Big hospital

main building

The Great Hospital was the hospital of the medieval city of Erfurt . It is located in the eastern expansion of the old town between the inner and outer Krämpfertor on today's Juri-Gagarin-Ring .

history

The Great Hospital was laid out between 1385 and 1396. It was obtained from the Martinhospital, which was moved here from the fish market . In the following years the hospital was expanded and rebuilt again and again, before it was gradually abandoned from 1882. The Erfurt Clinic on Nordhäuser Strasse was the new city hospital .

Investments

Mansion (today folklore museum)

Hospital Church

• Hospital Church: Gothic church of the hospital
• Main building: The main building was about 70 meters long, two-storey solid construction that was demolished in 1924 and replaced by a nursing home. This building still exists today directly on Juri-Gagarin-Ring and was built by Johannes Klass . In the center is the fountain room with the mural by Charles Crodel (1926).
• Manor house: The manor house is located in the north of the Great Hospital and was built between 1540 and 1547. It has been used as a museum since 1890. Since 1955 it has housed the Museum of Thuringian Folklore Erfurt
• Beneficiary houses: A beneficiary house is located on the east side of the Great Hospital. It was built around 1700 and served as a residence for elderly hospital residents. Two other houses, built between 1618 and 1672, are located south of the main building.

literature

• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .

Web links

• The Great Hospital on the website of the Museum of Thuringian Folklore Erfurt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friederike Schuler: In the service of the community - Figurative wall painting in the Weimar Republic, Marburg 2017, cat. 41.

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 7 ″  E