Berthold Schwiesau

Berthold Schwiesau lived in Neustadt near Magdeburg in the 15th century and founded the Schwiesau Hospital .

Schwiesau lived with his wife Magerte Schwiesau in the sixties and seventies of the 15th century on Sandstrasse in Neustadt. The Schwiesaus operated an estate with various pieces of land. Since there was no heir, the Schwiesau couple planned to set up a charitable foundation.

An application was therefore made to Archbishop Johann von Bayern for permission to set up a hospital. On 24. May 1471 was Foundation approved. The archbishop's document begins: "We Johannes by God's grace, Archbishop of Magdeburg, Primate in Germania, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria, openly confess with this letter for us and our descendants; That the cautious Berthold Swiezolo, our citizen in ours Neustadt Magdeburg and dearly loyal to us, how he gave God our Lord, for praise and his soul for consolation, salvation and bliss, his house and court to a hospital to pilgrims and poor, frail people who have no inn or apartment to accommodate and to keep and not to take in it for money or good, but only to receive needy people in it. "

The Schwiesau Hospital Foundation existed well into the 20th century . The foundation only perished when inflation began to devalue.

In honor of Berthold Schwiesau, the city of Magdeburg named a street as Schwiesaustrasse .

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• From the beauty of Magdeburg suburbs , Magdeburger Zeitung of November 22, 1925