Hohenhonnef

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Hohenhonnef, aerial photo (2012)
Hohenhonnef (around 1900)

Hohenhonnef is a former lung clinic in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The site of the former lung clinic is located above the city at the end of Bergstrasse (house numbers 110–114) at around 205  m above sea level. NHN on a small plateau ( terrace rest) at the southern foot of the Augusthöhe ( 240.8  m above sea level ) on the east side of the lower Reichenberger Höhe , a peripheral hill of the Siebengebirge , which , in terms of nature, is still the Honnef terrace hills as a sub-unit of the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge ( Niederwesterwald ).

history

The clinic was built in 1891/92 on the initiative of Wilhelm August Bredt by the “Heilstätte Hohenhonnef AG” in the style of the French palace architecture. With the draft that was Leipziger architectural firm Pfeifer & Handel commissioned. Following the building application from February 1891, the building permit was granted in May . The first construction phase comprised the main building including a dining room wing, a utility wing , a fountain, a cowshed and a laundry and laundry building . Subsequently, a residential house for the servants was built in 1896 and in 1896/97 two villas for the chief doctor (Bergstrasse 115) and the director of the sanatorium based on a design by the architect Ottomar Stein . In 1897 the number of annual guests was around 800, the number of employees (excluding doctors and assistants) 79.

The lung clinic was under the direction of chief physician Ernst Meissen, who was previously senior teacher at Peter Dettweiler . It contributed to the economic upswing of the city, but was geared towards self-sufficiency - including its own post office and high reservoir for the water supply. It had four terraces for air and sun baths, an indoor facility used for open-air cures, garden halls and doctor's houses. The four-story main building originally housed 82 patient rooms and several leisure rooms. There was also a Protestant house chapel, while a weekly mass was held for the Catholic patients in the nearby Fuchshardt Chapel . The Mesenholl industrial laundry in the Schmelztal valley below also belonged to the lung clinic .

In 1912 the Heilstätte Hohenhonnef AG dissolved, whereupon the clinic was sold to the Rhineland State Insurance Institute. She brought tuberculosis sufferers there . Based on a decision of the same year, the basement was expanded with the aim of setting up a larger ambulance . In 1914 the clinic also got a Catholic house chapel. In 1922 the chief physician's house was converted, and in 1929 the civil servants' residence. As the "Sanatorium Rheinland", the facility developed into a modern specialist clinic and also became a research institute. The main building was extensively expanded in the 1950s and 1960s. The former lung clinic has been the location of a rehabilitation center for the disabled called Hohenhonnef GmbH , a non-profit company of the Cornelius Helferich Foundation , since 1979 . The historic main building stands as a monument under monument protection , registration in the list of monuments of the city Bad Honnef took place on 25 October 1983. In October 2014 resulted in a fire in significant damage to the roof of the old building.

The Armenian mineralogist Andreas Arzruni (1847–1898) died in Hohenhonnef . An episode from the novel Who the Gods Love by the writer Clara Viebig and the story Heaven on Earth by Franzjosef Schneider, the local poet from Honnef, recall the time it was used as a lung clinic .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hohenhonnef  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cläre Pelzer: Location and relief of the city of Bad Honnef on the Rhine . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago . Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 3–14 (here: p. 11).
  2. ^ A b State Conservator Rhineland: Bad Honnef - Urban Development and Urban Structure.
  3. ↑ Karl Josef Klöhs: glorious weather on Seven Mountains
  4. ^ Karl Günter Werber: Honnefs "Magic Mountain" . In: Homeland and history association “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV: 150 years of the city of Bad Honnef .
  5. ^ Albert Weidenbach: The transport system in the Honnef area in the last 100 years . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, p. 140.
  6. ↑ a b J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 262 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  7. ^ The Bad Honnef indoor pool has been sold , General-Anzeiger , September 15, 2004
  8. ↑ J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 192 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  9. ↑ Hubert Wüsten: The Catholic community of Honnef in the last hundred years . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 151–165 (here: p. 161).
  10. ^ Franz-Georg Weckbecker: health resort and bathing town . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 113–117 (here: p. 114).
  11. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 41
  12. ↑ Considerable damage to the old building , General-Anzeiger , October 22, 2014
  13. ^ Karl Günter Werber: Honnefer walks .

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 25 ″  E