Jacoby'sche sanatorium and nursing home

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Building of the former Jacoby sanatorium , now also a memorial, in Bendorfer Koblenz-Olper-Straße, under monument protection

The Jacoby'sche Heil- und Pflegeanstalt was a facility especially for Jewish "nervous and mentally ill " people in Sayn , today Bendorf . It existed from 1869 to 1942. From December 1940, the hospital was part of the organization of the Nazi persecution of Jews - the Holocaust .

history

The merchant Meier Jacoby justified his application for a license in 1869: “I had often heard that the nervous patients who grew up in strictly Jewish houses are reluctant to enjoy non-kosher food, that they refuse such food entirely or believe that they are sinning by eating the food that they are teased, especially by less educated patients and guards, because of their beliefs, etc. - circumstances which must certainly have an unfavorable influence on the nervous and mentally ill. "

The facility rose rapidly and was expanded structurally. The older main building was demolished in the 1960s. The main building with the ballroom and synagogue of the sanatorium and nursing home is still preserved today.

At first the institution remained unmolested, but at the end of 1938 almost all non-Jewish workers had to be laid off. The Jewish auxiliaries hired instead prepared primarily for the departure to Palestine. The Jacoby family was able to emigrate to Uruguay in 1940. Their property was confiscated and asset management was transferred to the Reich Association of Jews in Germany .

A circular issued by the Ministry of the Interior on December 12, 1940 stipulated that "... mentally ill Jews may in future only be admitted to the Bendorf-Sayn sanatorium and nursing home in Koblenz, which is maintained by the Reich Association of Jews."

From 1942 the residents of the house and the Jewish nursing staff were deported. Their trace is lost in the Nazi extermination camps in the east. They were all murdered.

With a circular issued by the Reich Minister of the Interior on November 10, 1942, the sanatorium was dissolved.

literature

  • The sanatoriums and nursing homes for the nervous and mentally ill in Bendorf. Published by the Rheinisches Eisenkunstguss-Museum Bendorf-Sayn 2008, 142 pages, ISBN 978-3-9800158-9-9 .
    • therein also: Dietrich Schabow: "The Israelitische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt for the mentally and mentally ill (Jacoby'sche Anstalt, 1869-1942) and the later use of the building"

Web links

Commons : Jacoby'sche Heil- und Pflegeeanstalt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bendorf.de/stadt-buerger/geschichte/jacobysche-anstalt/
  2. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/sayn_anstalt.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.bendorf-geschichte.de/bdf-0155.htm

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '4.2 "  N , 7 ° 34' 17.3"  E