Honest pen

The Ehrlich Foundation was a foundation established by the businessman and councilor Johann Georg Ehrlich in Dresden in 1743 .

tasks

The foundation consisted of two parts: supporting the adult poor through weekly bread donations and caring for poor children. One hundred children, fifty boys and fifty girls each, were taught and fed in a school. Two teachers taught the children religion, reading, writing and arithmetic.

Facilities

School property and school building

The school property of the Ehrlich pen was on Blasewitzer Schlag . The monastery had three gardens on the ramparts.

The school building was originally located near Freiberger Platz on Stiftsstraße, which was later named after the monastery (today's Alfred-Althus-Straße). In October 1880 the school moved to a new school building on Blochmannstrasse near what is now Strasbourg Square . In 1912 the school building was expanded. The Ehrlich Foundation was converted into a primary school in 1921. During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the school building was badly damaged and rebuilt in 1951 in different ways. The building on Blochmannstrasse at the corner of Grunaer Strasse was used by the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music until 1981 .

Collegiate Churches

A collegiate church also belonged to the Ehrlich Foundation. At first the hospital chapel was used along Pichplatz, today's Wettiner Platz , between Grüner Gasse and Schützengasse. The chapel that belonged to the plague house was a building similar to a residential building. The building, which emerged from a simple prayer room, was extended for the first time in 1702. Another extension took place in 1732. In 1738 Johann Georg Ehrlich had the building increased and the galleries redesigned. The church was demolished in 1897 for the construction of the Jakobikirche .

As a result, from 1907 onwards, a separate foundation church was built on the school premises , which was partially destroyed in 1945. A reconstruction and possible use by the music college would have been possible, but the church ruins were blown up in 1951. The baptismal font and the stalls were transferred to the rebuilt St. Thomas Church on Bodenbacher Straße in Gruna .

literature

Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Reichert: Pirnaische Vorstadt. Between brick barn and Bürgerwiese . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch . tape 14 . DZA, Altenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-936300-63-5 , p. 75-104 .
^ Friedrich Reichert: Development of the City of Dresden 1945 to 2002 . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch . tape 9 . DZA, Altenburg 2003, ISBN 3-936300-10-0 , p. 255-276 .
^ Matthias Donath and Jörg Blobelt : Old and New Dresden. 100 buildings tell the stories of a city . edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-938325-41-4 , p. 95 .

[1] Friedrich Reichert: Pirnaische Vorstadt. Between brick barn and Bürgerwiese . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch . tape 14 . DZA, Altenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-936300-63-5 , p. 75-104 .

[2] Friedrich Reichert: Development of the City of Dresden 1945 to 2002 . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch . tape 9 . DZA, Altenburg 2003, ISBN 3-936300-10-0 , p. 255-276 .

[3] Matthias Donath and Jörg Blobelt : Old and New Dresden. 100 buildings tell the stories of a city . edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-938325-41-4 , p. 95 .