Eckherhaus

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 10.9 ″  E

The Eckherhaus is a listed former hospital in Freising , which today houses, among other things, the city music school. The building is named after Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing and Liechteneck during whose tenure the building was constructed. The building with the address Kölblstraße 2 is located outside the old town of Freising on the Moosach . The Eckherhaus is surrounded by a park.

description

The building is a three-storey gable roof with baroque volute gables . There is a semicircular chapel extension on the east side. The chapel extended over all three floors and patients could take part in mass from two galleries on the upper floors. The baroque interior of the chapel was removed during the Third Reich and the room was divided by adding false ceilings.

history

The former chapel extension on the east side of the building

In 1704 the citizens of Freising got together and vowed to build a hospital. The laying of the foundation stone by Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Eckher for the building erected by Freising's court mason Johann Jakob Maffiol was on June 24, 1705. The hospital was completed in 1706. The hospital chapel was consecrated on May 8, 1707 by the Prince-Bishop. The hospital was supported by the Freising “Liebesbund”, a non-profit association of Freising citizens. Since the costs were not fully covered by this, the prince-bishop's chamber had to make annual support payments.

In the course of secularization , the hospital was handed over to the city of Freising's poor fund. During the secularization, the nearby Neustift monastery was also dissolved and used as a barracks (until 1905). As there was no hospital of its own there , part of the hospital was rented to the military as a military hospital. In 1823 the military bought the Dompropstei on the Domberg and used it as a hospital. Since a boys' seminar was to be set up there, the building on Domberg was exchanged for the hospital on the Moosach on November 14, 1826, and the hospital on the Moosach only served the military. The Freising patients were treated in the Heiliggeistspital . The municipal hospital on Kammergasse was built by 1834 .

It was used as a reserve hospital during the First World War and closed after the end of the war in 1918. Due to the housing shortage, the city bought the building in 1929 and converted it into a residential building. In 1939 the building was rebuilt again and from then on it served as a home for students. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , a hospital was set up again on April 25, 1945 to relieve the hospital on Kammergasse. The hospital continued to operate in the post-war period and even expanded with an isolation ward in 1952/53. Its use as a hospital ended on June 30, 1972, due to the opening of the newly built Freising District Hospital on Mainburger Strasse.

After the renovation, the city youth care, the adult education center , the city music school and the workers welfare moved into the building in 1979 . The adult education center is now located in the former hospital on Kammergasse, which was closed in 1974. City youth care uses its own building in the direct vicinity of the Eckherhaus. Users are currently (2017) the music school and the workers welfare.

Web links

Commons : Eckherhaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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• Rudolf Goerge: The Eckher House in Freising . In: Amperland . 1980, p. 5 ff . ( [1] ).
• List of monuments for Freising (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation