Sanatorium Kennenburg
The Kennenburg Sanatorium was located in what is now the Kennenburg district in the municipality of Esslingen am Neckar .
history
Originally located on the outskirts above the Hainbach valley, the place initially only consisted of the Kennenburg sanatorium, which was founded in 1840 as a cold-water sanatorium for wealthy citizens.
Five years later, however, this company was bankrupt and the facility - built in the Italian Renaissance style - was converted into a sanatorium for the mentally ill. The sanatorium was owned and managed by Friedrich and Adolph Stimmel.
Prominent patients of this institution were e.g. B. 1852/53 and 1871 Robert Mayer and 1876 Friedrich Mann , whose medical records have been preserved. The tenor Friedrich Young , who died on stage in 1863 , married the dancer Lucile Grahn and brother of the painter Eduard Young , came to Kennenburg because of the long-term effects of the severe head injuries, where he died in 1884. The publisher Karl Baedeker junior lived in the institution from 1884 until his death in 1911 . As an assistant doctor in Kennenburg, the brother of the later mayor of Esslingen, Max von Mülberger , Arthur Mülberger , looked after Robert Mayer for a few months in 1871. As a doctor and socio-political writer, Arthur Mülberger was friends with the French socialist Édouard Vaillant , among others .
Nine patients fell victim to the euthanasia murders of Operation T4 during the Nazi era .
Today the image of the district is determined by the extensive new buildings of the Aerpah Clinic Esslingen-Kennenburg , which was built between 1969 and 1982. Only one fountain in the park has been preserved from the original complex of the sanatorium.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Stimmel: The sanatorium for nervous and mental patients, Kennenburg near Esslingen, Kingdom of Württemberg. Esslingen 1854 ( digitized version ).
- Paul Krauss: Kennenburg 1840–1940. The history of a private institution for the mentally and mentally ill over a century. Goeppingen 1940.
- Eberhard Kenner: Kennenburg in old views. Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1991, ISBN 90-288-5314-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , vol. 7: Wolbring-Zysset, Berlin, Boston 2012, p. 3665
- ↑ Memorial plaque commemorates nine euthanasia victims ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 18, 2009.
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 49.7 " N , 9 ° 19 ′ 47.8" E