Hotel am Wald (Elgersburg)
The Hotel am Wald in Elgersburg is a hotel in the Thuringian town of Elgersburg ( Ilm district ), located on Salzmannstrasse , which leads from Elgersburg to Schmücke .
history
The original building was erected in 1890 as "Villa Bauer". When the owner at the time could no longer keep it for financial reasons, it was for sale. Against the resistance of the then Reich Commissioner for the Monitoring of Public Order , the property was acquired by the Quieta-Erholungsstätte-GmbH registered in Berlin and the purchase contract was notarized. The partners of the GmbH were two comrades from the "camp" of the MOPR , which had also provided the money for this. When the Thuringian state authorities noticed this civil camouflage of the Red Aid , it was already too late. Now attempts were made to prevent the opening of the children's recreation home, which was planned for Easter 1925. Vigorous protests by the population from all over Thuringia finally resulted in the withdrawal of the opening ban. After the appeal and invitation of the "Red Help Thuringia" to the opening ceremony of their children's home in Elgersburg appeared in the Thuringian Volksblatt on April 2, 1925, the approach routes for the ethnic groups were published on the following days, in which it was described exactly from which villages and What means of transport the groups will use to arrive, what ways they should continue on foot and what times they should meet where. On the afternoon of April 12, 1925, Wilhelm Pieck , head of Red Aid Germany since 1924, gave the home to its destination with a speech in front of 1,000 rally participants and gave it the name MOPR . In April 1926, Pieck also opened the extension with a dining room and bathing facility.
The following years were not easy to get through financially, as the material services of the Red Aid were only based on donations, membership fees and collections. In June 1926, a board of trustees for the children's homes of the Red Aid was formed . a. belonged to: Albert Einstein , Egon Erwin Kisch , Heinrich and Thomas Mann , Paul Oestreich , Heinrich Zille and Kurt Tucholsky . The name of Eduard Sõrmus also appears in the donation receipts , who gave a violin concerto in Jena for which an amount of 127.24 M was collected.
From April 1925 to August 1926, 188 children of political prisoners and murdered people lived in the home, 82 of whom were malnourished , 73 were at risk of tuberculosis and 31 were rickets . During these years, many children from other countries came to the Elgersburg MOPR home, which was designed as a transit home. B. from Bulgaria and Austria .
In 1928 the Thuringian state government forbade it to continue as a children's home. Now the KPD rented it from the Red Aid for training purposes, but also for recreation for comrades released from prison. Ernst Schneller and Albert Kuntz were also among those seeking relaxation . Hermann Duncker worked temporarily as a teacher.
From 1931, the Red Aid used the property again as a MOPR home. 1933 took over Nazis the house as Führerschule the Hitler Youth , officers' and during the Second World War as a naval orphanage.
After the US troops arrived on April 29 or 30, 1945, the children were taken to a children's home in Bad Sulza . The Americans confiscated the home and used it until they left in June 1945.
After 1945 the SMAD Thuringia handed over the home to the newly founded Volkssolidarität , in 1949 it came into the possession of the SED , district management Suhl. In May 1968 there was a reunion with Bulgarian and Soviet men and women who had lived in the home 40 years earlier.
After unsuccessful takeover efforts by the PDS Thuringia, the house came under its new name "Am Wald" into the administration of the Treuhandanstalt , which after lengthy negotiations returned it to the PDS. On April 12, 2000, on the 75th anniversary of the opening of the MOPR children's home, a permanent exhibition on the history of the house was opened.
After the union of WASG and PDS to form the Left Party on June 16, 2007, the house is now in their possession. The hotel has 40 rooms and apartments, two holiday apartments and conference rooms for up to 80 people.
swell
- Memorandum for the 75th anniversary of the house
- Gerd Kaiser: Home in an idyllic location. From the children's home of the Red Aid in Elgersburg to the “Am Wald” hotel. Dietz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02230-3 .
- Hotel history ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Nikolaus Brauns: Get Red Help! Bonn 2003
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 8.5 ″ N , 10 ° 50 ′ 53 ″ E
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ information on the website of the house ; Retrieved July 11, 2016