Charlotte Oppenheim

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Detail (left side) of the glass window donated by Charlotte Freifrau von Oppenheim in 1880 in Cologne Cathedral , lower left the baronial coat of arms of the Oppenheim family

Charlotte Oppenheim , since 1868 Charlotte Freifrau von Oppenheim , née Beyfus (* 1811 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 24, 1887 in Cologne ) was a patroness in Cologne and Bassenheim .

Life

Charlotte Beyfus was born in 1811 as the second of five children of the banker Siegmund Leopold Beyfus (1786–1845) and his wife Babette Beyfus, nee. Rothschild (1784–1869) born. On April 20, 1834, she married Abraham Oppenheim (1804–1878), who was raised to the baron status in 1868 as the first unbaptized Jew in Prussia.

She was buried next to her husband in the Deutz Jewish cemetery . After the completion of the mausoleum on their Bassenheim estate, they both found their final resting place there in 1889.

Charlotte Oppenheim in art

The graphic artist and painter Tony Avenarius ( pseudonym Antonius Hafermann ) (1836–1901) designed a panel for the Cologne City Hall , which symbolically depicts the patron with the children's hospital, surrounded by family members and well-known Cologne personalities. The memorial was destroyed in the Second World War .

Donations

  • With the death of her husband on October 9, 1878, Charlotte Freifrau von Oppenheim donated 25,000 marks to the city of Cologne for the Christian poor, 10,000 marks for the Israelite asylum, 10,000 marks for other Israelite institutions and 5,000 marks for the Israelite community for the poor.
  • It decreed that half of the interest from the other 150,000 marks donated to the city of Cologne should be distributed to the Christian and the Jewish poor.
  • In 1880, in memory of her deceased husband, she donated a window for Cologne Cathedral , which is now referred to as the Abraham window in the “Welter cycle” . After the Second World War , it was replaced with a shortened canopy in its original place in the western upper aisle of the northern transept. Like many other windows in Cologne Cathedral, it is the work of the Cologne glass painter Michael Welter (1808–1892).

Foundations

First children's hospital in Cologne

The Oppenheim children's hospital on Buschgasse (formerly Bozengasse) was the first children's hospital built in Cologne's Severinsviertel .

Bassenheim Hospital (Therapy Center)

Charlotte Freifrau von Oppenheim founded the Von Oppenheim'sche Hospital in 1885 , which was expanded to include a kindergarten and a sewing school in 1888 and has been a therapy center since 1984.

Awards

Web links

literature

  • Hermann Weyer: The Oppenheim Children's Hospital. Cologne 1884.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish families in Frankfurt am Main
  2. ↑ Fries ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oppenheim.de
  3. ↑ p. 33 window
  4. ^ Hospital, kindergarten and sewing school
  5. ↑ Prussian Cross of Merit for Women and Virgins (PDF; 861 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenheim, Charlotte Freifrau von; Beyfus, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patroness
DATE OF BIRTH 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1887
Place of death Cologne