Jewish Hospital (Hanover)

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The former Jewish hospital in Hanover is a listed building complex and was built in 1901 by the " Israelite Association for Retirement and Nursing " on the corner plot of Ellernstrasse / Vereinstrasse in Hanover's zoo district . The main buildings contain apartments after renovation in accordance with listed buildings, the former house of the dead is used for cultural purposes.

description

House of the dead , now a memorial and meeting place
Glass installation that cites the original facade

The building complex designed by the architect Carl Arend and opened in 1901 consists of a Jewish old people's home originally built in the Moorish style on Ellernstrasse, the Jewish hospital on Vereinsstrasse and a house for the dead.

The buildings, which were badly damaged and dilapidated by the war and the post-war period, were completely renovated from 2006 onwards. At the former Jewish old people's home, a curtain-type, painted glass pane reminds of the original ornamentation of the facade. While apartments were set up in the former retirement home and hospital, the former death house was designed as an artist's apartment and meeting place. The glass door at the entrance to the house of the dead shows a poem by Hilde Domin and an excerpt from the hospital's house book.

history

City board with a historical outline in German and English as well as the letterhead of the Israelite Association for Pensions and Nursing
Glass door at the entrance to the former house of the dead.

The facility was built in 1901 by the "Israelite Association for Old Age and Nursing Care".

The internal medicine and surgery stations were operated by permanent doctors, the gynecology and the ear, nose and throat clinic were operated by attending doctors. There was also an operation department with two operating theaters. According to the association's statutes, the hospital was also open to patients of other confessions. In 1904, more Christian than Jewish patients were cared for. The capacity of the hospital grew continuously from 27 beds in the opening year 1901 to 70 beds in 1933. The old people's home, on the other hand, was reserved for people of Jewish faith.

Since 1933, Jewish doctors were increasingly deprived of their professional livelihood. According to an ordinance in 1938, they were only allowed to accept Jewish patients as “ medical practitioners ”. In September 1941 the building complex was declared one of the Hanoverian “ Jewish houses ”. Hospital operations could initially be maintained. However, this doubled the number of people accommodated on the property from around 90 to over 170 people. When they were first deported from Hanover on December 15, 1941, 52 of them were transported to the Riga ghetto . After the deportation to Theresienstadt on July 23, 1942 , the hospital and nursing home were completely cleared.

Over a year later, the “municipal maternity clinic” moved into the vacant building. During the air raids on Hanover from October 8th to 9th, 1943, they were badly damaged. The women's clinic was therefore only able to reopen in mid-1944. Between 1961 and 1999, the Nordstadtkrankenhaus 's ear, nose and throat clinic was housed in the complex. After they moved out, the buildings increasingly fell into disrepair until the complex was renovated in 2006.

See also

literature

  • Health care in Hanover before the war. With a View of the City's History, Art, Science, and Industry , ed. from the city of Hanover, 1919, p. 98f.
  • Marlis Buchholz: The Hanoverian Jewish houses. On the situation of the Jews in the period of ghettoization and persecution from 1941 to 1945 , Volume 101 in the series Sources and Representations on the History of Lower Saxony , Hildesheim: Lax, 1987, ISBN 3-7848-3501-5 , pp. 111-121.
  • "The Jewish hospital opposite ...". An attempt to work through the history of the Israelite hospital and old people's home in Ellernstrasse for a new way of working together , ed. (and can be obtained) through the Christengemeinschaft Hannover , Ellernstraße 44, 30175 Hannover, Hannover: 2006
  • Peter Schulze : Jewish Hospital. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 329f.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Hospital  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  2. ↑ a b c d e Network Remembrance and Future - Former Jewish Hospital

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 26.3 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 28.7"  E