Hospital St. Laurentii (Weißenfels)
The St. Laurentii Hospital with an attached church is a listed building in Weißenfels in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments , the system is listed as a monument under registration number 094 15267 . It is used as a retirement home.
location
It is located on the east side of Merseburger Straße, north of the junction with Hospitalstraße at the address Merseburger Straße 19.
General and architecture
The building complex includes a nursing home and a church. The church is designed as a single-nave hall church in the neo-Gothic style, with the architecture referring to the north German brick Gothic . As is customary in hospital churches, the church was built without a tower, only a roof turret was installed . The interior is equipped with a with truss ornate barrel ceiling spans. There is a circumferential gallery . The high quality furnishings with altar, pulpit, organ and stained glass are neo-Gothic.
The side buildings are designed more simply.
A plaque commemorates the first peace prayer held here in Weißenfels on October 11, 1989 with around 160 people.
history
A hospital is mentioned in Merseburger Strasse as early as 1274 ; In a chronicle from the early 18th century, a hospital named Lorentz Spital , Saalspital or rich hospital is mentioned. Two different chronicles report on the hospital's foundation. On the one hand, a founder, named Laurentius von Jaucha, is said to have given his court to the city of Weißenfels on the condition that a hospital be built with his name. With the transfer of the farm with all its possessions, including the bakery in Markwerben , the hospital was considered rich from the start. According to another chronicle, Margrave Dietrich the Wise von Landsberg founded the hospital and later handed it over to the city of Weißenfels.
As early as 1571, a three-year new building was necessary, which included the church and the hospital.
At its current location, the hospital was only built in 1877/78 as a retirement home with a church. The previous building was demolished in 1878 because the railway needed the site. The hospital church was gradually used for church purposes from 1902 to 1925. A separate parish was formed in 1925.
The St. Laurentius nursing home is now located in the former hospital . The church also serves as a museum for the organ builder Friedrich Ladegast , who settled in Weißenfels in 1847 and died here.
literature
- List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 3, Weißenfels district , Saxony-Anhalt State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Flyhead Verlag, Halle 1994, ISBN 3-910147-63-1 , page 134.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 1037.
- ↑ a b Weißenfels in the picture , accessed on October 16, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 23.3 " N , 11 ° 58 ′ 2.1" E