Heilig-Geist-Spital (Augsburg)

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The Heilig-Geist-Spital in Spitalgasse
Inner courtyard with the box tower
The stage of the puppet box under the yoke arches of the former chapel

The Heilig-Geist-Spital at the Roten Tor in Augsburg was the oldest municipal facility for the care of the sick and the elderly in the imperial city. The current Renaissance four-wing complex with the irregular inner courtyard was created between 1623 and 1631 by the Augsburg city architect Elias Holl ; Holl's successor Jörg Höbel implemented the west wing .

Today the Heilig-Geist-Spital is no longer used as a hospital. It houses studios, day care, senior citizens' apartments and the Augsburger Puppenkiste , and since 2001 the Augsburger Puppet Theater Museum ("Die Kiste").

investment

The Heilig-Geist-Spital has the addresses Spitalgasse 11/15/17 and Beim Rabenbad 6. The main building is on Spitalgasse. On its north side is the short dead end, Beim Rabenbad; north of it a former monastery. From the Rabenbad you can enter the inner courtyard of the hospital through an archway. From there, two more gates lead on the left to the Roten Torwall systems as well as to the Handwerkerhof with the lower fountain master's house and to the system of the former waterworks at the Rote Tor with the water towers . A gate is currently installed in this passage to the Handwerkerhof, which is only open during the opening hours of the Swabian Crafts Museum.

The Brunnenbach is built over at the hospital so that its water could not be contaminated. On the eastern wing of the Heilig-Geist-Spital is the Kastenturm (also called Spitalturm), which has supplied the three magnificent Augsburg fountains with well water for several centuries since 1599 .

history

The hospital was founded by Bishop Ulrich von Augsburg (923–973). It has been attested since 1150 under the name Heilig-Geist-Spital.

The hospital was originally located outside the city walls, roughly where the school is today in front of the Red Gate. It was financially supported by a hospital foundation and the proceeds from the large land holdings of this foundation in the Augsburg area.

In the 16th century, a large late Gothic building was erected at the current location within the city and the hospital moved there. However, this building partially collapsed around 1600. Therefore, the city architect Elias Holl was commissioned to build the new hospital. In 1648, in the Peace of Westphalia, parity was agreed for the free imperial city of Augsburg and the Heilig-Geist-Spital-Stiftung became an equal foundation with equal administration.

The foundation lost its fortune and rich land holdings at the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803. After the secularization in 1808 the building was continued as a secular hospital.

On the initiative of the Altaugsburg Society , the property was repaired between 1966 and 1968.

The Holy Spirit Chapel

The Holy Spirit Chapel is located in the south of the west wing of the hospital . Originally Catholic, it became Protestant in 1648 and the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ortisei received the right to use it.

Manorial rule

Former office of the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Mittelneufnach

The rural possessions of the hospital were imperial city territory. The sovereignty lay with the city council and previously with the Augsburg monastery .

Administrative division

coat of arms

The coats of arms of the following localities are borrowed from the coat of arms of the Heilig-Geistl-Spital ( dove and wheel cross )

  • Hirblingen

  • Mittelneufnach

  • Neusäß

  • Täfertingen

literature

  • Leonhard Hörmann: On the history of the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Augsburg. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia and Neuburg. Volume 6. JA Schlosser'sche Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1879, pp. 145-176 ( digitized version ).
  • Susanne F. Kohl: The building history of the Heilig-Geist-Spital. In: Barbara van den Speulhof, Fred Steinbach (ed.): The great book of the Augsburger Puppenkiste. (= Anniversary band for the 65th anniversary and the 60th television birthday of the Augsburger Puppenkiste). Boje Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-414-82354-0 , pp. 34-39.
  • Peter Lengle: The Augsburg Heilig-Geist-Spital. In: Walter Pötzl (Ed.): The district of Augsburg. Volume 3: Rule and Politics - From the Early Middle Ages to Territorial Reform. District Office Augsburg, Augsburg 2003, DNB 969337639 , pp. 206-215.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 37.3 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 11.7"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Jahn: Augsburg Land (Historical Atlas of Bavaria Part Swabian Volume 11), Munich 1984, pp. 510-530