High hospital

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High Hospital was called an institution for the care of the elderly and the poor in various regions of the Holy Roman Empire .

The four Hessian high hospitals

Four were founded by Landgrave Philipp in Hesse between 1533 and 1542 :

It was founded after the secularization of the monasteries (only one parish in Hofheim), which had previously been responsible for such charitable tasks.

Other

The name Hohes Hospital has not always survived over the generations, but at the time it was used for:

Other sources also report from

literature

  • Arnd Friedrich, Irmtraud Sahmland, Christina Vanja (eds.): At the turn to the modern: The Hessian high hospitals in the 18th and 19th centuries. Festschrift for the 475th year of the foundation (= historical series of publications by the State Welfare Association of Hesse. Sources and Studies. Volume 14). Imhof, Petersberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-427-1 .
  • Christina Vanja: The High Hospitals Foundation as the new “caritas”. In: Heide Wunder , Christina Vanja, Berthold Hinz (ed.): Landgrave Philipp of Hesse and his royal seat Kassel. Marburg 2004, pp. 207-220.
  • Christina Vanja: The Foundation of the Hessian High Hospitals in the 16th Century: Health Care Between the Middle Ages and Modern Times. In: Series of publications by the German Society for the History of Neurology. Volume 11. 2005, pp. 135-155.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: From the change of an institution (13th to 16th centuries) . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, p. 432 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Heinrich Luden (ed.): Sr. Highness of Duke Bernhard's journey to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach through North America in the years 1825 and 1826 . First part. Wilhelm Hoffmann, Weimar 1828, p. 148 ( digitized version in the Google book search).

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