Friedenshort (Neuendettelsau)
The Friedenshort is a listed building at Heilsbronner Str. 55 in Neuendettelsau and is used today as the St. Martin support center of the Neuendettelsau Diakonie .
History
Because of the high demand for care places, an asylum was built in the so-called stupid forest of the deaconess institution in 1911/12. As early as 1928 this was replaced by a new building designed by the Nuremberg architect Christian Ruck. The new building was called Nursing Home II. The Christophorusheim, which had already been founded in Neuendettelsau in 1864, was now also called Nursing Home I. People with intellectual disabilities also lived in nursing home II, the number of which rose from 100 in 1928 to 150 in 1935.
In 1935, plans began to turn Nursing Institution II into an institution for the mentally ill, who until then had been treated in state sanatoriums and nursing homes. Their focus was only on the mere care of the seriously ill and usually did not provide for funding. For the mentally handicapped in nursing home II there was now the possibility of accommodating them in other homes of the Diakonie. On April 1, 1936, the Friedenshort, as the nursing home II was called from then on, was able to operate under the direction of Dr. Rudolf Boeckh will be included. The Friedenshort had a closed section for the mentally ill at risk and an open section for the less ill. The methods used were work therapy, gymnastics, massage, diet and Kneipp cures, baths, and outdoor and light treatment. In the building itself there was a laboratory and an X-ray machine for clinical examinations.
Before the attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, the western wing of the Friedenshort was confiscated and converted into a military hospital. The first wounded soldiers arrived in October of the same year. In March 1941, the Friedenshort was declared an auxiliary hospital for the city of Nuremberg's clinics. The mentally ill had to be accommodated in other facilities of the Neuendettelsauer Diakonissenanstalt. In the years 1941 to 1943, the Friedenshort was also used as a rest home for soldiers and other guests, South Tyroleans who were forcibly relocated as part of the Hitler-Mussolini Agreement and evacuees from Hamburg.
In 1944 the National Socialist People's Welfare seized the building. Instead of the mixed use, the Friedenshort was now used as a mother's and children's home and converted accordingly. After the end of the Second World War it was used as such, but under the direction of the Neuendettelsauer Diakonissenanstalt. There were also 34 children in their first year of life from an evacuated children's home in Glogau . In August 1945 the children's home had to be relocated to the leisure home because the US Army wanted to use the building as a hospital and dental station. A little later it was used by the Signal Corps School. On May 8, 1946, the peace care center was transferred back to the deaconess institution and in the spring of 1947 it was used again as a children's home, but also as a catechetical seminar for the training of religious teachers and as a retirement home.
From 1970 only children with severe mental and physical disabilities lived in the Friedenshort. Due to the structural condition, further use after 2010 could no longer be granted. The living area was outsourced to a new replacement building in Falkenstrasse. From 2012 the building was completely renovated and since 2015 it has been used by the St. Martin Support Center, a school facility for the mentally handicapped.
Building description
The building is an elongated two-storey hipped roof building with a central projectile and loggias on the south side, which is kept in the Expressionist Heimat style. The building has a rectangular floor plan of 63 × 15 meters.
literature
- The Neuendettelsauer "Friedenshort" . Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2016, ISBN 978-3-95976-024-9 .
- Matthias Honold; Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): 700 years Neuendettelsau: Festschrift for the 700th anniversary 1298/1998; historical contributions to the local history and house chronicle of Neuendettelsau . Neuendettelsau 1998, ISBN 3-00-002564-2 , p. 266 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 41.8 " N , 10 ° 47 ′ 26.2" E