Cronstett and Hynspergian Evangelical Foundation in Frankfurt am Main
The Cronstett and Hynspergian Evangelical Foundation in Frankfurt am Main is a charity foundation founded in 1753 by Justina Catharina Steffan von Cronstetten in Frankfurt am Main under the umbrella of the society and former association of local patrician families, Alten Limpurg . The purpose of the foundation is to support people and organizations in need through no fault of their own that serve this purpose as well as to promote cultural institutions in Frankfurt am Main.
History and Foundation Activities
The foundation goes back to the Steffan family, who immigrated from Bingen to Frankfurt in 1451 , acquired citizenship there and quickly rose to the patriciate of the city. The head of the family was the cloth wholesaler Hans Steffan , who was accepted into the Alten Limpurg Society in 1462. Up to the end of the 16th century the family was active in the cloth trade and acquired a considerable fortune. Numerous members were represented in the Frankfurt City Council. In addition, the Steffan provided several younger and older mayors and city councils. From around 1600 they barely traded, but lived on the income from their property and their land. In 1621 four brothers from the family of Emperor Ferdinand II were accepted into the imperial nobility . Since then, the family has been called Steffan von Cronstetten .
The last member of the family was Justina Steffan von Cronstetten (born January 27, 1677, † 1766). In her will in 1753 she bequeathed her fortune to a foundation that was supposed to provide for the unmarried daughters and widows of the member families of the Alte Limpurg. Another purpose of the foundation was to support the elderly, sick people, schoolchildren and students of the city of Frankfurt from the start. The name Steffan v. The Cronstett- and Hynspergische Aristocratic Evangelical Foundation should remind of the origin of the founder from these families, "who had been in good standing here for several centuries". Emperor Josef II privileged the foundation in 1767 shortly after the will came into force.
Until the end of the 19th century, the foundation had a monastery building that was located on the corner of Kaiserstraße and Roßmarkt . It was the former Großer Kranichshof , the residence of the founder (today essentially the property at Kaiserstraße 1). With the construction of Kaiserstraße from 1870 to 1873, the city of Frankfurt required a part of the monastery grounds. After the foundation refused to sell, the city expropriated the property. On January 31, 1873, the royal Prussian city court in Frankfurt am Main confirmed the expropriation and the purchase price of 104.90 gold marks per square meter.
The former garden area behind the expropriated street area remained in the possession of the foundation and was initially undeveloped, while the neighboring properties were built with representative Wilhelminian-style houses. In 1893 the foundation sold this property in order to finance the new foundation building at Lindenstrasse 27 with the purchase price . The Dreikaiserhaus was built on the sold property .
In the years 1896/97 the monastery building was erected at Lindenstrasse 27 in the Frankfurt-Westend district , which - with an interruption due to a forced sale during the Nazi era - is still owned by the foundation today.
The Cronstetten Foundation also maintains its own nursing home in Westend to the present day, the Justina von Cronstetten Stift , established in 1997 . In addition, it has been running Johanniter-Cronstetten-Altenpflege since 1979 , since 1985 the Mobile Children's Nursing in Frankfurt-Bornheim and offers individual aid to people in need through no fault of their own. In 1989 the Cronstetten Foundation participated in the establishment of the Frankfurt Community Foundation . Another project is the Cronstetten House , which opened in 2007 in Frankfurt's Westhafen .
Well-known colleges
literature
- Heinz Schomann : The Frankfurt train station district and Kaiserstraße. A contribution to town planning and the art of historicism. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-02876-1 , p. 40 (On the sale of the Cronstätt property), p. 48-49 (extensive representation of the Dreikaiserhaus).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ cronstetten.de
- ^ Heinz Schomann: The Frankfurt train station district and the Kaiserstraße. 1988, pp. 40, 48.