Katharinenstift (Bad Wildbad)

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New Katharinenstift (view taken in the 1920s)

The Katharinenstift was a charitable institution in Wildbad . It was located roughly on the site of today's New Eberhards Bath .

history

In 1810, the owner of the then Gasthaus zum Grünen Baum in Wildbad wanted to make structural changes to the building. A spilled basin was discovered under the house in which there was water with a temperature between 25.5 and 27 degrees Réaumur (31.9 - 33.8 ° C). The rubble was cleared away and the basin was transformed into a horse pond, as it turned out that the old horse bath had already drawn its water from this spring. The property was then bought under King Wilhelm and in 1825 part of the house was converted into a hospital, which was named after Queen Katharina . Later, the entire house could be assigned to the sick through various foundations. Those in need could stay there free of charge for one month between May 15 and September 15, and receive care and therapy; Somewhat average users paid for the accommodation, but received free food and free baths. This enabled 63 patients to be cared for per season, and from the middle of the 19th century even 176 patients.

The Katharinenstift was renewed from 1867 to 1870 according to plans by Albert von Bok. The new building was divided into the four-storey monastery building and a single-storey bathhouse extension. The external design was adapted to the neighboring bath buildings.

In the basement and upper ground floor a central were vestibule , changing rooms and medical rooms, kitchen and magazine housed. The living rooms and lounges were on the upper floors. The bathroom extension included two large and two small communal pools and four individual bathrooms. With the construction, the adjoining small bathroom was also expanded by four individual bathrooms .

After completion, the New Katharinenstift initially served as a military hospital and was officially inaugurated in 1872. The old building had to give way to the expansion of the street.

After the Second World War , the former Landesbadspital was converted into the Katharinenstift State Rheumatism Hospital with 60 beds and reopened on July 1, 1950.

Remnants of the Katharinenstift

After the rheumatism hospital was rebuilt on the opposite side of the valley, the Katharinenstift was demolished in 1968 in the course of the construction of the New Eberhardsbad. A hewn keystone made of red sandstone from the facade of the monastery was built into an inner wall in the former rheumatism hospital in memory of the Katharinenstift. It was stolen from there in 2007. However, the thieves brought the 180 kilogram work of art, perhaps unsettled by reports in the local press, to the underground car park of the neurological rehabilitation center in autumn 2008, whereupon it was cleaned, refurbished and installed in the entrance area of ​​the Sana Clinic, which opened in 2009 . Presumably the portraits of the ruling couple Karl and Olga by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, stolen from a storeroom of the New Eberhardsbad in the 20th century, once hung in the Katharinenstift in Wildbad. Unlike the stolen keystone, they never reappeared.

A window arch and the building inscription from 1870 have been preserved and are located in the entrance area of ​​the Palais Thermal.

The nearby Katharinenbrunnen is named after the monastery.

literature

  • Thomas Eckard Föhl: Wildbad. The chronicle of a spa town as building history. Druckhaus Müller, Neuenbürg 1988, pp. 215-221.

Web links

Commons : Katharinenstift  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Wildbad
  2. ^ Johann Philipp Glökler, Land und Menschen Württembergs , 1st volume, Stuttgart 1861, p. 163
  3. ^ FF Mayer, Die Gemeindewirthschaft according to clarified terms and according to the laws applicable in the Kingdom of Württemberg , Stuttgart 1851, p. 195
  4. ↑ Otto Bach: 600 years of Wildbad in the Black Forest 1367–1967. Reproduced typescript. Wildbad 1967, p. 131.
  5. ↑ Repentant thieves pull out loot , in: Pforzheimer Zeitung, March 27, 2009
  6. ^ Report on the Museum Security Network mailing list . The equation there of the Katharinenstift with the Königin-Katharina-Stift in Stuttgart is obviously wrong, whereas not only the place of the theft, but also the above-mentioned demolition in 1968 fits the Wildbader Katharinenstift.
  7. ^ Württembergisch in the middle of Baden , in: Schwarzwälder Bote, February 22, 2012
  8. ↑ City tour Bad Wildbad

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 57.9 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 3.9 ″  E