Bad Königshof
Bad Königshof was a sanatorium founded in 1853 in today's Hann. Munden , which because of its temporary existence as a farmhouse , a manor was. In the early 1970s, the buildings were demolished and a specialist clinic called the Lower Saxony Nephrological Center was built on the site .
history
In the Middle Ages , a Carolingian royal court is said to be located in a location in Münden that is still unknown today, such as today's city of Hann. Münden until the 19th century was said to have found. To supply the royal court there must have been a farmyard outside the city, what field names indicate. In the area of the parcel in front of the royal court , an estate with the name Bleiche is mentioned around 1700 . In 1852 it consisted of a house, two stables, a barn and a distillery. The doctor Heinrich Bonhoff bought it in 1853 and founded a cold water and natural healing institute there under the name Bad Königshof . His son Heinrich Bonhoff , born there in 1864 , later became a medical officer and hygienist . A number of buildings were built for the sanatorium, including a residential and spa house with 18 rooms, 3 chambers and 11 parlors, according to the cadastral records from 1867. In the half-timbered outbuildings there was a wash house and a bath house. Agriculture continued parallel to the operation of the sanatorium. In addition, the water from a nearby spring was bottled and sold as Königshöfer medicinal table water. In 1866 the sanatorium went bankrupt.
In 1868 the doctor Adolph Seebohm from Ilten bought the facility for 34,000 thalers , in which he set up a sanatorium for the nervous and mentally ill. In 1879 45 people lived in the institution, including 30 retirees and 15 mentally ill. Again new buildings were built. In the 1890s, according to cadastral records, there was a residential house, a farm building, a field barn, a greenhouse, a mausoleum, a sheepfold, a bakery, a stable converted into a residential house and a gardener's house. The institution was surrounded by a 10-acre park with a wide view of the city and the valley. In 1902 Seebohm acquired the title of manor for his establishment , which he bought from the old manor of Bonaforth for 1,500 marks . According to other sources, the Königshof received its title as a manor as early as 1894, because farming was carried out alongside the sanatorium.
After Seebohm's death in 1904, the sanatorium was closed. In the same year, District Court Judge Ernst Krogmann acquired the facility and had almost all of the buildings demolished. Instead, from 1907 farm and stable buildings as well as a manor house in Art Nouveau style were built and run as an estate. In 1915, Krogmann sold the property to the ammunition manufacturer Ferdinand Boniver from Mettmann , who rarely visited his property. In 1926 the estate had 14 people as staff, in 1937 there were 10 people. After the Second World War , the number of residents increased to 25 people in 1949 due to displaced persons. In 1957 there was a major fire on the estate, in which a large stable burned down. In 1959 the city of Münden purchased the estate for 1.75 million DM to make room for city expansion; this resulted in 350,000 m² of building land. The farm continued to operate until around 1962 and the manor buildings were retained. From 1967 barrack residents and 80 homeless people from the city were housed there, which worsened the state of construction. Soon afterwards the manor buildings were demolished and the Nephrological Center Lower Saxony, inaugurated in 1972, was built in their place .
literature
- The manors of the principalities of Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen. Description, history, legal relationships and 121 illustrations. Published by Gustav Stölting-Eimbeckhausen and Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen-Moringen at the decision of the knighthood and with the participation of the individual owners. Hannover, 1912, pp. 281-282
- Karl Brethauer : The Gut Königshof in: Münden. Collected Essays. Fourth episode. Hann. Münden, 1989, pp. 96-105
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 55 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 30 ″ E