Carolahaus

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Carolahaus 1909

The Carolahaus was the first public hospital in Dresden's Johannstadt . It opened in 1878 and operated as a hospital until the 1930s. The facility was named after Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp , the last Saxon queen. The Carolahaus was completely destroyed in 1945.

history

View into a hospital ward, 1908

hospital

In 1867 the Saxon Princess Carola founded the Albertverein in Dresden , an international women's association of the Red Cross . He was to train nurses, set up reserve hospitals for sick and wounded soldiers, and provide nursing for the poor. To this end, a building complex was planned on Blasewitzer Strasse . The construction of the Carolahaus began in 1876 on the initiative of the Albertverein. The project was financed mainly through donations and specially organized lotteries as well as by the now Saxon Queen Carola. The architect of the complex was the Dresden city planner Theodor Friedrich . The private hospital opened in 1878 and was run by the sisters of the Albertverein. The outdoor facilities were designed by Friedrich Bouché , who later became the Royal Saxon Upper Garden Director . In addition to the hospital, a nursing school was an important part of the institution. The entire area of ​​the Carolahaus measured over 40,000 square meters. A chapel was built on the grounds of the Carolahaus. It measured approx. 15 × 24 meters, had two floors made of sandstone with plastered facades and offered 150 seats. The Carolahauskapelle had an altarpiece donated by Queen Carola (depicting the healing of a gout patient), an organ and a bronze bell. On July 7, 1887, the chapel was consecrated by the pastor of the Bohemian Church ( Church of the Redeemer ).

Several additional functional buildings were built on the site by 1894. The Carolahaus had a total of 225 beds. When the Johannstadt City Hospital , today's Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital , opened in 1901 , the Carolahaus specialized in tuberculosis diseases. In 1906, at the instigation of Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp, opened a welfare station for lung patients.

After the end of the First World War , the economic situation of the Carolahaus deteriorated, which finally forced the Albertverein in 1920 to sell the hospital to the city of Dresden. However, the rights of use remained with the association until the hospital ceased operations in the early 1930s.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the takeover of the NSDAP a school of retired SA in the Carola house. In 1932 the chapel of the Carolahaus was cleared out and used as a pistol shooting range and later as a gym. With the outbreak of the Second World War , the building was used as a hospital . In February 1945 the Carolahaus fell victim to the air raids on Dresden and was completely destroyed.

Re-use of the area

After the end of the Second World War, a rubble sorting and processing plant was set up on the grounds of the Carolahaus. In the 1950s, on the grounds of the VEB Kommunales Plattenwerk, a factory for the production of precast concrete parts for residential construction in Dresden and the surrounding area, which was in operation until 1990/91. After the slab factory was closed, the area fell into disrepair until a citizens' initiative was founded around 2000 to make the area usable again. After the remains of the plant were demolished, the open-air museum Betonzeitschiene was opened in 2004 .

Others

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Carolahaus in 1903, a silver commemorative coin was issued that shows the hospital on one side and Queen Carola on the other. The coin was designed by the Dresden sculptor Robert Henze . One copy is in the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

literature

  • Pastor P. Flade: New Saxon Church Gallery. Verlag von Arwed Strauch, Leipzig, Ephorie Dresden I. 1906, p. 842, from 863ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lars Herrmann: Carolahaus. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Stefanie Krihning: Friedrich Bouché . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  3. ↑ P. Flade: New Saxon Church Gallery , p. 842.
  4. ↑ Tanja Tröger: Aircraft bomb in Dresden-Johannstadt defused - 5000 residents can go back to their apartments. Dresdner Latest News, September 7, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  5. ^ Queen Carola - 25 years Carolahaus in Dresden. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, accessed on February 23, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  E