Hospital district

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Hospital district
Large district town Freiberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 51 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 7 ″  E
Postal code : 09599
Area code : 03731
Hospital district (Saxony)
Hospital district

Location of Hospitalviertel in Saxony

Hospitalviertel is a district of the Freiberg-West district of the large district town of Freiberg in the district of central Saxony (Free State of Saxony ). It is named after the “St. Johannis "and emerged from the" Johannisvorstadt "which was laid out in the monastery area in the second half of the 19th century.

geography

location

The district borders immediately to the west of the city center of Freiberg. It is connected to the north by “Claussallee” / “Heinrich-Heine-Strasse”, to the east by “Wallstrasse” ( Bundesstrasse 101 ), to the south by “Chemnitzer Strasse” ( Bundesstrasse 173 ), and to the west by the Dresden railway line –Werdau limited.

Neighboring places

Freiberg, Freiberg-Nord district ( Neu-Friedeburg district ) Freiberg, Freiberg-Nord district ( Friedeburg district )
Freiberg, Freiberg-West district ( Fernesiechen district ) Neighboring communities Freiberg, Freiberg-Altstadt district
Freiberg, Freiberg-West district ( Freibergsdorf district )

history

St. Johannis Church
Torstensson-Linde

In a document from Pope Honorius II in 1224, the “St. Johannis ”mentioned. It was located outside the Freiberg city wall in the west of the city in front of the Peterstor. In the 13th century, the hospital buildings were built in the area in front of the Peter Gate. The dilapidated hospital church was renovated in 1272. In addition to the church, the St. Johannis Abbey also included the Bartholomäus Hospital ( Fernesiechen , first mentioned in 1371) with the hospital forest behind it.

In the vicinity of the monastery, also in front of the Peterstor, a Vorwerk is mentioned around 1350 , which in 1551 is called the “Thurmhof” manor . A settlement was formed around this at the beginning of the 16th century, which since 1530 has been called " Freibergsdorf " after the landowner Freiberger .

In 1543, d. H. four years after the introduction of the Reformation in Albertine Saxony, the Freiberg mayor Alnpeck , the landowner Caspar Freiberger and the superintendent Zeuner signed a contract on the spiritual care of the Freibergsdorf estate and village by the pastor of St. Johannis. The Johannis and Bartholomäus hospitals came under common jurisdiction in 1570. Like the Freibergsdorf manor, they were not subject to the Freiberg council. The economic goods near the hospital were to the west and northeast of the city of Freiberg.

During the Thirty Years' War , during the siege of the city of Freiberg in 1643, St. John's Church became the headquarters of the Swedish troops. As a result of the fighting, the hospital church, the hospital and the Peter Gate were destroyed. While the latter was not rebuilt, the new St. Johannis Church was consecrated in 1661. In the meantime, the services were held from 1644 in the premises of the Freibergsdorf manor, which the landowner Schönlebe had made available. In 1719 the St. John's Church received a Silbermann organ. In 1770 the hospital received a foundation board, which consisted of representatives of the Freiberg city council (head of the foundation since 1255) and the church (supervisory authority of the superintendent since 1537).

In the course of the 19th century, large parts of the Freiberg city wall were torn down and replaced by gardens, green spaces and a ring promenade. The whale pond in front of the former Peterstor was drained as early as the end of the 18th century and included in the design with green spaces. In 1896, the Saxon King Albert inaugurated the resulting park as "Albert Park". The hospital pond was drained in 1852 and converted into a public bathing establishment. Today it is known as the "Johannisbad". In the second half of the 19th century, the so-called “Johannisvorstadt” was built on the premises of the hospital foundation outside the former Freiberg city wall.

In 1911 the new St. Johannishospital at Chemnitzer Straße 8 was inaugurated. The foundation stone was laid two years earlier. It served as a retirement home. During the First World War it was used as a reserve hospital between 1914 and 1919. In 1920 the St. Johannis Church, owned by the Hospital Foundation, needed an urgent renovation. After the Council of the City of Freiberg, as head of the St. Johannis Foundation, refused to finance the renovation, the parish sued in 1923. After the ruling by the Reichsgericht was unsuccessful in 1927, the Evangelical Lutheran parish was terminated by the city from using the rectory and church on Chemnitzer Strasse. This then built a new parish hall in Anton-Günther-Straße, which was inaugurated in 1929. The Silbermann organ was removed from the dilapidated building in 1939 and transferred to Freiberg Cathedral . The old St. Johannis Church on Chemnitzer Strasse was bought and restored by the Catholic community of Freiberg in 1952.

The new St. John's Hospital was confiscated by the Russian commandant's office in May 1945. In 1950/51 it was used by the SDAG Wismut as a training facility and then as a party school. In August 1952 it was handed over to the Freiberg Mining Academy as a student residence. On January 1st, 1977 it was taken over by the VEB VEB mining and smelting combine "Albert Funk". After the political change in the GDR , the former hospital served as the company management of SAXONIA Metallhütten- und Processingwerke AG, which emerged from the VEB Bergbau- und Hüttenkombinat "Albert Funk". On April 1, 1993, the building was handed over to the city of Freiberg. Since October 1993 it has been used as an office building by the Saxonia Freiberg Foundation, to which it was also transferred in 1994. The purpose of the foundation is to maintain and maintain mining and smelting customs.

Today's “Hopsitalviertel” with the old St. John's Church and the new hospital building forms one of seven quarters of the Freiberg-West district, which extends between Friedeburg in the north and Freibergsdorf south of the federal highway 173.

Infrastructure

Torstensson-Linde

Public facilities

  • Johanniskirche , used by the Catholic community. Today's Protestant parish hall is located on Anton-Günther-Straße in Freibergsdorf.
  • Johannisbad
  • Freiberg City Zoo
  • Employment Agency
  • Building of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Parks

  • Albertpark
  • Ludwig Renn Park

Memorials

  • Sweden Monument
  • Torstenssonlinde, not far from the west gable of St. John's Church. The Swedish general Lennart Torstensson is said to have given the orders to siege Freiberg during the Thirty Years' War .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City structure of Freiberg
  2. ^ History of the Peter Gate
  3. ^ History of the Freiberg Hospitalwald
  4. ^ The St. Johannis Hospital in the "Handbuch der Geographie", pp. 566f.
  5. ^ History of the city of Freiberg on a private website
  6. ^ History of the Church of St. Johannis on the website of the Catholic parish Freiberg
  7. ^ The Albertpark on a private homepage
  8. ^ History of the city of Freiberg
  9. ↑ History of the Evangelical St.Johannis Community in Freiberg
  10. ^ History of the Catholic Church in Freiberg
  11. ^ History of the new St. Johannis foundation building
  12. ↑ Small-scale structure of the city of Freiberg