been open to the townspeople of Rapperswil in particular, who bought a place to spend their evenings with a benefice , and it also took in the poor, the sick and orphans, as before. At the end of the 19th century, the activity of the citizens' hospital shifted to that of an old people's home . The local community, which owned the hospital in 1816, had the building completely renovated in 1988 and the operation modernized.
The citizen hospital has been recognized by the canton as a nursing home since 2004 . The Bürgerspital retirement and nursing home is open to all other interested parties as well as local residents.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Website of the Rapperswil-Jona local community: Citizens Hospital for the elderly and nursing home , accessed on April 10, 2012
- ↑ Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen on parchment in Latin, badly damaged, dorsal notes from the 15th and 16th centuries.
- ↑ a b Legal Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Association: Legal Sources of the City and Rulership of Rapperswil (with the farms Busskirch / Jona, Kempraten and Wagen) , accessed on April 24, 2013
- ↑ dialect name for hospital
- ↑ Einsiedeln Monastery Archives, Summarium Volume 1 , accessed on April 10, 2012
- ↑ Witch trial for the last superior of Wydenklösterli , exhibition Rütner monastery treasure: After 484 years of 'exile' - for the first time 'home leave' , local museum and chronicle of the community of Rüti.
- ^ Website of the Rapperswil-Jona water supply: History of the old Rapperswil fountains ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 10, 2013.
- ^ Website of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona: Citizens Hospital for the elderly and nursing home , accessed on April 10, 2012
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '33.1 " N , 8 ° 48' 57.7" E ; CH1903: 704314 / 231462